The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-21
a.Tustice, Or q Third Term ana Des-
potism. Sss
read these words q sobsrness aRas 1rusp,
e,sry southern man, Tier are ffon the

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Huntsville coauier..J Journal ....s..-e.;.,gs
We are rot writing under excitement.
.r,yary word that we put down mas eee
ano,iy revised. and expresses exactly ana pre-
e .sSn,s mo sentiment or the least iDptsive
sac,;on of southern society. Mat tiers haze
oo,a met 10 his. people of The North You haze
~. .ot n Mo as i,lstice, or zoe ,ot force you %
gcce,t n third term and "a military despof-
,sn, in order to secure your cong
This is as much our country as yours.
We love it as dearly as you do. We are
ready TO unite with you on equal terms 10
restoring = perfect union and splendld re-
pub,Icanism. But il you won't 90 tnis, ycu
will have to expose the cloven-fo OF dest-
potism. you have corcealed the last ten years,
and. If 10 presses up0f our neck, yours 700
must and shall feel the print OF At. a.,
The south has never realized Inc Iact OF
its thorough and complete subJugatlou.
The North has been steadily deiuded Dy the
fiction Of nationality put forward oy partli-.
san oligarchy intensely proscrlptiYe, sec
tionai. and ,despetic. There has been no
freedom, in the broad republican sense.
since the var at the South. There has been
merely the pretepse Of it. Between the
negro and the Democratic party, the
scheme of peaceful and equitable
reconstruction of society has fallen 20 the
ground, The North has been mlsied by the
Iecro. The South has been misled by the
| Democratic party. The result IS passage
Of arms in which we find the great clty Oh
New Orleans arrayed against the Federai
Government, the whole South ana naH t llt'
| North ardently sympathizing With the revo.
t1uuopists, the army and macy, con,n1dndeo
bp a dominant political faction, siding aotM
usurpat,on and corruption, and or'9dn1Sedto
suppress an honest, Conservative, CONNER
caGl metropolis. i,
| In the mean time the honest men Of BON
parlies know that Penn, as the representa-,
| live OF the people OF Louisiana, is right, and
that the Kellogg usurpation is worse than
any of the villaines prac,iced by European
despotism in Ireland, Poland, Hungary, or
| Venice the last fifty years. ~,
| II Governor Penn backs down, and II his
followers disperse in response to procla-
nation which was certainty in advance OF
their movement, and which, if they have
any ftugss for their work, they must have
considered beforehand, what Will it imply
| II will imply that all future resorts to VIC:
lence are not to be coun! enanced, and that
the South must confde in legal remedies,
| copsoliDg itself with patience and for6ear-
ance. This latter policy we have steadily ad-
vised. We prefer to adyiseit now. Butlt we
are to act on a different line, let us act TO-.
getber, forcing the North to reconquer us ana
| give us military government, or else to do
us Justice. The government zoe haze is farce.
me scl,ole South prefers an empire, a king J;
| therefore let us, IF zoe are not going 10 6e
| governed by peacgul suggestions, compel the
North,by a state Of Udr which its whole en-
ergies will be required to suppress, to change
its form of government; to hold the so !! b
as vanquisbed province; TO relinquish the
revenues drawn from our prosperity, ana 10
turn Us over to the negroes, bag and bag.
rags. body and breeches. Let us crush ioat
| the miSeTu7..s!lie aghtth RGdtcdllsne Keeps
before The country anu ,rrr--,6o' lS--thgto tF1s-
isfa free country. .."s# - s-