The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-23
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81, s,AryRpAY......ss SEPTEMBER 9, 1876.
I Na az, Is. s sectional 1. party.

- National vs.. a SectioEai Party.
The Democratic party Is u nat onai party.
II processes the same creed in Louisiana az
shas ii does In. Mime; in California that It
does in Virgins. There Is 9 sabss antfall
agreement as 70 the principles, though there
are differences OF opinion IS 70 some OF The
details Of administration In New Fork or
Connecticut, as in Virginia or Florida, the.
Democrats are in favor OF q red ction OF the
expenditures Of the General Government.
that there may be . ioweringto Of the taxes.
They favor o strict accoun inability on the.
part Of public officers. They. advocate the
right Of the people OF each State to manage
their own affairs in their own way, subject
OF course to the limitations imposed upon
them By the Constitution scf the United
States. But above all, they advocate the,
reunion Of the whole country and the re-
tnrn-ofs fraternat feelings and friendly inter-
course between the various sections. They
are in favor of the adoption oil mo measure
which would tend TO ALLEVIATE. the people OF
the North. nom the people Of the South. II
they gain the control Of the Government, it
VIII be their interest MS It is their duty to
remove every trace Of sectional luminosity
that still survives the war, and bring about
complete restoration OF those feelings OF
kindness and brotherly love between the
people OF the two sections which ought
never 30 have been disturbed. ass,1
It would seem to bea self-eyident pro-
position that no party ought to be en-
trusted with the administration OF the Gov
eminent whose own selfish aims and in
terests require it to fan the flames OF sec
tional luminosity. Yet this is exactly the
case with the Republican party. However
peaceful and quiet may be the condition OF
the country when an election campaign be-
gins, that party always finds 1t necessary
to its success that that peaceful and quiet
state OF affairs shall be broken up, and the
worst passions of human nature aroused IN
the breasts OF the northern people. Wit
ness the convention OF the Boys in Blue
In Indianapolis the other day. That assem-
blage was convened for the sole purpose O
endeayoring to infame the passion:
OF tho old soldiers, and through then
OF all the people OF the North, bu
particularly those Of Indiana. Ought no
such a party to die? Is motifs very exist
ence standing menace to the peace Of TIT
country. Suppose a similar state OF thing
existed withik the limits OF the State o
New York-that there were q party in tina
State which kept itself in Office by, resuiari.
and systematically exciting previous t.
every election feeling Of bitter hostilit.
betweeen the people Of the western ant
those of the eastern part Of the State-coult
such party survive for even, one year TIT
discovery OF its base purposes and ,prac
tees? - 0s-
This wicked party called Republican, hat
been sectional from its foundation. Mr.
LINCOLN was first elected by a minority vote
His vote was about one million less than
the combined vote OF BELL, BRECKENRIDGE
and DOUGLAS. YET The Republicans even
now have the impotence to claim that II
was the Republican party that put down
the rebellion; that the eighteen hundred
thousand voters who supported LINCOLN in
1860 whipped the twenty-eight hundred
thousand who supported the other candi.
dates. We would be far from making any
charge against Mr.. LINCOLN, whose death
was to the South the greatest calamity OF the
war. Yet it is none the less true that whilst
he above all other things desired restored
Union, with peace, good will, and brotherly
love. between the sections, his party, since
his death, has lived upon the sorrows and
troubles OF the country. It is made up OF
political Yultures. Strange it is that the
northern people do not sec these facts for
themselves. Nothing but the inveterate
prejudices excited against the South by the
events Of four-years' war could blind our
northern brethren to the real nature OF the
Republican party, and to the vile use which
that unprincipled party is making Of their
preiudices and predictions. Too many Of
them are mere puppets in the hands OF such
reprobates as MORT ON and BUTLER. Is it
not time for these to open their eyes and
see for themselves that no patriot ought to
support party which bases its hopes of
success upon keeping alive in the breasts Of
the people base passions which ought to
have been allowed to burn out twelve years
ago? 80.
Wings VS.. Democrats.
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