The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-11-12
D,strict Governments Tinkering.

bondage, TO the place OIL voters, Wteh ho W.
ter motive than making voters to vote Tor
their Radical selves, and proloug their con-
troll OF the Government and their possession
Of the off ses. 1t was a reckless hazardng OF
the peace, prosperity, and happiness, OF the
land for the most infamous seidshness ana
greed.
Il was but little while before the kad'ca'
cnnyressmen discovered that the measure
was fata! 10 The Government OF the Dis'r'c'
re Columbia. Such ioIiieS and excuses Gu
sned there as were disgrace to the nation,
and gave congressman intolerable annoy.
ance.
What did Radical congressman do? What
ought they TO have done: Statesmen "ould
have seen at once that the evils Which showed
themselves at Washington and around IT
were inevitable wherever the negroes were
made eGaal participants in the privileges OF
governing the country. Honest men "ouia
have admitted it TO be necessary that measures
should be taken in the District for the pro-
tec:ion OF order and property, and that ca
sures in some form were equally necessary
for the protection Of the country wherever
the evils there suffered existed. They would
not only have admitted this necessity, but
they would have met it. But not being
honest-not thinking more Of their country
than they did Of themselves-they pro-
csedcd to protect the District from the evils
they had spread over the laud. and left the
southern States to their lates. This Is part
Of the damniug record Of the Republlcan
party.
They provided government for the Dis.
trict, taking the control out of the hands OF
the negroes by giving the President the ap'
pointment with the concurrence of the SEN
atel of the Governor of the District and the
members of the revisory branch Of the Dis
trict Legislature.
This squelchea the negro politician in the
District. Unfortunately, however, the ex'
trayacance of the Government thus framed
prompted Congress TO go tc work to amend
their cork for the further protection OF the
community. We bad it by telegraph yester-
day that Mr.. MORRILL,, Of Vermont, chair
man of the Dit Committee, would inn
mediately proceed with the business Of COM
plotting bill providing new Government
for the District. Vermont is peculiar
nursery Of statesmen. They have been re-
mark4ble for promise, but abortions in the
way of performance. The country owes
that hard and ruggedy bigoted State very
little for craftsmanship. We shall see what
MORRILL, does for the District Government.
But it is more than probable that no new
Government will increase the negro power
to tedeyi public affairs there.
We repeat that while the evils In Wash
ington growing out Of the new element
precipiately injected into the body polite
were intolerable to Radical congressman, so
far from doug anything TO ameliorate those
evils in The States, Congress took measures
to aggrayate them. Laws were passed to
humliate the white man and infame the
negro with the idea of his consequence and
the belief that the white man was his cruel
enemy. Since the war the Republican party
has done nothing to smooth our troubles
and facilitate the revolution which made the
negro politically equal with bis former mas
fer. Hard, cruel, aud unyieding as Con.
gress has invariably shown itself to be When
ever considering the terrors of recon-
struction and the suferings Of the
South, even the President has by his
acts done little better to give peace
and hope TO the southern people.
AS well aware himself as was Congress of
the evils from negro voting and concurrng
in the measures to relieve the District of
them, his acts have disappointed all the
hopes which his reputed and capricious SEN
timents had inspired. 1t is quite sufficient
TO state one fact to prove bis extraordinary
conduct on this point. The State of South
Carolina has been reduced to condition of
misery that is enough to make the heart of
any civil person bleed. The impoverished
and down.trodden tax payers of that State,
deeming that their sutferings were Of mag
nitude that justified an appeal to the nation
for relief-relief as well for the interest of
the nation as for themselves-visitcd Wash
ington and called upon the President. He
received them with a rudeDeSS and
want OF sympathy disgraceful to civili-
cation and common humanity. Making
this cruelty and vulgarity even more
pointed, the President afterwards received
the committee Of negroes and disgraced
whites who went to Washington to deny
the statements of the intelligent and truth
full white citizens that preceded them with
decided marks Of respect and favor. These
facts were painful, we are sure, to the ma.
ton. The representations of the taxpayers
were updeniably true. They belonged to
the race on which this country exclusively
depends. And why they should have been
fouted was mystery which could be solved
in no earthly way that was not disgracefu
to General GRANT. The act was monstrous
and We regret to say that it was too charac
teristic OF the policy Of the White House.
Take this part of the history of Radics
policy, and what can be made Of it that doe
not irretrievably condemn the party?
party weighed down by such enormitiel
could not die soon enough. It's birth was
curse, and its death is a blessing We canno
too highly appreciate, and for which we can
not feel too profoundly grateful.
The Independents"
Some gentlemen have unnecessarily placed