The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-07

OF all the exertions, oil the patience and con-
s.ancy Of the southern whites, things have
grown worse ard worse. The great evil
that which has ended In the ",u'ceratlon oil
the whole political system has only oeen
aggravated by every measure OF the tedefa'
Government for the restoration. Until that
evil is admitted, and measures taken for Its
eradication, there can be no peace no recu-
peration In the southern part OF the Union.
The Herald alludes 10 the financial condi-
ton Of the South and to threatened repudia.
ton as the consequence OF the great evil that
lies so deep. The Herald alludes to this
threatened reputation as alarming, as mena-
cling the national credit, and as foreboding
great evil to the capitalists. This state Of
things that paper saysis already lamented
BY the North. "If," it says. "repudiation
"coptinues to be the controlling sentiment
"of the South, we shall have the solvent pa.
"triot States of the North crying, 'Wbo
ssball deliver us from the body of this
"death?' -
We shouldn't wonder. But this tendency
to repudiation, let the North know, is not
the offspring of any refractory feeling ANY
disloyalty to the honor and integrity of the
South. To say so would be to utter great
lie. The people of the South, being robbed
OF their property by thousands Of millions,
and their industry being so utterly disorgan.
lied, they are unable to pay, and their con.
9ition becomes ,oorSe and aoorse euery gear.
The Herald on this point Of reputation
touches q sensitive point. The fear Of in.
Turing the national credit and wipng out
few hundred millions by insolvency, are
things not pleasant to think of among our
very rich relations, who grew fat on that
war which plunged the South into poverty,
We find this fearful consequence grouped
in the bundle Of evils cited as follows:
"Can we really reconstruct the southern
States without the aid of the real sons of
the South? We have tried to do SO, de-
pending upon The ignorant freedmen who
Yesterday we're slaves, ald the interruptions
white adventures who yesterday fled from
the North as political mepdicants and SOL
diers OF fortune. There is no reconstruc-
ton. On the contrary, we see disturbance,
civil outbreaks, corruption, and disorder,
and, worse than all a war upon the national
credit by means Of reputation that will be
as disastrous to the Union US II the rebellion
had been q success"
This displays the elephant wearin 8 the dis
cuise of the reconstruction devised by the
Radical destructiyes. 1t is ieaiful looking
heast in Wall street
We add few more pregnant paragraphs
from the Herald:
..Eaye we not imposed too heavy a fine
upon the South as the consequence of the
war;? Have we not punished her, although
q sister Commonwealth, ten times more Sc
yerely than France was punished by the alien
INVADER? II Germany aslonished the world
in exacting i've miliards from France what
must be thought of the fine OF ten milliards,
which, estimating each slave at FIVE hundred
dollars, was imposed upon the South by
the proclamation of emancipation -
:sI ace Of the northern States for generG-
IONS Sustained, apwoced, tosG prQttea ty
.Qrery ,rhen ii acaS an institution, should IRE
not assume some of the expense and respon-
.s,bil,ty Of regarding At as a crime? [ltalics
e.
have we any right TO desolate it? Can there
be any form of desolation more thorough
than TO compel the people to bear all the
burdens Of the war WHICH they assumed-ef
the abolition OF slavery, which we at one
time guaranteed to them as an institution. as
we'll as of the debt we contracted ourselves
TO suppress the rebellion?"
"There certainly Is On evil in the
South that we have not reached. We are
RAPIDLY drifting upon chaos, disorder, a war
OF races. reputation. We have made our
brothers of yesterday our enemies, and not
only enemies but We surrender to their
mercy the credit OF the nation and the hap
piness of the four millions Of slaves we enan.
cipated. More than all, we have given them
no motive for reconstruction but, on the
contrary, we have LETT them every temptation
10 war upon the Union" .'
What is this Euil9 Every man with hall
SD eye can lit. But let the North admit
and treat it with wisdom, humanity, anG
discriminating judgment, which must come
from intelligent minds taking their impulses
from honest hearts. If they do this all viii
he well again.
The Herald calls earnestly for nationa
: convention to consider this great absorbing
question of the day. We consider its sug
gestion altogether utopian. If we cannot
get wisdom, tesmanship, and concession
out of the national Congress chosen by the
people, we cannot see how it is to be found
ia national convention chosen by the same
people.
But the question IS with the North. Un.
ouestienably they have the elephant politi-
c,l. What they shall do with him is their
!. question. We have no power in the pre-.
misses. We have suffered greatly; and have
learned how to suffer. Let our northern
fellow-citizens 60 ahead. There must be an
end to their mathematician vicious
legislation. This happy period has been
postponed, greatly to the discontinue Of the
South and the injury Of the whole nation,
but We have not lost hope, and are to-day
more convinced than ever that the end will
soon come, to the general JOY Of the nation.
E}5 {Sgt5Ssa 1T
We wrote for Saturdays paper, In speak
ing Of General WAsMSGToN, !" Seeing that
ne was President at The time, we can't
Imagine how ne could have been q member
of The first Congress. 2 By some hocns pocns,
I'VE were made TO say, g Seeing that he was
President at the time we can't imagine how
g could have been q meeting Of the first
Congress-