Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-31

| foreign posts OF honor in our mind, u lies
! not IN our mouths TO talk about sectional
revenge. such talk can't fail 10 do more exc
| cntiou al the breech than at the muzzle, and
| In the long run must recoiI on ourselves. II
| puts stop 10 our protests against pro-
| scrintien and places a powerful weapon In
the hands OF our enemies. We do not question
any southern senator's sincerity or right 10
vote against Mr. Hhisiead, nor do we set up
suy claim OF hlr. Baistead upon our forbear-
ance. We are not aware that he or any OF bis
friends have made the slightest appeal TO us
IN this regard. But we thought and we
think that II would have been TAR better pub
lie policy and. at the same time, far nooler
revenge, IL Mr. Halstead had owed his rescue
IN the house OF bis friends TO those TO whom
he has soincesssntly and so uniustly but so
openly assailed as the incarnation OF all that
~ intoleraDt
Every forglvsng action done aud every
kind and generous word spoken on occs-
sions OF trouble and trial Ly sectional and
political antagonist one to another tends to
heal up the breaches between the people and
to bind up tho wounds OF the war, and TO
make the Union once more The Union OF
couutryuen and brothers. When Horace
Greeley went TO Richmond 10 sign the bail
bond OF Jefferson Davis, when Lamar laid 4
wreath Of flowers on the coffin OF Charles
Sumner, when tho South accepted Mr.
Greeley for IFS Moses, when Johnston
and Lee and Buckner followed the bier
Of Grant to the tomb, steps were taken
| out OF the merass OF mistrut and
strife and toward the high and solid ground
OF d national Union and the end OF sectional
ism. We had hoped that in the case OF Mr.
| Halstesd, which afforded striking opportu-
nifty for the display Of large and liberal
party spirit. there would have been found IN
the Senate enough senators from the South
big enough in brain and heart 10 see this
and brave enough TO act upOn il, aud we can
only regret that in this hope we have
| been disappointed. We are more so be-
cause Mr.. Halstcad is siugulsrly hited
for the place 10 which be was named
and is personally as honorable and clean
man as be ia politically stubborn and I'M
! placable fighter, making his rejection turn,
| as far as He are concerned, upon partisan
! objections which should have had no
weight. We have 1t from very 5igb au-
| irority that II the name OF G0seInor Fora
kcr is not sent 10 the Senate before It's nd
| jOurnmeni the Governor will be dispatched
as Minister 70 Germany very soon tnerc-
/ after. II this he so, the Democrats o. the
| Senate will have helped the malignant
| Republicans of that body 10 wreak their
private revenge on Mr.. Halstcad. only TO
saddle man like Governor Foraker. who
| in his hatred OF the South double discounts
any other Republican in the country, on our
| diplomatic service. On that issue we have
| an impression that the gentlemen will find IT
as little easy TO satisfy their own con-
sciences az 10 explain themselves to public
| opinion, which, in the end, Is toera0ly Just
IN these matters, aud will not give It's APP
proyal 10 the conversion Of the Senate into a
| den OF aspersers.
WHAT RICHARD SMITHS PAPER WILL sAY.
TOLEDO. o., March 30-The Commercial,
Richard Smiths paper, will say edit0rially
regarding Mr.. Hslstead's rejection "The
opposition Of the Republican senators to the
confirmation OF Murst ilalstead as Minister
TO Germany, Is purely a case OF revenge, and
will not be approved by the American peo-
pie. II will he sure 10 bring disgrace on
those concerned, and Will largely bring the
Senate as body into disgrace. II Willserye,
too. 10 increase that public opinion which Is
growing steadily In favor Of abOlshng the
senate as too far from the people, and as
representatives OF wealth rather than the
public creature, OF corrupt methods rather
than OF popular favor. This occurrence Will
serve to stir up discussion and produce re-
suits that will abolish the Senate az body or
make q radical change in the method OF cleo
! tion-thlt is to say, have senator's elected by
the people at large OF each state precisely as
Governors are chosen, instead Oh by State
legislatures.