The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-18

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THrJRsD SIS I. III N1JARY IS, 1877;
Pennsylvania Excited.
Pennayiyania is unfortunate in having
Tor her governor at the present time Q fool
and blind partisan. The cnltigIttty 81 the
Heystona State 10 nv ashinEt ton 81 ssgcsted 20
said governor that 1t would be convenient 1'1't
Tor ssrategeeic exploiting Of numbers IN any
scontisg ency requiring them in the Federal ira
city. The Governor Of Pennsylvania is not
:possessed OF intellect sufficient 70 enligntaen
him as to his public duty, but sniy sees
what ne understands to be his obligasions
30 his party. What GRANT tells him 70 90
or NOT to do he'd more than heaven pursue
or more than hell avoid. UNDERSTANDING.
that GRANT was preparing force at " asti-
ineton to check disorder from what he pre-
tended to apprehend might grow out Of .ne
presidential Inauguration, Governor hAk1-
+ aNpT was sufficiently obtrusiYe and super
seryiceable to tender the President Penn
aylya,,ia troops to aid in :. maintaining or
ier,,---and all know what that is in GRANTS
policy. q J,
The partisan alacrity OF this Governor OF
q state famed In other days Tor solidity and
prudence quite elated the Radical partisans.
Pennsylvania has by them been counted in
should there be skrimmage or conceived
necessity for show and bravado OF men, and
drums, and guns in the Federal city about
the time OF the Inauguration. Indeed, the
part Pennsylvania Is expected to play seems
to be expanding. We quoted yesterday
paragraph concerning o bill. purporting to
have originated in Washington city, provi-
ding that the Legislature OF Pennsylvania
shall appropriate one million OF dollars to
arm the National Guard OF Pennsylvania, to
be used in case OF an emergency In Wash
ington city.
Along with the news came the statement
that there was great excitement at Harris
burg about this matter, and no wonder. 1t
is matter that win divide the people Of
the State OF Pennsylvania in the bitterest
manner. The late election OF President
showed that with all the frauds OF the
Radicals that there was out OF voting
population OF 10000 only majority Of
1000 for HAYES. Now, the Governor Of a
State so nearly divided presumes to act
as partisan, and to tender the money and
means OF the State to the service OF the
Republican party, and to the direction oil a
purely partisan President. By this act he
imposes upon hall his constituents the OBJ
noxious burthens that may grow out OF his
indecently hasty partisanry, and places
upon them the stigma OF belonging to q
party from which he deems it his duty to
furnish men and arms to protect the coun-
try. g31. Fs.3 44
We rather think there Is hot blood in
Pennsylvania, or there should be. Then,
too, what folly it isl It is from having a
partisan fool for Governor. For there was
no occasion for menaces FROM that State,
and criminal menaces, too; for they were
insulting and outrageous OF the opinions
and rights Of half the people OF the State.
:. This Pennsylvania matter is chiefly inn
portant as indicating the villainous and
ruthless partisanry OF the day, which has
received its tone from the GRANT policy Of
the Government, which imbues the Radical
mind with the fixed idea that the Radical
party is the defender 81 Of the life Of the ma
tiop, !" and all Whe- oppose it the enemies OF
that life; that the Radical party .must5b
maintained that the nation may live; and
that all the power Of the Government may
be and must be used to prolong its rule!
That is what the deprayed Radical partisans
.think, and thus they justify the employment
OF troops, and the frauds and villainies OF
the returning boards, and what not. And
it !. is thus that Governor HARTRANFT, of
Pennsylvania, feels it right in him as the
Governor Of the great State OF Pennsyl--
vania TO- offer troops to the President Of the
Republican party. =. s .. ~ .ss
4 Far, indeed, has this unhappy land drift
ed away from the moorings where it was
left by the fathers OF the republic. Its gov
eminent is now hardly recognizable as that
which came from the hands Of the wisest
and purest OF men,
;1s ethink, as rapid as has been the pro-
gress OF the Government towards one Of
force instead Of opinion and principle, Gov
ernor HARTRANFT has in his folly gone quite
ahead, and we trust that Pennsylvania will
pee what mistake she made in placing such
yahoo In the chair Of State.
Gould Get all that were Wanted.
senator ROBERTSON, OF South Carolina, told