The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-13
Force Alone Can Sustain 1t.

Force Alone Can Sustain 1t.
Tn the matter of expressing indignation at
The oyerbearing conduct OF President GRANT
In the Louisiana affair it must be remem-
Der ed that . large portion of the people Oh
the North are restrained from all outspoken
feen 10 because first, they are so-osl'ed he.
pubicans, ard fear that the errors Of GRANT
on the subject might ruin the party II :they
were the object of their censure; ana Sc
condly, they fear that any censure cast upon
GRANT would only strengthen the Demo
cracy and tend to transfer the entire po'i1!ca'
power of the Union into their hands.
or course this il enough in these times to
sti0e the voice of great part OF the people
of the United States; but the fact that so
large a number of people are thus forced TO
silence is so apparent to the whole Amerl'
can people that it assists very much more 10
damn the Administration than TO shield II
from condemnation. The New York Times
admits that "public sentiment has generally
condemned SnERIDAN's 'banditti' dis:
patches, but" it adds ave do not oeIleve
"that it is prepared to hand over the settle
ament Of southern questions 10 the
Democrats Exactly. That Is the
explanation Of The status OF the Ne
publican party. Had the Times made
i.s remark little more broad; bad IL
said that "public sentiment has generally
condemned" the measures Of the Admins
tration in louisiana 1t would have been
strictly accurate. AS far as our observatlen
goes, there must be comparatively small
portion of the people of this Union who ap-
prove wba, General GRANT has done towards
Louisiana. We think that the majority OF
the Republicans condemn him; but that
bane Of The Republic-party spirit causes
them to repress their own honest conVlc'
items and pursue the dishonest and 6agitious
policy of either defending wrong out-and-
out" or breaking the force of tyrannical
exercise of authority and gross usurpation
of power by softening their features as much
as possible, and apologizing for what they
can't defend.
TO these straits are the followers Of the
cruel and tyrannical Republican Administra.
tion reduced. But what solid advantage can
il gain for the Republican party? In our
opinion, none whatever. The builders may
endcayor to prop house that has lost its
balance, and defend themselves by proclaim.
ing that it was honestly built; but all they
can do cannot prevent the tiual catastrophe
OF its fall and utter ruin and the complete
exposure of the dishonesty and incapacity OF
the builders.
The world sees through the thin disguise
which conceals the dishonest purposes which
govern the Radicals. Their appreheasions
are plain. They see dangers which they
cannot avert, and their tribuiation is too
great for copcealment. Their em5arrass-
ment, caused by the necessity of defending
what they would condemn and what they
fear is in1efensible, is apparent, and does
more to break down their own cause than
could their open censures Of President
GRANT.
For these reasons we think political affairs
are getting along very hopefully. We could
not expect the Radicals to condemn the
President. We could not expect the mass
of The people who have sided with the Re.
publicans to do SO, much less the Republican
leaders and the otfics-holdcIs, to whom the
defeat Of the Republicans will be the death
knell of their politically But the fragrant
oulrages of the Radical Administration Are
like a food, sweeping away all their defences
and steadily overwhelming them.
While we say We could not reasonably
expect the Republican party to condemn
themselves, the signs Of discord in their ranks
have been powerfully significant. Take
WILSON, and BLAINE, and DAWES, and host
OF others, for example. They all speak for
thousands. Even BUTLER goes for new
election in Louisiana. What does that i'm
ply? Censure of KELLOGG, the Returning
Board, and all that rotten machinery which
GRANT has bolstered up with the Federal
army 1t implies that SHERIDAN is Il liar and
that his "bauditti" have been wropged and
oppressed.
In no light that We can view the course
of the Administration towards Louisiana
and the South can we consider 1t any
thing but weak and tottering. The army
alone gave it supremacy over the States,
and nothing but the army can MAINTAIN
it's existence after the present term.
Force executed its measures, and force is
the breath Of its noStrls. 1t cannot live in
the respect and by the will of the people. 1t
is doomed to eXecration and death unless
the just judgment of the nation be defeated
by force, and the usurpatlon of the presi.
dency for a third term by General GRANT;to
the utter subyersion of the Constitution and
the civil liberty OF this Union. :.
The White Scamps Get AL.