The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-07-17
SectionaNStt1.
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senator LOGAN being subiected g !, : =
s., o,,eeze Of Two from the interview wing .oS
,anos !. s. the Chicago Times, puts iortn
tbs awful forecasting Of another 8 % uIneIn
, ~ ne does not think the South :''
can resstsblish slavery, but ccases \ .ne
southern people Of Intending e suoiec. sns
b,scks as much as possible py enlolo.ns
.rip,d nel,al laws conining negroes IN stne
nenitentiary for slight offences. etc. e.o.'
winding up his feariul forebodio s. wv Nv
the predtction that southern men WIN uolA :,
note IN this country !. as long as they eau.
..nd q when the control shall have passed
from their hands they will leave 1t. SO
there Is q fix. for the country Anu y
!, n he believed that the southern people
shall he driven from the country because
they can't control it, after having proved
by their patient submission 70 the inoss
ruthless and wanton tyranny OF tne NO.
publican party for 50 many seai. :
The absurd Senator is Just fool enough =, -
make such prediction with the iac's NC,
fore him and the whole country proving inc
,o,lv and falsity Of bis prediction Inc
: Roston Herald styles this LOGAN tax: %
! .. better becoming the garrulity OF Iou,s
..mouthed ward politician than the speech
~ statesman N hn IN Iaptt ~Ap 'nsnnfa no 10
aereat and thriving State OF Illinois in the
aUnited States, Senate" The Herald pays
LOGAN q baseless compliment In call
ing him statesman. This ne never
was and never will be. He is no.
thing more elevated than vindictive par
tisan OF wild ideas and foolish impulses.
He is one Of those men whose malice ana
prolonged and bitter resentmeaIs cannot De
approved by the more natural and calm
feelings OF the people. They have no SYM
patty With any such rancors and unforglV-
ing hates. Thus 1t is that the people are
becoming disguised with such men as
CoNKL1SG and LOGAN and leaving the party
Of the bloody shirt, and thus we may nope
that unconciiatory sectionalism Will sub
side and people seek refuge from its disturb
ing and ruthless passions.
We see that the New York Times, Of no
means entertaining kind feelings or sympa-
thies with the South, feels called upon to
read Mr.. Senator CoNKLING a lecture upon
his malignant issue against the South, de-
nying it right to representation based
on population, because 1t does not pay as
much into the Treasury as people In some
some parts OF the North do. 1t had been
intimated that Mr. Secretary of-the-T Treas
ury SIBERIAN would take some such ground,
but CoNkLING having launched out decided
" upon the subject, the Times deemed it
duty to hold him upas one whose partisan ILL
nature had led him blindly into PROPOSE
tion to violate the Constitution and adopt
principle "utterly indefensible in its ap-
"plication to the government OF this coun-
"try, and as utterly unknown in The politi-
seal controversies Of any other" Says the
Times:
.But whether the South shall be assailed
. because its congressional representation Is
determined by the same rule OF apportion-
ment that governs the representation Of all
other parts OF the Union, is question that
does not admit Of discussion. The South
has the representation to which it is enti-
tied in pursuance Of fundamental proYi-
sion ct the Constitution-and no MORE"
The Times, in this further comment upon
this subject, says what is 40 proper that VIC
quote it:
"If the current report is true, the Repub-
.lcan party is to be asked to adopt as one
OF the features of its policy declaration
that the South shall not have that which is
assured to itby the Constitution; for the
assertion stbat the representation OF the
to- ~ 4,
tomato Is meaningless unless the point
indicated is TO be regarded as preliminary
to an effort to correct the alleged inequality.
Now and then some demagogue has COM
planned that great wrong is committed by
the system which makes Rhode Island the
equal in senatorial representation OF New
York, and Delaware the equal Of Ohio; but
no one has seriously proposed to engraft
upon party platform the rectiicatlon OF
the seeming anomaly. 30 it is with refer
ence to the southern vote in the House. We
find abundant material for criticism in the
partisan methods that have made the vote,
practically, unit, and In the mischievous
uses to which 1t has been put. But what
sensible Republican proposes to convert
these causes Of complaint into pretext for
attacking ratio OF representation fixed &C
cording to the letter Of the Constitution,
and for establishing a new rule, unknown
to the Constitution and frreconcilable with
the continuance of the Federal Unionp 1t
is hard to believe that a man in Mr.. Conk-
ling's position would begin an attack with
out being prepared to accept its logical re-
sponsibillties. Above all things, however.
the New York Senator is politician; and
as politician is he to be understood as
ready TO contend for the abrogation Of the
constitutional principle which makes popu-
lation the basis OF representation, and for
the substitution Of principle that makes
contributions to revenue the basis OF the
voting-power in Congress?s II not ready,
why should he or any other Republican
leader lend the weight OF his speech to 8
cry which foolish part!sans propose to uti-
lize in the canvass ?"
It is such follies as the vindictiyeness OF
CoNKLrSG and the crazy malice Of LOGAN
and CHANDLER and WINDOW that are bring
ing the people to think and to reject ex.
cesses that find no response in their hearts
no approval in the calm reasoning of any
set OF intelligent men.
The Two-Thirds Rule.
The Wheeling Register grazes the facts of
the case In its article on the two-thirds rule.
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