The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-20
Grsniits State alouraat.
TIE DISPATCH AND IT'S FALSE THE.
DRIES.


III DRIES.
y The storm which prostrates the ancie,
H. Tree, whose grateful shade has sheltere
: parent and progeny for successive gener;
tlon, appears to-day to be misfortune.
= not calamity but, the tomorrow wbic
ten years bring will witness new growth
= halt dozen better trees will then stand O.
the ground where the old one fell. and w
Snail Know that the stroke was not a mis-
( fortune, but blessing. What is true O
trees in this respect is true of men and O
/, theories.
There are very few intelligent men to
day In the South, who fail to see that tb,
theory of the right of secession is thor
oughly exploded, but it is common for the
same well-infomed persons to speak of thi,
destruction OF a favorite dogma as mis-
fortune, when, in fact, it is blessing in dis
glllse. There has sprung from it new growth
OF broader sentiments and better ideas. a
coniederacy has ripencd into a government, a
co-partnership, frail as a gossamer web.
subject to be dissolved at the will of anv
one of its members, has grown into gov
emmental society, all the members of
which are bound with bars of steel. and
whose life can only be endangered bv con-
quest from without or revolution from with
| in.
IL would have been strange indeed, if out
OF thus uptuIning this ''new departure. - or
rather new growth, other and important
changes had not arisen; they did in fact
arise. Slavery necessarily gave place to
general enfranchisement the extension of
the ballot was an inevitable result of en-
franchlsement. With slavery out of the
way, free labor at once assumes an entirely
different and infinitely higher character,
even the nature and characteristics of our
industries partake of the new and changed
condition. In fact the effects arc so broad
as to embrace the whole fabric of society.
and the height of stupidity is to recognize
the first change referred to, while we
blmdly close our eyes to those which in |
evitably follow it.
The Dispatch of this morning, phioso-
phizmg on this subject, says:
Men may profess what they will, but the
logic OF events is ineNorable; it yields to no
thing " nv
1t would be difficult to conceive If q
truth more mdcniable or better expressed
,han this; still, we are surprised to find
.aat less than half a''column farther on. the
same paper undertakes to deny the state
nent itself, and by indirection to reverse
Vhat 1t pronounces to be inexorable. 1t is
igh time that we had done asa people and 6
IS journals with such nonsense. 1t is NOT I
rue, as the article asserts, that in the con- .
net the constitution went under; but the
act is that the constitution came ont of |
hat conflict with tremendously increased |.
owers and capacities, and it is this great
act against which the enemies of Republi-
anlsm now direct their assaults. IL is not !
rue rue that the people of the North are in i
lllerent to the constitution but they are.
the other hand, its strongest supporters
nd Its wai1nest admirers. The real and 0
stnctlye admiration of the constitution is a
ow is, and not the part of it, as it was. p
ihls government, which the Dispath Y
sslgnates as the so-caled free-govern- "
ent, is in truth a free government, and {,
such challenges and secures the admi- n
ton OF free men every where. 1t is only la
croakers, and partisans who
oiess to believe that liberty is dead and cl
G government a "corpse." in
IL Is not true, as stated, that General
'aht has the power under a law passed by dl
'ngress to suppress at any time the Sa- uo
nnah Nears and the Richmond Dispatch. r,
le marvel of our public liberty. and bo 5o
Decialiy the liberty of the press, is the -
itorm TACT, apparent in history, that no ~,
ass III the world is so free, or possesses va va
III unlimited license as does the Amer;-
I press.
The D'spafcA may so on denouncing the no
'ernlnent, assailing the executive, derid-
the legislative power, teaching the peo- Sal
to scorn every branch of the govern bet
mt, and begging them to lose no oppor-
lity to bring it and its administration tel
contempt, and there is no law and no ~,
position to suppress, check OF supervise st;l
matter which its columns contain. and
perfectly apparent to the readers of tod
{ Journal, that it holds its freedom of
ech not by suilrance, but as clear, IN rail
nable right, and if there were any doubt 7
that subject, the manner in which it ex- wei
ses it, clearly proves what its view is.
We want peace-a thorough reconstruct dice
!, cordial harmony, an absolute obliv-
OF the bitterness of the past, substan- vi
and real acceptance of the results of pref
war, and not mere restiye, unwilling, for
porary surrender to hard and irresst- Uni
necessity. will
re greatly fear that the sentiment of the plat
tn under bad counsel and unwise teach sells
is rapidly dividing into two opinions, Con
speak, OF course, of the great body of in a
Conservatives,-one fairly represented Gen
MIR. Davis ayows openly determina- viii,
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