Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-11-25
rn!yerszng sIen,e.

Tie process al pulycrizinr Slr. BLAZING
continues. There Is hardly seatence ia
his Augusta speech ihat has not been sub
jccted 10 the most scathing criticism. aud
made % show tbst "wllom The gods would
destroy they first make mad.' The Spring
Geid KepoIiiooa takes up his declaration
that ssis IL e perteniois fact that the DE no.
cratic scnsiors who come from the States
o. tso late Con!cderacy and mean all,
without single exception personally
participated in the rebellion against The ma
tionai Government" and proceeds 10 coI,-
mcrt on it as follows:
This il charge which answer, Itself.
The present generation is the oac that
fought the Mr.. and the leaders IN both
parties ard on both sides OF The line were
ia ihc Nar. The difference b tween The
North and tie South was that She one sec
ton kept q part OF its able-bodied while
men 81 home and the other didn't. As IA
illustration o. this fact II is well ancwn
fiat on Tire night THE, General Batter could
have taken Fort Fisher bld didn't, the
stitels OF wilmington. n. g.. one OF The
Jew port, snd cities OF importance lett 10
The ConfedcracT, were guarded fy t~eiye'
yrsI-Oid schOO.hoys. The natives OF the
south who we're not In the war are either
TOO old OF too young for the unted States
Senate.
The I,eBpbiicGn then calls attention to
the fact that thi, point la, been discussed
every campaign since the WIZ, and that in
che HArFs-T'uprN campsign it published =
letter which Ibid down this proposition
Fifteen years ago there existed in this
country Confederate army. Recruited
year sitter year from tic ranks OF IN iniaiu-
s:Cd poOplo, II gathered up their cntirc
manly strength aud intelligence. that had
known less than sixty years. Few are The
rru IN active HE to-day who were then
too young OF TOO old for military service.
Il followed inevitably, speaking in general
terms, that no native scutherner who WIS
not in the rebel army is III fOra business or
political position. As wei expect Massa-
chusotls 10 elect legislators who cannot
read and write rs that southern voters
viii choose white representatives who
were not Conlcdorates." And the higher
the Tank. speaking in general terms again.
the better the fitness for any OF lo.day's d.
ties.
The Repubiic0n says this letter clearly
set forth the Hcbel-BrigadIer question,
and then continues ITS comments:
The northern campaign speaker who did
not eight can never be Just to the south.
We are not yet electing senators who were
too Young 10 carry q musket twenty ycaIs
ngo. We demand in our candidates 4 rea-
sonablc education, q reasonable position in
life. Before The war every university in
the South taught the doctrine of state |
rights a. paramount 10 that oil the Union. |
Tie students oil those univcrSiiie, were the |
officers OF the war and they followed that |
doctrine as the star OF their destiny. just |
so long rs our own Grand Army is vigorous |
and lis members are upon the stage ol ac- |
tive lie rs Presidents, Governors, senators, |
and Judges, so long the rebel brigadicT, !
will appear at Washington.
Such phiiosophic aud common-,cnsc !
disposition OF Mr.. BLAINE's " Rrbcl-Brie- |
adler point" affords striking evidence OF /
tue fact that II viii be utterly futile Tor aay
nan 10 raise the cry Of scctiOnalism again.
II brands Mr.. BLAINE as one OF The few
that have not accepted in good faith the
results OF The war. Truly would il seem
that he would better have hanged mill !
stone about his neck and jumped into tie
sea than made his Augusta speech.