Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-07

tieu IN ltS c0nVictl0nS Dy THIS vulgar
clamor Of conquering faction.
What entities him to be so sure that
the Confederacy would have been a
sorry and ruinous failure had it won
independence His facts, we suppose,
are such as these: That the same
southern craftsmanship and experience,
in the hands Of the same living men,
which had guided the United States to
power and glory, from 1900 to 1850,
would have blghted the Confederacy.
(For it was the constant grief and COM
plant Of Mr.. Cables present friends
that southern principles and men were
dominant in the federation.) That the
same principles Of Government which
had so blessed the United States, would
blight the Confederate States. ForifMr.
Cable regards the actual history Of his
country as any more authentic than
"Dr. SEWER" he must be aware,
that the States'-rights theory came
into power with Mr.. Jefferson at the
beginning Of the century, and guided
the platform Of every Administration
Except the second Adams's and Fill
more's), until Mr.. Buchanan's; that
for many years Of the most splendid
growth the Virginia resolutions and re-
port Of Mr.. Madison were regularly
incorporated into the party creed Of
the party which made the country
great, or is it his creed that the same
Southern people, who made the South
great, glorious, and rich, while groan-
ing under legislative inequalities, must
have made their country base AMI
poor, when freed from the incubus ,
This is evidently Mr.. Cables logic
That like causes always produce Oppo-
site effects
The most curious part Of this SUBJ
ject presents itself when we recall the
sort Of Government whose present
methods and blessings cause him so to
felicitate himself upon result which
cost the hearts blood and the broken
hearts of so many myriads Of his own
people. That, surely, must be an
almost heavenly state Of good which
good man think so well bought at so
frightful price to those he loves We
look at it and We find these to be the
only distinctive features Of this felici-
tous blessing !. The Justification Of
all the solemn pledges given by the
conQuering Government to the con-
Quered, to their own citizens, to the
civilized world, and to God, when they
were initiating the war. 2. The wreck
of the Constitution. 3. Carpetbagism
and scalawagism. 4. The malignant
expressions and disgraces Of "recon-
struction." 3. Universal negro suf-
frage with it's bottomless political cor
ruptiOns. Z. The reopening Of civil
war in Columbia, S. c., and in
the authors own city by expressions
so ruthless as to incense even the
crushed worms. :. Crushing loads Of
debt on the conquered States. <. The
putrescence of Federal politics, and the
infames Of the gift-takiDg Admins
tratiOns. .. A tariff system the most
mOnstrous ever known in America.
10. The steady descent Of the old pro-
perty-holders, with their innocent fami-
lies, into the doleful abyss ofinsOlyency,
restitution, and misery, under which as
many hearts have been broken by sor-
row as were pierced on the field.
dying deaths of slow torture, compared
with which the murders Of their sons
and brothers were mercieS. But the
Government Mr.. Cable so admires has
restored peace? Yes, the peace Of sub
jugason; not Of liberty. Some south
erners are retrieving their losses?
Yes, thanks to their own sturdy right
arms-those right arms which would
have made a free Confederacy bloom
like a garden But has been done in
spite Of every pressure Of unequal taxa
tion and hostile legislation.
The only rationale Of Mr.. Cables
hallucination of which we can think is
this That in the enjoyment of the
liberal recompense his patrons and
masters at the North pay him for
amusing them with his fictions and
batteries, and for depreciating the peo-
pie they contcmn, he simply Jor9ets
where the people of the South that was
now are and what they are enduring.
lie may be assured they are tasting
none of the fatness Of his luck. With
their wealth transferred by conisca-
lions and legislative juggleries to the
Golfers Of northern capitalists their
homesteads dropping into decay; their
farms lapsing into barren thickets;
their gallant sons reduced to labOring
peasantry; they sit under the grim
shadow of an unjust poverty, and they
sink into obscure graves, whence their
misery does not reach Mr.. Cables ex-
ceptional prosperity, or disturb his
good luck.
His conclusion is as illogical as his
reasonings. He assures us that he is
still as proud as ever Of being Con-
federate, although he now sees he was
wroDg-so wrong as to make him
thankful for this terrific correcting
But if he knows that he was so wrong,
then he should be ashamed, and not
proud. lie should know that men are
responsible to God and their fellows
for errors so gigantic. The only atti-
tude for him should be contrition, deep
humility, confession, and fearful en-
treaties for pardon. OF one thing we
are sure: If we had committed so
enormous bluDder and crime as Mr..
Cable now says he committed in 1861,
and that, after being so positive we
were right, if we had persisted in our
error four years, and sealed it with
human blood falsely shed, when at last
we found out our delusion, we should
have hidden our heads and laid our
hands on our mouths for the rest of our
natural lives, and we should have never
again presumed to teach fellow-citi-
zens his civic duties. That is the only
attitude for so fatal o blunderer.
why He Went Down Stairs.
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