The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-03
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there really AMI thiDeto be guarded flnat J,
would he sangefeHs to our c0nsttnt 2 "
IIbarties we're the Republ and us organs, ny
securities any longer matters haRlng practi,l
al existence: that ii, ought to be troWne9a e!
nnon as opening q way to perpetual tenure
and rsnrnation, were It not that we, were
airead . under lawless and perminen ut party
tisurDatiDn. Escape from or overthrow. 81 q
which was hopeless By any other means than IA
those Of General Grant and o third term,
which NAV be better and could not possibly
lie worse than the oppression we nov suffer i
and may expect. NJ. RI .:s:::,.sf,s
The whole arguments based upon sur
render. 81 all hope of the ,Republic;3 it hinges
on The iJea, that the Republics but tnlng
Of the past; gone -saye in name-,bey ond ali
hone Of restoration to its original form and
nurnose: that Il choice Of, evils is all that
we have left to us; that wisdom requires US
to resort to any; measure, however Irregular
or DIES perate, which may promise temporary
relief on esse, leaving the future to take care
of itself. s Is not this SO S,qs.tt-iti gem
.Now,vwhytshould we be SO; ready TO ADAM
don the republic ,. Il .. MS 4 rtjit5y3s,t
Have we the right to give it upa ..e roy.
Have we sound reasons for despairlng OF
# ?-reasons which Will justify US 70 COG
and TO history ?-reasopS which will stand
rho test OF time and events .,.,,srs4f.|t; .g3y
Hare ne tired fairly and e1hGustaUety dtt
the curatipe resources. 11htcfi are 0tthsn ING
scone ind scheme of our system atSe.f !! ana
haze zoe preced them tobe inefech0e2 GsG
Isthere M reasonable hOpeior restoration
and preseriation.2g IL. 80 ~ .tsH 30;
Has it verify come to this? itin very deed
true tina. this republic has died 10 the nlght,
and has ceased forever from among living
men-its spirit fed, leaving neught but It's
dccayiDg and changing torn THAT nothlng
is lett for the truest patriot but to turn away
saddened, and to let it alone! That" Stat
nona;nis umbra must henceforth be its only
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There is dread solemnity in, this inquiry,
vet il is one which ererg responsible man
must make, and must report to his own con.
science, before he consents to give up Us q
failure, as not worth the effort to redeem it,
the work of our fathers, to accomplish which
they perlled all-the hope of whose perma-
nence made them, die happy, faucylpg that
they had at last consummated Tor all time to
come what had been the hope and the long,
ing of, mankind from the beginning. 1alrst
There is a fearful responsibility in forsak-
ing, without absolute necessity, this, the last,
the greatest, the most bopeiui, Of the many
experiments OF popularself-goyernmsnt. TO
ADD another, and the most ealamitous Of all,
TO the list Of disappointments--to give up
foreUcr as impracticaDle the form OF govern
nIent known! as! "republlcan." Forlf this
one fail amid all the elements OF success
which have attended it, and fail from inter-
nal causes, who will be mad enough to waste
time and labor in repeating the trIal-for
who can hope for any better result hereafter:
1t will become the final verdict and the
settled conviction. of mankind that there is
in human nature that which makes tbisform
Of government as impossible as the dream
| Of Utopia; tnat the human mass lacks the
degree OF excellence needtul for seit-govern.
| ment; that there are coD9enital detects IN
| the 'sRepublicano form Of Government,
! which, like the seeds of consumption lying
hidden in the faiTeSt youth, Will 10 time de-
yelope themselves beyond the wit or the
skill of man 10 eradicate, or even to stay,
and which will end 10 the sure and early
dissolution Of what may be the centre OF the
most precious hopes and the object OF uni
yersal admiration. ~
Think, then, of what depends on the pre-
! servation Of the Republic which we In.
| helited-of the hopes and interests invested
| 10 it of how disastrously its failure would
change the history of the world for the
future; of the black despair which would
settle down upon the present and future
millions. ~. q
Then, let not even The thought of its possir
BILE failure find lodgnlent in ANY mind. Let
no one think of surrendering ito admit the
possibility but adds to The. Peril. So hong as
there be any soundness in it,on which to
work-so long as there be pulsation Of life
in it-leu us stand firmly and hopefully by it
to rescue and restore It. ,.:aa IA suEs q
Recently, when the 6, Europe" steamer Of
the Havre line, was abandoned at sea, asd,
being afterwards found atloat, was saved by a
Yankee crew, who won heavy salvage, we all
cried out against her captain and crew for
their basty ueSertiOn--for not waiting to see
that partial disaster was not total wreck. ~:
Shall ace giveup nobler craft, with freight
so precious, to wreckers we know not whom.
who will parcel it out among them for their
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT aud our ruin ..it .s!,.#
True it is that the ,''ship Of Stated is in-
tested with rats-true, that partiof the crew
were oyerpowered and put under patches !;
and that a few Reconstructed officers, by
intoxicating and by working on the passions
of a mass Of the crew, and by their, skiltul
combinations and management, have for a
time had command Of the vessel, have, sailed
| her in violation Of her clearance and COM
! mission for their own profit, and have got
her by reckless navigation into dangerous
\ seas and devious channels. ,.. f.g.
But the oessel itself is sound, and there has
always been minority of true men on deck;
many, too, Of the other hands are becoming
sober and undeceiYed- are rousng up
| to sense of peril, and are ready to help the
| aptives, now making manly struggle TO
reach the deck once more. Shall those OF us
who have got there abandon the ship ana
the true men to the faction! Shall we not
rather unite with the true men, and appear
to the repentant on the one hand, ana on tne
other help the imprisoned TO force tne
matches, and together make struggle IL
which all the good men can Unite to subdue
the bad, and to bring the ship back to safe
waters and TO her legitimate course Z; 4.-s..
| Let us glance at the nature of eur Repub
| lie and see if there be not sufficient recupe
ratiye elements tnit-whether the disease be
mot such rs is incident to its species, and j:
as durable as the measles or any other all
ment incident even to healthful bodies, an(
whether there be not in it curative power
as natural as the distemper is. ~
j A Republic is that description of nationa
political aggregation in which the people ar
their OWN rulers. tJunus says, "..Ihe sub
mission of free people TO their government
is simply obedience to laws of. their own. en-