The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-12-21


The Senate Is threatened with long de.
bate on the politics of Mississippi II senator
Morton presses his motion 10 . sote. ~
seems as IL the time had come when Con.
cress could afford to leave the STATES 10 settle
sheir Internal sffairs 10 their own way. Ii
there was fraudulent voting 10 Mississippi, OF
which there is strong presumptive proof, the
courts ia that State are the proper tribunals
30 hear and pass apon the evidence. senator
Morton appeals to the precedents, oil which
there arc, uuhappily, too many. For at least
eight wears Congress has assumed authority
to interfere, upon one pre,ext or anotner,
so that parties have been kept IN wnohy
unnatural condition, taking undetermined
adyansase Of one another, assured that II
any mischief resulted the General Govern.
naent would get them out Of difficulty. Setting
the constitutional bearings OF the subject
altogether aside, the practice Is bad Tor the
Government and Gemoralizing to the people.
Let rs hone the new Congress Will reform
it altogether Boston DAILY Advertiser.
The Boston Daily Advertiser is the ablest
Republican paper in the United States, and
one Of the truest to the principles Of the Re-
publican party. If principles they can be
called, which are at last but matters Of party
policy, uncontrolled by real philosophy or
wisdom. But it is with reference to the
question of prac,icability that the Advertiser
speaks in the paragraph we have quoted
above. The Advertiser, like sensible and
reasonable Journal, sees that the interference
of the Federal Government with The local
affairs Of the States hiss been carried too far
for the good Of the country as well as that
of the Republican party, and it is wise and
faithful to both country and party in crying
cut, Enough of this"
The Boston Advertiser has no such idea OF
States rights as that of bringing them under
the sgis OF the Constitution; but, clearly, II
thinks tina, there are certain matters Of local
order and right that can be managed better by
local authorlty-the officers and courts OF the
State than by the Federal Executive, or by
Congress with its busy, stroliing committees,
so like the commissioners Of the French Re-
public who went out to propagate the guillo'
tine in the rural districts. Our committees
are as vet confined TO the unboody sacrifice
of the people; but if the more vindictive
spirits had triumpbed we can hardly sup.
pose that this restraint would have been con-
tinHed. ....-....
The view OF the Advertiser, and we are
happy to believe that of the best and most
influential leaders at the North-indeed, OF
the great body Of northern peop|e-is wise
and lust. Whether we imagine that the
States fad any protection in the Constitution
or not, reason and common sense teach that
the States should exercise authority over all
local matters relating to breaches of the
peace and infractions of right. The inter-
ference OF the Federal Government only
tends to increase trouble and difficulty, and
the terrors of partlsanry directed by dis
honest and incapable persons whose power
in the Government leads to the destruction
of order, peace, and prosperity.
Our friends of the North are too wise..not
to see this, and to know that the informed
ding of bitter Federal officers and even more
bitter congressman in southern affairs is but
Keeping up trouble and retarding the restor.
q ton Of harmony and good order to the ma.
ton.
One important point the northern people
are beginning to see. It is this That trou-
bic, disorder, aud disaster cannot in this
country be confined to single section. The
interests of the Union are like the waters of
the sea-they will be interchanged, mixed,
ard difused over the whole sea. A faint or
q color at one place will soon travel through
the waters. Through indestructible sympa-
thies the people of the North must feel the
pains and consequences of misery and ruin
ia the South.
TIE Union may be compared to gigantic
tree. The prosperity that flows from the
energies and art of the nation may be COM
pared to the sap of the tree which rises from
The roots along the stout body, and is dis.
tributed through the limbs and small
branches TO the very leaves, each and every
part with entire mpartiality receiving what
it can absorb. Let US suppose that from
some cause or other some parts OF the tree
are Injured and do not absorb the life.giying
fluid, decay ensues, and it is burtful not
only to the parts thus affected, but to the
whole tree. So seriously, indeed, that unless
decay be arrested the noble tree becomes
more diseased, and in short time with all
Its leafy honors is prone upon the ground
TO return, Though rot, TO the earth.
The figure is truthful picture Of Govern
nert. A partial distribution of its sustenance
OF life into the body polite will produce
decay as in the case of the tree, and if the
policy that causes the evil be not reformed
We can readily see the fate of the Govern.
ment. The wounds In the body polite from
partiality of administration or cruelties and
punishments arbitrarily administered might
be very forcibly compared to "pyemia," or
the mal.treatment of the wounded patient,
resulting in the poisoning of the life.blood.
TIE whole arterial system is innoculated and
life is destroyed.
The policy of the Republican party has
been tending to destruction, as in the cases
described. 1t is time, God knows, to aban-
don that policy. The opportunity is good
to put q check upon 1t by rebuking Mr..
MORTON, 40 the Boston advertiser desires,
and stopping 1t at once. Why should we not
be at peace, aud why should not the Fede-
raj Government do the best thing to bring
about true harmony. g., take its rough
hands OF the States, and let them conduct