The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-08
Peace and Araity.

great popularity, puts In q pieA i"a tIS"'
It's language concurs altogether with, the
sentiments OF the New York bankers, as
expressed in their memorial, and WIN Tue
general tenor OF slI northern circumstances
and with Mr.. COMBINES preface to the ln-
+nodncsion OF the aforesaid New YORK
memorial. The Albany paper concludes i's
article thus: "The unanimous voice OF
..tbe country is for peace and amity' ana
:. nothing must be suffered to endanger
athe very existence OF the Government
stitseKl" sa #= &
Exactly, What could be more properly
.,es,reds Everybody desires It. 1t Is, be,
sides, beautiful in language, grateiul IN
hone. and felicitous in enjoyment. But
are there not too many people talking IN
the same way, General GRANT worships
fairness and honesty, and damns fraud. he,
too. wants the ellie OF the nation and
nsace preserved, and swears he will accom-
plish that by force OF arms.
When so many-even MORTON and SHEER
MAN-want peace and repel the idea OF con-
flict, we wonder where the danger IS. IL
GRANT and the ultras are, like the civlleSt
and most dcyout OF patriots, in favor OF a
fair count and the reign OF civil authority,
what is the ground of apprehension!
Won't all go peacefully and merrily?
All, there's the rub. The thief joins the
throng and cries out with the rest, Stop,
fhief!' Thus things become mixed up,
and the public mind is steadily perpleXed
into indecision and final acquiescence in
whatever happens.
The censpirators have been all the time
planning and clearing the way for the con-
summation Of their plans. Unquestlonably
their scheme is to count in HAYES, and
nothing can defeat that plan save the ex-
foliation OF sufficient number OF Republic
cans from the extremists to defeat them.
They utterly disregard all such general re-
monstrances rs that from New York. A
hope is that the disagreement and discus
sion of the Senate and House may defer the
settlement until after the 4th OF March, and
then they propose, by usurped power
in the Senate and Executive, to
inauguratc HAYES. Or, again, a disagree
ment and failure to elect will probably be
determined by GRANT and his followers not
to authorize an election of President by the
House, but to present an occasion for the
action OF the Senate, through its president,
in counting the votes and declaring HAYES
President.
These are ways to an objective point
which the Republican congressman arc de-
Sv,c other
i. e., if their men are all true. Whatever
way they adopt they will swear. is the
true, honest. and constitutional way. The
three disputed southern States will be
claimed as beyond the reach OF congress
sional canvassing, and the return from Ore
gon is assumed to be shallow fraud. On
these points, if Republican discipline should
not fail, the Senate and the House cannot
possibly agree, and it is in the deadlock
between them that the conspiracy will be
developed. .E ...--.
Wec count upon enough Of integrity and
enough OF respect for civil usage and Con-
stitution amongst the able and learned Re-
publican statesmen to defeat the conspiracy
But we should remember that the love OF
men for power and place has in all times
produced astonishing subordination OF
Judgment as we'll as resolution to usurpa-
ton amongst men. A bold, bad man, with
power and will, may easily overcome the
scruples of civilians and compel them to ard
in his usurpations.
The Democratic faith has been in the
right of Congress to canvass the returns-a
right the Republicans would be compelled
to recognize in going behind the returns in
the Oregon case. Also in the failure to
elect by the electoral vote If the case Of
Oregon be not canvassed. But these
grounds of calculation are met by the posi-
tive disagreement Of the Senate, and this
disagreement Of the bodies, we repeat, is
the very intended prcteXt for usurpation-
: usurpation that will be accomplished I'M
less the Republican discipline shall turn out
to be Intellectual.
Public indignation might be saving
thing; but that seems to be torpid. The right
of the House OF Representatives, to elect a
President where the electors fail to elect
is clear; but that the conspirators intend to
defeat II they can. LOOK at their strength,
backed by the INSCRIPTIONS and "bull-
doing" President, with all the power Of
the Federal Executive in his hands-look
at the motive Of the Republican party to
prolong their rule and to avoid its utter
humiliation in the Inauguration Of TILDEN,
and you can see that no party could have
less scruples, more power, and stronger
motives for action.
Therefore we assume that the end before
us is very much mystery. The Republi-
cans have within week shown increasing
boldness. The general encouragement Of
all idea Of conflict only increases their
confidence in the triumph OF their plot.
The Government is in imminent danger,
and as for any effect resistance may have,
that is question superseded by the specu-
.lation as to the probability or possibility OF
resistance. Has the country come to that
point in its history that renders armed re-
sistance likely? Every man can consider
that question himself. al,,,.
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