The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-17
s,,on,,nv 81 a strange quarter.

Some of the Grant organs seem 10 De
greatly exercised about the future Vi sue
democratic partv.s fearing that it will commit
s,,icide at Baltimore in adopting Greeley anu
Brown. The Democrats should DC pro,
foundry grateful for this manifestatlon VI
sympatby. although. as must be confessed, IL
comes rather late, and in n way to eXclte s'lS-
nicion that it is more simulated tiian real.
The Democracy, kicked, cufied, ana neltsn
so often it the last twelve years by the haul.
Gals. have afforded such agreeable diversion
to their more numerous enemies that they
ought perhaps, upon the highest primer
niles of Christian ethics, to U announcer
Side TO be smittep. This would doubtless De
a sublime lesson of patience after repehteo
buffeting. But, since they have DeeI 50
badly bruised that hardly q sound spot Is iett,
the Radicals should excuse them II they put
forward some new recruits, and shield tneHl-
selves this time behind the broad shoulders
of the Chappaqua farmer and his Republican
friends. If the Democracy must die, 1t had
as we'll be with the ague as with the lever,
the one not being worse than the other.
Clearly they do not intend to be put up III
rows: like SO many bricks, to be knocked
| down for the amusement of Grant n his
"rinp.v That game is "played out" AND
so they beg their Radical friends to reserve
their symUathies and bottle up their tears
for ULYSSES and his set, who will need them
aI.-Lychdurg Wrgintan.
Here is a specimen of the kind of Radical
| sympathy the Virginian speaks Of:
From the State Journal, 18th.
The ENQUIRER. with more sag;lcity than It's
| c~o-laborcrs in the Democratic Conservative
cause, is trying hard to damage the chances
of the Greeley ticket ut Baltimore, and pours
u solid.column leader daily into the Clncln'
natl lugger in the hope of averting the ca
lamity of an endorsement at the hands OF tne
National Democratic Convention. we car
symmthize with it in its very great distress
in this direction. for its apprehcnsions are
genuine. and its forecast highly commentator
Under the circumstances. 1t refuses to lml'
tate the shallow-Mted ostrich by sticking lts
head in the sand, with the belief that its I'M
rainly posteriors arc entirely concealed from
the political enemy. TO 90 into the Baltl'
more Convention and there endorse the Gree
lev ticket is forever to disband the Demo
cratic party and sink oil its glorious antece'
dents hopelessly out Of sight. In fact, 1t Is
Going into the last possible hole of party de.
gradation, and, to make it q thing of totaI
political extinction, drdgJingM the hole in after
ii. This is what the Enquirer sees, and the
old historic record Of that paper revolts al
the thought of such shameless oblivion.
1t is keeping up a gallant fight against this
measure of party extinction, but its attitude
forebodes its going into the hole and doing
the very thing against which it SO vigorously
demonstrates. This midsummer madness Of
the South. developing itself in a perfect
mania for the Chappaqua aXeman, is one OF
the most unaccountable freaks ever exhibited
in the history of our perverse and head
turned race. We would gladly help our con
temporary along in its gallant but utterly
hopeless fight, but it is doing the work SC
well itself, and with so much more conf
dence than we could express, that we leave
it to all the glory Of its apparently impossi
| bic achievement.