The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-18
White and Black Parties.

White and Black Parties.
at was q short-sighted and repulsive
policy that drove the South into two par
ties, crystaliized on the single issue Of race,
through real or pretended fear Of party
failure at the North. "-NeU York Times.
This is very true and just. The people
of the North and people everywhere out Of
the South have DO cleark perception Of the
extent to which this division of races has
gone. Even the people Of this State had
no idea that the blacks could be cajoled By
all the fattery and demagoguism of WILL
SON and his less distinguished but not
more unpriDcipled colaboring missionaries
sent from Congress entirely to separate
from their former masters and sincere
friends. No people could have been more
astonished than were the people of Vir-
ginia the morning after the elections for
the Convent on at finding that the negroes
had voted en- maSSe either for candidates OF
their own color or for the white "exotics"
who had associated with them and poisoned
their minds towards the whites, in order to
got their votes. Such thing was thought
impossible and the result developed a
trait in the negro which it had not been
supposed generally marked his character.
1t should be understood that the negro
Is here The Radical party. The white Ra-
ideals are hardly as numerous, compared
x,,;t l Ia IL tho 1rnrnrS
pared with hogs they drive to market. All
the audiences Of northern Radical agita-
tors, from the plausible and. tricky WILSON
down to the vulgar and brutal NYE, of
Nevada, consisted almost wholly of negroes.
All the speeches made to them are in
tended to initiate them with an idea of
their own conseq uence and capacity, and
to poison their minds with reference to the
whites. The negro is told never to trust
tho southern white man, who will surely
enslave him again when he gets the power.
Thus filling his mind with notions Of him.
self destructive to his own happiness, and
uniting him for orderly and successful
industry, while he is constantly seduced
away from and made to hate the white
man, upon whom he must depend for en-
ployment, and whose wisdom, energy, and
forecaste alone can secure to him the
thrift and security of regulated industry
and good government.
Thus, in the South, Radicalism is another
name for the party of negroes. They are
the heart and soul Of it. The immigrant
Radicals are one in thousand, lowering
around the blacks as a shark does about
his feeding ground, to live upon those
habiting thereabout-having no other SYM
pathies than the shark, and no charities or
considerations outside their own greedy
and Unsuitable maws.
1t is all negro. The negro has the CAPT
tol. The gallery is full Of them, and the
privileged seats, once adorned by the beau
ty, refinement and virtue of Virginia, are
never honored by the presence ofsouthern
ladies'. Negresses and their pompous es-
corts have swept them, by invasion. when
the Convention adjourns, the stream that
flows out is chiefly black, and when any
Radical addresses the people" as report
ed, he is only addressing negroes.
White people never selected for repre-
sentative a mere drudge-a man without
information or influence. The negroes
have put into the Convention men whose
wives are cooks-men who, when at home,
sleep In the kitchen loft Of those who en-
ploy their wives But even these are more
tolerable with an intelligent community
than some of the whites they have elected.
These things the world ought to know
these things here in Virginia, which hasfur-
nished the first men Of the nation, which
contributed more to secure the national in
dependence and more towardsthe national
glory and renown than any other State,
and, besides, gave to the Union the
richest gift ever given by State to an un-
grateful nation. These things are done in
this Old Virginia, once SO honored, now 80
oppressed. They are sustained by the
bayonet, and could be sustained by no
other auxiliary.