The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-11


A NORTHERN DgaooaAEIc VIEW or Gov
ERHoR KEapgRB LETTER.--The Brookiyf
On. y Eagle, ansoderate democratic paper
deyotes long e6ii torial to Governor hem
per's lately published letter, which lt pro
nounces J" both g rejection and an aecepLahc.
Of the third term t1eo.ry." Aiter quo.ins
from the letter one OF its most str'hiDg paIa
graphs, the Eagle goes on 10 portray Tue oss
-perate condition of tbs southern people
and says That the words OF Governor KEN
per g are significant beeaL'ss tney uh
doubtedly express the views ri the sta. ,e
men of the South" It aL'o Ine
South seems not only WillTg to eoquettt
with 'Cesarism,' but does 30 TVitn iui
appreciation and desperate acceptal 'ce oil III
consequence. Third-termism Is governor
MEMBERS letter is made synonyWoL's Will
imperialism. The boundary between !;
skipped in sentence. The thing and what
the thing leads to are apprehended, not With
out reluctance, but without reservation.
There are mingled pathos and method. q
mingled distress and dexterity, in this appeal
of the South to her congueror, more element
than the party he heads, which, in the pages
of the Macauley of the future, viii kindle
into such passages of eloquence and pity as
will make the readers of them ashamed that
their ancestors were compelled to furnish oc-
sasion for them."
The Eagle goes on to say that while this
1. Ca.arism" southwark, not so is it north
ward, where it thinks "the signs of Con-
servutiGe reaction multiply. Republicanism
itself is moderating its severity as the Oppo-
sition strengthens in force. Men of all par
ties have here refused to elevate this Cesar
Ism above the comedy and persifage in
which it was born. Two terms as q limit
conport with the most controlling and ex-
allied precedents in our history. The un.
written laws are the strongest, and the
unwritten laws are against this triplica-
ton Of the Presidency in single person.
The idea runs against that bedrock of
Amercanism on which our Institutions rest,
and by which those throwing themselves
against it are dashed to pieces. Not poll
tician is likely to be found hardy enough TO
try the experiment. The lightning would
strike him gently in comparison to the blow
he would receive from the quiet home
vote The only aid which the innoyatory
idea has received has been from sensational
or aarmist minds, and from the monotonous
mediocrty OF contemporary Republican
statesmen. After Grant, somebody OF
course but after Grant, who? is 4 qucs-
ton which stagsers those whom it con-
Germs. The leading Republicans are all Of
the same size. Morton is as big as Conkling,
and Sherman is as small as Edmunds, and
Blaine is marked ditto in the political bill OF
lading. a party with power and without u
policy has bred statesmen with no states
manlike attributes about them. Grant
was put in for a second term for fear the
South would be FESTIVE. The apprehension
has been abated, and the second term has
been absorbed in vanishing the cor
ruptions Of the first. Even that work
is not bali done. The most satisfactory
Administration never was multiplied by
three And the least satisfactory never
will be. The despair Of the South is the
best count in the northern indictment of the
party which drove the South to that despair,
and the party in this section affecting third
termism will only show that 1t prefers suicide
10 slaughter, because there will hardly be
enough left of it to kill. It is the condition
Of the South which renders Governor KEN
per's letter noteworthy. 1t is the temper OF
the North that will make the extraordinary
propositions Of that letter happily unfeasi-
Bile. Cpsarism is no remedy for the South,
and the South will find that to be So"
We wish we could share the Eagles hope
fitness. We do not. We went Into the late
war expecting the aid Of the northern De-
mocracy. We did not receive it. On the con-
tray they furnished the best brains and mus
Giles for our defeat. We do not believe they
voluntarily deceived us. But the Republicans
were masters Of the North and are still.
The prevailing temper of the North is not
only malicious and hostile TO the South, but
it seeks our degradation. We cannot per-
NIT social intermixture OF the races, and If
Casarism will save Us, welcome CISarism.
II it will not, better that tie whole white
FACE Of the South should be annihil!-
ted than The unSIHak,ble humiliation and
ruin which fanaLlcal and malignant Radical
i'm seeks to bring upon us.--LynchdHr5
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