The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-13
A Few More Words.

After great political struggle something
must be- said by everybody concerned i'll it.
We wanted to say but little, and mean to
sny but little.
The Dispatch has taken very active
part in all the struggles in this State since
the war, not rs Wing, or Democrat,
or II partisan of any stripe. but out OF dcvo-
ton TO Virginia, in the hope of saving her
from that sort of government of strangers
and iDcompetents which has brought upon
her sister southern States disasters and dis
tyesSes whose real nature can never tc ap-
preciated except by their own people. The
Liberal moycment-the banding OF the
liberal and the practical and the patriotic OF
all parties for the protection of the State
from NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. thus begun in
: Virginia, and when il spread to Missouri
and Kentucky, and finally to the Uuion. we
were still Its ardent supporters, for the sake
of all that is dear in society.
When the Liberal Convention nominated
Mr.. GREELEY we regretted it because we IA
vored another man; but where men are
poor defenders of 1t who grow cold and ill.,
different because their tastes are not con-
suited. We took to Mr.. GREELEY warmly. and
soon felt that his nomination was as good us
any other would have been. He behaved
well, he talked well, he pleased everybody,
respected his adyersarieS, and wen steadily
Uron his friends until the battle was fought
and he met defeat almost without prcce-
dent, and retired, with clear conscience, to
that privacy which is far, far happier than
could be residence in the White House.
Could anybody have doue better? We do
not feel that they could, nnd the question is
an idle one now.
The Administration made its fight Oh
Pennsylvania. All the appliances and the
money 1t could command were brought to
bear upon that election, and the result was a
eurprise-a slanl-uu irretrieyablc disaster.
From that time Liberals who had timidly
crcpt from their places returned to them like
rats when terrier enters the pantry. DEM
ocrats became Respondent and gave it up,
and that immense army of camp-fol!owers
who always seek the winning side-that army
which Is larger than ever was GRANTS Army
Of the Potomac-went over, horse, foot, anC
dragons, with suffers and bummers, to the
party in power. The turning and return
ing exceeded anything in history. A very
distinguished Confederate general in New
Orleans who seemed to lead the ground-and
lofty tumblers. himself turned about i'll an
Incredibly short space Of time. The dlapery
ho wore could not keep up with him, and
the hinder part of his neither garments were
brought boldly and flagrantly in front. Is
the result astonishing?
The President had all the physical and Pc
cuniary force. Mr.. GREELEY had only prin-
pie, good feeling, simple and honest admins
tration to oppose to it--a pop-gun to a
mitrailleuse. General GRANT continues to
rule. Mr.. GREELEY returns TO his vocation,
where he viii be infinitely more happy thau
ne ever could have been in the White House.
We envy him the relish with which he re-
turned to bis editorial latora-the sweet
hours Of meditation and reading, and the
earnest and animated spirit with which he
sGibbles again over the editorial paper. We
would not surrender these for hoDors and
emolnments Of State. Give Us our vocation
and Independence. We ask no more.
Now, then, we have reached, we think, the
last stage Of reconstruction, which is that OF
confusion of parties. The Republican
party perishes by its own weight. The war
is dead; issues new must be presentsd-the
Republic turns over new leaf, and, we pre-
dict, finds brighter page.