The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-01


Imust incus the Sflium which has eslpsed
and blackened it The suprenacy Oh
ofs1cEHoLD1rc RINGS
which ruled the Conyentiota t Cincinnati,
and the disuafssal from the cabinet .cf the.
honest reformers of the party-the Secre-.
| tary of the Treasury and Postmaste 3ene-
ral-beeause they desired to Hlet no guilty
man escape" and " THAT, the prosecullion o.
tffose who betray 0fiicial trust shall be
sneefly. thorough and unsparing,1 would
rise ar, II, Judgment to rebuke q party Tint
worlld hesitate to Hcommend the Admins.
tration for its honorable management OF our
domestic affairs.o
/ In the face OF its past and its present, ore
its death-bed repentances and promises OF
amendment to be listened to? And vii! the
1 neople he deceived in view OF events which
| have SO lately transpired with repeated pro-
misses OF ciyil-service reform. CiYiEserYlce
| reform in the mouth OF the Republican
marty is n thrice-told tale, and its sequel Will
1 be the same in the future as in the past.
The fact is that the party must do in the
hereafter what it has DONE heretofore, and
refrain from doing only. What lit has re-
| framed from doing heretofore the same in
Auences which control to-day will! control
! tomorrow, and next year, il. its power is
| extended. !, It does not matter hoy sincere
4 and pure the intentions OF a new EXecll-
stiye may be he viii be pewerless. The man.
ayers will relnain, the same the demands OF
party fealty upon office viii remain the
same. All places will be to them those la
| which "the harmony and yigor OF admins
tration requires its policyto be represented"
and the "friends " will not permit themto
be filed "with sole reference to the efhcl-
ency OF the public service" ,H.st % lsi..1
The Republican party endeaVors bN rails
ing ;. ~: IL. T. .aao9 ~ 80 =
| FALSE ISSUES .Ii -. \.
to divert the popular mind from the absorb
/ ing question OF reform. "..The permanent
fnacification or the southern section OF the
'Union, aad the complete protection OF its
citizens. in the free enjoyment OF their
rights, p is held up as its great mission,
whilst it menaces the southern States with
the threat OF '..,putting into immediate and
Vigorous use the powers OF the. Government
! for removing all just causes OF discomfort on
the part Of any class Of southern people,"
This plank:is inserted in the platform for
| the double purpose of deceiving the North
and OF intimIdating the South. .ar-t ~
1t utters to the North the ,faisehood that
the South is not ct peace, butts still restless
and ripe for rebellion. It utterS to the
South the truth. that freedom Of elections is
not tolerated by the Republican party, and
| il the free exercise OF the privilege OF SUI
frage is attempted in the interest OF reform
and honest government by the colored or
white citizens Of those States, that the strong
arm Of party power, acting through theml-
itary power of the United States, will be
uplfted against them, and that they must
purchase exemption from the tyranny OF the
military satrap by the surrender Of their
political convictions. .,,.i ?ars l.iiiy,lH: :
The suggestion that the South has notset-
tied into F. r...... oil; s.i" .stig.si,;i@l .F's.
T. PERMANENT PACIFICATION, sgtr2 s;;..
Is as illogical and absurd rs it is untrue.
What interest can the South have in agita-
ton or opposition to the Government OF the
Union? The States have been admitted into
full communion. Under the Constitution
! they are entitled to the same privileges, the
same rights, and the same benefits flowing
from it. to which their northern sisters are
| entitled; as much OF OF sovereignty as re-
mains in one section constitutionally at
tacies to the other. The people have no
other Government to look to, no other
country to care for. They have acquiesced
in the results OF the civil contest, and rati-
fed in good faith the amendments to the
Constitution s.,.t.a .,.t'.l.I ...ss.t. - s.
Frustrated by the war. their energies and
their hopes have been concentrated upon
their physical restoration. Harmony between
all classes and all races was absolutely ne
cessary to secure their physical az we'll as 70.
litical reconstruction, and it would have
been madness in them not to have sought it
for themselves. ,..,.H.5. ..1} =" .-'i'...
| The relations which existed, and still eX-
list, between the races at the South have been
simply misrepresented by that partytat the
North for. the purpose Of producing and
fostering sthose sectional feelings and ten
! denotes" which they $50 sincerely depre-
cate.o 1t was to secure the electoral vote
OF united North that party managers fab
p ricated those fictitious outrages, and en-
deavored by acting on the kindly sympa-
thies OF the northern heart to array section
I against section. Everybody in the South
knows that it is to the mutual interest OF
both races that they should harmonic, and
that it is the interest and duty of the white
man to counsel, advise, and elevate his color
ed felow-citizen and that,he has honestly
worked to that end except when thwarted by
the malign interference OF Radical emissa-
ries, the condition of the race in those States
freed from the blighting effects of Republi-
can encouragement will abundantly testi-
fy. The provision made by Virginia for the
education OF the colored race through a
system Of public schools supported by n
taxation nine-tentls OF which falls on the
other race, demonstrates that our people de-
sire not only to protect the negro in his
rights, but to acquaint him with them. and
elevate him up to condition in which he
can appreciate and understand them.
..e THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE
desire to cultivate those friendly relations
between the sections which should distin-
| guish the people Of a common country. In
evidence they have invited the honest, intel
| ligent, and rirtuous' from other sections to
come among them and aid in building UP
their region and they have received and
treated alt such with respect aud conf
denre; but they claim the right, under the
| Constitution OF 4 common Government, to
think and act for themselves; and il, in, the
honest and legitimate exercise OF guarar-
teed privileges, they synlpathize and act
with the great masses Of their northern TEL.
/ low-citizens who demand a. change in the
administration OF the Government and re-
formation Of the abuses which distinguish
| it, it is their own matter, with which no one
else has anything to do: and II success
| should happily follow such union OF north
ern and southern opinions, so far from g re-
| opening sectional strife and imperil1ing the
I national honor and human rights" it
. would establish the. Union more: firmly in