The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-18

The Harrison and Greeley campaigns
A victorian Democrat, %rccounting the his
tory of tho HARRISON campaign, said tha'
uho, HARRISON was nominated the Demo
Gratis laughed immodcratcly. They though
Il tho best Joke of the season. But there
sprung up such ashout that their laugh was
merged into a sardonic grin. Ihcy sooh
found that there was serious work '"i'i'
them. They hurried to Washington '"'H"-
cert measures of defence; but, arrived lhe'''
tbey found that they were already "''eh.
Tbnv went through the campaign with ali
the spirit and energy they c"n'd mo>''I' ''''''
thew met that disastrous defeat which, ''es
had clearly torcsecn.
Tho nrcscnt campaign resembles that yer,
CLOSELY. The motives for the struggle on
tbc side of the people WI" have ho''''1'''''
GREELEY and Brown are far more i'i'c'S
than those which moved the "hi"S WHO
~suprortcd HARRISON; and there Is no ON
,,ri.on to be drawn between An BtRES ;
administration and GRANTS in the matter Oh
their odiouSncSs. VAN BrEES was the pet OF
JACKSON. and il seemed that JAckS"Ns rue
was continued for twelve years, the last four
Of il having all the odium OF prolon"atlon
without the rcdccming force Of the indo'nI-
table will, sagacity, and vigof OF JACKSON.
Yet Mr.. Wax BuRES was Il civilian ot very
proper general views and very c"nsidcraic
disposition. There wns no complaint OF Il
very serious nature against him. lie was
crushed by the weight of JACKsoSs al1nor,
which he had not the strength to support.
The Wings got the popular tide against HIM,
and set up the shout whose echoes did not
die out until HARRISON was elected.
GRANTS administration has been studded
with outragrs of the rights of The people
and the Sfarc,. II has been driven over the
dead Constitution. 1t has 80 oppressed the
peoplc, and lms become SO famous for official
c%orruptions, and the worst men of the party
have had such entire possession OF the irc>l-
dents counsclS, aud such control in the Adj
ministration, that the patience of the people
has been exhausted, and, indignant ut the
base uses made Of the Government and tie
insults and expressions visited upon the con-
stitucnt body. they have risen Z" mass" to
cXpcl the men who have done these Things
from public places.
At first the act of the people at Cincinnati
was dcridcd. Matters, however, soon grew
too serious to lose time in tauntS and ridl-
culc. and GRANTS followers went about to
see what could be done. They found things
mt a desperate pass, and we doubt not came
TO precisely the same conclusion that the
Democrats did at the beginning of the HAIR
RIsoS campaign that they were already
beaten.
Still it was deemed important TO d" some
thing. There were tc,dS in Pennsylvania.
Indiana needed attention. North Carolina
must be carried. indeed. there was as much
cummotion amongst them H. there isamoIlg>t
a colony of ants when their c"nical house is
troddcn ON 10y Il needless bull. There *
much running hitIlcr and tllithcr. and much
inquiry, what shall we do? and nobody To
answer.
IDtll s'Ill' LllflIr III IL ~ - ''N'
Send for GRANT; drag him from Long Branch
and the races. Let Longlcllow and Ba>>ct
git up and git" rs suits them; but General
GRANT must "git up and git," or he is gone
up the spout. II was found hard to tear the
fatcd President away from pleasures he
values highly, and We do not know whether
ne has up to this time answered the SUM
mons. lie will be amazed at the picture Of
peril painted for him, arrive when he may.
For once ne will find himself defeated h.
fore he can sci his regiments in the field.
Can he retrieve Pennsylvania He i
too much OF Il taclician not 10 per
ceiyc so plain Il case of maitcrah!c dis
aster. TO change officers after the battle
is begun he can see is only to make the dis
astcr greater. Turning to North Carolina,
he can see no better hope; and ne can see
that victory in that State cannot save him in
November. That State carried ly force
would only arouse the popular Indignation
to 4 higher pitch and make his c]jrctmcnt
from power al the more humiIiatin%.
Nevertheless, he has already conrurrcd III
the efforts with public money. The kuklux
machinery, and the Stumpin- Of the state
by members of his Cabinet. is Il forloru
hope.
Bnt all will not do. and General GRANT
knows it., or he is too >tolid and bull-hcadcd
to discover the peril that surrounds him. The
feuds i'll his own party are incllrahlc: He
has made himself 4 party to those tcudS, and
thus lost the power to compose them. His
policy, which has aroused the popular fury.
cannot be changed with any advantage.
Nothing can diminish the public wrath nor
weaken the force of the blow about to fall
upon him.
The GRANT party are indeed beaten before
the campaign has fairly begun.
Doctor Grant.
On the same day ON which that old syco-