The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-28
Ti.c Situation RS Viewed by the New
York JeHTi,:s! Of Commerce Xcstcr-

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York journal Of Commerce Ecstcr'
day.
They [honest Republicans have been
slow to believe that any OF their associates
were so deficient OF truth and right as to
pcrpetrate such 4 glaring injustice when its
character was once fairly exposed.
The time is near at hand when these good
men must speak, and i'll such tones as TO be
heard throughout the country. The danger
is most imminent. We do not refer now tC
the danger of rebellion. or revolution, OF
anarchy, or even OF an unrighteous
conclusion as to the result OF the re.
cent election. After all legal remedies have
been exhausted we should counsel submis-
sion to far greater wrongs than the defeat
OF the peoples will by INSCRIPTIONS can.
vaSscrs and dishonest returning boards
rather than see Il single sword unslleathcd
in civil strife. Nothing can justify fratrl.
cidal war but the intliction OF an outrage
which is more intoerable than death. The
trouble now upon Us is the fruit OF the un-
settled condition OF political affairs, and il
is one which, ii not soon arrested, will be
past all remedy, no matter who shall sit in
the presidential chair.
i
through all their veins, and the whole syS-
TEN is fast becoming paralyZed. at whole
sale or retail, in store or factory or shop, all
business is at IL stand, or rapidly reaching
this conclusion. The next step, ii the
wheels are not soon in motion, will be 4
widespread financial panic, touching every
material interest, and sooner or later
reaching with its gaunt skeleton fingers
every home in the land. ....
No man with the incubus OF this public
restlessness upon him can embark in any
serious enterprise with hope OF profit. Ne
gotlatons for new firms or partnerships are
suspended; many engagements not yet ratl-
fed have been cancelled: and no one, I'M
less it is the professional politician, can look
into the future, near or remote, without 4
strange misgiving as TO what it has in store
for him.
II the policy upon which certain unscru-
Dulous political leaders seem TO have settled
is adopted without check from those to
whom they look Tor support, we see no
hope OF Improvement in the three months
to come. Nor even then, though the crisis
may be peacefully past and the new Adj
ministration be accepted as the ruling Gov
eminent, will there be any lifting OF the
horrible weight from the public mind.
Whether right or wrong, the feeling will be
cherished by more than half the legal voters
Of the country that they have been cheated
out OF party triumph, and that power has
not scruplcd to perpctuate itself by an arm
ed hand against the popular will, thus over
throwing the very foundation OF Il Tree Gov
crnmcnt.
+ From all that we can gather by personal
intercourse with the strong and upright
men OF the Republican party, we can safely
affirm that it is their private conviction Mr.
Tildcn was fairly elected and is entitled TO
the office. They are not willing to be held
responsible for Il contrary result, and yet
they must see that il they sit still the ma
OF those who have assumed
control Of the machinery will iasten the
odum OF defeating him upon the organiza-
ton to which they belong.
The merchants, bankers, and men OF btlsl-
ness in this metropolis who have lent their
and to the dominant party and have been
more or less identified with it, cannot eyade
the responsibility which is thrust upon them
by these passing events. ii they neglect
The duty oil the hour they cannot hope to
cscape from the disastrous result. 1--WE do
not believe that the mere professional
politicians have 'nothing to lose" as
many assert, by a tame submission to the
practices OF evil and designing men work
ing, us they think, to promote party inter
csts. Even as Il party measure, a noble
and generous course is the true policy. 10
continue the Republicans in power by means
that more than half the people honestly be-
ieve'to be illegal and fraudulent, will be TO
sink that party beneath q load OF odium Il
cannot hope to overcome in the lifetime OF
q: generation.