The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-14
The Greeley Tide Rises and Spreads

The news to-day Is every way chcouf''s 'hs
The tide rises and spreads in all directions.
look NJ Missouri. Sec the spirit displayed
,hsre She ills the measure in the West to
hearing and running over. The wave which
snread westward from Pennsylvania is met
by that beyond the Mississippi, and sweeps
back with accumulated force and resl,tiesS
vigor.
In no direction b there the least sign OF
dependency. The Liberalisss ana '"e,i
allies. the Democrats, throughout the MOTH
arc united with harmony and earnest
ness UNSURPASSED in days bygone. shus
the whole opposition in the North
stands solidly upon the Cincinnati plat
form. while the South, with equal
upanimity and resolution, has taken its stand
upon the same platform, and has Joined the
North in that spirit of concord and frater-
nifty that is so properly inspired by the great
movement for the restoration of the relations
of brotherhood to the lately divided sections
and the restoration of liberty TO States and
people so long oppressed by the war Admins
tration and the viDdictiveness of Nar Con-
gress.
On the side of the opposition we behold Il
united people devoted heartily to these OBJ
jects. On the other hand, we see the party
In power, broken down by its own us,irpa-
tons and vices, divided, respondent, and
auakins with fear under the weight Unpopular
Indignation. Since the nomination of GRANT
for reelection the most superficial observer
must have seen that ultra Republicanism has
sunk rapidly in strength. The closing hours
of Congress brought upon it defeat and dis
comfture so CALLING and notifying that the
President could hardly wait to discharge his
duties until the hour of adjournment of that
body. and fed from the capital to drown
the din and shock of disaster amid the roars
and meanings of the ocean surf at Long
Branch.
We remember no Administration which
had such adversely in its last year. JOIN
Quincy ADAMS was well aware that he would
be defeated for the second term but the Oh
jections to him related to matters Of policy
in no wise involving the liberty and peace
of his country. He had clear conscience,
and contemplated defeat with calnIness. The
people respected him, and were not eXaspe-
rated towards him for us,lrpations and op-
pressions-for establishing the rule of the
bayonet i'm time Of peace, and sllspending
the writ Of habeas corpus, SO rs to have the
liberty and life of every man at his mercy.
But these are the awful offences Of our pre-.
sent President, and for these he en-
counters a public opprobrum more ter
rible than was ever before aroused,
and his last official days are couded
with deeper and blacker clouds than ever
before hung over the closing months of an
Administration. All the signs prefgure for
him and his party defeat from which there
can be no resurrection. The country is tired
Of nncorS and punishments and usurmtDns.
1t is dctermir ed to destroy the war party and
to restore peace and constitutional govern
ment.
The enthusiasm of the great body Of citi- |
zens who struggle for the country and their
liberty grows hourly. The South and the |
North will meet ut Baltimore and form
better ceuented and more enduring union
a union based on the affections of the people
for one another and for the country, and
they will reform the Government so that il
will protect instead of expressing the peo-
pie, and will seal the devotion of the citizens
by its honest, impartial, and bcnetcent adj
minStrution Of the laws.
HORACE GREELEY will be the first Presi-
dent under the new political dispensation.
and through him and his Successors for years
to come the people will secure themselves
from national discord and the woes Of mis-
government and tyranny, whose horrors
they will never forget.