The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-02-26

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EBBIrT HOUSE, WASHINGTON, February IS.
The Louisiana ease is. q, i6Rality. Further
proceedings in the two houses OF Congress
and before the Electoral Commission will be
pro, fornsa merely. He who was not chosen
BIZ the people, but counted In by the opera
ton Of the very simple rule of eight to seven,
will be installed on the 4th OF March rs
President Of the United States. The dice
were loaded. ,l,I.,.,r.4
There was in the beginning but one way
to prevent this; for need tell no reader
of the Courier-J Journal that the conspiracy
of the Republican managers was foreseen
and pointed out specifically. AS early rs
the 18th of November the Democratic au-
thorities in New York were advised of all
that has since transpired in Louisiana, and
urged to organize to cbeckmate the impend-
ing vilIainy. Instead Of doing so, instead
OF sounding the alarm and bringing the
people to some concert of action, the lie-loW
and keep-dark policy was preferred. Con-
gress met, and Mr.. Hewitt, the official head
OF the party, appeared in the capital befud-
died with self-mystifcation and van
itv. Precisely what distinct plan, if
any. this fighty, incapable person may
have had, the world will never know or care
to know. The country saw him chiefly as
bob-o'-link; scudding, cloud-like, be-
tween the White House and the office OF the
Associated Press. Presently certain among
the representatives of the people, q some
what slow and belated class, grew restive.
Such the official head of the Democratic
party, one hand upon his heart and the
other in his pockets, silenced with the pa
triotic ejaculation ''I had rather see Hayes
inaugurated than shed one drop Of blood"
Considering Judge Blacks saying that
either party stood ready to surrender when
satisfied that the other meant to fight, the
wisdom, no less than the patriotism, Of bIr.
Hewitt's epigram will be realized. No
matter; time wagged apace, as time,
the saddest Of all wags, will; the South was
ready; the West moved the conspirators
waited What did the East ? Nothing. The
East, through MIR. Hewitt, bobbed its head,
and now-you-saw-it and now-you-didn't.
The conspirators plucked up heart. Seeing
things 90 in this loose way among the DEM
ocrats, they began to show signs OF
fight. There were movements Of troops.
There were belicose symptoms in official
circles. The conservative Republicans be-
came honestly apprehensive. The Demo
Gratis, despairing, were ready to catch at
straws. The scheme for an Electoral Com
mission took the two parties, therefore,
where the hair was very short, and they
embraced it as choice OF evils-a choice
Of evils presented to conservative Republic
cans by the designs of Mcssrs. Morton,
Chandler, Cameron, and Sherman; to the
Democrats by the gyrations Of Mr..
Hewitt. Everybody knew that if the bill
failed the conspirators, emboldened to
point next to absolute certainty by
Democratic inertia, would proceed to such
fraud and force as might be needed to place
their man in the White House. The army
stood ready to escort him to the door the
President stood at therdoor ready to con-
duct him in; within, the Chief Justice, at
tended by aiority of the Supreme Court,
stood ready to receive him with all the cere-
monies and forms OF law. There was not
so much as an unarmed Kentuckian to re-
sist.. The range Of selection, as readers will
see, was extremely limited ItwaS simple
choice Of how to do 4 desperately bad
and wicked job OF partisan work;
whether by military appliances, with all
their attendant consequences to the
repose of the country and stability OF
free institutions, or by some patched up
process of law, that would keep things as
they are and give the opposition another
chance; for whatever else may be said OF it,
the proposed Commission did give the Dem
Hewitt had given them-that is to say, none
at all. So it was passed. Thus it was
passed. 1t was passed and it went into ef-
feet, and for two weeks the three Republi-
can iudees-who are really the Commis-'
sion-haye sat there, like three sleck:tur-
key-hens, brooding over their importance.
Did you ever know rascal to become an
honest man because he joined the church,
or the Free Masons, or the Good Templars?
As little does the elevation OF q partisan to
the Supreme Bench make him patriot.
| The deed is done, and there is in this, rs
| in most matters, certain ineXpediency, not
to say unwisdom, in weeping over spilled
milk. The milk that is spilled was good
milk. The pail that contained it was OF
stoutcedar with brass hoops. What OF that? !?
The milk is gone. The brass-hooped piggin
Is broken at the fountain. You ask me how
I feel can only tell you that I feel too
much respect for myself, too much respect
for my people and my country, to fall into
passionate, unmanly. imbecile outcry. The
Inauguration OF Hayes under these crcum-
stances is something Of calamity. But the
world will not stop on its axis. The people
will live, move, and have their being; par
ties will continue to exist; politicians shall
plan and plot. shall not despair, nor
beat my breast, nor saw the mir with
my hands, albeit-well, let lis say, the worse
for considerable wear and tear both within
and without in the course Of what has been
to me the hardest, saddest, and yet, when 1
come to think OF it seriously and rightly,
the most wholesome and inyigorating expe-
rience since the war. hope thatI shall
never be so weak, that our southern men
land women, who haYe borne so much, will
ever be so weak, ,as to hang all earthly hope
on any public or political event. Truly, we
| have had much disaster and sore tribula-
| tion; and the partisan m0Vings OF the time
press us closer and nearer than our tlnkind,
inconsiderate neighbors in the North seem
tothink. But God is Just, and there is in
all human affairs some wisdom, some bless
4 ing, that we do not see, that we cannot
understand. am sure that cannot see
the wisdom, or the blessing, in this present
business ;. but, for my part, i mean to ac-
cept it, as I have accepted many things,
" "on faith '-faith in the creative principle
Of the universe" faith in human nature,
faith in the people, and faith in the future.
I earnestly advise everybody to do the same,
especially urging upon Democrats the good
sense as well as the duty OF doing these
tthings-to w.t.: ~ .S'}1 l.izt<-aT
| l. Preserve the party organization intact,
without flaw or doubt. II
2. Suppress violent thoughts and extreme
ejaculatlons; for anger never mended any
! cause. -e ~ 4aI!Ea tr9'sq g; -TT~i5 x
8. Treat Hayes like a gentleman until he
/ proves himself a uslirper by his ACTS,
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