The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-30
The New Orleans Riots.


authority Of the recent riots IN N'" "
leans. They illustrate three poin's:
,st That the system Of government
established by our fathers is dead; thatthe
Federa, Government is supreme; that the
civil authority of the States is only exerted
bv sutferance, and may be ended wheneve.
the Government at Washington says il
mpst and that the. Government is now
more military than civil-the military
branch being in great degree independent
of the civil. This point is displayed nov
in the subordination of the southern States
to military rule, but it may be and must be
exerted whenever an opportunity occurs in
any northern State-even in New York,
whose wealth and strength have become
such as to make her alone capable of main
tsining place amongst the Powers of the
earth.
I'd. That Radical reconstruction is the
establishment of war between the two races
dwelling in the South wherever the infe-
rior race predominates in numbers and at
tempts to take the government into its pos
session. Incapable as it is of conducting
public affairs, its rule cannot be submitted
to. and will not be. The Intervention OF
the bayoaet cannot give negroes capacity !;
and we find that instead of protecting them
in administering the government, the mill
tary are themselves compelled to take the
responsibility, and in every instance they
find themselves obliged to appoint as their
agents white men.
Sd. That whenever there is conflict be-
tween the races the negro goes to the wall.
He may have the odds of numbers-as IN
New Orleans-but it does not matter; he is
always and must always be defeated.
There have been military governments in
all past time, and must be in all time to
come. There must be, as there has been,
government through the will of one man
the one-man power-which is infinitely
better than that of multitude of tyrants
such as compose the Radical Congress. But
it is not necessary consequence of these
two sorts of arbitrary rule that they should
be destructive of order, security, or even
prosperity. The South may we'll afford,
cursed as she is now by the terrible system
of reconstruction that is imposed upon her
by fanaticism and knayery, to take either
of them guided by q practical wisdom
which would be impartial and conserva-
tive-seeking to restore contentment and
increase the wealth and resources Of people
and Government. There can be no doubt
that the military power, if left entirely
untra mmelled, would relieve the South
of much of her suffering and of the hor-
rible disagreement which now restraints
her industry and destroys her pros
perity. The military men governing in
the South see the full effects of the errors
Of reconstruction, and well know how they
may be modified to the advantage Of the
South and the nation. But this they can
not do. We can only rely upon the future,
and hope for o change which may be for
the better. The present status cannot be
continued. Either arbitrary power of one
man must be thoroughly established or the
Government must revert back to a govern
ment of constitution and law, in which the
civil shall be superior to the military au-
thority, and which ehall be administered
by that type of man which originally
framed it-that Caucasian race which in
this country has reached its very highest
phase.
Come what may-the rule Of the one
man or the Constitutional is impossible
that the Caucasian race can be ruled by
the negro. The sooner the causes of con-
but removed or not, the result cannot be
changed. We know the negro well in the
South. The people of the South are his
best friends. He may be lower than the
white man, and yet occupy respectable
position upon the inclined plane which illus,
trates the gradations of human society. he
has been we'll content with it heretofore, and
has never exhibited the slightest evidence
Of his claim to one that is higher. 1t has
ever been his pridet to stand just there and t.
follow the guide and directions of his supe
rior, and to depend upon him as frient
and protector. In this position he wa
happy as slave and may be happy as free
man, and would have been but for the in
reference of body of vicious and merce
nary knaves, who poisoned his ear will
ounningly-devised fables inspiring hin
with hate towards the southern men, il
whom was his only reliance, and filing ant
Initiating his self-conoeit with ideas thu
vainest and most absurd imaginable.
Had the negro been saved from the false
teachings of these wretches-whose storie!
were all for their own beneft-devised t
secure for themselves the Offices and emolu
ments of southern governments in which
they could live upon the earnings of PEG
pie whom they denounced as rebels, and BY
whom they were detested-he would now bt
happy and comfortable. Had he been lef
toa period Of probation, a term of years il
which to test his capacity for participation
in government, as he should have been, he
would not have been cursed with the rest
less partisan agitations and bitter passions
which lead him into untold troubles-indo
lence, vice, want, theft, murder, and wors,
than all, into those mad conflicts with thos'
who were erst his best friends, in which
he is beaten, and out of which grows al