The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-16

government installed by the same means
lIsurps and exercises the supreme power
vet Congress -is Informed by the PRESIDENT
in d formal message that "no executive con,
troll is exercised In any one OF THESE
1.-THE southern Sfates) "that Wouiu
not be exercised In any OF tue
States under like circumstances" Congress
in turn refuses to interfere; and thus are
we forced to conclude that those entrusted
with the constitutional powers OF the GOV
eminent, instead OF preserving ana cnioIc-
ing the pledge in the Constitution that : tlle
| United States shall guarantee 10 every State
| IN the Union republican form OF govern
ment," are cooperating with full purpose 10
foil and defeat it. 1t is u habitunl thing
| with these people when they hold State:
| nv means of corrupt boards to "count OUT
popular majority against them. 10 TINS
dav they usurp in this manner the govern
| mept of Texas against the recorded protest
of her people, and in Arkansas they nave
thus defeated the popular will expressed Id
majority of twenty thousand
| "By their fruits ye shall know them" 10
doubt that similar results would follow tnclr
accession to power here is to lose laltn III
holy writ ITSELF
Space is wanting for more than glance at
the remarkable manifesto put forth, after
elaborate preparation, Mt Lynchburg by the
chosen standard.bearer of the motley crew
assembled there. Doubtless its multiplied
errors of statement of fact and deduction
will be exposed in due time with just Dut
upsparing hand. But it proclalms new
political Eyangel. Aforetime We we're taugnt
that it was the right of people to abolish
| their Government, and "to institute new
| government, laying its foundations in SUCH
principles, and organizing its powers in such
| form as to them shall seem most likely 10
effect their safety and happiness" AND
again: "That government is or ought 10 DC
| instituted for the common benefit, protcc-
ton. and security of the people, nation, or
community and :" that whenever any gov
ernment shall be found inadequate for these
purposes a majority of the community hath
an indubitable, indefeasibe, and inalienable
right to alter or abolish it in such manner
as shall be judged most conducive TO the
public veal" But now, with the quack
| in Moliere, when told he had put the
heart on the right instead OF the
left side of the man, they may say, very
well, that used to be so but we have changed
all that" Now we are taught that tne
| nation is not machine contrlved by human
| invention to be remodelled and taken apart
according to the caprice OF man. IL Is I'LL
organism and growth. 1t has life, purposes,
and aspirations. 1t has moral relations WIN
! its divine head and its constituent members.
| 1t has religious rs well as civil claims to the
homage and allegiance of its citizens. IL Is
not subject Of theories, but an object 1or
| the affections. 1t is not merely power 10
be obeyed, but dirimely gtren parent
tcortly Of an unqucstiontng duty ana
| affection - and farther, it Is said
to have been the faith of Washington, Frank
lin, and Jefferson, that the American Union
was 'Godordained and God-upheld." Now,
if such be the character OF this present po-
| itical conglomcration, whether termed the
| Nation or the Union, it were clear lmplety III
| men to attempt to alter it one title, now
ever conducive to their happiness the change
might be. Strange teaching this from men
| who have just tinkercd away by fraud or
force the distinguishing features of the bond
of that Union! But more is meant. VIII,
moral purpose, moral relations with di-
vine head. religious as we'll rs civil
claims to obedience, can never be predicated
of mere territorial divisions, lying together
on the map, or of the parchment which calls
them the United States. The sentient attrl-
butes there described belong to men, not to
things inanlmate, and it must be to the men
who make up the nation and the men who
represent and govern it that they can alone
lie imputed; else is the whole ascrlptlon not
even respectable nonsense. 1t is OF the per-
sOnal government, then, and those who sup
port it that all these fine things are supposed.
They are God. ordained and God-upheld
they have religious Us we'll as civil claims to
our homage and alleg iance; they are our
diyinely given parent, worthy OF an I'M
gus stioning duty and affection ! But
whatever be the object to which this slavish
submission is said TO be due, clearly it III
fers IN abasement of mind and soul unwor-
thy Of frecmen. 1t has its prototype only In
the speculations of Sir Robert Filmcr, who
in the most servle and degraded age of
English history attempted to reduce to Il
sort of system the doctrine of passive obe-
dience and non-resiStance to kingly authorl-
tv. He, too, taught " that civil power not
ouly in general is by divine institution, but
the form Of the power OF governing and
the person having that power are all
The ordinance Of co.," Now, is this
conformity of thought and expression merely
accidental? or is it that such as lapse into
slavery lose the language of freedom, and
think and speak alike: or that the present
state of radicalism in this country can be de-
Tended on no other ground? 1t has been
lamented that 4 protlacted war made such d
breach in the education Of our youth, particu-
larly in the political training which should
fit them to be the citizens of free State. II
we hope to revive them, surely such sentl-
ments as these should never be tolerated
from the lips of Governor of Virginia.
Very respectfully,
II. 7. DANIEL.