The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-04-19

TnE STRENGTH OF THE TRUrH.--Our read
crs8il perhaps be surprised TO learn the
tacts--f facts they be-stated 10 the follow
Ing article from g Ieading Republican paper.
The "mssing Of treason .odious' seems to
!" progress backwards" Wegtve these state
ments upon authority which the Republicans
must confess to be good. .IsAf
- From the Chicago Tribupe.l
The leading southern Democrat IN Com
Gress is Mr.. L.Q. e. Lamar. BE Is rene OF
paIeozoic politician ante-war BOURBON
whose Views were purified by the ordeal OF
fire, and who has shown himself worthy OF
the forgiveness nation has extended to MIN.
Mr.. Lamar is naturally very anxious 70 see
Democratic President elected In 1876, put
bis predictions on that theme show that MS
hopes are not high. He has been inter-
viewed by a reporter of the Atlanta Herald,
and his sketch of the way in which the Dem.
ocrats must act iu order to carry the next
campaign proves that they Will not carry II:
MIR, Lamar declares that majority OF
American voters are opposed TO tue Adnln.
i.tratiou, but he says the Democracy Is not
that majority. It has won Its recent ylcIorles
"by COO peratiop, not by conversion. IL mas
had allies In the fight, but those sl'les are not
Democrats. It must have their aid 10 elect
the next President, and it can get their aid
only by adopting liberal, not bouroon'
national, not a sectional, policy. %.
Here, them, we have the distinct statement
by Democratic leader Of the course tnat
must be pursued in order TO clrry the electioh
In 1876. We have, on the other hand, Inc
record of the course his party has pursued
and is pursuing, and that record Is 10 nv
contradiction to the policy Whlcn IS tne
sols means, in his opinion, OF success.
In Connecticut the Democracy mas sent
| to the Senate bitter BOURBON, ~of-
shipper Of the Pandora's' box oil S'ate
sovereignty, Copperhead, volcano OF nate
against the Onion, a.belieVer IN paying
for the emancipated slaves, q condensed es-
sence of everything thst is fatal TO t0e peace
and prosperity of the United States. sign
one of Eaton's speeches with the name OF
John c. Calhoun or Jef. DAVIS ana tne uich
would not be suspected. The same spirit
breathes through the works Of both men.
To choose such blatant foe OF the Cnlon,
The Connecticut Democracy passed over
English. Ingersoll, and other liberal par
tisans More recently the same body OF
voters has rejected the Union General
Hagley aud elected the Bourbon ab-
sentee, Barnum. Pennsylvania passes oy
Buckalew and elects hummer" Conee-
potv Wallace. In Illinois Democratic
House declines to complete monument to
Stephen A. Douglas on the (uuavo~ed)
ground that the dead statesman patriotically
Sustained the Union. To Missouri Demo-
cratic Legislature refuses to give Carl Schurz
the poor honor of a complimentary vote,
and fills his senatorial chair ith mediocre
| whose sole recommendation is that be fought
bard to destroy the Union and perpetuate
slavery.
Throughout the country, wherever tue
Democrats have come into power, this rtat.
tionary policy prevails. The Confederacy.
beaten by bullets, is trying to win by ballots.
It's spirit of hostility to the results OF the war
asserts itself everywhere, and Bourbonism
exults over the apparent decline of Union
ism. "There is general fear" says MIR.
LAMAR that when the Democrats get into
power they will reopen the question OF sbe
amendments, attempt to undo the results OF
the war. and demand pay ment for the South
ern slaves" Tnis is quite true. There IS
such q general fear, and every days expe-
rience of Democratic rule lends to confirm
il. The Bourbons have abused the power
given them in a moment OF weakness. They
are showing themselves unit to be trusted.