The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-04
una Raconct,iation Can it Fan?

The Reconciliation Can 1t Fail?
AMER seven years Of nominal peace, with
endless measures of reconstruction md In
Vulnerable marshals and officers, military ana
civil. scattered over tie South 20 maintain
order NOT violated and enforce laws not 70
sisted, 1t Is time that we had peace ana recon-
Citation between the sections of this power
IN, Union. Ills demanded by every interest
of the country and by every principle oil
Justice and humanity.
Do not the people Of oil sections desire
.b,sp Look at the South. Wisely consider
ING that as conquered part of the Union
she cannot dictate chief magistrate Tor tine
nation she has asked the friends OF peace aI
the North to present candidate for ler
s,,pport-onc that would representing views
of those who wanted the Constitutional
Union restored-with the revival of State au-
thoritv-tl,e restoration of equality amongst
States and peopbe--and the establishment
of peace and fraternal good feeling in the
land. The North has offered in Mr.. GREE
LEY that ca00luate.
The Soutb, with unsurpassed unanimity.-
that IL, the white people Of the South-have
acceded to the support Of MIR. GREELEY.
They bare surrendered their peculiar politi-
cal opinions with regard to State rights;
they have cast behind them all prejudices
and all disagreeable "reminiscences with re-
gard to the man himself, and given heart ana
hand to his support, and through him to the
cause be represents. Is this not enough 10
prove their devotion to the republic their
anxiety for the peace and contentmcnt of the
people, and the promotion OF the power ana
dignity of the Union with which their fate IS
bOundY
The question of States rights has been set
tied By the war, and they admit it. They know
that the only means Of protecting the States
is through the will of the whole people eX-
pressed at the polls and the administration
Of the Government by those the people elect.
The South knows it, and there is an end OF
dispute about that long mooted question,
unfortunately left by the fathers of the revo-
tuition for future settlement, and that by the
arbitrament of the sword. We all know that
PATRICK HENRY's construction of the Consti-
tuition is established, that State cannot de-
eide the question of infringement OF her
rights and secede from the Union, but that
the voice of the whole people rules supreme
over States and sections.
This is acquiesced in by the South. Slavery
is dead, and she has turned her back upon it
never to think of it or tolerate it again. Tired
of being ruled by imported men, who have
40 sympathy with them, and have plundered
them and loaded them with debt-wearicd
with the harsh measures of the Administers
ton which were designed to excite distrlst
of them at the North and humiliate them at
home-they embrace with alacrity the oppor-
tunity afforded them ofjoining the friends of
reconciliation at the North in grand effort
10 relieve the land from its woes and reestab-
Iish true constitutional rcpublicanism.
Can the North ask more? Can the North
with these facts before them be indifferent to
the efforts of the Administration TO widen
the breach between the North and South, and
continue the expressions of the South by
casting distrust upon it-infaming the
northern mind against it, and lighting
anew the flames Of hatred and vindictive-
ness?
Can 1t be possible that the northern mind
is so hard and flinty as to be insensible tothe
noble example of sacrifice and selt-control
exhibited by the South, and to be willing to
see her people continued in the state of OPP
preston and apprehension which has de-
stroyed the peace of southern homes and
brought confusion and disaster upon south
ern social economy and industry
We hope Motive believe not. We he
lieye the North is also tired of strife and dis
cord and of the cruelty of arbitrary rule
tired of the abuses of the Federul Admins
tration in its conversion into n mere per-
sonal government, for the benefit of office,
holders, in contempt of the welfare OF the
nation.
Can the struggle for reconciliation, under
these circumstances, and stimulated by these
motives, fail? We believe not. 1t ought by
every reason to triumph, and it will. If it
does not, we may indeed doubt the capacity
of the people for selfgovernment.