The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-07
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Taft's Programme.

:. ;s hard for even the southern people to
believe that the Admins tration at Wash
ineton has the deliberate purpose Of COM
polling the election Of HAYEsand WHEELER.
Even they cannot get their own consent to
concede that the Government has actually
fallen into the hands OF villains utterly des-
tit:ae Of patriotism and Of respect for the
opinions of mankind. And il it be difficult
for southerners to realize the alarming con-
{iition into which the country has fallen, II
must be much more difficult for northern
crs 10 confess the fact even to themselves,
seeing that the moment they make
this concession they do in effect admit that
the war upon which they have pumed
themselves for the last twelve years was the
greatest blunder recorded in history. 1t is
terrible fact for the honest northern man
to contemplate. He feels as If the earth
were sinking under him when he finds that
he has DESTROYED the liberties Of his country
in crdeaYoring honestly. conscientiously,
and patriotically to preserve its unity.
What can he do but whistle to keep his
ho~'N '''N
facts OF the case full in the face. lie
avoids them. He explains them away. lie
says that they are something else. He de-
c!ares that GRANTS orders to SHERMAN ana
TArr's instructions to the deputy marshais
must Lave some other meaning and intent
than the meaning and intent which the De-
mocrats ascribe to them. lie says that
GRANT and TAFT desire only to have 1alr
election. But when the Democrats call his
attention to the fact that soldiers can as
easily compel an unfair as fair election,
and that money will bride votes Iii New orr;
rs well as in South Carolina, he tries TO
find some excuse for still holding that this
is free country. But all in vain. Ii TAFT
may lawfully have his recent instructions
followed and his purposes accomplished,
this is no longer even simulated free Gov
ernment. 1t is despotiSm confessed. Ihc
southern people can already hear GRANT
saving 20 his deluded followers III war, as
well as his supporters In peace, as the yelled
Droplet OF Mokannah said to his victims ::
"Ye would be dupcs and fools, and 10: we
are"
Ii there be any honest Republican who
still doubts that the liberties of the people
arc gone-that is, in case this order Is
carried out, and the northern people do not
rise IN their majesty to put down its authors
and cxecutors-lct him imagine such IN
order coming from ANDREW JOHNSON when
he was President. Or let him suppose
that It be accepted that the President
can thus appoint an unlimited number
OF deputy marshals and pay them out
OF tile Federal treasury, hut that the order
being now new thing, and both the people
and the deputies unused to it, it shall not
be well executed, and so TlLDEN shall be
allowed to be elected, can they not fore>ee
that by the time another presidential cleo
ton shall take place both the Administra-
ton and the people will be ready to see 4
similar order strictly obcyed and Prcsi-
dent carried into office by force?
We give this morning Il few extracts from
the opinions Of the press upon this moment
GUS topic. 1t is evident that there are men
even in the North, who, when the wind is
nor-norwcst can, like HAMLET, tell hawk
from hand-saw.