The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-10-15
.,,a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.


When President TYLER said that the
,r,,e history Of the Confederate war would
disclose the fact that Il had been undertaken
by cupidity prcying upon the patriotism
and sectional feeling OF the North In order
that II might fattcn on the debts and the
contracts that war creates, he was right.
He would not have been wrong II he had
added that the resulting gains Of such
pol;cy 10 those who plotted IL would cor
rupt the conquerors quite as much as their
reyerses would demoralize the defeated
marty. II were thricc-told tale to recite
by instances how the plunderers In war
became thieves in peace. and how they have
used every means that villainy could
prompt TO keep their money by retaining
their power, until in 1876 Mr.. TILDEN was
cheated out Of an election which all now
concede to him. by the arts OF men, each oil
whom received his agreed reward al
the hand OF President HAYES. The in
ycstigations into the departments SUBJ
scouept.y instituted showed that this
result was necessary on the part OF
the Republicans TO save their leaders,
great and small, from the consequences oil
an explosion which would have blown
them into eternal infamy and shattered
their party into atoms. Ii II is recoliected
that official investigation has proved that
the books OF the Treasury were mutilated
in many places and tempered with in every
other way. we can realize from that one out
of thousand evidences OF guilt how great
was the necessity which drovethis fiagitious
marty 10 one OF the blacklist crimes OF the
nineteenth century.
II was TO avoid a similar risk by shelter
Ing themselves under the powerful name
OF the Prince Of Plumber that the effort
was made to elect GRANT to a third, really
TO life term. and so TO change the charac-
ter Of our Government, though following
the forms Of the Constitution, rs to render
il impossible for the crimes referred TO ever
10 become the subject of legal inquiry and
prosecution. And this was another OF the
crimes Of this century; like the first, a
crime against the life OF the American peo-
pie. and therein against the freedom Of the
world-a crime which this last time would
have succeeded but for the nerve and adj
dress OF Mr.. BLAINE. At Chicago in 1880
be ballled the conspirators. In Mir. GAR
FIELDS Cabinet in 1881 he again baGled
them and drove their great leader, Mr..
CONKLING, in disgust and despair from the
theatre Of his fame.
GARFIELD died, and BLAINE was re-
mauded TO private life. The Stalwart
ARTHUR succeeded to the presidency. How
fully committed this lazy Epicurean is TO
the principles OF the bad men who pre-
coded him has been shown in nearly every
step OF his administration, but notably in
the characteristic way in which, with the
aid of CoNKLING, he lent himself to the
frauds which lately procured the nomina-
ton of FoLGER for Governor of New
York-frauds which have estranged 50
many OF the rank and file Of the Republic
cans, which have walked up sundry pulpits,
and even shocked HENRY WARD BEECHER
into indignant protest.
in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
Indiana, and consequently not forecasting
thereirom the ebb Of their power, these Stall
warts sought an alliance with Virginia;
and finding suitable tool in General Ma
HONE, have, through him, offered to our ac-
ceptance an alliance with President Ar
THUR, the representative Of the worst ele-
ment in American politics, pledged by his
iobbery in administration, and uniaithful-
ness to the Government OF the United
States. Armed with tremendous power to
work out the mischief they mediate, the
Administration OF this man ARTHUR-theso
Stalwarts as they have bought so many
others, seek to buy our votes by money
and offices distributed by man who
laughs at scruples. This alliance means
far more than meets the eye. Its preteX
is the profitable friendship of party
falsely represented to have done
much for the State: its real Oh
ject is, by entrenching Itself NOR
extensively in corruption, to defeat the vii
OF the people and to change the characte
OF the Government beyond popular refor
nation. They cannot succeed; the Unitet
states are not yet ripe for such revolu
ton. And the plain question we wOu
ask OF Virginians is, Whether they ar
such knaves and fools as TO be led by an ad
yenturer at the head of gang OF sell
seekers into an alliance with party whic
is Just about 10 sink under the weight G
It's crimes? "Of all mean feelings, pei
haps the meanest is the consciousness {
having done mean thing in vain"
Virginia ready TO become both knave an
fool and experience :" the consciousness
having done a mean thing in vain" y? I'll
question is not a very elevated one, W
know. IL is addressed to the shrewdne.
rather than the ethics of Virginia; but /
view Of the results OF the Ohio elections
is pertinent.
THE SECOND DISTRICT read wit
much satisfaction in the Norfolk Ledger Il
following paragraphs:
I" Suppose we had made no nomination
would II have benefited DeZendorf, II
straightout Republican candidates. BY l
means, for the Mahonetes would ha'
branded him rs the Democratic candidat
n and The negroes would have at once foe
ed over to the support Of Mahone's m,
Libby.
81 "Would our failure to nominate ha,
aided Massey! Certainly not; becau
many Democrats would not have gone
The polls unless we had q regular candida
in the field. Now they will vote for Ma
Shall and Massey