Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-10-11
Dodging the Question.

The Providence journal takes exception
10 cur statements that in recent issue II
appealed 10 passion and prejudice. and that
II Is fighting over again the war which took
place In this country some twenty years
ago. Ii also declares that the Dispatch
knows that IL has not been guilty Of
shameless mendscity," and that ii Uhe
journal INDUCES In no passion and has no
prejudice against the South. AS bearing
upon the question whether the journal is
| fighting the war over again. we requote
ono OF the mildes. OF the paragraphs con-
| timed in the article which called forth the
| DiSpuich's comments. II is as follows:
Among the dangers to which the Repub-
| lican parry II exposed, but whose dinen.
sions IL is impossible TO measure, Is that the
rising generation, TO whose minds the war
is an historical event, and whose memories
are not charged with It's scenes and Incl.
dents, may, in the failure TO understand
the temper and spirit OF the Democratic
party, be led 10 favor its claims to priority
in the hearts Of the people.
II this is not fighting the war over again,
IL il is not raking up dead issues, II 1t is
not in the nature OF an appeal to prejudice,
in the name OF common sense. what is it?
II this and various other quotations we have
made from the journal recently do not
show that It is trading upon sectionaism,
certain il Is that its language does gross
violence to its feelings.
As TO the charge OF shameless mendacity,
the journal does the Dispatch injustice.
We made no such charge against our
Providence contemporary. We distinctly
specified the Republican party. The Jour
nal has so many sins OF its own to answer
for that we have no desire TO weight 1t
down further.
But, after all. the journal lodges the
chief accusation we made against it. and
that is that it seeks to put northern Demo-
Gratis under the ban of suspicion, and
holds that they are not lit TO be trusted 10
administer the Government. Ii endeavorS
to divert attention from tins point by drag
cling in the inevitable negro, and by seek
ing shelter behind such utterances as the
following:
when it Che Dispatch says that the
DoIicy of the journal I" means season of
political vampireism," does it really think
that we would attempt, as the South did, to
destroy the Government?
And again.
The time must come as it ought to come,
when the war OF the rebellion will be only
a matter of history and of example. The
lI,of N a
for the country. and the sooner shall we re-
joice III that which we desire. But the
Dispatch is not Fastening the time. With
out retorting in lis own temper and phrase,
we can quite appreciate the effect its vitupe-
rations will have upon the northern reader
who sees them in full.
In reply to the journals interrogatory
about destroying the Conveniently we would
say that the Republican party, one OF whose
representatives the journal is, has already
virtually destroyed the form Of govern
ment OF the fathers OF the republic, and
that the issue of the present canvass is
whether it shall be restored. Anent the ef-
feet OF our vituperations upon north
ern readers could they see them
in full. we only wish the JOurna!
would quote enough Of them to make them
Ineligible to the northern mind. We have
confidence enough in the fairmindedness OF
majority Of the northern people TO ina
CINE that the effect Of publishing them in
full would be about the same as would
have been the effect Of publishing Major
DANIELS denial Of the charge the journal
brought against him, which denial our
Providence contemporary has quietly is-
nored, although its attention was called to
it particularly.