The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-07-24
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20 south Nhd prast sists I'D king
81 When 4 lis South bsd been subiugated
nd us Impoverished md BLEEDING at lse
Ell oi an intiirtsss led conque she eomMls
ed the bIunder OF attaching herself 70 one
Il the great POLITICAL p1rttes OF tue connIrs.
without Waiting TO takesa proper leehogn,
mo 90 ,s 10 CON prehend fully The sltuaIton
ssf,e. under The impulse OF passion 1a.n ls,,
sf,ar, ftl,s & dictate pf reason, allied spess
wttbtfne party which was in organized an
tnrn n r. n, 10 the Republicans some OF US
pr5i estsd against, suci, precipitate action:
Ehe fAholitionists OF O!den time held aiooi
froRthe Wing and ID Democratic parties, ano
acted as a.shird, or baianee-o f. DOW er, parry;
ann neiitnRl oyertures aud promises unt'l
Inc WING party In the northern states
became ahoroughty aboiitionizsd. FdS eS'
docerss al Aosse. Itlwould have been wise
for the South to have pursued a similar
policy; and .then both organizations at Inc
Narth would have been bidding Tor ner al,
fance. Terms would have been onereo
" biet would have! prevented the horrible
Eederslf legislation under Wbieh we nave
1rSaned for fifteen years. quite naturally
the South Sobeyed prejudice and arrayeo
herself en- nadsse, 80 far as natlYe" wnlte
people were concerned, against the nateo
Republican party. This hasty action in
tensIfied Republican hostility and brought
,Iron ne the Reconstruction measures, mill
tnry oppression, carpet.bag svilIainy, ant
the whole Had Of post belL,tm woes. 1t is
useless to cry over split milk. Lapandr;
voticipations were unheeded, and we be
came merged in the Democratic party
There we are likely to remain until i re
O: ganization OF parties shall occur.
III. 1t would be we'll il the South could
take Quiet breathing spell and look after
her material and educational interests, in.
stead OF playing fail for the great Demo
cratic kite. President.making Is curse tt
the whole country. Occurring as the cleo
tion does every four years, the country Il
kept in ceaseless agitation. and such are tht
ramitications and tyranny OF party that ;
baiiiff,s election Id, Oregon. or Florida. o.
Maine, is determined blythe issues in pre-
sidential election. We have too much Da
tional politics, and'are guilty OF suicide. il
letting n few partisans toss us into q temp
est about national conventions ant
presidential candidates.. The war ant
what has, followed =, the, war crushed
the South, and we: need to creat'
new branches OF; Industry and new source
Of wealth. The.South is rich In natural re
sotirces-in SOIL In minerals, in nayigabl'
rivers, in Water-poWer,r in sea- coast, in eli
mate, id people, in agricultural pyoduc
tons; and a little. sensible political econ
only, wise attention to. home rather thar
Federal legislation to, What will revive oil
and create new industries rather than Il
President-making, will turn these resource
to good account. With national polite
absorbing our energies uhd dishonest legls
lation impairiffs credit, dl<couraging inmi
grafton and driving away foreign capital
we may perpetuate our poverty and b.
dwarfed in The race for Improvement ant
wealth.
LII. The South will not, however, beet
such wordssas mine. Into canvass and con
vention most sctiyely wills 90, or the &C
cupationso OF many patrtotsWill be gone. A
the South must furnish in large measur
the electoral votes for the Democratic can
didatp, it iSiright that the South should hav
potential voice in selecting the candidat
aud determining the platform. With sucl
a leader as BaYard, would not gives stiG
for the PLATFORM; but as the Democratic
party is not very homogeneous in IFS Gle
ments, let us have an announcement o
principles to which we, will adhere even /
defeated. Success with g, Ianus-faced plat
form aud wishY-washy cah didates .%onlt
soon turn into Dead-Sea fruits.
/, The South may, as we'll be. understood
| By universal contession|theit right Of Stat
I for any caiise' ia geccde, from the Union, ha
been adversely settl led by the var. tits.
miserable traTesiy Of our complex govern
ments to .c0nfound secession and States
rights. The latter remains, with the e1cep
ton stated, in their futr original 'vigor, ANT
are essential 10 the welI7beinS and perma
hence OF our constitutional, Representative
republic. '.The Just powers OF the Fed
erai Union," quoting from the platform o
| the Pennsylvania Democrats, "the rights o.
the States and the liberties of the people
are vital parts OF one harmonious system
Such sound paper as the New York World
as late as the 18th instant, speaks OF northern
Democrats, by contrast with "the southern
| States,n as maintaining that "the Fedora
Constitution was part and parcel nf the
| Constitution OF each State, and that al
Federal laws enacted in pursuance oil
that Constitution were in effect State laws
from which no State could escape" Ii
our friends so pervert our opinions. what
must we expect from enemies? Iventuret c
| affirm that no Observation-Disclosures, Yancey,
WIgfall, navis-ever held doctrine of con
stitutional Interpretation different from that
ascribed to the North, and especially tc
northern Democrats. The South insists or
the written constitution as the mt assure and
limit Of the powers Of the Federal Govern
ment. Reverence for the Constitution Is
our safeguard. Such consolidation doc
trines as were fvoWed in the late extra Ses'
Sion by Garfield, Robson, Logan. Ed
mundS, and Window, making Congress
practically absolute, are as dangerous TO the
North as to the South-in fact, more SO.
State rights are as essential as tedcra
rights. The South may have erred IN INC
late conflict in invoking for extreme mea'
sures the shield OF States rights, but an eX.
treme application does not lnvalldate re-
served rights any more .han misuse OF q
good medicine makes yalleless the Whole
naateri0 naedica.
The conflict between President Hayes and
Congress, eliminated OF personal issues and
extremes on both sides, may be made to fur-
nish an issue on which the Democratic party
NAV safely 20 before the country. Recog-
nizinp the veto power US most valuable
feature Of our political system, we may Sc
riously question whether the President, in
using it and assigning his reasons therefor,
has not trenched upon the Jurisdiction and
powers Of the legislative department, and
80 ipterfcred with the prerogatiyes of Con-
gress as: to dictate, "under penalty OF per.
petual session." not only what laws shall be
enacted, but what laws shall be repealed,
and to what uses, money appropriated shall
ho annliad S,1ch q claim M looiS rive