The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-21
soscEsTIlAr1ssI II AssEara.s.


/ NO cESTRAIIsa IN AssEREss.
a CONSERVATIVE BRITISH VIEW or THE
| PRESIDENTIAL CAsIPAIGs-G IAN It's
| GREAT BLUsBkR AT GENEYa-WHAT
| HAS ALREADY BEEN ESTABLISHED BY
HIS LACK OF JUDGMENT.
The London Standard of the Sd instant
has a long article on the coming American
Presidential election, in which 1t thinks that
| the question which this election must decide.
for the present at any rate, perhaps for ever,
Is OF infinitely more consequence than the
personal merits Of two second-rate meil, or
than any which can arise out of "General
uinnts tendency to tolerate corruption, or
Alr. Greeley's sociaEstie manas." 1t Is
| neither more nor less than the maintenance
OF the Federal Constitution-of Site rights
within the Union Qhe right Of the States TO
leave the Union has been finally negatived
by the arbitration of the sword) as against
the centralized sovereignty of the so-called
National Government. It says:
owe hold with those American Conserya-
tlves who believe that an attempt to consoli-
date an empire SO vast and populouS, 50
various, under the direct rule of Il central all-
thorty-especially when that authority is
incarna!e in Lncolns, Johnsons, and Grants,
| and in Congress dominated by Buffers. Ste
rsnses. and SumnerS-is all experiment that
| CHI only Cycntratc in trouble and tyranny,
permanent disorder and occasional dcspot-
ism, and possibly in ultimate disruption;
that California and Massachusetts, MARYLAND
| and Wisconsin, with all their conflicting in
terests, dissimlar conditions, and distinct
| ideas, cannot safely he governed 10y tho conf
! mon votes of mixed multitude of negroes,
lrishmen, and GerInaus. backwoodslnen and
| citizens, Puritanlzcd Yankees and amti-Puli-
| tanic southernors. But the question has IL
more Immediate and more urgent aspect
| state rights are the anchor of the South; her
| Inst chance for the recovery of freedom. or
| der. and prosperity.
"Th0 reelection Of General Grant means
| that for four years more that unhappy eulln-
try shall be governed rs she has been for six
years past; that her laws shall be dictated
from Washington by her inycterltc enemies,
and shaped and passed by legislatures che
| sen by the lowest and least intellectual of the
| Sem!-ciyilzed races Of mankind. and domi-
mated by the vilest scrt of political advcn-
turcrs that her finances shall be admins
! tered by swindlug spectators for their own
| personal benefit; that her industry shall be
| oppressed by tariff which doubles the cost
| OF all its implements for the profit of the
conqierors, iriGlttcns away foreign capital,
| anu lays her PROSTATE ut the feet Of New
York u>urers: that, in word. she shall be
governed 10y The sword and by negro votes.
under Il policy directed to the express pllr-
| pose of notifying, degrading, and injuring
| her people-a policy of prescription and re-
| yenge. Mr.. Greeley was the enemy of the
South on the single question Of slavery {:
| that question decided. he WAS willing to be
| llpr friend.
| "The actual President is, it seems. trying
to take credit for his successful management
Of the Alabama arbtration.a business which
| he managed 50 well that il was twenty times
| on the point of utter failure, that the vast
majority of Englishmcn of all parties had
come to regard il us hopeless, and to be any
| i"lIs for percnptory rupture OF nrSolEs-
| tons which appeared To liz conducted with
equal disregard TO good faith and common
SENSE 80 we'll that failure WIS prevented, il
| rllnor speak the truth, less by the common
conviction of the Cabinet Of Great Britain
| than Ivy the ITsnIutu belief OF two or three
| of It's members in the Invisible prudence OF
America and the certainty that she would
| find some way Of yielding the essential point
| i'll dispute before it was utterly too late. We
| give all due credit to those gentlemen, not
| stopping TO inquire too closely how far
| they We're influenced by passionate
| tr\ otion to the principle Of arbitration
| rather than sincere belief in its success
I,.,:,, L.,
| gambler who holds on to the last against
adverse fortune. until at the final throw OF
| double or quits the luck turn, in his favor
| but we can give no credit to General Grant.
| 1t j. quite true that it was for the interest Of
| America that the indirect claims should be
disposed Of, and that the right of bcl!ig-
| rrcnt 10 exact damages for the breaches OF
| neutrality should Br lis narrowly limited lis
| possible.
"BiIt the American case is founded on III
entire oblivion Of this fact; tie -lnertcd"
ddrocatcS ,fought oJst'natcy tor the hndirect
ctdim*. ami hare asCccedcd m establishing Il
precedent rhich ronid cnnhie us 10 clam
tron The UMtcd States. if they si0"M alto"
q single priratcc1' 10 escape from their ports
rico ire are at rh" dad they are neutral,
| Inc mhoie cost IF the cruisers Which may bc
| -t'NIfC3PU
| protect OU' commerce against her and have
>trIvcn with all their might to enforce def
uitiVn of due diligence which will exact from
| the Government Of the Union something
very different from that reasonable wa,cll-
| IulncsS' limited by 'ihc available Resources
of this Government which is in General
| Grants view. to eNoncrltc them from llbll-
| tv if their cliZcnS should be lis successful
| in the future as in the past in cvadin" the
| laws of nations and the obligations OF nell
| traitv. The President claims 10 have
! established rules of neutral liability narrow
enough to exempt his country from danger
| Gus responsibilities; his agents are laIiorlng
| SO TO extend those rules in the present COLI
trovrr>y lis 10 enable other nation. To demand
| full indemnity for every bal" of goods that Il
| future Alabama may seize, every ship hal III
| Amcrican-bl,ilt privaicrr may capture iIndci
Il foreign flag, every house that may lie
burnt, every sheep or fowl that may Il"
stolen. Ivy Il future Walker or Lopez. 1t can
hardly he thnt President Grants coun'rymen
arc so blind rs he seems TO imagine; or That
any American who compares the arguments
presented at Geneva with the language held
ut Washington can retain the Slly htcst 're-
Spcct either for the Judgment or the sincerity
OF the Republican candidate for the approach
ing term of Presidential Office
DEATH oF REV. DR.. Thomas L. BoNn.--
Rev. Dr.. Thomas +. Bond, so well known al
one of the ablest editorial writers in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, died 1T his farm,
iii Hartford county, Md, on Sunday after
noon, in the tilty-nnth year Of his aye. The