The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-03-23
The Grant Strategy.

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commended general amnesty to Congress ~
his last message. We have seen no" n''
leading friends have played with TINS qu.,,
ton like kitten plays with mouse wn,. ~.
she intends finally to dcvour. Ihey o'r ,r NV.
think IL WINS wise to let the South 80. .ho
believed that the sectional q1cs'o" a.. ,"' ,as,
,rc;,,d;ccs ,eninst the South were inc oe',
'.sni,al they could take into the prcS.ue'''1''
o.,n,,.;.n and 60 they have played WIN a''''
ncsty :; and under the same ,'i ~. ~ o..a,,;nr
nolicv they let no opportunity tor eSc''''s
.cc,;oual lad feeling i'll the Nor'h est'p0
,hcn They are thus engineering the sec.
,;',,I ,,ssions with their usual cunning and
rrhleSsness. -
We shall have no general amnesty, we snail
have no "lctting up in the matter Of the
attitude of the Administration towards the
South. and we shall, therefore, have TO walt
another period before the country can be
,nciticated. The interests of the party IN
power demand that the South should be
ridden and oppressed for yet longer period.
The GRANT men see that the opposition Will
bc forced by the illiber,lity of the Admins
tration to take ground in favor of the Iaclhcsl-
ton of the country and the restoration oil the
Constitution and equality amongst the people
and States. They have therefore begun early
to assail the opposition as Democratic ana rs
Sympatl.izing With the rebels. The Kitchen
Cabinet paper in Washington says the Con-
seryativc Republicans who propose to meet
OF Cincinnati are in sympathy with "rebelS
"Eke JEFF. DAVIS, on whose bail bond the
"cditor of the Tribune wrote his name lc"
years ago."
We have told hcnorthern people time ana
again that the issues against us Us well as the
| ,lsurlmtions of power for our oppression,
| would assuredly reject upon them. Ana
| now they find that when some OF thcm'
shocked at the corruptions of the Govern
| ment, are about to enter the field with the
war-crv of reform. they are stiSinatized as
sympathzcrs with the South and Democrats,
and the fcrocolls spirit of hatred towards the
South is invoked TO array itself against them.
Like the GirondinS for rausns in horror OF
the crimes of their party, they are to DC De-
headed as friends of the unfortunate people
| who had been put under the ban.
Whatever the Conservative Republicans
NAV choose to do about the South, they will
be inevitably forced to stand upon the pat
form of the national wlcilication. and they
will I've compelled to fight against the passions
that the Administration will summon to ITS
aid.
1t is quite possible that while the ultra
Radicals arc cndcavoring to play the game OF
showing all their northern opponents over to
utilization and cooperation with the South,
they may turn the scale against themselves
bv giving, through their kaycry and blind
mali-nity, the prepondcrancc. to their adver'
sarics. There are many ways in the natural
order of events to defeat Il "raSplnS and
tyr,nuical power; and it may turn out that
one of the most efficient of them all is this
overhearng device of denouncinS all who
onposc them aS rebels and rcbcl sympathlzerS.
arrayrd against the Government, or, as the
sIanr cocs. against the life Of the nation.'
We'll. the nation has eyes and cars. and
maybe has begun to find out from whence
comes the greatest public danger.