The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-02-15


The Democrats in Virginia and in all
other states ought TO direct all their efforts
10 the naturalization OF the Government.
There must be national party In power
before the people Of all sections OF this ma
ton can be thoroughly reunited and bound
together BY the ties OF common patriot
ism. The Republican party is sectional
party. II was sectional in It's origin; was
sectional when ,it achieved its first
success on national theatre; was
patfioiicaliy or fanatically sectional du-
RINK the war between the States; and
has ever since been ALPHABETICALLY, and
therefore Enthusiastically and shamefully,
sectional. lis whole tone has been New
England tone. Its whole policy has been
northern policy. II openly and notori-
ously violated the Constitution In its re-
construction legislation, and did all that
malignify could TO compel the southern
people to remain hostile TO the Union. III
ii had deliberately concocted scheme for
keeping the two grand divisions OF the
country in a hostile attitude toward each
other, that scheme would almost necessarily
hive consisted Of Just such measures as
TBAp. STEVENS and his associates advocated
and induced Congress to adopt as peace
measures or reconstruction reforms. The
Supreme Court Of the United States has
done TO death the ciyil-rights act, and
ought TO condemn all the sectional legisla-
ton OF tho Republican party. But IL he's
not done so as yet. That party still
"holds the tort" Ii controls the Govern
mont. Nav, IL Is the Government. To
dispossess IL of that control--to make the
Administration national and not Sec
tional one--to bury the war and war mea-
surcs out of Sights the grand work now
before the National Democratic party.
There is no other national party; and so
the work must be done by the Democrats,
or remain undone.
Not only win the malignant Republican
party refuse TO nominate any southern man
for President or yice-President Of the
United States, but it has actually worked
up in the northern section Of the Union a |
pubic opinion that will not permit even the
Democrats to nominate any southern man
for either OF these offices. Look at the
Blus Book, and see how many foreign min. |
listers the sixteen southern States have. |
Look at the Cabinets OF the last twenty |
years. Count the high and lucrative Offices |
OF any kind that have been filed by south |
ern men. "The trail OF the serpent" OF
sectionalism is over all the appointments,
a. ii is over all the measures, OF this anti |
national, this sectional, this unpatrlotic |
party.
Consider these things, fellow-citizens OF |
Virginia, and then say whethery you are will |
Ing 10 divide this year upon any other ques-
ton than the one that divides the voters
into sectionalsts and ationalIsts-parti-
sans and patriots. So long as the southern
people are treated as enemies they cannot
afford to divide upon politico-economical
issues. When once they get "the Old Man
OF the Sea" off their shoulders they will be
free to consider other matters than those
which concern them in their character |
Of freemeu. Would that that day were |
already here. But 1t is not. The Repub- !
lican party must be buried out of sight be- |
fore sectional wrongs can be. expected to |
end. 1t has lived upon these wrongs. 1t
viii never learn to do better 1t cannot be |
persuaded that any other method OF achiey-
ing success Is comparable to the one
which has served them so well for twenty
years-namely, the waving Of the bloody
shirt.