The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-05-20
How We Were and Are.

3-|N' W " 49, 1885, ---- -
Six weeks ago the Democrats had noi
spirit enough even to pretend that tl!",
had any hope Of clecting the President n"A:
fall. They were IL clopt,l"n = 1T limit
diately after the elections in New iIanr
shire and Connecticut H. we ever SAW. j
Mr.. GREELEY had not brought the inllucnc,
of the Ir1hul,e TO bear in favor OF the Gin.
Cnnati Convention that a>>emlla.o WoulG
have been entirely destitute ci Importance.
and it nominations would have fallen still
born, like those of the Cleveland Conyen-
ton. He engineered the new movement
He gave Responsibility to the cincinnati Con
Ncnton lie dictated the platform which
was aloMed 10 get rid OF the tariff ulc>-
ton H. has furnished al the strength.
which the ticket has manifested. Strike hi>
name Of and substitute that Of CHARLES
FRANCIS ADAMS Ur DAVID DAVIS, and tn,
ticket will arouse 10 enthusiasm. Let hili
withdraw tomorrow. and bring ont the Trt.
h,pe in support Of the reelection OF General
GRANT. and the Democratic party will he H.
dead i'll three days thereafter lis i Tie hcrSt
that NAPOLEON rode ut Waterloo. lie i tho
man who has warmed il into al appearance
OF life. He has set i, congressional, cXc,ll.
tive, and judicial feast before the Democrats,
and shown them exactly what they have to
do in order To lartakc OF it. He has, in q
word, given them hopes of success. :
And What is his reward: Why, the lead
CTS Of this utterly disriritcd party pluck up
sudden courage and swear that they are
strong enough 10 ask no odds of Mr.. GREE
LEY. They point Us 10 the "tlree millions
OF Democratic voters" who. unfortunately
for the pointers, have for twelve years found
more than three millions opposed to them
The one hundred thousand negro voters III
Virginia are powerful party, too; but the
one hundred and twenty thousand white
voters happen to be II much more powerful
party--so much more powerful that We con.
troll the administration of the State lust a.
completely as if there were not twenty thou
sand negro voters in Virginia. And if
twenty thousand white men were to offer to
unite with the negroes in support of IA cand:-
date Tor Governor it would be Just as scnS-
Die for the negroes to decline and to point
With pride to their strength of one hundred
Thousand voters AS it is for the Democrats,
who are in u like hopeless minority, to point
TO their "three million of voters" Mr..
GREELEY tells these Democrats TO 20 ahead
that he will get out of the way if they say 50.
And then they flantically inquire. "Ha,,
you no principle: Are You going to sup
port GRANT" To which, as in duty bound
he answers never Il word. These hhstcrcr,
have forgotten that they have 30 Iittl,
strength that if GREELEY withd,aws thci,
straight-ou ut ticket will be beaten Is badly =.
that Of SEYMOUR and BLA,g was.
Pray, gentlemen, recall the not distaa. past
We do not propose to elect Democratic
President. The country is not ripe for it
We have merely u chance to turn out il set o.
plunderers and wrong-docrs and put in
honest men. If Mr.. GKEEMEY were a Demo.
crat, he would be no stronger than HEN.
bricks or THURMAN or PESDLEroS. IL he had
all his life been opposed to negro sufglagc-it
he had been sympathzcr with the South
during the war--if he had opposed the rali-
hcation of the 18th, 18th, and 18th amend
nlents-if Inc were not known to the northern
people to De u stsunch friend of the negro
he would stand no more chance of election 10
Tue Presidency than Henry A. WISE. The
northern people are fully, firmly, and finally
bent upon cleting no man TO that Office WHO
viii not DO justice TO what they consider