The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-29
UNDER THE NAPLES.
REFLEcTIoNs. s. MORAL. AND IN PoLlrIcAL.

REFLECTIONS. MORAL AND PoLITICAL.
THE Eytr. POLICIES OF THE GOVERNMENT
DETAILED--AB --ABoMINjABI.E ACTS AND MEA-
sURRs-DEpRAYITYoF OF PURLIG MEN-THE
MODEL REPUBLIC FOSTERING DARBA-
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A wise disquisitionist Of the New York
from the " Beechcs."' The beech, with its
sturdy frame and its deep, serene shade,
may be fit type OF wisdom. The maple
has the gay and cheerful qualities that mark
the just disposition md generous temper.
IT might seem eonceited in me to associate
myself with the type of these noble things,
but am more their admirer than their pos
sessor, and my love for the type, is devoid Of
egotism. asgIjI si, - F
Then, under the naples, far removed from
busy scenes and political controversy,
have thought not q little OF our country and
its unhappy conditions. That we have fallen
upon the evil times when the policies of the
Government proceed from fanaticism, COM
bincd with vindictiYeness, greed, and dis
honesty, is terrible truth. The abomina-
BILE acts and measures Of the Government
could originate from no better sources.
These demons alone could drive powerful
party to the extreme Of disregarding every
motive OF love OF country, and every wise
reason for promoting the common welfare
OF the people and the harmony and peace
OF the land. Stimulated by the yilest pas.
sions we see public men whose ambition
should be to win an enduring fame by la
boring to promote peace and order and nom
csty and concord in the land, seeking ele-
vation and pecuniary gains by sowing dls-
sensions and infaming hates; by dlstin-
gushing themselves in every way that can
invoke upon their heads the hate OF all dis
passionate and iust-minded people; so that
when they die they will leave behind them
not single feeling Of respect for their me-
mory, and their. act OF dying will be re-
garded rs the only public blessing that ever
was connected with their names.
That public men so deprayed should so
long control the Government OF this coun-
try is wonder to me, and not exactly in ac-
cordance with political philosophy. That a
so-called republic should continue for so
many years so ruled-as the late Colonel
Randolph justly and accurately said: that
States subiugated should be governed by
States that conquered them, and that in the
name of republic Of States-is the strange
anomaly OF this nation. These States should
before now have drlited into an open and
formal tyranny, with arbitrary power, or
have been restored to their equal relations,
with the republican Constitution and laws
reestablished.
live in hopes. Still think that should
the next election result in the continuation
in power Of the present corrupt and mallg-
nant party, with all its violations OF republi-
canism and Of law, the examples OF history
will prove uninstructive, and political phllo-
sophy will be at fault. In that case it would
seem that the people Of this country must be
peculiar, and the physical conditions OF this
continent must generate bias OF political
progress undeveloped in the history OF other
States.
Still it may be that time only is wanting
to vindicate both philosophy and history in
these matters. We are yet to see the de-
cided Government: either restored re-
public or an open and downright arbitrary
government, with the emperor under some
royal name. What grand relief would the
latter be from the insensate, insatiate, and
blackguard rule under which we are, for
the time, compelled to live. Well, il it be
true that time only is wanting for the con-
summation OF one OF these alternatives, from
the bottom OF my heart do pray that this
time is near at hand. - .
remark that in the pending presidential
campaign, which you are discussing so
vigorously, the party in power, instead OF
attempting to defend their own vices and
crimes, seek to destroy public faith in their
opponents. They seek diversion from
their own denominations by challenging the
sincerity and truthfulness OF the declara-
tions and promises Of men whose reputa-
tions are unspotted, and whose public his
tory is consistent and pure. What an in
suit to the public mind it is to suppose that
such tainted and profligate characters can
successfully impugn the honor OF anybody,
much less such men as are put toward by
the people to redeem their Government from
ruin. .-i
These Radical destructlyes seem to me in
effect to say to the people: "We admit
that we are rogues, and that every branch
OF the Government is ramitied with corrup-
ton, and that the public treasure is misap-
piled and devastated by dishonest officials /;
but you can't help yourselves. These off,
cials and the present style Of Government
YOU are forced to continue. You can't turn
them out. You haven't the independence
and good sense to turn them out. 1t is
only necessary for us to discredit all oppo-
sition by saying that its pretensions about
reform are hypocritlcal, and that 1T Is only
representing the rebellion, to make you re-
iect it. That's all. we are masters OF the
situation, We are masters Of the people.
To our abuses they must submit"
I remark that our Government is doing
whatiit can to the disadvantage of ctuikza-
tion. What else is it doing when it reduces the
number OF soldiers that should be employed
aqoinst the INDIANS, in order to enlarge the
force to oyeraWe the white citizens at the
polls and inflame the hate and initiate the
consequence Of the negro? The ghosts OF
our white brothers wander unaYenged on
the banks of the Rosebud, and the Govern
ment calls off the soldiers that would
ayenge them to tyrannize over the SOUTH
ern whites. Here we have the Govern
ment Of the model republic deliberately
FOSTERING BARBARLSM: Failing to
revenge the white heroes who died for ther
country, and at the same time endeayorlng
to terrify the whites Of the South with the
bayonets which have been withdrawn from
the Indian campaign. The Indians are left
to feast and dance over the dead American
soldiers on the plains, and all the barbarous
passions Of the negroes are to be aroused
and let loose to run riot over the White peo-
pie of the South
What a spectacle! Can the white Cau-
casian race contemplate with any feeling
but adherence the Government whose pol
icy is thus at war with that law OF nature as
wen as OF civilization &c The triumph OF
the fittest." -. -, ..,,' ,..',.z...,, .s..
THESE thinps should be horrible enough