The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-11-30
Richmond Dispatch,
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 80, 1881
,.oro pooonstruction Threatened.

More Reconstruction Threatened.
There is no southerner who does not re-
cali with indignant feelings the days Oh
:. reconstruction . so called, when the car
n,,-bogeers and scalawags, using horde
q, ignorant negroes as their tools, claimed
a corr Of divine right 20 rule the southern
States as provinces. The southern people
had NO rights which these adventures were
hound 10 respect. To have been rebel
was prima focic evidence that such man
was living only by sufIerance. All that he
got over and above the mere privilege OF
existence was in the opinion OF these car
pct-baggers and scalawags due to the royal
magnanimity OF the Radical party. 'eneral
DE TRoBRIANp once took possession OF inc
state capitol Of Louisiana, ana had her
Legislature organized under flaming
sword. In Arkansas and other STATES
there were two governments set up-one
by the real people, and the other by the
scalawsCs and carpet-baggers. Of course
General GRANT was always in favor Of re-
coenizing and propping up by bayonets
these bogus governments. lie even sent
troops 10 Petersburg, Va, in 1876, to over
awe the state electior-oflicers and aid in
the election Of a Radical to Congress. Such
Outrages were so common in those terrible
DAYS that as Mr.. TONES, Of Georgia, once
said, the Indignation Of the southern people
was "exnausted." They could not find suit
able words In which TO vent their feelings
because their whole vocabulary had been
employed so often that the words had lost
their force. The South was at the mercy
Of fine worst set Of satraps that the world
ever held; and these satraps were sur
rounded by the worst people who ever
served as 4 support TO the rulers OF con-
quered country.
We'll. what OF il? Have We not passed
so far beyond that point that to return
would never be suggested by any but a III
matter BY no means. Mr. ARTHUR is just
such 4 Stalwart as GRANT was who thus
misgoyerned, prosecuted, and plundered
the southern people in reconstruction days.
Indeed, GRANTS cOunSols arc said TO be
potent with The new Administration, and
his win almost law to Mr.. Arthur. II is,
therefore. not at all surprising to learn
that the "good old days Of recon-
siruclion and rascalityp are expected TO
return. end the Federal Government to
convert again the southern States into sa-
trpics. We may safely say that no such
scheme would have been even so much as
conceived Il Mr.. GARFIELD had not been
killed. II The Ohio statesman, and not the
New York partisan, were now President
OF the United States, Senator LAMAE's
state would be as safe from Federal inter-
meddling with her domestic affairs as is
Massachusetts,. a Washington letter in
the Alexandria Gazette says:
"Intelligence reaches here from MissiS-
sippi TO the effect that the defeated candi-
dates at the recent election in that State are
considering scheme for setting up gov
crnment Of their own, upon the assumed
ground that bull0Ozing and other means
were rcsOrted 10 by the Democrats TO pre-
vent a free vote and q fair count and
that they have appointed committee to
come on TO Washington and see whether or
not the Administration viii recognize them
il they determine TO make the attempt to
seize the State"
The reader will recognize the war-cry Of
the Mahoneites in the demagogical phrase,
a free ballot and fair count" And
that, again, naturally raises the inquiry
whether the attempt to control Mississippi
IN ptnlo
Mississippi with Federal bsyonets, is a re-
suit Of the MALONE movement in Virginia.
And this again suggests that whether the
Mississippi scheme is result OF the Ma
HONE scheme in Virginia or not, the Demo-
Gratis Of the Virginia Legislature, whether
they call themselves Readiusters or not,
ought to see TO il that no man shall be elected
TO take Senator JOHNsToN's place who will
not pledge himself to vote and act
on all occasions in favor Of allowing Mis-
sissippi to regulate her own affairs, and
against the men who would restore the
dreadful scenes of reconstruction years.
II would not be credible that so villainous
scheme of Federal usurpation and out
rage was seriously entertained at this late
day if that scheme were not openly advo-
Gated and eXulted in by certain Stalwarts.
We shall watch the developments. They
will be very slowly brought out. In the
mean time, the Democrats OF the Virginia
Legislature ought TO make it sure beyond
doubt that Virginia shall not send a
United States senator who will cooperate
with the enemies OF Mississippi and the
South. The great and good LAMAR once
offended CoNXLING. Combines tools will
punish him if they can. Let not Virginia
aid them i'm the infamous work.