The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-06-27
The Extra Session.

1,he REPUBLICAN papers assume thas TO
.ac.ompel the holding Of tbs present extra
session 81 Congress was q blander on tue
mart OF the Democrats which VII cost tne cog
= good many votes and there are no. Anew =.
democratic journals which seem TO DE avs
$500, - concede the truth OF taat assuHap-
s rre We are NOT convinced that the eSsra
sass,on VIII prove 10 have been a e'aaoer.
II has had sae effect OF informing tue sa'nds
=, the people Of tie northern States mare,
gard TO several sabiecss OF which osey hao
previously been IN ignorance. TUG Reports Aps'l !.
~ the debates in Congress are as 3 genera
thing not resd by many people, out
whenever they touch questions that come
houae TO the voters as practical, they are
much more likely to be reas. Now tue
ouestions which have beer discussed au'
rinu the extra session are OF ohis Kind. Inc
Democra,s OF the large citiesof New YORK
CHICAGO, ST. Louis, Boston, Phliade'pna'
arookIya. &C., &C., are new fully posted as
to their rights and as TO their duties Ia Iue
matter of the election OF congressman. Inc Inc
large foreign vote in those cities, too,' must
syn,natbize more or less with the thouSands
of naturaIized citizens whom JOHNNY DA-
re.zsogT and other tools OF the Repubtlcah
party subjected to insult, arrest lncarcela-
item, and reallyto disfrauchisement. Ihe
vast masses OF voters In those cities cannon
hereafter be ,rifled with. They know ther
ri.hts now, and, knowing, will dare main-
tain them, it is TO be hoped. Indeed, as
ue have heretofore said, the statutes pro-
viding for the appointment OF deputy mar
sha,s as a means OF briDing and overaw'nS
the voters 10 support the Republican tickei
will be emphasized and accentuated Dy
many desperate attempt upon the part OF
the voters 10 maintain or recover the'f
rights as citizens OF free country. here
tofore, the quiet manner in WHICH the min
ions OF the Administration at Washington
have at elections carried on their dlaboiieal
work OF sapping the very foundations OF
our free institutions has enabled them 10
perpetuate unnumbered outrages with lm-
punily. But they can never do so again.
The northern voters now know some OF the
wrongs which reconstruction did the South.
They now know that the deputy marshals
are not officers entitled to their respect, Dut
mere cIec,ioneerers for the Republican
party, whom they ought to eXecrate as enc
mics of free government. Heretofore,
these hired betrayers Of the peoples rights
have worked in the dark, so to speak.
Hereafter, they will be compelled to work
in the glaring light OF an enlightened pub
lie opinion.
The extra session has illustrated the de-
yelopmeDt theory. After three months OF
hard labor and constant consultation, 1t was
at last discovered that appropriations Tor
the use OF the judicial or any other depart
ment OF the Government might be made not
necessarily in 4 single bill but in two Or
more. IL may seem absurd to cali this re-
markable discovery, yet it really appears to
be nothing less. AS the next session OF
Congress can last for Only three months,
this discovery may prove to be one OF great
practical value to the Democrats. Here. too,
is something gained from the experience OF
the extra session. -
The law emptying the channels OF trade
OF the abominabe three-cent silrer-pieces
and other subsidiary coins is the work OF
the extra session, and must afford much re.
lief to the businessmen Of the country. AS
congressman draw no special pay for the
extra session, it might we'll be claimed that
the enactment OF this law would OF itself
justify the Democrats for holding the extra
session Of Congress.
The best OF all, however, is that the
northern people, and especially the natural.
ized citizens OF that section, have learned
from the debates in Congress, and will learn
from the stump speeches that are to be
founded on those debates, the "true in
wardness" Of the Objectionable laws which
it was the object of the promoters OF the
extra session to repeal.