The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-20
The Party of Hate.

If there Is any one question to be more
decidedly settled in this campaign II Is tna'
the South Is to be forgiven nothing by the
party now holding the Government. incir
press and speakers join IN daily ho'dlns
this one idea up-only in different form
tbat the South rebelled against the Govern
ment. and that II to-day is ready for another
rebellion. There Is no installing what they
mean. II IS this that shows us what Will DE
the course OF the Radical or rather the GRANT
party to maintain itself inpowcr. Shouldn't DC
snccessfulat this election wcshaii hear NJ the
end of every term thesa war-ery. the same
cry of rebellion, and the same eShortaltons
to rally around the flag, as If any sane man
in the South could possibly entertain the
idea of warning on the Government now.
Should It be defeated it will have to make is
she the next term on other and more peace
faI grounds. 1t will have TO put up states
man for the Office Instead of an ineNpc.
rieneed soldier, representing war, and not
peace. And this will benefit not only the
Liberal party, but the whole country. The
political discussions will lose that unmista'
kable smack OF arms which now pervadcs
them. Orators will talk of peace peacefully.
and not as they do now, more violently than II
war was the subject under discussion. 1t Is
by casting out hate alone that this is to be II
great and prosperous country. If the North
had been conquered in this war, and been
ruled for eight years by party at the South
TINT hated it, they would soon understand
the bitterness of having to look on the
General Government as q. personal enemy.
If troops had been sent out from
Richmond Mt various times to gather
up citizens Of New York, or Ohio, or MasSa-
chusetts, and after trial by judges sent from
Virginia or Alabama for the purpose, con-
yicted and sent to the Georgia penitentiary,
they would soon learn what it was to he
governed by, as it were, an alien government
animated by a recollection of what had been
done during the war, and a fierce desire or
deliberate purpose of avengng it. No Gov
eminent can exist that hates any portion
OF its own people, and that is the reason-the
true reason-that the country cannot stand
the strain of GRANTS rule four years
longer. His administration has been cor
rupt. There have been corruptions be-
fore he or his party were in existence. lie
may be man with depraved tastes. We
have had such President before. His for
eign policy-if it can be called a policy at
all-may have been weak and humiliating.
We have had such before. ABRAHAM LIN
coin, the most popular President the North
ever had, dragged the flag in the gutter in
the Trent affair with Great Britain. and he
was forgiven. But this policy of hate cannot
be forgiven here or hereafter. No country
en- stand where the two divisions of it
well defined and staked out by acts Of Con-
gress and the very Constitution itscf-arc
animated by hate, with the Government pat
ting one section OH the back and joining in
the cry against the other. The United States
Government on one occasion before this pat
ted one section on the back, and we know
what came of timt. 1t was said by states
men that it would never come to anything
serious, and half-mllion graves to-day show
whether il did or not.
With the election Of Mr.. GREELEY will |
cease the luminosity towards the South, and |
certainly he and his party will not hate the
North. So this vile passion, as an element
in the National Government, will be done
away with. And it is the vilest and meanest |
passion in the human brcast-unreasonablc,
cruel, and beastly. The man who hates an
other, with or without cause, has smothercd
almost every feeling in his breast that raises
him above an animal. There is no nobility
in him; nothing to check his worst passions
except cowardice, with which, fortunately,
lie l. generally endowed.