The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-24
Resumption and Abolition.

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Resumption and Abolition.
r,e New York Tribune anhsppily speaks
=, resumption as thing that has 70 take
MACE and that, like abolition, the longer It Is
DELAYED the more II costs when it does take
n,ace. The fanatics will likely be offended
at the impiety Of The Tribune In speaking OF
their hottest OF causes in the same breath
with the rather common and worldly mater
of resumption and so far as the magnitude
OF the consequences that followed aooh''oh
and those tina. are likely to flow from re-
sun,ption Is concerned the contrast must DC
so wide as to render the PROPHECY Oh tne
comparison at least doubtful.
Abolition is accomplished. The crusade
against slavery, combined with party poh.
tics. In this country, would have continued
until slavery was abolished. anere eouu
have been no peace until then.
It,sabolished, and We are glad OF Its sbo-
,Itiop. because it was unavoidable, and be-
cause the country would have been distract
ed as long as the crusade lasted.
But the event haplessly could not "tram'
mel I'D the consequences" And we no"
hsye these, and are to suffer from them for
how long God only knows. They are such
that the effects OF resumption are as nothing
TO them. Tha, social revolution which con-
fused all the economy OF domestic
life, and changed the interstate trade,
and brought about confusion IN tne
arts, and disturbed the industries IN the
whole North, is thing not to be gotten over
in q year, nor in decade, nor even In
couple of them. The Tribune, in Its zeal
for hard money, is prone to attribute all our
evils. financial ard industrial, to what 1t IS
pleased to call ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS paper
money. There never was greater mistake.
The social revolution was the Papdora's box
whence all the evils the nation now suffers
took wing. We have had many suspensions
hut never before had We such evils.
.Ooly think of it. We had two millions or.
more laborers in the South, who we're super
in.eoded in the most capable aud provident
manner. They were engaged in producing
the money crops of the country-products
which paid two.thirds of the foreign debt OF
the nation. The gains Of that valuable la
Dor were Ia the custody of the most capable
body Of administrative men, We believe, that
could be found on the globe. These gains
were expended with system and order for
the good of the laborer and their rulers
with both judgmenrand humane considera-
ton, Certain goods were needed that were
annually purchased and paid for, and the
manufacturers in the North found certain
and reyer-falipg market for those goods,
aud received certain payment of the cost OF
them. So vast an amount of gains so eX-
pended in furnishing occupation and COM
pensatior, when perverted and subjected to
new regulations, or, more properly, to ca
prices and strange vagaries, must have
broken up all that system which secured on
one hand plenty and comfort, and on the
other constant occupation and profitable
compensation. How could this be without
the terrible suffsrings and loss which every
body knows have visited all parts Of the
country, but especially the Northr
Now, we are not one Of those who despopd
b. any means. We know that the Provi-
'dunce that directs all things will bring order
GU! Of chaos, and that basis Of order and
means of occupation and subsistence for all
will be in time established. We anticipate
thai it will not be reached until another great
social change shall nave been brought about
but that it will come we know.
But let no one mistake the condition Of the
country. Certainly let not the hard-money
men, who are endeavoring to force the coun
try into premature resumption, undertake to
make the people believe that the troubles
financial aud social. that af1iot the country
are cccasoued by suspension, or, worse yet
tAat resumption will heal them.
Resumption cannot heal them. If it be
,dertaken before the country is ready for it
the evils we groan under will only be agra
vred by them. II, however, there be time
enough, and paper be brought to par with
gold by wise process Of tiuance, avoiding
anything like shock to the country, we CAL
all we'll see that the. national grievances may
be thus ameliorated. But that resumption is
g1iug to end our woes is fallacy, proceed
ing from vanity and shallow-mindcdness
Toe social revolution which has happened in
this country is unprecedented in its VIC.
lence, and the man Is a fool who thinks
thai such bitter and malignant pol.
cies as have been pursued by our Govern.
meat with regard to it can in any manner
restrain the consequences of that revolution.
Trey have been but aggravated by the ill.,
devised measures conceived in passion and
intended for the worSt'of purposes.
No, gentlemen, paper money never brought
such consequences--least Of sill, could the best
paper money the country ever had be the
direful cause Of such woes.
Cincinnati-Her Southern Railroad.
The Cincinnati Commercial speaks Of the
Southern railroad, from that city to Chatta