The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-10-16
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: The New York. brine -has lately said
that after the 4th OF March nexsthe ma1of
ity Iii che npperjhouse Of Congress VIII be
ID ocratic.saa,d that the .ReRHbli Leans mlst4
enforce strict party discipline to carry every,
northern vote it1the coming elections and TO
gait the lower house, or else. though the Ere
be Republican; yet with both,
houses against him, and Mr. Hayes scrupu.,
lous ID using his veto against the declared
will OF the people, the power OF the Repup.
iican party win have passed away, ike tnat
OF the Pharaohs Of old; aud that then tn .s
carnival OF Demo ratic rule or mis:uie VIII
commence. Is 1t not q remarkable colncl-
dence. significant indication, most sus-
p1cions circumstance, that JUST at tbis Time,
when the Democrats are upon Ihe eve OF
realizing their lopg-sought victory AND en-.
tering into complete possession OF the Gov Joy,
ernmenG, and when, by the CONFESSION o.
their bitterest enemy, this glorious triumph
certainly awaits them, and can only be pre-
vented by an almost miraculous rennion OF
all the tiiscordant elements OF the Republl-
can party, that at this very time this new
National Labor reeDback party should
spring suddenly into existence, or at least
into activity and Importance, and that the
Tribune and other Republican papers
should be cbuckiing and, eXultlns over
irs successes as the certain omen OF
the defeat and previous capture ana
decentralization OF the Democratic party
WHY do they SO surely anticipate this re-
sult: il it be not well understood that this
new party is an ally sent to produce a
division among the Democrats, or as ade-
coy.duck to draw them into snare. Kear-
new comes from California, Boosting that
he has swept everything before him there;
that be has converted that nation of gold
diggers and gold-idolaters into nation OF
despisers-strange to say suffering, too,
for the want OF moDey-aDd has come 10
preach his new gospel among the million
aires OF Boston, New York, and Phladel-
Dhia. The organs OF those niillonalres are
eager to herald his victories, to magnify his
triumphs. end to predict his complete sue
cess, at least in overthrowing the Demo-
cratic party. 1t may be true, what he SAYS
of his achievements in California, for "'tls
distance lends enchantmeht to the yiew,"
and even q small matter, after coming so
great distance, would get to be a large
one. for uires acquirit eundo but l must
be pardoned for believing that little OF
the gold OF those millionaires, seasonably
sprinkled, would do more to check these
conversions and silence these missionaries,
or suppress them, il that was really de-
sired, than all the absolute, irredeemabie
paper-money (even il issued 10 the proposed
amount, $500, 0OO,O00) would do to the
contrary; for in some cases ga bird IN
the hand is worth two in the bush ,"
the converse OF the more Doetlcal but
not more true maxim. that ''dlstance
lends enchantment to the view" Mr..
Cooper and many Of his original fo!-
lowers are honest and sincere, but that
many have recently joined the party who
have no more faith In its platform than
have, aud who are using it for the purpose
above indicated. / have no doubt. That is
the reason / lift my feeble voice TO warn my
Democratic friends against falling into such
a snare. Think OF the Richmond " nag
barking on the chase led by Benjamin L.
Butlerl Who would have expected TO see
them pulling in the same team! Who can
believe that they can long pull together!
A long reader and admirer OF that pa
per, I look upon the present conjunction
between them as disastrous and omlnouS.
Let my Democratic brethren remember the
Ohio election for Governor Just before the
last presidential election. Ohio was DEM
ocratic, soft-money State. Both parties
throughout the Union looked to that cleo
ton as likely to foreshow or determine the
result OF the presidential election. They
sent each their strongest men to stump the
State Allen was the Democratic. Hayes
the Republican candidate. The former
came out in his speeches as the greenest of
Greenb ackers-werse than Butler himself.
What was the result? He was beaten;
and instead Of being the Democratic
candidate. for the presidency, as he
would have been, Hayes was adopted by
the Republicans and elected President.
The lesson taught by this election should
not be forgotten by the Democrats, as it'has
not been by the Republicans, to whom it
seems 10 have suggested the strategem now
to be guarded against. am pleased to see
the wide difference between the Greenback-
ers of the North and those of the South.
The former propose to issue paper without
any promise OF redemption by the Govern
ment, and resting for its currency solely
on law making it q legal tender for all
debts and dues, public and private; and l
understand Mr.. Cooper to contend that the
greenbacks issued during the war either
were originally or, by the peoples accept
ance of them in payment for commodities
or services furnished TO the Government,
became money to llintents and purposes
the peoples money-irredeemabl and un-
comfortable by the Government, which had
no right to redeem that money as debt by
funding it in gold bonds OF the United
States by The law OF 1869; and 10 right that
wrong he demands that such bonds as were
not originally payable in coin, but in legal
money, shall be paid off by the issue OF
greenbacks proposed as above. He contends
that the Government not only had the right,
but exercised it, OF issuing lrredeemable
paper-money and making it legal tender.
hand, do not propose to issue irredeemabie
paper, nor do they contend that the green
backs funded were so, but only claim that
they should have been funded in bonds
payable in greenbacks and not In gold; and
they demand that a new issue CT green
backs shall be made, Just such Us we have
now, only receivable in payment OF Gus
toms. and that all the bonds not originally
payable in coin should be paid off in that
issue. lido not understand any OF them to
demand that such money SO paid should be
irredeemable. not even Judge Critcher,
who says be wishes them, however, not to
be redeemed in his lifetime. In other
words, l understand the southern wing to
be content with increasing the currency by
paying off in greenbacks the bonds illegally
and wrongly, as they contend, made pay
able in gold. They do not propose any in
noyation upon our currency as 1t now
stands; any enlargement Of the power
Of Congress beyond what it has already
exercised, and is bound still further to
exercise, in carrying out its original
plan and fulfilling its sacred obllga-