The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-10-23
In the Field.

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wear has radically altered party relations and
SCI afoot tendencies that are veXng political
hacks fearfully, and that must conslSn aVast
number of irreconcilable soreheads and
marplots to the grave from which there can
be no resurrection.
The war followed the triumph OF what
was called the Frec-soil party. But that
par,v had attracted to its banner all shades
and descriptions of abolitiOnists, philan-
thropists, and enthusiasts. Never was there
such an Adullamite convention since the
DAYS Of DAVID. The heterogeneous assem-
biage could not have been gathered together
upon any other matter or in any other po-
li,ical emergency. There was but one cord
that united them, and that was opposition
to slavery. The fools and fanatics were run
mad on the slavery question. There was a
large body Of men who were simply
opposed to slavery az an institution
not advantageous to the thrift ana
Improvement OF the country, and there
fore in their view the national interest de-
mandcd that it should not be allowed to ex-
tend itself The BLAlEs and thousands OF
citizens stood upon this platform. They
had no sympathy with the fanatics, but
stilthe latter were delighted to go as far as
these citizens went, and hoped that out OF
the pending crisis abolition might come,
and they were gratitied.
The Republican party was thus formed
OF a variety OF elements, including particu-
lariv the most troublesome and disturbing
one that ever annoyed any land.
When the war was over the crazy Radl-
Gals rioted in their triumph, and they were
ever on hand to stimulate public malice and
to urge on the policy of persecution, which
proved to be that favored by Republican
leaders, as the best for keeping the power
in their hands and excluding the South
from all participation in the government OF
the country. This policy was long pursued,
and was that state OF war which we all so
WILDLY remember for the sufferings it
brought upon the land, and continued so
long that despair itself begain to despair.
But this condition could not last. Presi-
dent HAYES saw this. The nation must be
at peace. There must be equalite-there
must be State autonomy-or liberty was
gone and depression and distress become
chronic. That change which was indispen-
sable the President had the heroism to at
tempt to bring about He succeeded, and
we have that order of things which was
necessary to prolong the power OF the War-
party abolished, and in lieu thereof we have
State autonomy, State equality, social peace,
and sectional harmony.
Thus the Adullamite Cave is cmpticd.
The convention there has broken up. ana
Its component parts have Withdrawn to their
proper places in the social arena. Abolition
is dead and so is free soil. There is no
place for free-soil party, and none for
abolitionism. The zealots and madmen
find that their occupations are gone, and
they wander about in muddled mazes OF
futile isms. The country Is relieved OF
world OF yeXation and confusion, and the
obstacles to national homogeneity are
greatly diminished.
But the great number Of people who
learned how to hate and never to forgive,
whose passions were 80 ingrained into theil
natures that they cannot be eradicated, are
doomed to irreconclable opposition to the
pacific policy Of the Administration. With
these people there must stand those Vlndlc'
tive politicians who had laid their plans foi
promotion upon the prolongation OF the
war policy and the continued subiugatior
of the South. These people and their lead
ers il is who have gone apart from the Ad
ministration and brought upon the party
called Republican the defeat in Ohio, anC
will bring upon that party further defeats
The lesson is grand.one, altogether on
the side of liberty, Justice, and humanity.
1t is the pacific policy OF President HAYES
that has brought about the progressing re-
yolution. 1t is not the Democratic power
the principles at work belong to mankind
not to party at all. President HAYES is the
chief.that heads the revolution.
II was. or should have been, plain to all
that when the President inaugurated his
policYit would certainly sift from the pub
lie councils the unconciliatOry and over
bearing politicians, who cared not no"
much the Constitution might be violated,
and how much liberty was outraged, so thai
they administered the Government. Those
who could not see that there were enough
OF this class Of inscriptions and cruel noli.
ticians to defeat their own party by with.
drawing from it greatly moderated the
number OF such men-the number OF men
who could be led to violate all liberty, and
law, and honor, merely to keep their hands
in the treasury and dispose OF the honors Of
the Government. The fact is before the
Whole country. The Republican party Of
war Is broken, never to be reformed.
And now what OF it: Certainly change
is progressing, and greatly for the glory OIL
the land it is in the line OF right and con.
Citation. Let us hope that no excitement
ana no passion that may nnsettle the public
.a .a may for a long time occur to dis
lurp ING peaceful course OF events and Civ.
Any aspntase 70 either sectional or part,
or personal = politics at variance with tb,
tna s's u the politicians think, al