The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-27

=. Reconstructa6n The
-rs..t ssurynreeus Tyranny Ever IEa-
,.naad Upon FALLEN PeopIc-An I'M
faYIsrent Enslishman's View OF
tEadical Polfeys
From enc PAN Mall Gazette, July IL
The following letter is from a well-known
English author tAnthony Trollope), now on
q visit to the United States
W AsHINGTos, June -, 1868.
Il has been deemed by
Congress that each Of these States shall
choose b new constitution for itself, but
that in choosing It, all men, blacks and
whites alike, shall have an equal voice,
except that white men known to have been
leading rebels, and that other white men
who will not take a test oath 80 worded as
to be utterly irreconcilahls to tho feelings
Of q southern white nidn, shall De deparred
from voting at all. The upshot is that the
framing of the State constitutions is to be
given to the men who four OF i've years
since were slaves and who are still negroes
But it must not be supposed that these
black men have really been asked to frame
their Constitutions, or to do anything else
than vote. Their Constitutions have been
sent to them by post, and consist in an un-
dertaking on the part Of the State in ques-
ton that all men shall hereafter vote alike.
It will, therefore, go forth to the world that
Alabama, Georgia, and the others, have
themselves declared that white men and
black men shall be the same for all politi-
cal purposes, and that on this basis the
States have been reconstructed - and
restored to the Union. I hold that tyranny
never went beyond this. 1t may be as
well at first toys:--sss<s chat in none OF the
great IN Es5 osio, an do;s Mis- 5.
souri, none but white man CON vote. In
Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan white
men and Indians can vote, but never
negro. In the great eastern States negroes
are kept away from the polls, either practi-
cslly or by actual rule. In Pennsylvania no
black man can vote. In New York negro
can vote, but not without q property quail
fcation and three years. residence. In the
States of New England, excepting in Con-
necticut, negroes can vote but their num-
Der is 30 small as to make their votes of no
possible value. Yet it has been ordained
by these victorious northern States that in
the conquered southern States all political
power given the whites shall be put into
the hands of race Of men who yesterday
were their slaves. For myself, am pre-
pared to argue, if it be needed, that negro
is not fitted by his gifts and nature to exer-
else political power amidst community OF
white men. BE is 80 naturally subservient
to the white mans greater power Of mind
that, when passion is over, he will always
do as some white man Shall instruct him.
But putting aside for the present subject
which is very vast in it's bearings, and in
which men have and will dispute loudly,
here has been made a provision for war of
races with the express object of keeping down
people, in order that that people may be de-
barred from all political power in the empire.
It must be remembered that government in
the United States is State government for
the most part. In Georgia the black men,
on these lines of reconstruction, would have
the power Of making all laws for the re-
straint Of the white. They would be ena-
bled to enact that man should be hung
for this or that so-called crime-a white
man, if you will, for not taking off his hat
to black man. But it has never been for
moment intended really to entrust this
power to the negroes. The intention is
that, through the negroes, all political
power, both State power and Federal power,
shall be in the hands Of members of Con-
gress from the North-that the North shall
have it's heels on the South, and that the
conquered shall be subject to the conquer
ors. Never has there been q more terrible
condition imposed upon q. fallen people. For
an Italian to feel an austrian ouer him, for
Pole to feel Russian oUer him, has been
bad indeed but it has been left for the
political animosity of Republican from the
North-a man aoho himself rejects all con-
tact 10Th Menegro-to subject the lateSouthern
Slave-o,cner to dominion from the African
,oho aoas yesterday his slave. The dungeon
chains are knocked off the captive in order
that he may be harnessed as beast OF
burden to the captor's chariot. But it will
not be SO. There will in these southern
States be war of races hatred from the
white man to the poor, timid, incapable,
unconscious negro; suffering for both-in.
finite suffering for poor Sambo, who will
gradually begin his appointed task OF dis
appearing; there will be rapid death OF
negro children, negro want, and all the fol-
lowing of negro vice; but the white man
who lives near him will gradually reassume
his power. There will be an influx OF
northern men into these States, and they
will gradually become as the white men OF
the South. The scheme after while will
| fail but in the mean time all the hatred OF
a conquering and conquered people will
be maintained. Such, sir, are my ideas OF