The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-25
What Our People Said Yesterday
Their Duty.

II the friends of GARFIELD and ARTHUR
could have heard the comments OF the peo-
pie OF this city as telegram after telegram
yesterday announced the progress made by
the great Convention in session at Cincin-
natl they would have concluded that solid
South will support HANCOCK and ENGLISH.
There was nothing, however, sectional in
what they said; for citizens representing
every class, occupation, and nationality,
agreed that they preferred that man who
could most certainly win and secure 10 the
whole country q liberal constitutional gov
ernment and restore fraternity among all
Americans, native and adopted, from Maine
to Texas and from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc. No regret over the results OF the war,
no preference for southern sympathizer
was expressed, but all seemed ready
to cheer HANCOCK, the gallant Union
general, ENGLISH, the stalwart war
Democrat, or any man whose war record
gave promise OF driving from power the
corrupt party which now controls the Fede-
raj Government. We heard, in fact, a Con-
federaie soldier remark that he wished BAY
ARD had been born In Massachusetts, instead
OF Delaware, for then his eminent fitness
for the presidency, his pure record as a
statesman, and his devotion to the Consu'
tuition, could have been more successfully
utilized for the good OF his country In the
present trying crisis in It's history. We
were glad, however, to ind, while the nomi-
nation was still in doubt, that our people,
with scarce an exception, had faith in the
wisdom Of the Convention, and believed that
whatever ticket it nominated would win.
As intelligent men, they had a right to
think this; for never did party commence
q campaign with more in Its favor than the
Democrats now do. Their opponents are
divided. The Republican nominees have
most vulnerable records aud excite no en-
fhuslasm whatever among the leaders or the
masses. The feeling thus indicated in
Richmond is not only that which prevails
oil over Virginia, but throughout the South.
1t was an earnest CT victory to us that del
egates to the Convention divided as to can
didates were so united as to cardinal prin-
nominees, whether selected from the West
or the East. The South behaved with be-
coming dignity, and dill not press one OF its
sons even for a second place; and yet we
have heard one Of the foremost Republican
statesmen in all this land say within ten
days that it was q mistake to suppose that
the North would not eheerfully vote for a
confederate general, like GORDON or
HAMPTON, for yiee-President. In do
Ing this our section strengthened its
cause, and gave renewed assurance that
oil 1t wants Is fair treat ment and the equal
privilege OF helping to make the Union per-
petual and our common country az great
~ the fathers Of the Republic, including
JEFFERSON, HAMILTON. aud ADAMS de-
signed 1t should be. We do not now see
how the bloody shirt can be waved by the
Republicans In the coming contest, or how
the ten thousand retired orators, whose
stock Ia trade Is sectional hate and preiS-
dice, can be called from their present OBJ.
security a7d used to ipAame the good people
of the North against the South. We think,
10 fact. that Messrs. BLAINE, CossLrSG 4
Co. even win nnd II difficult TO pslliate
the sins OF commission which stand out
IN the records Of GARFIELD aud ARrHuR as
conspicuousiy as did the HAUxsTEIS forgery
IN the record Of poor cBAHoox 10 tbe pec-
PIE Of Richmond. Let every Democrat at
onos grid on bis armor, and. forgetting sha:
&c ever had personal preference amoa9
I9e nary good and pure statesmen Of biz