The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-05-11
. Nav, xy.ayen and a New Earth.

go, ,-.,.o,s have expressed the idea
shat the old parties have rc'c''ee s '.',,
utn q deaih.blow IN the recent ro''''s.'' an"
.nl;a, couyulsion which has afh'cted TINS
country An earthquake Of severity throws
dawn houses and shakes into dilardatl"n
Oh, structures for social and business pur-
poses, and they have to be built anew y
rrea, civil revolution has pretty mnch Ia"
came effect upon the moral world tha' tux
earthquake has upon the physical.
Tho nar4;es before the war were dN'aeo
upon well-defned principles ana i'o''> ~.
The war DESTROYED in a great "'s,' ,,.".
h,ses on which they rested. The aoo"''o'
Of slavery put an end to the issue upon '''''' '
;,s.;,,,;nn and the triumph by force OF arms
80 ~. .ontral government settled the queS'
ton ~ States rights so far as TO leave 'nose
r,obts without remedies, and therefore OF ITO
,.a,,e and settled it that the Federal Govern
mcut Is the Judge of the relative powers Oh
rho State governments and its own. seeing
that Il has the power to enforce its JUG
ments without regard to the Will OF the
States.
Tins has the main issue of former days
and the cornerstone OF party organza1loi''
been completely destroyed. People may III
deed. advocate the practicablity anu WISDOM
of nlaiut aiming the local authority OF the
States. but none can now claim for the H9"'>
,he right to judge Of attractions oil It's powers
nv the Federal Government, and the right 10
rcsist the infraction. An abstraction ike
TINT now would only excite merr'men.
so that there is new political dispersal
ton. snd there is wall-the wall OF rr'"'''-
,iop-sef up between this period ana the Pc
Rod before tic war. What becomes OF pr-
ties based upon the condition OF things DE-
fore the WARP They cannot stand on the
Or ounds they occupied prior to civil STRIFE
hecause these are swept away. fhey. ihPr'-
fore. can only be known by the personal t''
lures of those who belonged to them.
What do they signify, Not much now.
They may ronsort together and struggle Oh
the same side against ;t'ople who call them
selves by name; bul The s1nl that "nIll';'-
ted them is dead.
Therefore, necessarily, there must it ii
wasting away and dying out OF old or@asil-
cations. New issues aud new policies must
divide the people, and the followers OF old
na,ties will inevitably find new relatioE4 ana
new places in the political arena.
There are in this great country infinite
Il >r Il; AZ nj
Ion. Every day new questions are arising
in both the domestic and foreign policy OF
the nation, and there are always al least two
sides to every question. The settlement aud
government of the vast western plains VIII
originate questions not yet dreamed OF, and
In all sections new situations will he suggest
i've of new views and wide differences Of
opinion.
As the war closed the old period and
opened the new, so we must have an inter-
mediate condition between the old parties
aud the neH. The political revolution now
going on is, We believe, to constitute this in
termediate period-the easy way from the
old ideas and the old parties to the new par
ties and ISSUES suited TO the new political
diSpenSation. 1t offers, too. the means OF
escape from the persecution of the war party
and the bitter sectional animosities Of the
war.
Do We not see that the party now giving
The best promise Of future triumph is
formed upon the platform of compromise
and an absolute discarding of long-disputed
policies with regard to which there was n
difference OF opinion; What does that imply
but o general concurrence that there is no
way to march out of the wilderness of evil
passions and bad government but by placing
the public welfare and the national peace
above personal aspirations and party HOSTILE
ties? Once out Of the dreadful abode in
which we have wandered for years, there
may be new dispositions, new organizl-
lions, freed from the impracticable theo-
ries of old parties and from the antagonisms
Of sections embittered by the war.
So 1t Is to be hoped the nation will be
brought ont of its troubles, and that in this
deliyerance there will be reSuscitation of
true republicanism and the establishment
Of the liberty and independence of the citi-
zen.