The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-03-06

THE SOUTH AND THE SHERMAN BILL.

THE SOUJn AND The SHERMAN BILL
Private information received here gives
the assurance that the southern people
will at once accept the situation and select
delegates to form convention in pursu-
ance of the military government bill. A
delegation from Virginia have been here,
and consulted leading men on the subject.
They also called on the President and
made known their purposes. They learned
from Mr.. johnson that so far as the Ad-
ministration is concerned the law will be
executed to the letter. es nN
INTERNAL REVENUE.
The receipts from internal revenue
during the last few days show decided
improvement. On Saturday they footed
up 81 1913, lo9.s7. The receipts during the
week ending on Saturday amounted to
"a ,662, 25l.0l. The receipts during the
month Of February amounted to 1885,
All. 80, and the aggregate receipts from
this source since June 30, 1866, the CON-
mencement of the present fiscal year, are
S20l ,l75, 1880.
The Charlottesville Chronicle comes
out SquareIy for Convention.
From the Chronicle OF yesterday.
There are three courses for the Legis.
lature to take:
The first is to fight.
The second is to fold arms and do no.
thing.
The third is to call State Convention.
There would be unanimous voice in
favor of the first, if we had any power tc
make decent resistance.
The question is between the second and
third.
The third leads to an acceptance Of the
cruel and merciless terms imposed upon
us. The second leads to the same thing
and to much more.
The question now is: Who shall get the
control of the State under the new dispen.
sation Of universal suffrage-the whites or
the blacks .......
The provisional government, with uniyer.
sal black and qualified white suffrage, is
already upon us. The courthouse bells
white and black alike to the polls. In adj
dition to this, while the provisional govern
ment lasts we shall have martial law in Vir-
ginia-the liberty of every man in the
hands of Federal officers.
1t has been said that we had better have
military law than submit to such degrade
ton as is implied in the acceptance of
the terms. This is true ten times over.
But military law is not the alternative.
1t is military law and negro suffrage and
the prescription of our leading men. These
three things come upon us without our
lifting finger.
This is not all there aoM be COnuen-
ton to ratify the terms proposed. If we
stand off, where is Bolts, and Hunnicutt
and Underwood, and 100000 negroes
They will have convention, and heyw
put the State back in the Union; and they
will give us a State Constitution. That
Constitution will be like the Constitution
of Tennessee-it will perpetuate the power
in their hands.
There are 100000 whites in Virginia.
We can control the State we can guide
if we cannot arrest the storm. And the
more rapid our movements the more COM
plete will be our mastership of the situa-
ton. Wait, and wait, and wait, and the
Radicals will organize the negroes against
us.
We are therefore for Conventional
once. 1t is not worth while to resist the
deluge: the man who trusts in God will
build an ark that shall float upon the tenn
nestuous waters