The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-14

loudly exprssseut nilt tfluCAhiy SSossSop,ys
fixed. And, as In Phifadei phia, respect for
the public judgment Id Cincinnati i upper
most. That to g business is the iras
portant point; for unless public opinion so
clearly expressed is respected there can be
no rest, no steadiness OF commerce and in
dustry. Discomfort is ruin to both.
Then The editorial OF the Commercial on
the state OF public feeling is very signiti-
cant. We make tho following extract
FROM it:
Aud now we have to say that every
good citizen should prefer the defeat OF the
political organization with which he is as
ISOLATED to dispute after the election. The
country IL in danger. There are unscru-
pulous men on both sides. Let us have Or
der. Let us have Legality. 'fLet us have
Peace"
It is unbecoming a good citizen to be
threatening violence in any contingency
that 1t is fair to conjecture. The memories
OF the war should save us from rashness
Of initiative. It is wrongto be denounclng
the authorities, and assuming that they are
wholly regardless Of the common rights oil
citizens. 1t is infiammatory to follow every
movement of squad OF troops to keep the
peace with vindictive cries that this work
OF the peace-makers is the mechanism OF
despots.
The orders that the ommander-in-chlef
of the army, the President OF the United
States, issued to the General Of the Army
yesterday had reference only 10 the preser.
walton of order-to prevent hideous faction
from raising its bloody hand in these deli
cate proceedings; and the language that
the President used was such that it must
command the appreciation Of his country
men and the applause Of the people OF other
nations.
There are good things here. In the first
place, that bitter partisan the Commercial
sets the good example Of telling people that
they should submit to the public Judgment
and prefer even defeat to a "dispute after
the election" This is excellent.
Then there have been people in Cincin-
natl indignant. at the ordering of troops
about as though this was military govern
ment under which we live. And the Com
mercial begs them to be temperate and con-
servative, and not become "infammatory /"
by following "every movement Of squad
"of troops to keep the peace with vindic-
"tlve cries that this work OF peace-makers is
"the mechanism of despots."
The Commercial will not be able to make
those people believe that these are peace.
makers" who are ordering troops about.
They may be tempered little, but they
have evidently got the right view, and will
not surrender it..
So, too, the plea put in by the Commercial
in behalf OF our good President shows that
the talk about his act in the matter OF
the employment Of soldiers in preserving a
peace not broken is both loud and earnest.
The plea is too thin. Still we are glad to
see that the editor OF the Commercial
thought it called for.
We take it that the gentle chidings OF this
leading Republican paper are called forth
By the outspoken ideas OF Republican citi-
zens. Democrats would have been cross
hacked and lashed with throng OF briars.
Republicans must be treated differently.
They must have little soothing-syrup."
All. the doings OF these times arc bringing
things that were once so exclusively sec
tional home to. our northern felow-citiZens.
They now thin!. how desirable are peace
and the quiet pursuits of trade; and the
rule OF the majority alone can insure that
peace. The cities are waking up. We
especially like to sec this in Cincinnati. 1t
is a good sign.