The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-12-17
The .plantat ton Committees.

In accordance with the accommodation
Of the head steward over the southern p'an'
tstjops-President GRASr-the lower house
Of Congress. has appoiutod two commsttees,
the frs, 10 look into Louisiana affairs, aud
the second into the Vicksburg troubles.
These committees, We SUPPOSE will nave,
like the Commissioner of the French Assem-.
bly,, to so to the localities and find out the
facts. But, as we have before said, we hope
that the new committees will have more
humane and honest purpose than merely to
elicit testimony to convict the southern
white people, as was the case with previous
committees.
It was rumored some days since that Mr..
BLAINE had intinlated that he would not ap-
poin. gentlemen on these committees who
were not reelected, on the ground that ne
wanted men who were rec ected because
they might feel the responsibility OF report
ing what they would have to expiafA or de-
fend in the next Congress. This he has not
done. He has appointed several members
who were defeated at the last election. Pos-
sibly such terrible havoc has been made
amongst the members of the present Con-
gress that the Speaker felt embarrassed. and
was forced to select gentlemen not reelected.
The committees seem to be tolerable, at
least. Mr. BLAINE looks to the future, and has
given signs OF his indi>position to sink down
into despair with the bloody Radicals. He
Is likely to appoint committees with refer
ence to bis future political existence. He
has no idea of dying, and wants to live with
the surviving Republic. That it will survive
we now. have no doubt. But it is by tight
squeeze, after being so long at the mercy of
the worst party that ever existed in this
country.
At the bead Of the Louisiana Committee
ISM. G.F. HOAX, of Massachusetts, gen.
tleman inclined to fairness. and uncompro.
misingy opposed to corruption. He bates
BUTLER as the model Of dishonesty and
fraud. We see two Democrats on this CON-
mittee, and Mr.. PHELPS, of New Jer.
sey, fair, national, honest man, who
hates hypocrisy, and who voted against
the civiLrights bill last year. We sincerely
regret his defeat, and if his successful rival
is not tip-top man we shall not cease to re-
greet the loss of Mr. PHELPS.
We take it that the whole committee is
composed of earnest and well-disposed gen.
tlemen.
" So also of the committee to probe the
Vicksburg business. We think there is rea-
son to hope that it will be vast improve.
ment upon the committees heretofore sent
down to the "penal colonies."..
If these committees only get ut the truth.
and will frankly place it before the country,
they will do service the good effects of
w hich will be Invaluable and enduring. If
they do not we shall have the consolation
that their doipgs will not hurt US Of the
South. We have stood the past, and need
not fear that any successful thing will be
worse. We are Injured TO wrong-our in
dignation is pretty we'll quieted beyond the
power of outrage to arouse it, and we bid
our enemies to 20 ahead.
The time must come, however, when they
will howl in remorse for the wrong they
have done, and the vast Injury they have in
flic;ed not only upon the South, but the
whole Union. This injury is, alas, too sadly
displayed in the present oppression and dis
content of the whole Union.