The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-02-01

ssranf r. Force. and Force Is Grant
Washington letters concur 10 the state.
nens that the fight over the ciyil'rights Dill
was not, on the sidaof tho Radicals, for the
cake Of that bill.z Tbs feeling towards 1t was
such that It was believed that The party could
NOT. i,sss Il. and desired not to pass IT. the
contest was intended to open the way for
bringing into employment masked battery
behind the trout. That battery was the rule
urged upon the'party by the extremee Radi'
calls In their recent caucus. This rule was to
substitute a majority Of the House In lieu OF
t,ro.thirds. Exactly what they wanted to
force through Congress In that way cannot
be said; but IL may be confidently anticipated
that the msjority, once possessed Of the will
20 pass snythiug they please, will run riot.
1t is shrewdly anticipated that they will
pass measures for further intimidation and
oppression Of the South and strengthening
tho hands of the Executive, the oppressor.
Possibly the corrupt party, In Its desperation
and its hope TO control the 1SS. votes of the
South, might authorize the President to sus-
pend the writ of ,habeas corpus, and SO re.
Iieve bis will of restraint that he could act as
bis personal interest or partisan views might
dictate. .1,s -. .... e.- .... ...
!, One thing we may be sure Of, and that
would be the passage of schemes for robbipg
the Treasury by contracts and jobs and
wholesale swindling. 1t is not to be expected
that the men now In power will willingly
leave their places with empty pockets.
We shall see what they will do. The op.
position Is on the qui uiue, and there Is an
honest and firm party of Republican con-
gressmen who are not likely to get out of
the way and permit the wave of corruption
to roll over the Government. In the pro.
ceedings and lodges Of the Congress we are
inclined to think the way of the transgressor
has not been and will not be very easy.
The future of the Republican party is as
dark as midnight. Republican leaders see
it, and setray that sort of fear which amounts
to panic. Incerttude and discord are appa-
rent everywhere. Such statesmen as WILSON
don't trust GRANT, and desire to take the
control cut Of his hands, while the sharper
Radicals sec that there is no hope but IN
GRANT. Force alone can save the party.
Many aspirants to the presidency on the Re.
| publican side see this; but, then, their
"cake is all dough" if that expedient is
adopted. Force is GRANT, and GRANT Is force.
If with that Republicans continue to hold
power GRANT must be President for third
term. Aye, aud for how many more?
The contest will be between the govern
meut of the people and the government OF
General GRANT. The nation must see this,
and upon that line fight out the next canvass
| for the presidency. The ambitious Radicals
aspiring to the presidency will thus find
their claims indefinitely laid upon the shelf.
We repeat that the Radical party Is In a
state of uncertainty. They are without q
plan. They see, in the language of the lead.
ing Republican paper In the Union, that
1.-THE Democrats have the entire govern.
ment-the Governor and both branches Of
the Legislature-in sixteen States; the Re.
publicans have similar supremacy In nine
States and the Independents In one. But
there are eleven Of the thirty.seycn States in
which the government is divided, and in
nearly every case the division is made by the
Democrats or Opposition coming into posses.
sion Of that part Of the government which
has last been submitted to an election"
I This prominent and sagacious journal well
weighs the force of these facts. and con-
fesses that the Republican party can only
survive by "proper wisdom and resolution !"
in council: These it can never have. The
plethoric and corrupt partissns are incapaci-
tated for anything of the kind.
Clearly it would seem that in the struggle
soon to come of the people must triumph
over the worst and most ruthless party that
ever existed in this country. If they do not
Liberty is gone.