The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-07-12
"c,,.;,,o Presidential Chicks"

,-nder this caption GREELEY reaus re ts
orn rorty friends as we'll rs the LIN 4so n.
o"" r"' ,,nn, the uncertainties OF the i"-
ana The impossibility Of 'oreea aaa;
tho results Of the next contest ~, tho mar,
dc,cv. The "new departure ON y, Ta;na
nf tho Democrats Of Iowa. ouIo' III, -,
ord PENNSYLVANIA shows that lucy ,on' g. ca )
III" ." .,,a f.c,s set forth by GREELEY, ana
a I've ,,ronaripr to fight for success. lhose
arc p par.ts who oppose this movement are
,1;nd cnidcs. They would lead their part!
in,o ,he hogs of despair and defeat. There
or. Init few such in Virginia, we are conn
don't and these constitute but small por-
tiou Of those political moles who. IN
1869, made war upon the commi''ee
of nine and the new movement ~ II,
this State. Now, as then, the! WIN
be compelled by the common sense
of tbe masses to surrender their opleetioh.
and fall into line in support OF i've inen anu
live measures. To argue that those men
who are in favor of recognizing the Vaho'ts
If the new amendments, and OF ceaslns 10
war upon them, do thereby CONFESS 'u''
they were wrong in denouncing the recon
struc:ion acts of Congress ana oPposihs 'n>
ratification of the amendments, Is 10 "Sue
ihat the same men confess themselves "
hnye been in the wrong in advocating 'ne
election Of SEYMOUR and BLAIR because
they now recognize GRANT and CoLFAA H.
President and Nice-President Of the unitcd
STATES. We do not confess that the recon-
struction measures were wise. we oo ~.
confess that the new amendments ou9h'
IN hare been ratified. We merely claim u
no able to see that the reconstruction inca
sures have expired, and that the ne" alnelu'
ments hare been ratified. We say that t'ie
virus of these measures ana lheS' "A.e
ments has already entered the body-pol'Iic,
and that il cannot be expelled by refusal
on orr part to acknowledge the fact. Wha'
we propose to do is to cure the patient, moi
by shutting our eyes to his condition, anu
swearing that he has never swallowed Tue
poison. nor by cutting him to pieces III
order to yet it out of him, but by the use OF
such remedies as it is still in our power 70
bring to bear upon his case. The "new
departure is, in brief, simply the recognl-
ton of facts as facts. The opposition TO II
is the foolish declaration that facts are not
facts.
OF course those wiSeacres who cannot
agree to own that the new amendments are
parts of the Federal Constitution cannot
perceive that there is any danger of the
defeat Of the Democratic party at the next
Presidential election. They can show you
in the twinklins OF an eye how many States,
aud which ones, will cast their votes fol
the Democratic candidate. They claim that
Il large majority OF the people OF the coun
try, North and South, are opposed to tue
Radical party. They set down Pennsyl
vania.s Indana, and Connecticut as Demo
cratic States in the teeth of the fact thai
those States are extremely doubtful ones
t. say the least.
1t seems to us that even the most san
guine Democrat cannot hope for the cleo
ton of democratic President next yea,
without the vote of at least Pennsylvani;
in addition to that of every other State
which the Democrats can with confidence
expect 10 carry. In order to secure thu
vote Of Pennsylvania, the Democrats o
that state in Convention assembled, have
agreed to the NALlANDIGHAM platform, ant
their State Central Committee, in au adj
dress to the people, written by Judge
BLACK, have expressly declared that wher
they speak Of the Constitution, they meal
the Constitution as it now stands. including
the Radical amendments. Surely it mus
have been an imperative necessity which
thus Induced such man rs Judge BLACK
TO recognize the validity Of the amend
mentS. 1t must be conceded by all south.
rrn men that the great leaders Of the
Democratic party in Pennsylvania know
best what line of policy to pursue in
order TO secure the vote Of their State fol
the Democratic nominee. If so, that one
admission settles the question. For as we
cannot succeed without the vote Of Penn
sylvanla, and as the leading Democrats OF
that State have solemnly decided that it is
necessary to take the "new departure "
in order to secure her vote for our nomi.
nee, it would seem to be 4 positive neceS-
sity that we shall all agree to adopt the
Pennsylvania platform if we wish to sue
coed in the Presidential election of 1872.
In counting Presidential chicks" the
opponents of the new departure should
take such facts into their calculation. If
10 pennsylvania we add Ohio, Arkansas,
Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Maine.
Iowa, and other States where the "new
departure or some similar "new move
ment" has been made the policy of the
party opposing the Radicals, we shall see
that there is no such thing as 90 counting
the Presidential chicks" correctly without
recognizing facts as facts.