The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-02-10
9irhn1ond 1ispattlt,
observation-disclosures 10, 1876.
Which was Worst :?

Winch was worst
The two sections OF the Union are en-
gagged, as they have been "off and on since
the war, in the rivalry as to which can make
the other appear In the worst light. The
impartial observer can readily see that the
South, being the weakest, and having com
mand of Inferior means, must be placed 70
disadvantage. And so we all find. Every
renewal OF the war Of words-of Tending ana
proving only shows this. The northern
section has all the world to nothing against
the South, and all Of US see has determined
that It cannot afford TO be put TO disaa-
vantage. and will not be. Don't we ali KNOW
thsl
B1A1sE, the INSCRIPTIONS agitator, found
tina, the national hates and sectional prrju-
fices which had been the breath Of the nos
tr;ls OF The Radical party were dying out, 50
he brought in his deyilish bellows and blew
up the dying embers afress. And what
should we do, some of us, but attempt to
blow 'em out! What was that but helping
BLAINE 10 blow them brighter
How natural all this is The weaker
party, 0ndcr sense Of resentment, -ah how
much resentment there always is in the
heart Of the helpless under sense OF
wrong .--pours forth its Indignation, and the
deliberate, powerful asSaiant reloices In the
indignation OF The victim, and delugcs the
land from his arsenal Of misrepresentation,
oycrw helming the defeDceS OF what are but
l;t,io .Iso than tho Gefpnrplcss
Mr.. DAVIS enters the arena and indites
very civil letter, which nevertheless contains
thorn for BLAISE that will be felt for some
time in that gentleman sidC-and forthwith
the game of "more sack on the mlIlers
back is tried upon the man without u home
aud without country. SO unequal struS-
gle cannot be maintained. Justice for The
weaker at the North is impossible. Facts
Cali nc gotten up, and if they don't si'lt
they cen be made to suit. We all know that
whole armies were imprisoned after the war,
and undcr the rage that was eugendercd by
LIXcoiS's assassination were kept there for
months AID yet q statislician, replying to
NJ. Davis, puts all these prisoners in to
make out rate Of death 10 prisons, when all
should know that in a time of profound peace
there should he no such mortality as that
which prevailed in war, with all its sources
Of discomfort and disaster. But who is 60
ing ;c make this explanation at the North!
For ourselves, we have never cared so
much abeu. what the people said at the
South. Freedom of speech belongs TO a
republic, and it ought not to be suppressed
here. We for one never were so much
troubled as some people were at its eNer.
else. Let the people talk. We do not be.
Iieve the northern people are to be always
the victims of ignorant superstition and
preudices. We know too well, however,
that the political leaders are going TO employ
all their calumni0us rhetoric towards the
South to the full extent 10 which they can
make Il available. 10 that extent they will
certainly 90. They can't 80 further, because
the reason and practical good sense Of the
northern people won't permit them. The
impulsive rhetoric from the South is no
great matter. They at the North care little
about it, and it has ceased to brighten north
cru people.
But still we would rather see our people
pursue their own even way, leaving the
North to its own course. Falsebo0d and
rancorous defamation cannot hold out for
ever. They will not die, indeed, merely
because we hold our peace, but we would
better preserve our own serenity by avoid
ing alteration, and collecting our own his
toric remains for our own archives for flu
ture use, when the passions and the hates will
have been sufficiently assuaged to give his.
tory the advantage Of calmncss for the per-
Torrance of her duties.