The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-23
The South and the North.

The northern papers seem to hold that
the South has no rights which the. North is
bound to respect. When we see journals
such as the Chicago Times and the Cincin-
natl Commercial iustiiying GRANTS orders
to General SHERMAN on the ground that
GRANT merely intends to provide for fair
elections, we perceive that prejudice has SO
blinded our northern g brethren that they
accept the tyrant's plea as il it were true.
CROMWELL claimed that he used the army OF
England only for the best Of purposes. SO
did LOUIS NAPOLEON as to the French army.
In fact, If plausible excuses are sufficient
justification for oyerturning free govern
ment, there never was one destroyed with
out good reason. Did the journals which
we have named expect GRANT to confess
that he ordered troops to the South to Sc
cure HAYEs's election? He would be fool
sure enough were he to fail to assume q
virtue when lie can thereby humbug intel
ligent men. The danger is, Of course,
in the fact that he can deceive his country
men. 10 be forewaned is to be forearmed /;
and il the people Of the North were as jeal-
Gus OF their liberties as they ought to be,
there might be no danger in little usurpa-
ton Of authority on GRANTS part. But as
it was in the beginning, so shall it ever be
the people will eat, drink, and be merry,
marry and give in marriage, until the tyrant
is firmly seated upon his throne. Then they
wonder at their own stupidity. So came on
the war Of secession-without one man in a
hundred living in the North to believe it a
possibility.
The New York Times not only thinks ii
right for GRANT to appoint supervisors OF
election and deputy marshals, and pay them
out OF the Federal Treasury, to secure
HAYEs's election, but considers it an insult
to the North for General WADE HAMPTON to
run for Governor OF his native State! 1t
says:
1t is suggestive series OF names that the
South Carolina Democratic papers now bear
at the head of their columns. They read :
"For President, Samuel J. Tilden; for
e-President, Thomas A. Hendricks; for
Governor, Wade Hampton" Nice company
this.
The Times man is not tit, comparatively
speaking, to blacken General HAMPToN's
boots; yet because the latter is southern
man the Times tries to make him out an I'M
fit associate for gentlemen.
Mr.. SrOwELL, OF Vermont, who pre-.
tended to represent the Petersburg district
| in the last House Of Representatives, asks
h1r. CHANDLER, chairman Of the Republican
National Executive Committee, for COM
pany Of troops, to be sent to Petersburg,
The Times sees nothing wrong in
asking or granting this request because
Virginia is a southern State. But what sort
of country is this, when such outragei
can be perpetratcd with the appreciation
OF a majority OF the people Of the dominant
section? Is it a free country? Or is 1t {
consolidated dcspotism! We know nothing
to prevent General GRANT from electing Mr.
HAYES if he is to be allowed to use the army
to carry the southern States, and the money
OF the United States to buy UP thousands
and tens OF thousands of deputy marshals
and supervisors of election in the northern
States. This is just what he is doing in the
two sections. He proposes to compel the
South to vote for HAYES, whilst he buys thu
North over to the same side. He compli
ments us OF the South.