The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-11-29
sectional Pharisees.


The nonsense which day after day, and
week after week, appears In some OF the
Republican Journals Of the North on that
Imaginary thing the anti-progrsssiye
shirt of the people Of the South Is DIS
eustine In the extreme 20 al well-iniormed
persons. II deSignatcs the Journals In
which Il appears as themselves merely Sec
,ional pharisees having abortion so limited
that they are unable 60 sec any object out
side OF the charmed circle OF their rcspec-
five peighborhoods. Ii is mark Of gen.
nine proyiucialism. Ii would require the
talents OF n DUMAS TO show up the absurd
tty Of the D'ARTAGNoNs Of the northern
Republican press who are blissfuliy igno-
rant OF their own vanity, bigotry, ih'oleI-
ancc, and ignorance Of the outside world.
The provincial spirit. which Is part ana
norcel OF these northern Republicans,
blinds them sometimes 70 the deserts OF the
men Of their own party who reside outside
Of New England and New York. The
New York papers, for instance, did not
hesitate 10 pronounce IL great mistake
when in 1874 General GRANT made Mr..
WAITE Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court
OF the United States. These papers knew
MIR. TyARTs and deemed il the Presidents
duty to appoint to that exalted station
either him on some other lawyer OF whose
existence the uniformed young gentlemen
who wrote their editorials had been made
aware by seeing him in the flesh. Ii was TO
them incredible that Mr.. WAITE could ho
much better qualified for Chief Justice than
some lawyer who had dined more ire
cuently az DELNONIcO's.
The same Republican journals cannot so
much rs imagine thai Chicago daily is SUI
perior TO New York daily. They wallow
IN the mirc OF proyincialism. andtake pride
in their own iIiberality and narrow-mind-
cdness. No wonder HORACE GREELEY
dubbed the members Of the Union League
Club "narrOw-minded bloekheads." They
had read their own provincial Journals IN
I'll they had become firmly convinced Of the
fact ina; southern men were sinners above
all others who dweit upon the face Of the
earth, and had naturally enough jumped to
the conclusion that HORACE GREELEY ought
70 be severely punished for having visited
Richmond and become one OF JEFF. DAyIs's
suretes. Such reading-matter as they had
fed on reminds one Of the supposti-
tious clergyman Of The AutOcrat OF
the Breakfast Table, who-the clergyman,
not the Autocrat-ncycr falling to preach
himself when other clcrgymen were preach
ing, and having therefore never heard a
sermon for many years, had hpsed into
barbarism. We suspect that there are
members enough in the Union League
Club who never see paper published out
side Of New York city, and are as ignorant
of public opinion elsewhere, and of the
KIND Of papers printed in Boston, Phila-
dclphia. and Chicago, as the King of DahO-
mey is OF the military strength of the
United States.
We have INDUCED in these reflections
GprOp6s OF the serious prediction Of a
leading Republican journal in the North
that the "local rule" of the Democrats OF
the South is bound.t to be " in the future
overthrown. Perhaps so; but the "local
rule" of the Republicans OF the North
will also be oyerthrown; and the sooner
the better for the country. But it never
occurred to the northern journal in ques-
ton that solid North was any evidence OF
the existence OF "old prejudices " in that
section. Certainly not. These sold pre-
JUDGES are evidenced only by the exist
ence OF solid South. Proyincialism
teaches that much; and proyincialism is
the teacher whose school most Of the
northern Republican journals attend. Not
all OF them. We could name honorable eX-
ceptions.
II would break their skulls open if it
could ever enter the heads of the northern
bigots OF whom we speak that the most
liberal, the most learned, and the most
prosperous people in the southern States
belong to the Democratic PARTY, and conse-
quently are a part Of the q solid South"
We anticipate from northern Republican
journals the rctort that the reverse is the
ease in the northern States. With this fact
or assumption we have nothing to do just
here. We desire only to impress upon the
minds OF all northern people that their
southern fellow-citizens are not only will
ing but anxious TO have immigrants come
among them; that they understand political
economy as well as or better than the north
ern people, and have for many years been
ready to divide upon politico-economical
questions, but have been prevented from
doing so by the sectional war which has
hitherto been constantly made upon them,
and by the persistent interference OF north
erners with our domestic matters. Why,
there are in Virginia many tariff men who
always vote the Democratic ticket. They
are compelled in sclf-dcience to do so.
They cannot vote with the Republican
party so long as II regularly every two or
four years waves the bloody shirt as its
banner. They may and 90 desire the
kind of "protection OF which the
tariff advocates talk so much; but they
not only desire but must have that
other kind Of protection which the
northern Democrats promise them
protection from outside interference
with their domestic concems-protectloD
from negro domination, from cruelties,
expressions, and petty prosecutions. They
know that they will be accused OF disloyalty
and OF harboring sold preiudices," but
they know too well which is the lesser Of
the evils they have to dread, to hesitate one