The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-25
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Editors Dispatch :: have not seen your
naner for d week past owing to my not
noticing that my subscription had ended.
nv apn was requested to renew It.. 4 take
for granted YOU repel the chaotic doctrine
oil counting votes not polled-yoices with.
ont sound, voices not uttered, not DOE ct
.D7gterea ss;it;l,'' but Mill ct preferred go1,
tf1efvinp the heretofore received maSIm,
= en- nisilo aihA ft' (that OF nothing you
car, make nothing) ; It is as ridiculous Us
Moliere,s doctor insisting that buried man
could not be dead, because, on incontestiDle
principles lald down by sHippocrates, ne
ought not to have died Just Them 1t Is as
ridiculous but far grager than 4 even the
hrGve illustratiot i have cited) For, admlt-
ted, what is there but chaos without enc !
to which void itself would be preferable.
,es Where every man has o right to vote lt l i'
% compensation and correction that fools
and knaYes should not vote. The latter q are
often found so by proof, and are accordingly
excluded. The former themselves furnish lls,G
the proof of vacancy, and perform the haT.-
kari by not voting. What could be betterr
for the country2Hq 80 sl'sti%1it - -. -,
Il, II men,, because they are AZ, q TntnoT'ty,
are so wanting iii manhood as to stay away
from the polls from fear, depend on III the
country can we'll spare their votes. Ii that
were allowed, what could 1t
come to, except that soon the voting az
every yoting-place would be oil one way
But as long as there is given minority
vote at all, how should any man be listened
to who pleads intimidation as reason Tor
NJ voting when the plea stands refuted by
tie records And IL, being in a minority
men still plead intimidation, q r1aahto for
tori, would they prove themselves sncapd-
btes, and the mere babies their friend Mr..
Eyaris depicts them to be? They should,
in that case, be left to Mrs. Winslow, to
soothe, instead Of being carried in the stall
wart arms Of that gentleman and his hle-
guardsmen-a baby on one arm and mus
ket on the other-to the polls, to mlngle
their meaningless cries with the voices OF
men, as substantially recommended by that
second Daniel of Wall street. Shade: OF
Hamilton, what statesman
But our Government, law, welfare, sta
bihty, honor, peace, and hopes all repose,
not on the unspoken wishes and opinions
of men, or the squalling Of babies, but on
notes.-the votes of "men who know their
rights, and knowing dare maintain them''-
on votes that are voted, not votes that are
not voted. They live, and can live, but on
genuine yotes-liye and flourish on good
votes--languish, but yet live, on bad votes,
but die miserably on spurious votes the
mere Pigments of venal fancies), and only
die Of them the more quickly If admins
tered by bayonets. %..
Should the threatened outrage come, we
southern Pariahs have but one course to
pursue-the same now as before the cleo
tion-to .folloao, mot to lead. By following
we may help usefully good cause; by lead
ing we blast it irretrieyably. II the power
full North and West, as yet unused to the
woke, can stand rule Of fraud in aGovern-
ment planned for freedom, surely we, long
tutored to suferance, may. We are help
less to redress it, and have far less than
they to lose. Let us still fulfil every duty
as allies, still following at the end as we did
at the beginning, and through the progress
Of tue struggle for reform the policy OF
those who alone have the power to adopt
an effective one, and refusing resoluteIy
and absolutely the role OF leaders, which
only insanity could undertake. ,ew"
lam, dear sir. yours, respectfully, r.