The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-25
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statesmen inthe Wilderness.
we commented upon the Republican ma
tionaI address at the time Of its appearance
and spoke al the evident embarrassment I'm
der wiici, its author and IT'S signers abored
TIE themes were troublesome; SO they go
on. Of trouble BY deyoting their reflections
to past issues ard superannuated themes
The New York Tribune has taken IL up, ahe
scrupes all the hair of Of tia tanner doe'
from the skin that he draws from tue vat
The Republican party, indeed Is 50 Pc.
picked with the Issues Of the DAY tnas !
knows no, how to bold on to the offices VIII
one hand and to deal with them with li the
other.
The Tribune, abiding to the discussion o
psst topics In the address, cites its criticism
of Mr.. BucHAsAN's administration as ALVEY
instance of its active vigilance with regart
TO the genersl welfare. Itventures the pre-
diction that '.Do citizen, after reading twill
ever vote for JAMES BUCHANAN" The Tn
bune says:
at may, perhaps, be objected by caption:
persons that Mr.. Buchanan IS dead; but sc
Is slavery. And just for that reason shal
these thiriy.nine statesmen shrink from dis
cussing it.? In the name OF the post-othct
and custom. house, then, " bat shall they dis
cuss Is there not at every election lmmi.
nent peril of ibe revival OF slavery And
are not Mr.. Logan and the thirty-eight lead.
Ing statesmen, including George i. Spencer,
r,egIeciing their other business and stayirg
in Congress to preyeptit it? Is ii not well
understood that when these gentlemen get
off the gravestone of that institution 1t WILL
rise right up and overshadow the land
And If slavery, why not Mr.. Buchanan
Let us admit frankly, then, the importance
Of that large portion OF the address when
has for its object the defeat OF Mr.. Buchanan,
and let us read 1t carefully, even II, in the
words of the great silent man, it takes all
summer"
This iroHy,is very exquisite. What is bet
ter. il illustrates the embarrassment OF the
Republicans who are trying TO get up feast
for the office bolderS-a means OF Cementing
the party together by the adhcsiyeness of
public pluuder- when the table is exhausted
and the bill of fare blotted all over when
war is ended and all the issues frustrated.
This patent address, brought forth after
many weeks of painful incubation, is sign
of zoe to party and cbeerfulness to the peo-
pie. We behold the incongruity OF the poor
attempt to revaDp Republicanism by the
fact that the chief themes of the reflection
ald the inyectire of the address are the Dem
ocratic policies which were carried out when
Republican leaders who sign the address
were Democrats. JOHN A. LOGAN, BENJA.
MIN F. BUTLER, MATT. CARPENTER, SIMON
CAMERON, were all supporters of BrCHAN-
ANS Administration. They are leaders, and
now seek to commend themselves to popu-
lar favor by deuouncing the corruptiops Of
that Administration If this is not good
Illustration of the bird befouling its own
nest, what is it \?
There is another point of corruption
brought TO public notice by the immaculate
thirty.nine, that we must quote from the in
genious satirist of the Tribune:
6 The proposition of the 'Union Repub.
lican Congressional Committee to take issue
with the opposition on the subject of the
Louisville canal, is one that will awaken the
admiration and arouse the enthusiasm of
every postmaster in the land. Since the !
Credit. Mobilier investigations, the salary
grab movement and retreat, the custom.
house Inquiry, and the District of Columbia |
exposures, there has been profound con.
viction in the minds of our leading Admin |
statesmen that the next congress |
sional elections, and possibly the presi. |
Dental campaign of 1876, ought to be |
e.Mmht on some question of absorbing
national importance like this, for instance,
of the Louisville canal. That eminent
political economist, Dir. John A. Logan, has |
been heavily burdened with this view of the
situation ever since the veto OF the currency
bill. He knows that the Democratic party
was guilty of great wickedness in connection
with the Louisville canal, and that the Re-
publican party having been occupied with
other things for the past eight years, as for
instance giving the South honest government
and restoring specie payments, has had no
time to correct it. He believes that five or
six more year., of post-oflices and custom
houses -Iylll give the party chance 10 pun
tb'.1gs right in the matter OF the eanal. ne
Is a very sagacious statesman. And SO are
the other thirty.eight. Including George +.
Spencer"
The Tribune is right when it says there
hos been nothing like this since the "del.
uge." 1t is a plain manifestation of the
sweeping away of all things and the institu-
ton of things that are new. 1t is idle to
even think of the state of things we are
leaving behind. The Republican party is
dead. New issues have arisen. The cur
rency question is infinitely more important
and more active than negrophilism-the ten
dency of things renders far more probable
the union Of the Middle and Western States
than the union Of the Eastern and Western
States; and two years will show reVolu-
ton in the political arena that the Wlsest
never anticipated.
Look out for the engine!