The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-16

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an aDstract Of which wsapubliih This morn.
ing. As che Herald. says one of the mos.
remarkable features Of thisaddress is Z the
| absence of all enlogy or even reference 70
lPresident, GRANT, 2 Another feature akin 10
this is the declaration in favor OF the civil
rights bin. we gay these Two features are
akin TO each other; becauseif GRANT desires
Ito secure the support of the South he sslil
be compelled to veto tlsecisil.rfghts bill. lie
is ignored by his pastyieaders. He IS snuo.
bed by the malignant haters of the SOUTH
| who wish still further to humiiate her ny
the passage of the civil-rights bill. Ih's
scheme of these bad men would destroy Tue
University Of Virginia, the Agricultural ai'o
Mechanical College, the Virginia Military
Institute, all the public schools IL the STATE
and every institution deriving aid from tue
public: would open our hotels, ehurches,
theatres. &c, &c, to the negroes, and bring
ireemediabIe ruin upon our whole people.
The Republican leaders have taken Ids
ground with ful purpose to maintain II.
The civi.rights bill will he passed at the
next session of Congress, not because the
Radicals really desire to pass it, but be-
cause, as this address plainly shows,
tbey deem it necessary to pass it In order TO
keep the votes OF the negroes. for the Radical
marty. The issue in that event Will soon De
made up for General GRAST and the south
ern people. He must save US from this IN
famous wrong; and we must strengthen MS
hands that be may save society in the SCUM
from the ruinous effects OF this ciVl-rlgpts
hill or 90 down along with the Republican
par,y to infamy and to the execration of iu-
ture generations. We GIN be protected by
no one else. If be refuses to interpose, our
institutions of learning and our whole social
fabric will be irrepaably damaged. Let the
southern people make up their minds as be-
comes men whose first duty is to their be-
| loved South. We give few extracts from
the HeralPs editorial comments upon the
| address (our italics):
If any fact strengthened this theory it
would be the circumstance that IN the Con-
| p,essional address there is no mention OF The
President. So, tor the first time in the ad-
ministration Of Grant. do We find the party
arrayed against him, or, more correctly, per-
haps. in the attitude of ignoring him. Where
are all those pleas ng, If sometimes taWdry,
compliments with which our political writer's
were wont 10 embelish the President? What
has become of Senator Howe's 1.-THE writer
of the address, rhetorical cunning? Is it
possible that any President, no matter how
strong and acquicsceGt in the !, beginning,
must in the course of six years become the
neglected Cinderella of politics? General
Grant hss feared this, probably, and has,
made his peace with the South. The ques.
ton arises, and this Republican, address in
no way solves it, ais tie President stronger
than the party. or is the party stronger than
the P:esitentW (" ---aa"i' ..'.." 80
The circumstance that this committee
should feel bound to issue such an address,
shows that the leaders Of the party are iDtlu-
cnced by more than ordinary anXieties' The
condition of the South, the unsatisfactory
disposition of the currency question, the up.
rising Of the granger movement in the West,
The fear that the West and South may unatc
in a campaign against the North AMI East
upon financial issues, the growing impatieGce
of the country with the craftsmanship 'chtch
finds erpression in The third tern, aspirations,
the appointment of Shepherd and Williams,
and the trucking of the State Departn cnt
on the Virgnius aud Alabama questions. all
lead to the conclusion that the Republican
party, as represented in Congress, begins to
see the wisdom Of 4 new departure.
But the problem which the Republican
party has not solved is the fact that I" all its
efo,t Is TO consolidate its p0,cer ii has d6dn-
Ioy,o nd Sp,ytb
there can be no doubt that a considerable class
of southern citizens, impressed by the abuses
and fearing the future horrors of negro rule,
would welcome third election of President
| Grant if they could see in it promise OF de-
Iiyerance. The events Of the last fourteen
| wears baye done much to shake the conf
dence of the South in republican inStitu-
tons. The military government which im-
| acdiatelv succeeded the war was not so
banefuI and ruinous as the negro supremacy
afterwards established by the reconstruction
acls. Many southernerS would willingly eN-
change their present rotten State govcrn-
| ments for the military subsection which only
offended their pride without robbing their
| pockets and destroying the value of their
property.
Whether they will support Grant for
| third term depends on calculation or
chances. If they thought he could be elect
ed under virtual pledge 10 rescue them
from negro ascendancy they would welcome
his third election as a choice of evils. Gov
ernor Keipper has virtually said this even in
respect to Virginia, where the negroes are
| minority, and Senator Gordon, of Georgia,
looks upon such result without any of the
passionate repugnance which secession
general might be expected to exhibit.
If Grant could be not merely nominated,
but elected, for a third time, he could un-
doubleday enable the South to cmancipate
itself from negro supremacy. Of course, The
fifteenth amendment cannot be over.
thrown. and it will never be seriously at
tempted. 1t is one Of the things which,
once done, can never be undone. But il is
no obstacle to changing the basis of suffrage
on any other principle than "race, color, or
previous condition Of servtude." 1t neither
torbids property qualifi cation nor an edu.
cstional qualification for voters so long rs 1t
applies alike to both races, although either
kind of qualification would exclude ma.
iority of the negroes from the ballot-bc
| With Presideut actively eXertng his in1u.
ence in favor Of such change it could be
carried in nearly every Southern State. The
: whole body of FEDERAL ofice-holders would
work for it in all sorts of open and all sorts
of underhand ways if they understood it to
be the desire Of the President
A President thoroughly in earnest in thi:
business could easily, by bis patronage and
influence, control negro votes enough te
, carry property qualification or an educa
tionsl qualification in most Of the southern
States. And it is in this view that thirC