The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-22
ProscriDtion-WhiCh?

The hue.and-cry set up by the Govern
mcnt about the alleged proscriptiye mea.
sures OF some of the southern communities
is the most contemplate device. II is OK.
actly that of the thief who seeks to escape
by joining the throng that cries "Slop
thief"
The Government of this country is thor
oughly and ruthlessly proscriptife. None
hut Radicals are appointed to Office by it, and
the officer who dares TO question the Wis
dom Of Republican measures or the fairness
and centleness of the President is pitched
head and heels out Of the comforts and per-
qusites of Federal patronage. Have we
not seen the patronage of the Gov
eminent basely and corruptly employed
time and again to elect partisans: Have we
not seen PLAT filling the navy-yard at Ports.
mouth with incompetent negroes and whites
under the disguise CT being employed as me-
chanics and laborerS, and have we not seen
Fortress Monroe deluged with similar cattle
near ,,election-time that they might swarm
forth on election day 10 fasten RATT upon
the intelligent whites Of this district as their
representative, when they deSpised him?
Zee how these employees were disc charged
after the liberal enjoyment OF Government
per diem, and prog, and grog, and after the
performance Of their servile work.
Look at every Government yard and post,
where any pretext could be trumped up for
the calling 10 of the motley crowd of Radi-
cal voters to be fed until they voted the
Radical ticket. Look at them from Maine to
the Rio Grande. Such has been the extent
Of this abuse that army and navy officers
have been vehement in the expression of
their disgust at the annual crowdng upen
them OF shamefully incompetent persons TO
do work for which tley were not fit, and 10
be kept, as it We're, in idleneSs, merely to
he voted like dogs at the polls for the party
that has given them something TO eat.
And this is the party that cries out bit.
terly against proScription-the refusal of
private citizen to employ person who is
not only politically opposed to him. but is
endeavoring to elect men and establish mea-
sures which will be the ruin of the dearest
interests OF the community in which be
lives! The harlot preaching up virtue
the wolf bc~ailing bloodshed.
This bypocrisy-this outcry Of SHERIDAN,
GRANT & Co. against the people OF the
South--iS Characteristic Of the Government
under which We live. The people of Shreye-
port and Arkansas are guilty of nothing
new. 1t is notorious and uudeniable
that the mill operatives of New England
were always with few exceptions) voted by
their employers. e, they voted AS their
employers wanted them to vote, or they had
to seek employment elsewhere. DR.. AVER,
who has physcked the South so fearfully,
and who is now poisoned with Radical
bigotry that all the cherry pectoral" he eyer
made could not expel from his system,
declared before the war that his employees
always voted us he did.
But what il the use Of citation. The
whole Union knows how disingenuous it is
in GRANT and saERIDAS to be denoupcing
what Is SO VIGOROUSLY done by the Govern.
tient, and especially by manufacturers at the
North. 1t is q part Of the deliberate and
malicious policy to wrong the southern peo-
pie and fire the public mind at the North