The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-23

Hcyc, IN nearly ait pu u Va WY y $50, -,
il the line Of common sense and common
natrio,ism. It is the line that avoids vio-
lencc and secures peaceful solution OF the
uerilous condition OF the country.
A Subiugated South---The Union not
Free.
Liberty In this land cannot be partial; 1t
mustbe general. The plan Of reconstruc-
ton was based upon the assumption that
the South was 10 be held subjugated, and
that it must continue to be the victim OF
the interference Of the Federal Executive
ostensibly for the protection OF the entra'l-
chised slaves-rea!ly for the purpose OF
compelling, the South to aid in the perpet'i-
alton of the power Of the party that framed
that plan.
This was the object OF the Radical party
which framed the plan, and it is the attempt
of that party to carry out their purpose
that has brought upon the country the tro''-
bles which now occasion widespread injury
and apprehension in the land. 1t was the
effort OF the Federal Executive to compel
southern States to do the very thing recon-
struction was designed to do-to prolong the
rule of the Radical party. "
We behold party endeaYoring to rule
the whole land through the votes OF a Sec
ton, which by law-the enforcement laws
and, still more, by usurped authority, is in
relation to the Union placed in the condi-
ton OF subjuga:ion. Thus the negro votes
directed by carpet-baggers and manipulated
by returning boards, aided by the presence
of the military to restrain freedom ana
encourage fraud, have been made the means
OF defeating the voice. OF the nation-of
paralyzing the will OF the northern and
western States.
With the votes OF southern States cap
tured by federal usurpation, aided by
frauds that again were defended BY Federal
bayoncts, the, party. in power enters the
halls OF Congress and claims the presidency
and the honors and emoluments OF Govern.
ment. In possession OF these already, they
are, like the beasts OF prey with their food
in their claws, furious at any approach that
threatens to disturb their repaSt. Nor is it
at all possible that they would surrender
what they hold without u violent struggle.
Everybody is altogether satisfied OF this.
AS plainly as the sun in the heavens the
Radical party meditated the seizure OF the
Government by denying the right OF the
House to elect President upon the failure
Of the Senate and House OF Representatives
of Congress to agree. in the count of the
electoral vote. Let us suppose that this had
all taken place, and that Republican
President had been inaugurated by
usurpation. What then? Resistance would
be merely problematical; but this 1oould
haze been certain: The South would
have been still held as subiugated
country, to be used by the party in power
for the prolongation Of its rule by parlyz-
ing the northern and western opposition.
The negroes of the South would be made
to keep down the opposition Of the North.
In other words, the military subiugation Of
the South would be the means Of compel
ling the North to submit to corrupt and
usurping Government, and the country
general disaster and general stagnation Of
commerce, enterprise, and pursuits of all
kinds.
There is no possibility for freedom in the
North while subjugation exists III the
South. Mr.. SEWARD, the great northern
oracle of the war, told all sections that the
country could not exist half slave and half
free. 1t is even more true that it canpot
exist half subjugated and half free.
Our northern fellow-citizens are eXpe-
riencingta lively appreciation of these
truths at this time. Force had come with
its game OF captured States to the National
Legislature and was about to march In with
ar1as to command submission. Had it
done SO that would not only have been a
prostration Of freedom at the North, but it
would have been achieved through the pre-
vious prostration Of liberty at the South.
Fortunately, the benefcent plan Of settle
ment devised by the congressional COM
mttees is offered just at that point Of the
usurpation at which it proposes to invade
the National Legislature. That plan may
save the North; IL so, 1t liberates the South.
1t establishes the supremacy OF civil author
ity over the force of military power, and it
tells RadicaIism that Presidents are not to
be. made by usurpation and force Of the
party already in poaoer. 1t is veto put
upon the tyrannous system. Of hectoring
over the South and controlling the election
of southern States by interference of Fede-
raj Judiciary and Federal officials, backed
by military force. s:a-r
The nation has seen at last chat this tyran-
NJ has, in the matter OF the presidency,
reached the whole Union; and they viii
also sec that, while the adoption Of the plan
Of settlement by law and civil process sets
Iree the South, it no less secures to the
North aud West liberation from the paralysis
II their will through the fraudulent votes
IF the subjugated States. The North cam
not be free unless The South is also. Free
1om cannot be partial; it must be general.
The States must be equal In their enjoy
nentof liberty, or liberty can be possessed
~ nane Of them.
-
Morton--The Plan.
Yesterday a ragout Of MoRToN's mot
futton-tha Indiana senator Is more
ilied to the woif highly seasoned with
assurances that the people Of Indiana were
nth him In bis lnpract icability, appeared
!, ~, =. 51,, day ff Y,hc head