The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-10-02
Observation-Disclosures.

Republicans Concilis ton.
The Republicans Of Maine and New York
have declined to endorse the administration
az President HAYES. This was done In
obedience to tho orders OF BLAINE and
CoSKL1SG. Massachusetts and Maryland,
and now Minnesota, have had the good sense
to sustain the conciliatory policy OF the
President. CoNKIaNG and BLAINE are Dlind
to public policy because they are not able
to withdraw their minds from prooo'ns
over their own disappointmcnts ana 'neir
own personal ambition. They are SO DING
that in their rage they rail against so.o
South and challenge battle OF sections oy
appealing to the North to rally against the
sts solid South
It is impossible for these bitter statesmen
10 mite the North upon any such ground;
and II we suppose that there is "soiid
South y nothing less than solid North can
defeat it. The South may or may not be
united. That depends upon how 1t shall
be treated. AS it has been, the South was
obliged to be united. 1t could not DIVIDE
without sacrificing its honor and its fidelity
in combining to protect itself against per-
secution and oppression. Impartiality and
fair treatment would destroy southern COM
bina,ion and leave every man in the South
free to follow the bent OF his own inclina-
tions. But as long as cruel and oppressive
northern Republicans call for sectional union
at the North to afllict and persecute. the
South will there be southern combination
q solid South, rs you choose. >:a l-.aa
The supremacy Of folly is shown III the
rash and mad attempt to force the South into
combination ut the same time when the fail
ure. to approve the Republican Admnlstra-
tion-which is tantamount to hostility to the
Administrations fatally divide and
enieeble the Republican party. 1t IS long
past the day when the war party should
have died. 1t is impossible that a state OF
war, although bloodless, could always exist
in this country. The policy OF Cancellation,
sooner or later, was inevitable. Mr.. HAYES,
elected By the war party, strangely enough
has introduced the conciliatory policy that
was obliged to come through some party or
other. That it has come through Republic
can channels proves that it was unavoidable.
We BY no means desire to diminish the
honor due to Mr.. HAYES for being the IN
strument OF its inauguration. Providen-
tally or otherwise, he was the man to do it,
and he deserves all gratitude and honor
of the country. His public devotion is emf
nently proven by his act, since, whatever he
might desire. he was given plainly to under
stand that many Of the leading Republicans
considered his Just and humane policy the
certain death OF the Republican party.
Regarding his policy and course as mat
tiers not to be avoided, how could we think
it possible that those OF his party who dis
approved OF his course could successfully
oppose him, and take off with them party
strength sufficient not only to triumph over
the Administration but at the same time to
defeat all opposed to them-yiz.. the solid
South and the friends OF Cancellation, har-
mony to boot What an absurdity indeed
it is. CoNKLISG and BLAINE would as well
make war with swivel in canoe upon an
iron monitor. s4ee'
These irate politicians have Just done
enough to bring out in bold relief the utter
folly and insignifcance OF their plan. Pos
sibly they may have contributed something
towards the political revolution that will re-
semble that which developed itself in Mr..
MADIsoN's administration when the bitter
ness and rancor OF party subsidized, and when
there was that harmony in the sections and
that concurrence of national feeling that
justified the remark that there was an era OF
good feeling, and that the people were all
Republicans, all Federalists.
The time is indeed favorable for the sub
sidence Of all violent party sentiment.
The republicanism Of war is unquestiona-
bly, dead. What phase the dominant power
of the country may appear in is not certain.
II republicanism, it will not be the bloody
repblicanisn of the war; and if either
Wing or Democrat, it will be Invested OF
many issues and also of much prejudice and
acrimony that are entirely buried and can
never be resurrected, ~.