The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-11-22
RirI,n.ond lispatrh.
Observation-Disclosures u is"'
Parties at this Time.

as IL Is called, and its combination with the
moderate or liberal Republicans in the next
presidential election. Nothing authorita'
tive Of this sort from Mr.. HAYES mas ever
appeared, and we are slow 70 oelefe .'"'
he has pesmittea himself to be betrayed ihto
any such speculative conversation. MOI
believing that what the lettcr-wr'.ers ''"'o
attr,b,r.ed 70 Mr.. HAYES has been justly as
cr,hed 70 him. we know, however, that
some other people have amused themselves
bv expatiating upon this Idea.
We think President HAYES is TOO practl-
cal and wise a man to enter into any spec1-
,atiye calculations about reyiving OLD parties
and about coalitions Of party nature Just
now. He has put his hand othe plough to
omen np q new furrow through the held OF
war. as it were, with the purpose OF et1acing
the scars OF conflict and erasing the sec
fional lines of the nation. Logically, II
should be to him an undertaking whose
consequences would be hidden, and in the
honesty and patriotism OF his purpose ne
would feel entirely ready to leave those con-
sequences to his fellow-citizens and to the
country. He certainly could not fail to en-
terrain in his very heart OF hearts an entire
reliance upon the justice and humanity
OF the nation, and to trust that the
appreciation of his couptrymen would
not be limited to parties, but come from
all men OF all shades OF opinion. lie
could not, in the nature OF his motives and
opinions, object to the support OF men OF
any class or political persuasion. So II
would be out OF tune and out OF time Tor
the President to be specializing as to what
parties or organizations would be most IN
clincd to combine for the support OF the
Administration. He is not the man to do
such thing, unless VIC make a great mis-
take as to his disposition and his prudence.
With regard to the revival OF the cold
Wing party to which we once belonged,
that seems to be taking up the scattered
fragments OF an avalanche at the foot OF
the mountain and replacing them ut the
ton OF the mountain in their exact order
before the time Of their diSlocation. or all
parties which we ever knew the old Wing
marty seems to us to be the most irreclaima-
bly, scattered. The northern portion OF 1t was
completely merged before the war into the
Free-Soil party and its subordinate divl-
sions. As combined with Free-Soil, Adolf
fionism, &C.. and embodied in the Repu6lI-
can party, it entirely disappeared from the
North, and the large community OF Wings
which existed at the South were without
any northern party with which to coope-
rate, or at least no party which, from its
numbers, deserved the name OF party. In
the absence OF any support and coun1e-
nance whatever from the North, OF course
these southern Wings lapsed into iistess-
ness. 49,. .--- -.. ..-
when the issue was fairly made up be-
tween the sections. and the country was
drifting into war, the Wings, with few ex-
eeptions, took the southern side and forgot
all Whisgcry in their enthusiasm for the
rights and defence OF, the South.
This was seventeen Years ago. We after
wards passed through tue war and its trials.
The rancors and hates engendered by the
war were imbibed By Wings and Democrats
and all classes of people. After the war all
southern people were outraged by the blind
and bigoted acts OF the Republican Admins
tration. Wings were as resentiul as any other
class OF people, and are at this day as far
from making concessions to the policy that
afflicted Them as any people in the South.
) President HAYES comes upon the stage to
wipe, out the whole policy Of persecution OF
the South and violation OF the constitutional
rights OF southern States; but that in no
sense opens way for the reformation OF
the old Wing party. All Of the older men,
bers OF that party in seventeen years have
either died or been rendered inactive, and
the northern division OF the old party being
absolutely annihilated, the strasglers in the
South woudtin themselves without north
ern co6neration and without the issues they
once knew, the late CONFUSION having scat
tered those Issues to the four winds. Such
old Wings would feel q condition Of forlorn-
ness thai may we'll be compared with the
sad reflections of the old man whose life
had been so long confined within the walls
OF the bastile that upon his liberation he
begged to be restored to prison, liberty at
fording him no Joy whatever.
There are no Wings. They ceased to exist
as Wings long ago. Noble old party that it
was, its patriotism and gallant party. wars
can find no counterpart in the politics Of
these times. The men who composed it
such OF them as are living and actlye-may
still indulge their ideas and principles by
ranging themselves in the line Of partisans
for Justice, equal rights, and national har-
mony-a partisanship worthy of the noblest
men. Well be bound for every southern
son of Wings Of old taking just this ground.
But we have not the slightest idea that
Wings Of the South will ever again enter
the field as Wings any more than will those
OF the North, who entirely disbanded before
the war, never to bear the badge OF Whig-
gerry again.
The change in political affairs in this
country has been radical. Issues OF former
days have absolutely persisted. We shall
not again fight over tariff, national bank,
State rights Gas formerly defned), and
slavery, nor under the old banners. We
must now have new issues, new banners,
and new organization. The pacific policy
OF President HAYES is the line OF separa-
ton between the past and the future. 1t is
a happy event that this policy starts of
with national Cancellation, honest adj
ministration, and civil-service reform.
1t should be great blessing to the