The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-03-31
Republicans The Black and White
Middle.

The love of power and the greed for
emolument are cancers of the soul OF man.
: They eat up bis better part and subordl-
nate his nature to an Unsuitable ambltlon,
which blinds him to plain and simple rea-
son and perverts his nature from humane
sensibilities to vicious passions and over
bearing and tyrannous dispositions.
4 How else are we to account for the blind
ness of the party now controlling the Gov
ernment9
General GRANT had no idea before the
war that he would ever be elevated to
place of control in civil administration. He
too we'll appreciated his own merits to sup
pose that the people would ever find in him
capabilities that would induce them to
place him in civil station requiring the ex-
ercise of craftsmanship, of which he was
profoundly ignorant. Even after the war
he had no idea of being President and no
impression that the people would want to
put him in the office of Chief Magistrate of
the United States.
Then he was simple minded man-sat-
isfed with his high position of General'n-
chief, with its large salary. This, with the
cigars and the fast horses which it enabled
him to enjoy to his hearts content, was
enough. He wanted nothing more.
But partisans never fail to look for the
surest means of retaining their places
their hold upon the public teat. They
could see themselves safe only with the
lucky hero of the triumph which was won
without heroism at the head of the Govern
ment. So fully aware of General GRANTS
incapacity-indeed, aware that his capabil-
tiles were beneath mediocrity-in a spirit
entirely selfish, they selected him as their
candidate very much to his surprise, and
he was elected.
What revolution power and money
make in man. Gen. GRANT, once modest,
retiring, and unambitious, has become
avaricious, ambitious, and tyrannical.
| From having been in favor Of harmony,
quiet, and peace, he has now become exas-
perated, overbearing and tyrannical. Am
| bilious Of keeping the power he has, and
fearing that if the sectional animosities and
the fanatical temper of the northern States
should be Modified and conciliated, he
| would lose the chance of reelection, he
lends himself to every artifice to rearouse
| sectioal hates and fanatical passions. He
| takes readily into his consideration and re-
lance every distorted and ex parte story of
southern cruelty TO negroes, and upon such
| testimony almost demands Of Congress the
passage of acts giving him almost unlimited
power, and utterly ignoring the Constitu-
| ton Of the United States. !.
| This is the madness Of ambition-the in
genuity of whetted appetite for power
| and plumber. a" zs. .-..
The eXpedient will, like the shirt of
NEssUs, attach itself to the inventors, and
| stick to them as long as their names are
remembered. 1t involves cruel impeach-
ment of the superior race of mankind-an
impeachment by treacherous members of
] that race-and it involves, also, the subordi-
nation of that superior race to perhaps lex
cept the root-digger Indians) the very lowest
| race on earth. ..
This is the true state of the case. Now,
how is an issue of this kind to be main
tanned? Can this nation long tolerate such
condition of partisanship? Can it long
permit the degradation Of its own race be-
meath the African race in order that party
| in power may hold It's places and its gains
! In office? "a
The Radical party, led by General GRANr,
is agitating and aggravating an issue be-.
| tween white and black which cannot fail to
| bring ruin upon them. 1t Is an issue that
offers the greatest indignity to the white
race and inflicts the greatest wrong upon
the black race. The placing Of the negroes
of the South-but one remove from bar
barians as they are--oyer the white civilized
people Of the South is to subject them to a
trial fatal to themselves. The troubles out
Of which General GRANT dishonesty en-
deayors to establish necessity for the pass
age Of bill placing the whole South in his
hands, have originated In the peculiar.
tiles Of disposition Of the negroes. They
have been entrusted with arms, while they
have neither Judgment nor discretion in
their use. They have naturally committed