The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-12-16
2nl,ntoltd 1ispattll,
SATURDAY -. DECEMBER is, 1876.
Mr.. Zen. Hin on the Crisis.

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There is much palaver and partisan scaa-
dial about the South aud her representatives,
some OF whom--if what Is reported to have
been said by them be correctly so reported
are no true representatives Of the South at
all. Mr.. Ben. HILL has been imparting his
views as one Of those representatives,
which views do not please us any more, we
hope, than they do anybody else at the
South. The tone OF those views is obiec-
tionahle. Taking his eulogy Of HAYES in
connection with his rejection upon north
ern Democrats-whose bravely.fought bat
tie the same Mr.. Hill crippled by his fol-
lies last winter in Congress-we say, taking
those into consideration, Mr. HILL seems to
be making soft place for himself to fall
upon; or, more fittiugly, he resembles the
bluebird in early spring-the first Of birds
to line his nest with downy material.
In the army the soldier who would adj
dress his comrades upon the merits OF the
commander OF the opposing forces, and
tell them that even if conquered that op-
posing commander would treat them with
us<i hiuNbSSSt SAFS Wv SopkAfSc " piSitby
OF good food, and put their officers in high
command, would be regarded as anything
but brave and true. A few such soldiers
would blast the counsels Of the truest and
most faithful.
We do not object positively to what is
said OF MIR. HAYES, but positively to that
exact thing being said by Mr.. HILL. II a
wool-dyed Republican had said it, that
would have been right. He is a proper
eulogist Of man OF whom we suppose Mr..
HILL knows very little II he knows much
he knows more than the great body Of the
people Of the United States do. But there
being an abundance OF eulogists Of HAYES
among the Republican aspirants for office
under him, we regard Mr.. HILLS volun-
tary evidence as superscryiceable and~ sll-
pererogatory. 1t was cruel for him while
saying things that were disadvantageous to
the men by whose side he had struggled
through the presidential campaign that he
should fall to praising the nominee Of the
party he had opposed.
For one southern man we are not desi-
rous that Mr.. HILL should speak for us. He
is too ready to ignore the party outrages and
the subordination OF the civil to the mill
tary power, and too ready to overlook all
the usurpations destructive to republican
ism and civil liberty, and to gaze with plea
sure upon the happy scenes that he prog
nosticates as the sequel to the arbitrary and
outrageous measures that we have all be-
held with horror.
Mr.. HILL is illogical as we'll as prematurely
acql;escent. Is it stateSman-like and logical
to believe that u man inaugurated as HAYES
must be, through. fraud and force, can at
once kick away the ladder by which he
asceDds to power! That ladder by which
Republican aspirantS can alone succeed
him! II he be disposed to do so, will his
associate leaders permit him? Never. The
Radical party is the party Of war. Its rule
has been prolonged by force. The south
crn States were cursed with the injection OF
the barbarous element into the body polite
as means Of keeping them permanently
subjected to the Radical party; and the en-
forcement measures, the machinery OF in
timidation, and the rascalities of the car
pet-bag and negro officials, sustained by
military authority, were invented to con-
tinue that subsection.
Have we not seen all this and all these
employed in the pending presidential strug-
gle? Have we not seen them all employed
to prolong that Radical rule that can only
be further prolonged by the continued elm
ployment Of the same means? Had North
Carolina, and Georgia, and Mississippi, and
Texas, and Arkansas been needed to elect
HAYES, would they not have been captured
by the army just as the three disputed
States have been: True to nature, the ami
NAL born Of an egg will be precisely similar
TO the one that laid the egg.
Mr.. HILL has done an ungraceiul thing
one that Georgia would not do-one that no
noble southern State could endorse. The
language he uses were better suited to
more frigd region.