The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-08-08
North Carolina.


.r,o defeat of the project ,oa to re-
The oe,s in North Carolina s...o is
state ton n. constitution Of the o'a.' .,c
mo" NODE 10 fol- be deplorcd. Not only n' Consti-
greatly :" , W. State remain under oo, ,,sv-
people oil Ina: ,'' "nnressive to the taS.! ny
tuition which is oPplocsy to remind the
.rs-it Is scarcely neces r;,,cd by the
saadsr that the project was anrrupt scala
. ,, Of ignorant negroes anu thc glorious
1905 and carpet-baIge ~" honor or dis
va Sor,h State will have lh' tho Union
ow W. - hcinc the first s'a.e Il. rs,st,,,,-
hon'' W refused to remodei It's oIn
that eve. onse aoprchcnsive that sucn IT,
non 49, would be distastetni 70 tne au-
moo ,,,na y, washington. Civil liberty mas
'n'' !'."d fearful wound. The disastrous
aorsaouenccs that may resui. lo
49,: inexcusab,e blunder on the paw
or North Carolina cannot pe o,''-
os,imated. We stated before Inc e,'e-
.,nn that we wished the question:
or the right of the Federal Government. "
interfere in such domestic matters IN Tue
States to be settled once for all, anu qui'N9
We then hoped that the people "o"t" a.
Ions. make Il stand for their rights. ~
h.ye dome so would have cost them nothlhe
more serious than quiet SUBMISSION ai'ei
an expression Of their will to al OUTRAGE !.
vrb;ch thew have now submitted "ltnou'
,,rotest . whilst If GRANT had intertered 70
keen his minions in Office, the Democrat!
or the country would have been tugnlsheo
with an issue for the presidential campaign
uunu which they could have swept Tue sc
publican party out Of power, IL NOT out OF
existence. We did not believe, however,
that GRANT would interfere. We 10
moi now believe that hs would nave
dared to do so. But under the I'M
fortunate state Of things at present
existing, he is relieved from the odlum Oh
having actually nterfered, at the same lilhe
1ha, the National Government gains clalm
N NOW movers. in that 1t will be credited
with having defeated the Convention pro
;cct rs mere idle threats. For partisan pur
poses. the Radicals will deny that GRANT
;ntgrGrcd. For the purpose OF aggrandlZ
ing the Federal Government, the same kad
icolS will hereafter cite the case OF NORTH
Carolina as a precedent, just as to the Aortl
Carolinians they cited the case OF the inter
ference of the Federal Government to sup
press the D0RR rebellion In Rhode Island
though this rebellion was az unlike the
state Of things in North Carolina as the
state of things in North Carolina to The
state Of things which will next be pleaded
as ,ustifying the Federal Government in al
nutragc upon some other State.
The New York Tribune, Of last Friday
contained the following comment upoi
what was then supposed to he the fact-th'
success of the Convention:
"Thc situation, therefore, becomes OK
cccdingly critical, as it seems difficult Il
avoid "a conflict with the position OF the
National Government"
We were last Saturday upon the point
writing nm editorial upon this significant
sentence. but concluded not TO do so
GnEELEY being no lawyer, and no leading
statesman of the Radical party ever having
made similar remark. The Petersburg
Progress. however, carried out what III
orr case never passed from the last stage OF
voliilon into the initial stage of action; ana
Yesterday made the following excellent
comments upon GREELEY's foolish remark:
."This paragraph, which was written and
will le received rs Il simple announcement
rc something ordinary. ten years ago would
have excited q storm Of Indignation
throughout the land. Mr. GREELEY speaks
now. and the people think as calmly OF the
auticip1tca destruction Of Il State govern
nlc't .s though the three lines relating to
il noted the death OF race-horse or the
safe # Il railroad. And yet there is terri
bic significance in the matter as well rs the
manner Of this careless paragraph. LII
means that the people of North Carolina
ave To he deprived OF the right of regulating
,h,ir domestic affairs: that the expressed
VIII Of the supreme power OF Republican
system il To he set at naEght ny the
Executive officer Of the National Govern
mrni that i regularly-OrSanized govern
mrut in a State having perfect relations
with The Federal head, and III possession oi
all the constitutional claims TO indeptnd-
cn"c which attach to any member OF Tue
compact, Is TO be overthrown in obedience
10 q political emergency, and substituted
either by some lcgaliZed fraud representing
= vile and ignorant minority of the people
concerned, or by provincial organization
10 he established by bayoneta, and admin
irrrcd under regulations from the wal
Office. This, in q time OF profound peace
und only because the people. in exercise o
an inherent right, and in strict observance
Of the forms OF law, have seen lit to call ;
popular convention TO consider the pro
urlctv of making some alterations in thei
Fundamental law.
Since the war we have been called upo,
10 witness many invasions OF the prnci
ple, ana prcrogatives which we had bccl
taught to consider sacred, but none SO out
ra1cous rs this; and it adds to the bitter
ness with which every lover OF freedom
must contemplate such possibility. 10 SEE
the nonchalance with which public jour
nal mentions the disgriceiul fact, and Il
know that the people are so absorbed il
sordid cares, and bent upon selfish pro
lects. that in greater portion Of the coun
try scarce II single heart will thrill with gen
crous anger rs another stroke Of the axe
mutiia,rs the very roots OF the tree OF
liberty
HENRY CLAY DEAN denies that he goes
with the "ncw departure" The friends
al the "new departure do not ask Mr.
Dean TO 20 withthem. AL they have asked
OF him, or ever will ask of him, is that ht