The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-19
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
GRgENBRIER COUNTY, w. VA,
September 16, 1873.
II was my intention some few days since
to have asked the attention OF your readers
to some excellent views presented in an
interview by Senator Morgan, OF Alabama,
upon The Importance to the people OF tnc
South OF adhcring to the regular Demo
cratic organization, and discorlasinS all
ATTEMPTS to destroy il by the various per-
cons who have been setting themselves up
as Independent candidates for Congress and
the like. Senator Morgan manifeStS IN TINS
nosition and the argument by which hersts-.
fa;ns il the good sense and saSaclty winch
have made him favorite with his people ard
Influential as their senator in Congress.
He tells us that the efforts of The Indepen-
dents TO set aside the regular party organi-
cation in Alabama have been an utter 1all-
nre. "Not enough Independents, Nationals,
Grecnbackers, Radical schismatlcs and spas
nodes, were elected to both branches OF the
General Assembly to fill up one OF the
standing committees" He says: "Ine
Democrats OF the South have many terrible
lessons TO forget Before they can NC lhdueca
to abandon their principles and orSan'za-
ton, through which southern CIVILIZATION
has been saved from utter destruction.
The Senator rightly says that the present
financial distress has been brought on the
country by Radical legislation. and that
"the authors OF this misery are not to be
trusted with its correction"
The present Democratic or Conservative
organization in the South sprang from the
necessities OF our position after the war.
The Republican party, by series OF mca-
~ hatp V
pressed by the general term OF recon-
struc:ion," subjected the southern people
to such an ordeal as hardly II ever before
befel civilized community. Their capital
all gone, their slaves freed, labor disorSan-
lied. the flower OF their youth rer!shed,
and their fields wasted, every tenderness,
every forbearance, every kindly aid OF TIC
Federal Government, was required 10! TIE
work Of rcc,pcration and restoration OF
the Masterpieces of the South. This was
the hour chosen by the Radicals TO bind The
ruln~ and more intelligent classes with
letters, and to turn them and their pro-
rcrtv over to the rule OF the ignorant
freedman and tue rapacou: stranger
% pillagc, humiliate. and ruin at VIII.
Such IN infamous and cruel policy would nj
one time have been met with tie sword;
but the South was exhausted, the 'spcar
had dropped from her nclVcleSs grasp" ana
the Federal bayonct WAS NJ the throats OF
her people. The only means OF sclf-dcfencc
remaining to them was 4 close political nr-
~anization Ct the conservative clements "1
>ocictv. and IN alliance with ihc party mt the
North which opposed and denounced these
wicked and cr;iol proceedings. The strug-
lie was serious, prolonged, and doubtful.
Al one time it seemed az if society would
pcris!l in several OF the southern states, and
;ht. land relapse To barbaric rule. The best
and most thoughtful men in the south ;rcm-
Llcd for the result, bat ut last the tide was
turned, and one by one the States were re-
deemed.
This grca. and awful peril is loo recent.
the insult and the oppression too lately ar
rested, and our recollection Of the wrong
too vivid. to admit 4 thought OF abandoning
the organization by which society was then
saved. But more than this : More than one
Of he southern States is yet de5atabic
ground. So long rs the Federal patronage
is held and used by The Republican party
as m agency to keep alive this foul con-
>Dilacy against law, order, property, Intel
iigcnce, and the better elements OF society,
we have reason to lear danger and to stand
on guard. will say just here that never
III our whole hiStory-not even in that or
t;rant-has the Federal patronage been
more steadily and baSely used to Uphold the
Republican party in the South than by The
present pretended reform administration
OF President Hayes. Hi. aversion TO ap-
pointing southern Dlen to office, Of go0G
antccedents. who have not gone back oil
their own people. resembles m instinct.
For Il long series of years this proscrir-
ton Of the southern people has lasted, and
it will last at least three years longer. The
iron rule OF Grant is followed by that OF
HAYES. Tie southern people to-day have
the privilege Of clcctin% their own repre-
sentativcs TO Congress, and that IS all. The
ninety thousand Federal offices. many or
which arc in their midst arc not for them.
They cannot expect 10 hold one OF them lli;-
less ther will affiliate with party which
stigmstiZes them and their honorcd dead
tic Lees, JohnStons, Jacks0n$, and STU
arts-is traitors and criminals. Ready sub
mission to Such an insulting prescription
would mark degraded population.
Even the Withdrawal OF United States
troops from the State-houses at Columbia
and New Orleans was III act Of pulley
merely initiated by Grant and carried out
BY Hayes very tardlly-not as IN act OF JUS
tce, not from reverence for tho Consttu-
ton and resDec. for State rights but be-
cause. as stated truly br members Oh the
Government. the Republican party at the
North had become weakened by It's too irc-
0rcnt recourse to the military arm. We
have this kcy TO their conduct from their
own lips, and also the unco-ccaled menace
that ii it becomes necessary, ia their Opln.
ion, the rule OF the sword will be introduced
anew. "Where there is Il will there Is
way.r The Federal stalutc-book contains
many unrepealcd clauses, which afford easy
prcteNts for almost every act Of Executive
violence and usurpalion. The South, III
word, is not safe, and Will not be safe until
the Republican party shall be crushed and
expelled from the executive branch or the
Government. For this great aim and end
there is indeed the best grounded hope, but
NIL tnat hope lies in tie regular Democratic
organization.
For these reasons, and many others, it
seems to ne that 10 leopard the Democratic
organization in the South b. running or
supporting independent candidates lof
Congress would be nearly as great An ACT or
folly as the fellds and contentious OF lhe
Jews who fought each other III the temple
while their common enemies, the Romans,
were on the outside hattering the walls OF
Jerusalem. In that case. however, The jew
who fought his brother did not summon
the Roman, the enemy OF both, TO his aid.
In our case the Independent must rely
largely on the Radicals for his vote, and he
must either appeal to them directly or he
must treat them very tendery and gingerly
in his canvass.
He will be very careful not to dcnounce
the Radical party for its past crimes, nor
impute to its leaders any bad purpose for
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