The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-12
gifhnnond nispatf0:
APRIL IL, 1871.
a.os;dential Campaign.

are knew Il Poi' = ,o,o o,d
we nis country in the war Of .si.' 49,
serse as,erwards by experience Una. sna'
.'.r Gas well calculated to increase h,s pop
"'.r,tv, always when in a dificnt place :"
"a sanger Of defeat brought this particuul
~ "a hear upon his opponents. Inc tau'
scal narty Is just now Initiating inc o'u so
80 tactics, So successful has Ii eee"
s,.harto in deceiving the northern peopie
49, ral.e charges of d~isloyalty, turbulence,
=, AGAINST the southern people, tnat
n.horever periis threaten its p~erpetutts, l.
.nsorts "a that method of retaining its hoio
,,nos power. That miserable part! saI
souvenir of the late war which snouid DC
h,,r;ed ont of the sight of all decent men
40 soon as possible. Remarkable as having
d,re more 70 render mankind miserable,
more to disgust all men vith so-caiieo
frne institutions, more to a. women
ond children to detest it, more to destroy
,,.n,s faith in his fellow.man, more to rem
der written constitutions unpopular, more
to make heavy taxes necessary, more 70
make people unable to pay those taxes, and
more to make the very word Republican"
to be hated by the good the world over,
than any other party that ever had an ex-
istence, the Republican party should now
be consigned to the abodes Of the owls and
the bats, along with all DISTINGUISHING laws,
test-oaths, confiseations, &c, nc. The most
general of amnesty acts will be incomplete
On long as this vile relic of the war survives.
It owes its life to the troubles that have
distracted the country, and it should be put
down az soon Us possible.
This party, we say, seeing that its exist
ence is again imperilled, is striving to in
fuse new life into its veins by inventlng and
repeating SANDERS upon the character and
falsehoods as to the purposes of the south
ern people. Senator MORTON has even gone
so far as to construct a platform Tor the
Democratic party ; whilst the most malig-
nant of the respectable Radical papers OF
the country-the New York Tsmes-daily
fills its columns with articles intended to
show how tercely the rebellious spirit still
RACES in the South, and how dangerous TO
the peace of the country it would be to en-
trust the administration of public affairs to
Democratic hands.
If the Presidential election were near at
hand, there might he some reason for ap-
%prehensions that the northern people are
again to be humbueged and another Radical
President chosen. But that election Is a
long way off. Even MORTON must become
hoarse with believing, and the stories OF
the Times stale news, before November,
1872. The people, too. will certainly have
their eyes open before then. The least OBJ
servant of men cannot but see that little by
little the northern people have learned the
lesson that the Republican party Is a dis
grace to the country. and that its measures
are out of place In the nineteenth century.
Gradually stories of southern outrages
have been becoming unpalatable even to the
stoutest northern stomach. Before this
time next year such stories will, we trust,
lind no listeners even among the bitterest
of partisans. Indeed, these stories are so
utterly devoid Of truth that it must be aim
ply impossible to keep up the faith OF the
northern people in them toranother year.
Whether, however, our northern brelh-
rem shall sooner open their eyes or not, the
next Democratic national convention VIII
put q finishing touch to all the kukluX
stories of Senator MORTON and his echoes.
1t will be the duty Of that body to declare
in plain terms that the Democratic party
will not attempt to do any of the foolish
acts which such men as MORTON falsely
charge them with n purpose to do. IL
there should be a few malcontents in the
convention, so much the more imperative
the necessity for a platform upon which
the party may stand and claim and eN-
poet Il triumph. And as to boiling, II
there be any who wish to repeat the
follies Of 1868, let them bolt. Let
them 90 over to the Radical party II they
choose. They cannot carry any consldera-
DE number of the people with them. NO
southern Conservative or Democrat VINO
should bolt on this account could carry a
bakers dozen Of voters with him.. 1t Is lm-
possible TO induce the southern people 10
sustain the Republican party, which has
for five years pursued them with pains and
nenalties. and yllifed and slandered them
whilst wroncing them. Let no one have a
fear unon this point. We are sick of Radi-
cal rule. We pray to be delivered
from 1t. We recognize such men as
BUTLER, MORTON, WILSON, SUMNER,
CoSKL1Ne, and the rest, as our ene-
mics. We believe that the masses Of
the northern people would not be u
enemies if they knew us; and that they can
never know how basely we have been
slaudered until the party with which we
propose to act shall have been placed in
charge of the Government, and our good
will and good intentions have been mani
tested In good deeds. By this test, we are
willing to stand or fall. Boilers, therefore,
if any there should be, would find no COM
fort amongst the southern people, who,
whether q few Of their delegates to the
National Convention shall bolt or not, will
vote for the Democratic nominees for Presi-
dent and Vice-President, let the platform
he as strong Us it may in its declarations of
the purpose Of the national Democracy to
protect the negro in Ill his rights, including
that OF suffrage.
Let Greeley be Hung.
n"two or more persons" says the kukluX
bill, within any State" shall conspire shy