The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-21
WE are battling for uniUersal amnesty.


WE are battling for unioersdl amnesty
for peace in the counting-house, in the
farmers field, in the lawyers office, in the
courts, in the legislative halls, wherever
men live, move, and have their being. We
are ridden by An Old Man of the Sea in
the shape of Federal judges who pervert
the law, Federal revenue officers who
plumber our pockets, Federal attorneys who |
annoy and vex and worry us from January |
to December. We need not enter into par |
ticulars. Weneed not give names. Every
body knows just what we mean. 1t is this |
great boon that we ara seeking in advocate
ing the election of Greeley-not alone the
removal of the disabilities of few thou
sand en.-Dispatch. 90.
The letter of Colonel Mosby which we
published yesterday, has greatly worried
our contemporary of the Dispatch. He
sees in it, or the spirit which prompted it,
the direst confusion and dismay to the
South, if not continued subjugation and
loss Of liberty for all time. As between
Greeley and Grant the imagination has a
wide sweep, if not an almost boundless
play, in the conjuring up of alternate
issues, such as shall either save the coun-
try, or plunge it into the zimmerman depths
Of political darkness, from which no star
shall shed solitary ray of light from the
folds of that ample armament, if not
flag, which waves over us. "Greeley
and universal amnesty" "Greeley and
peace in the contingencies" "Greeley
and peace everywhere and in everything"
are to be the Democratic watchwords in
the coming campaign while "Grant and
universal disqualification" "Grant and
war in the counting-house," "Grant and
bellgerency everywhere and in every
thing" is the text of the Philadelphia
platform, to be enforced and carried out
to the letter, if Grant is to be elected. z
To the unsophisticated mind of the
general reader of the Dispatch, all this may
be as clear as mud, if not as clear as the
muddle into which our contemporary runs
whenever it contemplates the fearful reign
Of the Republican party of the country, in
building up the general interests Of the
people; in securing domestic tranquility !;
in protecting the national rights and honor
abroad in meeting the national oblga-
tons and paying off the public debt as it
natures /; in maintaining the national credit
and giving a uniform currency to the peo-
pie; in enforcing the laws of Congress and
demanding strict accountability on the
part of public officials in fostering
American industry against the pauper
labor of Europe; in building up local
manufactures and stimulating every kind
of local industry and generally, in doing
what the people would be most likely to
demand, if left free to their own convic-
tons of right and duty in the political
premises. E T.--s. EaG
The Dispatch is aware that Col. Mosby
gives utterance to something more than his
own personal convictions in the letter it so
sharply and acrimoniously criticizes. 1t is
the conviction of large class of Southern
minds, and those as likely to discriminate
as correctly and dispassionately as any
; other class of persons among us. The in
temperate charges against the Federal
judges of the South, against the revenue
, service, Federal attorneys, and other Off
= GERS appointed therein, will fall as harmless
: thunder-very harmless indeed--wherevel
they are intended to strike. We are sor
ry that these Federal officials vex and wor
) ry the Dispatch from January to Deem
Der, but the fault is not theirs. They de.
sire to be on the very best terms with our
contemporary, and would not injure a hair o.
his head, if it were ten times as erect witt
horror as it now seems to be at the fright
fulness of the situation. No, not hair.