The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-07-11
aCaukers of Il calm world and long PEACE

A very great mistake indeed. FALsrAFF
never made a greater. War engenders
more evils, more cankers, more cruelty and
heartlcssness, than peace, however long
lasting, or than CAN be bred and grown in
a calm world in unlimited time. The van
ity and unscrupuiousncss OF the rascal;ties
that sprang from the late civil war are in
Vulnerable. The vices that arise from ne
cessity, whose pressure is so greatly in
creased by Incidence that has been cult
waited in camI-liie, cause many forms OF de-
prayity and violence. The life OF the tramp,
a scamp almost unknown until the war
broke out, il one Of the creations OF the
war. The outrages committed by this class
OF beings. whose name is legion, are. ia
miliar to the country-far too familiar for
the public good. We have before US the
New York Times, which gives the follow
ing description Of this kind Of vagabond-
age:
"In the rural districts Of New York COM
panics OF filthy fellows camp with ms much
GOODNESS az IL they were an invading army.
They throw out pickets, defy the clodhop-
peTS' WIZ dCI aS COuSIaults, lluC VI
cbards, fields, and hen.roostS, subsist Oh the
surrounding country, and move off in de-
tachments when they have stayed their
time"
The Times says that New York has be-
come the refuge Of many tramps who are
driven from other States that have laws for
their suppression. The Governor Of New
York vetoed similar measure last winter,
and that State has no protection from such
yagabonds. They are the spawn Of the war,
and show by their reckless manner the
school in which they acquired their educa-
ton. They say the world owes them Il liv-
ing and they are bound to get it.
This is pretty much the same sort Of mo-
rality that prevails among the unscrupu-
lous politicians Of the times, who seem de-
termined to force a living out OF the State
by hook or by crook, adapting their ideas
to the preiudces and depravlti's of those
voters who are by the social revolution en-
iranchised to take part in the government
of the country.
This tramp institution, il we may be par
doned for styling it so, is one OF the most
deplorable creations Of war, aud is. not at
all to be regarded as canker OF long
calm. On the contrary, long calm, and
the systematic order and industry that such
period would almost surely establish in
civilized land, would prevent or root out
such vagabondage had it obtained foot
hold.
We have seen in the South the good ef-
fects Of the peace that has prevailed since
the war. 1t has brought us far back to-
wards that condition OF order which is,
like the beautiful process Of crystalization,
conducting bodies into their proper places.
There is daily less room for idlers and tres
passers, and less OF dependence and inlpo.
sition upon the public charity and private
property.
10 this way the country will in time get
rid OF the tramps altogether, and thus part
with that gift OF war so improperly de-
scribed by a great authority in the philoso-
ply OF life as canker g of calm world.v
War is thousands Of times more the au.
thor OF such vices aud lawlessness than
peace. What is even worse Of civil war
such as ours was, it impairs public virtue
and brings down high-sprited peopie to
1gnob!e acts and q low state o, moral sensi-
bility. In the State OF Virginia, for exam
pie. every man who entertains proper SEN
dments and opinions concerning integrity
and honor could not fail to be shocked at
much that he has both seen and heard.
Let us hope that period OF peace and
fheseHec.s OF apolicy that tends to the re-
Of proper ideas Of personal
obligations may assist in rapidly restoringa
condst;on OF good faith and reliability that
may dea 80 uderiul amount OF good both
In restoring public virtue and popular
peace and happiness. But let us not again
blame peace for the evils and vices Of war.
That indeed brings out grand instances Of
beroism md aubIic devotion. It would be
sad il it had no good to bestow upon man
kind. while It Aen. ges society with 70 raany
evils. SO many sfess, so many horrors.
SuspexsI0E or TIE .PETERsBURos Posi-
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