Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-04-25
FROM RICHMOND.
Fawney's Chronicle and its ISLANDERS Against the
South---Trne Loyalty, where il is TO be Found---
Where are all the Black Pickaninnies asa
Riddle for Messrs. Sumner and Stevens.
Correspondence of the New York world.l

Correspondence Of the New York World.]
RICHMOND, Va, April 16.
The Washington Chronicle recently had the fol-
lowing paragraph " speak by the book when
say that at this rery moment the condition Of things
in the South is more Threatening than at any other
period since the defeat Of Lees army"
OF all the wiful, atrocious, and audacious false
hoods that have found their way into print, against
the South this ought to bear the palm. Upon what
can the writer possibly base such an assertion! l
cannot for what is going on in other parts OF
the South although can very safely and reasona-
bly, infer from what is daily passing under my own
eyes and to my own certain knowledge. Here am
at the very focus and fount of authority of the late
confederacy, mixing daily and hourly with leading
and representative men who took 4 prominent part
in the great struggle. Weighing and comparing
ideas with them upon all political issues-past, pres
! ent and future-and on my sacred honor fail to
discover one single feature that could even give a
coloring to the monstrOus assertion which makes the
subject of these remarks. Do the authors of such
statements take the whole Northern people for a
community of idiots when they venture to thrust
upon them untruths so easy of refutatiOn! Look,
for instance, at the conduct Of the press here ever
since the proclamation of peace and restoration of
! the hdbeds corpus, when many who mistake the
character of this people might have supposed they
would have abused their newborn power by def
| ance and angry eXultaton. Where have we seen it,
, Every one must have remarked that the most yio-
lent papers have moderated their tone. The expla-
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people, and while they chafe under harshness and
domination, they are the most tractabe in the
world when magnanimOusly left to their instincts OF
honor and self-respect.
If there be anything threatening" down here,
most assuredly it is not against the stability peace,
or prosperity of the United States but against those
who seem bent upon destroying the Union and the
| laws and Constitution by which alone it can be
governed. Against such revolutiOnsts there would
appear to be much that is threatening" in the
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ing true that the South is to-day dsoyal, by of
those singular revulsOns which, not unfrequently
follow the footsteps of war; past issues have been
completely reversed, and the South is, to-day, the
true refuge of loyalty. The very men, who, short
time ago, were fighting to dissolve the Union are
now banded as unit against those who would de-
strOy it by trampling upon the Constitution and laws
of the United States. Lee, Johnston, and Beau.
regard have changed places with Sumner, Stevens,
and Wade. True national loyalty has flown
affrighted from Washington to take refuge in the
capital of the late Confederacy, and among the cot
ton, tobacco, and sugar plantations OF the South.
Some weeks ago my attention was drawn to a
very singular fact which had never noticed before,
and that is the total absence of young colOred chill
dren in arms. Ever since then | have Observantly
kept my eye upon this fact and the question has be-
come almost as interesting, who ever sees a
young pckaninnyW as Mr.. Weller's who ever saw
| n dead donkeyr But this is serious matter,
though some may mistake it for joke. Where are
all the pickanlnnleS! VIII tell you what the doc
tors say about them: dying Just as fast as they come
into the word-sOme from the most cruel neglect by
their parents; others, it is feared, by means more
summary. Under the old system the parent was, to
a certain extent, an Irresponsible being. mother
troubled herself comparatively little about her
| offspring, because, under any circumstances, IN
sickness or in health the selfnerest of the master
or mistress-allOwng nothing for their humanity
would see to its protection Now all thisis changed.
The mother is responsible and self-dependent Sur
rounded as too many of the negroes are in our cit
les especially, by wretchedness and poverty, not
having yet lost that feeling of dependence upon
Others which has grown up with their whole lives,
unable often to obtain proper medical advice or
money to purchase medicines for their sick children,
it is not to be wondered at if thousands die from
sheer neglect-and they do.
This important fact, coupled with Others of more
horrifying character that medical men can substan-
tiate respecting the black population, should lead
thinking men in the North to consider whether there
is any genuine philanthropy in any artificial system
that attempts to elevate the black to its de-
struction, by destroying the very germs of self
dependence in them and forming breach between
them and those to whom they must hereafter look for
support.
The trees have all suddenly burst into green TO-
liage under the genial sunshine we have had and we
must be at least month ahead of you in New York.
notice our hotels are already becoming unusually
crowded with Northerners, and we are hoping that
it but the foretaste of that stream of good honest
workers who are coming here this season, not only
to explore the matchless resources of Virginia. but
to settle down among and develop them. They
may go further and find less inviting field. h.