The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-11-10
Mr. Hunters Scheme-Again.

Since writing the article which appear
elsewhere in our columns upon Mr.. Hun
TgR's unfortunate scheme We have received
the Washington Republican Of Saturday
the Republican is the Presidents organ
and find in il an article which shows TIT
damage that Mr.. HUNTER has unintcnton
ally done to his southern friends. We quote
few extracts from the article in the Repub
lcan. The first extract seems so much like
fuiilment of one of our predictions thai
we think it well to repeat that our entire
editorial as it appears was in the hands o.
the printer before we received the Rcpn6lt
can:
ga more sensible and equitable PROPOSE.
ton would be that the shareholders shall
nav 10 their late slaves at least moietv OF
the millions due to them for years of unrc-
Quilted toll"
) cit is useless to plead an evasion of this
prohibition by loans to States. Such an
evasion will be accepted as violation of the
spirit of the Constitution which MIR. Hunter
has sworn to protect inviolatC, and which
he did aud is now doing so much to de-
stroy."
but now that the election Is over, and has
resulted in victory for the shareholders
marty. he has renewed it in the form of cor
respondence with an imaginary or mythical
person, "a distinguished northern gentle.
man. and has given to the world his views
on the subject through the columns OF the
Richmond Wing. Forming, as We believe
this extraordinary declaration will, the basis
of future platforms for the Democracy, we
reproduce the correspondence in full. A
perusa of 1t will satisfy even the most pre-.
JUDGED mind of the truth Of the predictions
Of the leaders of the Republican party that
the Democracy intend to cucumber the ma
ton with colossal debt for compensa-
ton of the losses incurred by the traitors
of the South in the war for the de-
struction of the Government. At the very
hour when we begin to see the light break.
ing through the shadows Of financial embar-
rassment which have darkened our surround
ings for the past decade this proposition
comes to prove that the safety Of the Repub-
lie requires that its Government shall remain
in the control of the party which has done
so much to remove those shadows. The dis
cussion of the claims of the shareholders
cannot fail to arouse feeling of dlstrust,
and every loyal man will experience SEN
sation of dismay at the bold revival OF the
reasonable schemes of the past. 1t can
have no other effect than this and when
we examine the matter closely we are
forced to admit that it is nothing more or less
than an attempt to establish the Southern
Confederacy within the United States. The
next step will be to saddle the country with
the debt of the so-calied Confederate States,
and finally the effort will be made to COM
pensste the traitors for property of every
kind destroyed during the war. There is
no child's play in this matter. 1t is serious
beyond anything that has occurred since the
surrender. Mr.. Hunter speaks for millions
Of voters, and as the leader of a great sec
ton he represents power which the De-
mocracy of the North will be glad to
conciliate. The plainest principles of COM
mon justice are violated in the propo..
sition, it is true; but when personal
greed and political supremacy are at stake,
and when it is supported by such daring
traitors and INSCRIPTIONS leaders as those
who will rally around Mr.. Hunter, those
principles will fall as reeds before the winter
gale. The specious arguments advanced by
him to prove that the emancipation OF the
slaves by military power was Vlolatlon OF
the Constitution will furnish grounds tor
appeals TO the selfish interests of people
who are suffering the pangs OF poverty
which naturally followed from their treason.
The 100000, 900 OF bonds with which 1t is
to alleviate their unfortunate con.
dition will prove to be n bait so seductive as
to cause them to ignore their pledges when
they were restored to the rights Of citizen
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