The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-06
stimulating the industry, intelligence.

stimulating the industry, Intelligence,
thrift, and morality Of the blacks.
Herein lay an absolute guarantee to the
blacks Of the good faith and kind purposes
of the whites, and wise and prudent c"on-
sells and conduct on the part OF each race
would consummate this harmonious anu
beneticent relation.
Secondly. Mr.. Marye admonished the as
scmblage that while oil the blessings emu.
merated were now open to the hiacks' ye'
that all history confirmed the truth OF the
Word of God in proclaiming that no race,
black or white, could procure or keep
these blessings without much labor, toll,
sclCdcnial, patience, and torecaste; nor
without an obedience TO the laws Of mo-
rality. virtue, and religion. lie reminded
them that their own observation would
discover the truth Of this by looking at
the means by which the white people
around them procured these blessings.
The idle, careless, dissipated, vicious
whites were poor, comfortless, and de-
graded; the opposite class were thrifty,
comfortable, and respected. Further: the
blacks would have to expend more labor,
toll, patience, and pains-taking than the
whites, because they started in the race
with less education, training, and expe-
ricnce. He encouraged them by the as
surance that they had made good begin
ming. The colored population of Frede-
ricksburg had conducted themselves in
manner to claim the respect and kind re-
gard of the whites, and they now -njoyed
it. Allusion was made to the fact that
during the period of slavery, during the
war and since, many of the colorcd peo-
pie of the town had won and received the
marked esteem and confidence of the
whites. 1t was only necessary that all OF
them should exhibit the same character
istics of industry, integrity, and virtuous
conduct to procure success, comfort,
esteem, and happiness for them all. These
ideas were enforced in simple language
and by familiar illustrations.
Thirdly. A warning was given to avoid
all the counsel coming from any quarter
which tended to stir up questions among
them which related to matters not essen
tial to their welfare, and which could end
in nothing but provoking ill-will between
them and the whites. Many people at the
North and few at the South would busy
themselves in urging them to seek polti-
cal privileges. If they had them they
would not know how to use them, and if
they knew more than they did, politics
would certainly never do them any good.
1t was false to say that the exercise of po-
litical franchises was essential to the well
fare and happiness Of any class of people
in State. Such franchises, if they could
get them, would not help them jot in
meeting their great and pressing neccssi-
ties, viz: the procurement Of food, raj
ment, permanent homes, and accumulated
means for wife and children, sickness and
old age, nor help them in clcvating the
physical, mental, and moral condition of
their children. These things should absorb
all their time and energy, and would tax
them to the utmost.
But this was not the chief objection to
their needing counsels about their political
condition. If they were deluded to seek
political strife, two calamitOus results
would certainly follow-they would GER
tainly fail in the attempt, and would in
cvitably sacrifice their best interests in the
foolish effort. The respect, the confidence,
the goodwill and aid of the whites would
be forfeited, and the attainment of many
of the important blessings now lying open
to their reach would be postponed, if not
made impossible forever.
At the close of the address, George
Dixon, q colored man, who is respect d
and looked up to by the colored people in
all this region for his picty, endorsed all
that Mr.. Marye had said. Other leading
members of their church, and benevolent
societies, thanked him for the excellent
advice he had given them. One Of them,
IL patriarch in age and influence, said to
him, have been thinking over "them
things for long time"
When l saw the department Of the
freedmen of Spotsylvania, and contrasted
it with the celebration held on the Fourth
of July year ago at the old African
church in Richmond, when fifteen hundred
negro children, ut the bidding of New
England schoolmarms and masters, dis
cordantly sang
"Hang JEFF Davis on a sour apple tree
l could not help thinking that the Lord, in
his own good time, will disclose to the
colOred people of the South who are their
pretended and who are their real friends.
SHOCKOE.