The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-10
Republican Troubles.

Republican party is very great transSTes-
sor. In its army are numbered men OF all
grades of brutishnass and of all grades OF
conscientiousness. Some Of those whose
feelings are inclined to cruelty are yet not
so cruel as others, and some OF the consci-
cntio,ls are more so than others.
So with this Inequality Of disposition the
management of the Republican ship has
been besct with difficulties. The less brn-
til objected to the extreme measures OF
those who were entirely unicellng: ih'
more conscientious, at first in helpless
minority, and who were Therefore very
timid in Directing to the course "a VI. w
lent and rampant, have bccoL'e eii'po'"-
encd nv time and the Modified temper OF
the peop,e. As this tendency to better and
more ciyilizc views has gathered strength it
has greatly embarrassed the callous, SEN
snal. and greedy partisans, to which the
President seems to have attached himself.
Still some of the grades OF the conscien-
tious men are much troubled TO know how
to demean themselves. They are like
drunken man essaying to walk seam.
Their intention is good, but the liquor that
is within them causes them to stagger.
These unfortunate politicians have drunk
deeply of the Intoxicating draught OF
party spirit" and they are still muddiea
with IFS fumes. Take Mr.. GREELEY. lie Is
said to be an honest man. He occasionally
shows little Of the light Of honesty, Kicker
mo like talIow candle NJ Il distance IN
dark night. But these titful displays are
too often cXtinguiShed by his approval OF
the most outrageous administrative acts.
For instance, he found that HOLDEN and
Senator ABBOTT were lying about the "rebel
outrages." and publicly denounced them;
but he failed to denounce the Adlninistra-
ton for backing HOLDEN in his cXecrable
acts, in which he outraged Constitution,
law, and humanity.
This sort of hating conscicntiousness-
hating between crime and virtIe-has
cursed this country as never country was
cursed since the war. Had they whose
hoSoms felt it, boldly separated from politi-
cal dissipation and prostitution, and with
courage, truth, and honesty, valiently OPP
posed the system Of yindictiveness and per-
sccution, they would have saved this nation
many pang, and established peace and
harmony long ago. But the intoXiCAtion of
the infamous spirit of party of these days
has warped the judgment and scared the
sensibilies of many man who was pos
sessei naturally Of Il good heart. GREELEY
is one of them, and a representative man of
that class. Has he been bitten by the mad
dog of ambition: Does he, like BENNETT,
desire to crown the honors Of his old age
with foreign embassy: lfso, we pity him
from the bottom of our heart.
The Republican party was the war party.
Phiiosophically, it should have died with
the war. 1t was too deeply i!ubuel with
the passions and rancors of war to conduct
the affairs Of the country in time Of peace.
Those who held the offices knew this, and
knew that nothing less than a perpctuation
of the war feeling and the sectional hate OF
the war could continue Them in the offices
and emalumcnts they enjoyed. Have we
not seen daily and conspicuously their
efforts to prolong the passions and the
hates of the war: For what else
have been the asitatiOns and the
laws concerning the negro? [Sugees.
tons of hypocrisy and deprayity.] The
laws placing the military at the command
Of the President and such cratureS as UN-
pERwooD, to menace the people ut the
polls? And for what else is retained the
army Of spies and liars in the South, whose
office is to manufacture stories Of !" Rebel
outrages such us GREELEY most justly de-
nounced in the case of HOLDEN and the
North Carolina Senator: These are the
machinery systematically instituted-the
ra>cally plan deliberately inaugurated to
prolong the disSensionS of the land and con-
tinue in office men utterly unworthy of the
trust or honor Of the country.
We said that the more conscientious Re.
publican leaders, tired of this system that
SO leads to disorder and the perpctuation of
hate, were growing holder daily, and we
are sure that those who still stagger little
will have to come out hat-footed on the
side of honesty, or be ultimate sharers of
the fate Of those who, merely to crafty
their personal ambition and avarice, are
now endeavoring to widen the breach be-
tween the sections and perpetuate theirh tie.
We have unmistakable signs that there
are many men who will boldly take up the
cause Of honesty-the cause, indeed, of the
country. We have the brilliant campaign
and victory in Missouri; we have the gen.
eral result Of the late elections and now
we have Governor GEARY's message $50
fully quoted by us already taking noble
stand against Federal menace of the citi-
Zens of the States at the elections. lie,
along with thousands Of Republicans, sees
that il there is no process Of State authori-
ty which is not to he superintendent and
interfered with by the Federal civil aud
military authority combined, that the Fed
eral system is dead and despotism is here.
He is one of the thousands who are not
willing to see this, though it may be neces-
sary to continue in power the present Rad
ical dynasty. Governor GEARY deserves
the honor of The land for his decision i'll
the EFFICIENCY in which this country finds
itself.
What is South?' what Is North, or East,
or West to the country! If it is to be a
country, it should be at peace; it should be
harmonious and prosperous. Must this
great nation be kept in social and sectional
war that certain men may continue to rule
the people and fatten upon the public trea-
sury? No. All good men should unite in
one grand effort to save the Republic, re-
store the Constitution and laws, the safety
and security of the citizen, the public or
der and TINS put the country upon its