The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-10-29
Louisiana---The Republican Senators

Louisiana---The Republican Senators
II would be very idle for any one to IN
dulge the hope that the Republican senators
will relax one iot Of their opposition to the
admission OF Mcssrs. EUsTIs and SroFfoRp
from Louisiana. Republican senators are
too deeply ingrained with party bitterness
for any display of liberality and fairness
they are fighting for life, as they no douo'
believe, andvcry correctly. With the dca.n
OF ultra Republicanism, which the pac'h'
policy OF the Administration Will ensure
all the Radical leaders above the line OF me
diocrity will be shelvcd for life. 30 '"e1
will struggle to the bitter end
We're Co>x,1SG and BLAINE and their CO.
conspira,ors TO give up now the! "o"iu ie
move the only impeachment in the PAIN Oh
president HAYES and concur in their own
death. II nav be thought that possibly o.!
on oc, O, generosity now these gentlemen
r,av save themselves. We think not. 1t IS
too late. At the session OF &c, when the
general amnesty was proposed, had BLAINE
sustained it he might have secured 10 MINI
self an advanced position in the true plan OF
reconstruction by pseitication. But ne mad'y
threw away his brilliant opportunity ana
lost all. At the same time had CoNkLlNG
taken 4 new latitude and departure upon
the line OF public devotion and concllla-
ton he too would have risen in the
scale OF dignity and popularity, and woula
have won exactly what BLAINE threw
away. Either OF them might have shortened
the distance between himself and the
presidency. and MORTON would have been
left to isolation and despair. But neither
CoNKLIXG nor BLAINE had enough OF sa-
sacty and OF the nobility OF true manhood
to do noble and a humane act, and they
are both left to hopeless disappointment.
Poor MORTON, it may be reasonably sup
posed, will not probably interfere with the
aspirations OF these gentlemen, rs he is not
at all likely ever to reenter the political
arena. But unquestionably upon all the
matter Of rancor. sectional hate, and per-
secution OF the South rs means to perpet-
uating Radicale misrule-in short, upon the
question Of the bloody Shirt-MoRToN's
Gains were and are prominent. BLAINE
and CoNKL1NG would be nowhere as COM
pared with MORTON.
But we suspect that MoEToS's disability
stimulates the expectations OF CoSKLING
and BLAINE, and may be Senator EDMUSDS
OF Vermont, and they are rather strength
ened in their determination to keep down
ANYTHING like Cancellation and pacification
in the United States Senate. There need.
therefore. be no hope OF fairness III the
Louisiana eases as long as Republicans have
even one majority in that body. 1t is, we
say. death-struggle with desperate party.
At the present time there is deliberate eff
fort to bulldoze President HAYES and force
him to yield something to ultra Radicalism
The Senate puts restraint upon his wishes
and seeks to obstruct his policy. They will
force him ii possible to terms.
The Senate OF the next Congress will find
the ultras helpless. Then, OF course their
selfish and vindictiye measures will end, as
their power will be gone. Possibly with
a knowledge of what is coming there may
be giving way, an attempt to escape the
wrath to follow; but we rather think that
Radicalism is too obdurate to derive any
from things that generally reach
the human heart. RICHARDS description OF
himself may be Justly applied to ultra Radi-
Gals. They, like him, have "neither pity,
love, nor fear"
President HAYES, with grandeur Of pur-
pose not excelled by past example, took his
course OF Cancellation and justice that was
precisely opposite to the policy OF these
cruel and unjust partiSans, and assuredly
they will leave no opportunity neglected
that may impede his purpose. The settle
ment of the last Of the questions growing
out OF the outrageous interference OF the
Federal government in southern affairs is
pending before the Senate; and rely upon
it the attempt will be to spin out the Radi-
cal power of vexation and impede the pol
icy Of pacifcation.
We may clearly look for nothing else
from the Senate. The President manifested
q noble nature and manly resolution IN
entering upon his office. He has MAN.
tanned himself we'll, and it is only necessary
for him to continue faithful to Justice ana
his own reputation to triumph completely
over the relentless partisans who are trying
to tire him out. We have no idea that they
will succeed in this. Their time is too
short. The tide OF national opinion Is
sweeping the ground from beneath them,
and they must themselves be swept away
by the flood ere the good dispositions OF the
President can be frustrated. The Presi-
dent will triumph, and so will the country.
The country must have peace. The re-
mains OF wrong and oppression must be
annihilated. The corruption and wrong OF
the war-party cannot be maintained. Every
vestige OF it must be eradicated. North
and South demand this.