The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-01-28
The Sout h-South Carolina.

The South-South Carolina.
The South has been TO the Republican
party an object Of great anxiety. Recon.
struction" was purely party measure
heartless and sordid. The theory of that
measure, or series of measures, was that the
white rebels Of the South could through
them be kept in a state Of paralysis as pun.
ishment. And as an added pretext for the
policy, it was urged that the southern PEG.
pie could not be trusted; that there would
be enough of whites cooperating with the
negroes to guide them and carry on the Gov
crnment; and that in this way the South
could be chained TO the Republican car.
But the Republican party had not the WIS
dom and craftsmanship to perceive that their
system was impracticable save by the dls'
honor and corruption of so many white peo-
pie as seriously to impair the public virtue,
and subject the interests and welfare Of so.
ciety TO the greatest perls. Nor had the
party the humanity 10 forego their fearful eX-
pertinent even had they foreseen its terrors.
Time has unfolded the curses they prepared
for the South-curses which the North itself
has not escaped and so destructive nave
they been, both local and general, that only the
rcmorseless haters like MORTON have shown
enough OF malignity to be willing to folio" lne
logical course Of Reconstruction 10 It's emu
We look back nov with degree OF pride
in southern human nature which we cannot
express. The necessary force OF white ln'
te!iiscnce to guide the negroes ana Keep
them in the Republican army, drilled ana
disciplined as voters, to helpto perpetuate the
existence of u cruel and ruthless party, could
MOI he had. The southern people could not
become traitors TO their race, nor couid they
become BY pCcrites and pretend to be what
they were not. 1t would have been thing
cay f,r them all to baye become professcdly
Republicans, and thus have taken possession
of Tie Republican party; but this they were
inclp,be OF doing, and they spurpcd the brioe
held out 10 them. This should have entitled
them 70 the respect OF those who sought 10
nibo them. They now know what trust
could have been placed in them after accept.
ipg thG brioe by knowing the characters OF
have scaud.lzed the land and outraged
civilization.
The southern people have been frm-thev
have beer firm under trials the like OF which
have never been recited in modern history.
The conduct OF the South has brought con.
fusion upon reconstruction as intended
to operate by the Republican party. Hap.
PLY for The patton that it is so. The Repub-
lican plans could not have succeeded without
such decentralization in The South-such
ruin of public virtue, OF public dignity and
force, as would have inflicted lasting injury
and scandal upon the whole nation.
These reflections are called up just now
by the rather desperate effort made by NOR
TON to re6rganize the system Of interference
with the local State authority of the South.
Like MACBETH, he clutches wildly at the ar
drawn dagger-iancying weird agency for
a diabolical intent-an intent that should
seek advancement anywhere but In the day
and amongst tangible and true and healthy
elements.
MORTON beholds the South lost to Repub-
licanism through the utter failure Of recon-
struction to accomplish the Republican plot.
He sees the States all but one gone, and that
one-South Carolina-he Is reminded by
Governor CHAaBERLAIN is in a condition Dor.
dering on hopelessness. CuAMBERLAlN's
picture is simply that of the utter inca.
pscity of the negro for sclfgoVcrnment.
He does not say as much; but MORTON
is smart enough to deduce this conclu.
sion from CHAMBERLAIs's arguments. he
does say, however, that neither the Admin
istration at Washington, with all its appli.
ances, civil and military nor any weight OF
denunciation heaped upon himself, can keep
South Carolina Republican unless her
people can be convinced that "tbese judicial
elections will be undone and never by posi-
bility repeated" He alludes to the election
OF MOSES and WHIPrER when he speaks OF
"these judicial elections" And yet what
reason have we to infer that the same electors
will ever elect better men ? And is not
MORTON preparing, if possible, to put the
elections in the State of Mississippi in just
the hands of such electors as those who have
elected WHlPpER and Moses!
The North has seen enough. 1t is clear
that the South cannot be degraded into The
dust. 1t is blessing from Heaven to this
Union that it can't be. Let us hope for the
glory Of the white race, the grandeur and
greatness of this Union, and for the Vludica-
tion of the ways of God to man, that all the
southern States, including the down'trodden
and greatly vi1tuous white people of South
Carolina, may be thoroughly triumphant in
the establishment of wise, orderly, and hap.
Ply governments. This great good would
be felt in every section and in every family
of the whole North.
Sherman on the Presidency.
Senator john SHERMAN, Of Ohio, pro-
pounds his views about the presidency.
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