The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-01
Mr. rncl,sh,s Letter.

The letter OF Mr.. ENGLISH bears very
much The same relation TO that OF General
HANCOCK as the letter Of Mr.. ARTHUR does
70 that Of General GARfIELD. The lieu
tenant Ia each case writes longer ep'stle
than the captain. But here the likeness
ends. Mr.. ESoLIsn's letter Is better one
than either GARrIELD's or ARrHrR's. IL is'
however, like theirs, the letter Of poiiu-
clan. General HANcocK's letter is IN some
respects the best OF the four.
Mr.. ExSLIsn's letter Is GOOD campaign
document. He declares that he accepts
the platform because ho holds 10 us uoo-
triues, He pays graceful compliment 10
General HANCOCK. and yet very Just ana
discriminating one. He then makes a .errlnc
srrairument OF the party In power. ms
mart or bis letter does not commend nsen
70 our Judgment as being as digniiied as
General HAxcock's expressions with REFER
ence TO the same subject. Twenty years
~ continuous power is long enough, he
thinks. for any party. II Is time that
new broom we're tried which will sweep
clean.
Mr.. ENGLISH, ike Mr.. TupES and Gen
sral HANCOCK and so many other distin-
euisbed Democrats, reminds the voters OF
the great fraud Of 1876, which, be says,
should never be forgiven nor forgotten.
Surely not, when we remember, as he ADDS,
,ba, many OF the men who aided in the per-
petratiou OF that immcasurable wrong 10
popular government are now holding oihces
under the very Government which they
have done so much 10 subyert. We must
think that this consideration will have
vast Influence in directing the votes OF the
thoughtful men OF the northern States.
Mr.. ENGLISH reminds the people that
their money is beng lavishly used in the ei-
fort TO perpetuate the iule OF the party
which has done so much damage to the
Countrywide party Of ill-will, sectional feel
ings, and slanderous language. This money
is not only to be taken from the ofiice.hold'
ers, but II is 10 be taken out OF the Urea
sury, il the Republicans get the power 10
do it, for the purpose Of brlbing Democrats
10 work, in the disguise Of deputy Federal
marsbas and supervisors OF elections, for
the success OF the congressional and prcsl.
dental candidates Of the Republican party.
Here is a grievance and wrong which the
voters ought never TO sanction. As fraud
must never be condOned, so force and
bribery must never be left without prosecu-
tors at the bar OF the public.
Nj ENGLISH well says that the country
is prosperous not because OF the Republic
cans and their measures, tut in spite OF
them. Iii the war bad been permitted to
end in 1865 in good faith, aud the South had
been treated as she ought TO have been
treated, and as true statesmanship dictated,
the whole country would ere now have
bossomed as the rose under the benign in
fluences of restored Union. The SOUTH
ern States alone would have exported
products enough to have brought into the
country an amount of money that could
hardly be counted.
Mr.. ENGLIsH's references to the attempts
OF the Republicans to convert our republic
into consolidated despotism ought to aid
In opening the eyes OF the blinded north
ern people. But there would be no danger
TO our free institutions in any OF the usur-
pations OF power Of which the Republicans
are guilty il the people were alarmed on
the subject or even alive to its importance.
The cry OF "Peace. Peace" is always
heard when the peril is greatest; and the
masses sleep on, like SAMSON, until the po-
litical DELILAHs have bound them fast hand
and foot. The English people are infinitely
more Jealous Of their rulers and watchful OF
their liberties than we are in this free
country. Perhaps we shall learn from ex-
perience that "eternal vigilance is the price
OF liberty"
What Mr.. ENGLISH says OF the currency
is In almost the very words OF the Cincin-
natl platform. His prediction or promise
touching the Chinese alludes to the same
platform. His closing words are worthy OF
reproduction again and again. They are as
follows:
"Its (the Democratic party's] success
would bury beyond resurrection the Sec
tional jealousies and hatred which have so
long been the chief stock in trade OF pes
tiferous demagogues; and in no other way
can this be so effectualy accomplished. 1t
would restore harmony and good feeling
between all the sections, and make us, IN
fact as well rs in name, one people. The
only rivalry then would be in the race for
the development OF material prosperity, the
elevation of labor, the enlargement OF hui
man rights, the promotion OF education,
morality, religious liberty, order, and all
that would tend to make us the foremost
nation Of the earth in the grand march OF
human progress"
Wei done, Indiana!