The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-14
Too Familiar with Usurpation.


United States Senate upon the Louisiana
case, expressed the fear that the generation
which had grown up since the war, coDs!i-
luting more than third Of our voting pop
ulation, "bas too much been accustomed to
"witness the bold display of arbitrary as
assumptions Of authority" and be added
''that habits have grown up threatening 10
:. become destructive to all the patriot holds
dear" This is very true, and may well
excite the anxious forebodings Of all intelli-
gent persons who understand the true the
DRY Of our Government. Especially must it
be painful to the elder part Of the pcpula-
ton, who lived under our Government when
purely administered, ard still remember the
peace and contentment, the golden sunshine
of happiness, which spread over flourish
ing land.
Let US hope, however, that familiarity
with the bgh.handed and unwarrantcd dis
play of power has not perverted the judg-
mcnt of controlling body of the American
people. 1t is not time enough for that We
trust it would require mole than one gene
ration for so great revolution as that.
There is one assurance that we have, and
| that is in the conservatism Of the South.
| There is no such benefit growing out Of the
Republican tyranny ofthe South as 10 soothe
The southern mind into acquescence in the
expressions imposed upon us. That the
stern republican virtue of our ancestors will
be cherished by the South for long years to
come we have not doubt. True, sceetre
that might held out TO them the hope of re-
lief from tyranny and humiliation would be
tempting offer; they would have the
strongest ground to hail it as friend, for
they might trust to almost any change as an
improvement upon the affections they expe-
rience from vulgar and malicious tyranny.
But we may say with truth that if the senti-
ment of love for true and constitutional re-.
publcanism exists IN any one section stronger
than it does in others, it is here IN these
southern States.
We confess the force Of Mr.. SCHURz's APP
prebensions, but we have excellent reasons
for believing that they will not now be real
lied. What we say of the South is true ;
and when we turn TO the North what do we
see? We see population that has been
gradually, since the war, yielding up its war
inspired rancors, and has been steadily i'm.
proving in its mental condition to deliberate
upon the question of sacrifi ling their liberty
to the qualification Of sectional hate and the
prosecution Of sectional tyrannies. A great
deal of light has been infused into the public
mind by the injury done by disturbing the
national harmony, and impairing the ma
tional prosperity, by series of prosecu-
tons for the qualification of sentiment
(and that a bad one), and for the enforcement
of fanatica ideas to promote the sordid pur-
poses Of ot1ice-holders. and Of corrupt
"rings," to rob the Government. 1t is seen
that ruin has resulted not only to the imme-
date victims, but to the whole country.
The North groans under the terrible effects
of measures which have filed the land with
distrast in the Government, interrupted bu.
siness, checked enterprise, brought upon US
pecuniary embarrassment, and turned out of
occupation hundreds of thousands Of people.
These events illumine the public MUD as
to the wisdom Of constitutional government,
equality Of the States, and faithful and i'm.
partial administration. The effect was seen
in the November elections, and will be
further displayed in elections to come. Mr.
ScHuRz and ourselves will both breathe freer
and deeper, and look upon brighter prospects,
after they have occurred.