The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-11-05
Zach. Chandler.

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T,isa cad commentary upon the state OF
feeling which exists in the North against
she people OF the South, that OLD ZACH
Cu,spLER's memory should be revered ,-as
:, he had been statesman Tie truth Is
that IL Is chiefly because be hate the soutn'
ern people and so often stan derea JEFF.
DAVIS FIAT our northern {" brethren" nno
co. mich la his history and character to com.
mend him to their appreciation. compared
with Mr.. DAVIS, CHANDLER was as BEAST
pnr,eR 10 General LEE. Yet the northern
penuh,icans have not deemed 1t inconsis-
tent with their duty rs good clllzens 70
seep,oId ZACH. In tho United States SENATE
and treat him as IL Ire were an equai OF the
statesmen Of the country.
The most brutal, ialse, and totally unaus-
ti6able stack that has been made upon the
: south IN connection with the death OF Mr..
,t,HAspSER. we End in che organ OF JAY
s7or1s-the New York Tribune. 1t is easy
m understand why this attack was made.
IT yas to tone dewn the too dark coiors IN
the picture OF Old zAcH's life that the lr''
5,,ne thus degraded itself and disyraced Its
name. That unprincipled journal knew
well that Mr.. CHANDLER was not nt TO De ID
the United States Senate, and so by way OF
showing That he was not the worst man IN
the world, it drew the following false PIC
ture OF the seathern senator's OF ante
times. Wequote:
4:And, after all. the rude but fervid and
thoroughly heartfelt oratory or the Micnl-
gan senator, who, In 1857, presented him.
self in the seat Of Lewis Cass, contrasteo
not uniagorabIy with the braggart lnso-
lence Of the slave-driyers he had come TO
fight. That was the era OF the worst school
OF politicians our country has knoWn-tho
heightened brawiers in broadcloth-who
came UP to Washington from the plan
tatlons redolent OF brandy, tobacco, and
cunpowder, and tried to rale Congress by
the same methods they applied to their
lDiggers'; who fought duels, and played
cards, and swore, and did not pay
their debts; the basest counterfelts OF
gentleman and q man OF honor the world
has ever seen. Mr.. Chandler was prince
by the side OF most Of the slave-State con-
gressmea."
1t Is surprising that man OF any repu-
tation at all for veracity should be guilty OF
indulgiug in such libel. The world never
saw more heightened set OF men than were
the very congressman whom the Iraoune
thus lbeis. Not that every southern con-
gressman was all that he ought to have been.
Yet it is true that for purity OF character,
generous sentiments, qualifications as legis-
lators, and superiority to all low and groye-
ling considerations, the southern congress
men Of ante-bellum days excelled any other
legislators in the world, and were far ahead
of most Of the men sent to that body from
the northern States-not Of all OF them, how
ever; for the North also had many noble
specimens OF gentlemen amongst her repre-
.sentatiyes iu Washington. Both sections
were no doubt then as rule represented
by better men than now fih.the halls OF
legislation at the national capital.
1t is useless, however, to attempt to let
the northern people Of the present genera
tion know the facts OF the case. That ha-
: tired OF the southern people which was en-
gendered by the events of the war, and
which has ever since been kept at fever-heat
by the speeches and writings Of the I'M
principled denaagogues and trieksters OF
that section, bliads the eyes Of the younger
people to the facts OF history and to the vir-
tues of the noble spirits who ruled this
country so successfully from 1888 to 1850.
We shall not attempt to convince men
! whose ears are stopped and whose eyes are
:, closed. Time, however, will rectity all
such matters, AS the JAMEsEs and
!: eGHARLEsss OF English history are new in
significant figures ON the worlds historical
canvas as compared with HAMPpEH, and
j. CROMWELL. and MiIRsN, all Of whom were
.-ssrebels' in their dag, SO in the future MIS-
tory of this country !the miserable eash
rthat,was throwa 50 the aurface by the war
will be treated IS it deserves, whist Inc
real statesmen and true patriots will receiFe
the naeed Of prafse to@hieh they are entt
tied. The men OF she future will not ane
cannot tbe deceived. They will place the
statesmen whom the aFsbxne libels TAI
above the sectional agitators who have ne
claim to be called either patriots or states
men. u--