The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-04-15

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METROPOLIS.
From the Lynchburg News.J
Appomattox-"Wa 1t Worth the
Price?"
The surrender of General Lee at Appc-
maltox ten years ago last Friday has elected
various comments from the northern press
At banquet in Baltimore by the g Ass0cll-
ton of Union Soldiers and Sailors of Mary
landn the first toast was: The day we
celebrate-it brings the remembrance OF
surrender. but let US never surrender The re-
membrance." That is not the spirit in Which
the great nations of antiquity and mocern
times regarded triunphs in civil wars. The
truly heroic races drop the veil Of oblivion
over family quarrels. But magnanlmlty IS
not to be ex pected of Radicals. The sur
render of Lees little band to force four
teen or fifteen times AS great is such Won
de-frll proof of northern proves that 1t Is
never to be forgotten. Of the newspaper
comments on the anniversary Of the surrer-
der we have been most struck with those OF
the Brooklyn (S. " Eagle (DemocraIie).
We bad never before heard of the eXclam%-
ton of Mr.. Lincoln as described 10y The
Eagle.
CAT the North" says the Eagle, speaking
of the time of the surrender, ~ the eXulti-
ton and the pride knew no bounds; aud ut
the North there was on that historic night
pcrhup> one sad and fearful man---the PreSl-
dent of the United Sfates-.who, in the very
hour of triumph, fearfully and solcmnly
asked, " WoS it 1rOrth the price," That
question a patriotism less doubtful than his
own might have feared to ask at such
GRO wing moment; and. lie how he may,
that question is one that ererytreeman IN me
United States over forty gears Of age arH
hesitate to ans1rer to himself to dag.
There were speeches that night from the
historic window that coronets the portico
of the White House. There were speeches
from the steps of the Del artment of the
Interior-one of them by Andrew johnson.
The capital Of the nation Dlazcd with ll(umi-
natlons, and the majeStic outlines of its capt.
tol shone against the dark SLY traced in lines
of living light, while its soaring dome looked
liked burning Planet resting on pillars Ct
tire. Strangers met each other on the
broad avenues that bear the names Of the
great original States Of the old Cor
federation that preceded the Union, and
they shook hands and congratulated each
other, even as old friends meeting
after absence. No face was gloomy, the
Union was saved ; and money. though but
paper money, WAS plenty over the land. AZ
IN Washington, so in every other city OF the
wide North, ard West, and East. ali was
j,y: all the swelling sense Of triumph amid
plenty. But the President, now President
OF the whole United States at last. was
weighed down by forebodiDgs for the future.
The unseen hand of death that lowered
over him would seem to have emitted some
light invisible to all others, but which en:-
bed him to see, darkly TO be sure, but S;ill
to see that the woes of war would not end
with it unless the spirit of its antagonlsms
and bates could be laid with it.
He so stated that night to his secretaries.
so stated to crowd OF reporters and editors
who with the rest gathered to congratulate
him. Forney returned to his editorial
rooms 10 tell his writers to write words Of
triumph for the North, but of love, good
will, and fraternity to the South. Greeley,
Bennett. Raymond, and the rest, did the
same, and for four days rejoiciBgs over the
victory were twined with hopes of Union
which, if restored by force, would be pre-
served by justice and by patriotic love that
yearned to bury tie angers of the past in the
graves of the heroes that had fallen from
Manassas to the Wilderness"
The Eagle then goes on to describe bow
al those hopes were shattered, and show
the blood of the President seemed 10 wash
away as in a torrent the cement of the re-
ed amity that was to be proffered. A
blight came upon the apple tree of Appoint
toX. The blossom Witbered, and the pro-
missed fruit, when it came, turned to ashes
on the lips. Sorrow sat beneath the pines of
the South, as from the capitol, SO glorious
that one night. issued later words of con.
tinued threatening, and iron laws and in
ex0rable requirements that drove the icy
holt into every southern heart. Where the
fa9t of the soldier was withdrawn, it was
Withdrawn only to give room to that Of
the reckless adveuturcr and satrap of
vergeful Administration. More keen than
the fsraglDg trooper, be ravaeed to the very
root of productigeness, disaganized the
labor, set the man against the master, that
he migat swindle beth. and sitting down i'm
the seHss Of the Lees. the WashiEstons, aud
the Caisouns, revelled In the ruin. The
angers that were 10 be bxried in the graves
Jf the faiscn heroes were revived, and it
looked indeed as If the Unien saved by force
could by iOSGe alone maintain itself. But
he old story of Agrippa proved tnIe in
he American as 10 the Roaaan repubic,
Ind the whole body came to suffer from
he sutftrings Of part. Our public
men, who used decentralization at the
south, became themselves denoralized
It the North. Corruption took up
Ter abode in the White House-in the capt. |;
o The uHdue use OF power led to the iu-
ordinate love of pc Ter, and the soldier who
conquered section now planned 10 coaquer
nation. Aud now, ten years since Lee |
lropped from bis exhausted hand the swoId |
# unsuccessful rebelion-ten years since |
be mighty volunteer hosts OF the North |
aced in pride of victory before Lincoln's
liccessor, the arteral avenue OF the eIpital-
oidiers are yet quartered iu the metropolis
t the South, and the Lieutenant General of
be armies of the United Safes clamors to
utlaW State while his troopers clear It's
'gis!ative halls at the point Of the bayonet.
his is how the party that triumphed at
ppom att0X has kept its promises to this
ltion."
In addition to all this, the United States
x has almost vanished from the seas of
urOpe and Asia the value of It's paper
oDev Is Mt the mercy of lot OF stockholC. /,
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