The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-17

no doubt wisely concluded that " was ive
~ tho financial question that the Democrats
could most safely attack the Repubiicans.
Mr. tho Democrats to give them battle on tilat
;ssue would be about as polite as 10 nsn'
,hcm on the ground that they are not true
- the south. AS the Democratic National
Convention will not declare in fa'of OF
s,,tes,-riphts. nor OF southern rights, SO tie
Republican Convention did not choose 10
strengthen its strongest point. Learning .
lesson from our opponents, it will be wen IL
our party shall at St. Louis strengthen ~.
rosition at the weak point-tne hisai'c'"'
nuestion-and be very sparing OF WORDS
when it comes to sectional questions.
The Chinese question was poser ior 'he
pcnnb,icsns. For party which has almost
worshipped the negro-the lowest Vi VIC
roccs-to undertake to denounce MonSoliah
immigration was not to be tolerated oy 'ne
leaders. The resolution on the sunlec1 Is
nothing worth. The Convention mi9LI ''
VOL, have omitted it altogether. The lau-
co.i,ns Of the Pacific States stand faceto
face with problem that must be solved.
They will accept no ambiguous WORDS ID
evidence Of friendship. Whoever Is not
for them is against them. The miserable
dogs Of Chinese, who live i'll dcgrada'loh
and filth and squalid poverty, are about 10
bring state OF disgraceful pauper1sm upon
the noble Caucasian. IL a man may
defend his property with his lie,
why may he not defend his rlsht
to his trade, which he has spent
more years in acquiring than some
rich men have in making fortune? AT
any rate, it is the firm determination OF tile
white people of California, Nevada, Orc
con, and Colorado to save their beautiful
rerion for their own race. The Democrats,
therefore, who count upon the Pacific
States as certain for TILDEN must strengthen
their platform here, where the Republican
platform is so very weak. Justice to our
own blood demands that we stand by the
whites in tins contest.
Passing over the remainder OF the Gin
cinnati platform as being Just what might
have been expected from sectional party,
we come to the planks which bode no good
to the South; upon which the Republicans
will strive to make the election turn; and
which are therefore the most important.
They are as follows:
The fifteenth resolution says: We sin
cerclv deprecate all sectional feeling and ten
denotes, and therefore note with deep solicit
tude that the Democratic party counts as its
chief hope of success upon the electoral vote
of united South, secured through the effort
of those who were recently arrayed against
the nation, and we invoke the earnest at
tention OF the country to the grave fact that
4 success thus achieved would reopen Sec
tional strife and impcril the national honor
and human rights
The sixteenth charges the Democratic
marty with being the same i'll character and
shirt as when it Sympathizcd with treason;
and. abiding to the course Of the lower
house OF Congress, warns the country
against IL party alike unworthy, recreant,
and incapable.
How strongly these resolutions and the
tone of all the speeches in the Cincinnati
Convention admonish the Democrats OF the
necessity Of nominating northern man OF
irrcproachable character. Our nominees
must both be northern gentlemen whose
records are unimpcaclmblc. 1t were indeed
midsummer madness to fail to profit by the
teachings of the Cincinnati platform.