The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-08
R,aking the Ashes.

Raking the Ashes.
The followers of the military ruler, finding
that their hope for the nomination OF a t''iro
ticket BY the Democrats is blasted, are looh-
ing their great peril seriously III Tue H'cc
with doubt and perplcsity as to what course
il best for them. TO make beginning they
have determined 10 rake over the ashes OF
the past and pick out the little cinders pro-
duced By hested discussion and hish part!
feeling in other days. They will tear out
from their context all the strong sentences IN
Mr.. GRrELEy's frank and nervous editorials
and scatter them over the country rs the
devil sows tarcs in the fields.
But how poorly they esteem the 'n'c'li-
gcnce of the great public in supposing s'ich
an article is to succeed. Their SCISSORS anu
paste.pot war will have no more csiect on
the campaign than last years CLOUDS. ihc
public mind is always young, ana the p"D''c
memory strong. They arc not like the
memory of the superannuated, in which are
treasured up the recolections of times long
past while tho transactions OF yesterday are
forgotten. Oh, no. the people are thinking
about the usurpations, tyrannieS, ana cor
ruIiiops Of the present, and they feel the
weight that is upon them. These give
10 their power and animate their resolution
to reform the Government and restore inc
Constitution. They are not TO be diverted
from this great purpose by the reproduction
.In nj in
partisans and politicians of the sections Il
long time ago on issues that arc dead. lhe
old war was fought out to its end, and the
adyersarics then may he, and indeed are,
allies now. and they arc not to he set by Inc
ears on account Of what they then said Of
one another.
We have mutually settled this matter.
Mr.. GREELEY advocated general amnesty for
lis all Immediately after the war, and on our
mart we have extended to him general am
ncsty for the past. have relieved him OF his
disabilities, and arc ready to go OH his bond
or TO indorsc him. This was Mr. BALpwrS' s
happy and just conceit, and when uttered
i'm the recent State Conservative ConNen-
ton it was received with that hearty
and deafcning applause from the people
which was the best proof of lis general
acceptance rs Just settlement. The put
lie heart is never wrong. Its Judgment
may sometimes be wrong, but when the just
cord of nature is struck the response i clear
and accurate in tone. il cannot err. 80 Tie
sentiment of the southern people was,
we believe, expressed in Mr.. BALpwiN,s
statement, so cordially and promptly i'll
dorscd.
Both sides have determined TO ignore old
qtiarrels, and they arc donbly bound to good
faith: First to one another and secondly,
TO their country. They are sworn allies, and
cannot in honor revive old disputes. They
are allied for the sake of the country, and
would he dollbIy damned TO Cndan@cr their
cause by Eiusing TO dispute about old
feuds.
There is no treachery in the camp and will
be none. The followers OF the military ruler
will in vain attempt TO SOW the seeds OF
discord in the ranks of the "Grand Army of
the Republic" supporting the Liberal ticket.
If they have no merits of their own to 20
upon--if they find GRANTS administration
only an oppression and al obstacle TO peace
and fraternal good feeling, and rest their
chances upon the reproduction of GEEELEY's
editorials of other times, the followers OF the
GRANT camp are already beaten, and indeed
the trick is a confession OF defeat. II Mr..
GREELEY got the better of the South in hard
sayings of the past he is welcome to Ills all
vantage. If nc is lorgiving, so may WE
well be.
We remember better the events since the
war than we do those preceding it. We sur
fer more from present wrongs and mi-gov-
eminent than from the political polenicS OF
twenty years gone. We fight against our
bad rulers, and we mean TO throw them of;
and we are heartily joined with our allies.
We don't mean to,quarrcl, we Tell you, gen
tlemen, usurpers, and prosecutors of the mill
tary despotism.