The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-21
what They Need


What They Need.
what the southern States need u Just
what the whole country needs. They need
ipeace, prosperity, and happiness, They
need i good feeling between whites and
blacks. They need some assurance that
there win not be ariot once every year gotten
s1p for the purpose Of assisting unprinci-
Med northerners, such as BEAST BUTLER, TO
deceive the voters whose support they de-
sire. TO obtain. The whole country needs
the same things. IT. requires peace
that it may prosper. How can there be
any peace worthy of che name SO long as the
country isrnled by d vsar-party whose breath
is agitatione The Republican party has
always been q sectional party. It owes its
success TO the fact that It. fed the vilest pas
ssons of men like JOHN BRcwS, WENDELL
pHH.Lifs. and WILLIAM LL0YD GARRISON.
~ Increase Of appetite grew bs1 what it fed
upon =; aud to-day MORTON, and Butler,
and PHrLLlps, and all that tribe Of fanatics,
hate the southern people more than they do
any other people in the world. The Republic
can party ought to have died and been buried
long sgo Its a party that has no business
in existence now. 1t has accomplished its
mission. Jt2cumbers the earth. 1t Is outof
place. 1t has no reason for being. How
can country prosper under the rule OF
fools and fanatics!-of men who, twelve
years after the war came to an end,
harbor in their breasts the passions
OF war, and hate the people OF one
half OF the country with an undying hatred:
New England killed the goose that laid
golden eggs for her, when she destroyed the
labor OF the South. The Northwest ruined
such market for her hogs, mules, &c., as
under Republican rule it viii never again
have when it marched with SHERMAN to the
sea, and rooted up the institution OF slavery.
We rejoice that slavery is gone never to re-
turn. The one blessing which the war
brought to the South was the abolition
OF slavery. But slavery gone, and hatred and
malice ruling the country. there can be no
prosperity for the Northwest. Slavery gave
q certainty Of having plenty OF labor. That
certainty can hereafter be insured onIy by
the existence OF perfect confidence between
the whites and the blacks Of the South; and
this confidence can never come and con-
tinue SO long as the country shall be in the
hands Of the Republican party. When that
perfect confidence shall come. New
England may rejoice in c renewed
prosperity, and the Northwest in o growing
market for what it has to sell. Slavery is
sgone, and it is high time that the party
should be dismissed also which was origi-
mated for the sole purpose OF circumscribins
its bounds, and which afterwards deter
mined to destroy it.
The southern States need the peace and
prosperity which will surely and rapidly
come to them as soon rs they shall be al
lowed to govern themselves in the
same manner in which the northern
States govern themselves. The southern
States are the producing States. But
for their exports, the northern States
could not possibly pay the interest
which falls due in Europe annually on the
bonds OF the national and State govern.
ments. The South is 4 land of abundance.
One county in Yirginia-and our counties
are small-produces annually more wheat
than do all the New England States together.
In the South people can work almost all the
year. In New England people have during
the year but few months of what We
would consider good weather. How can
these latter possibly prosper so long as they
continue in power a party whose measures
tend to the production Of riots and blooshed
in the productive South?
We conclude that the northern people
really have more at stake in the presidential
election than the South. Our section is
sel-supportlng and independent. The
North depends upon outside support. We
shall at least make living and "hold our
own" let the situation be what it will. The
North must dwindle away under such cir
cumstances as exist now. Especially must
New England become land Of desolation.
We hear that (" solid Boston, is beginning
to appreciate the truths set forth in this ar
ticle. II so, her influence will he felt
throughout Massachusetts, whose vote for
T1LDEN would insure his election, and with
it both peace and happiness to the South,
and Prosperity to Massachusetts and the
whole country.
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