The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-05
Negroes VS.. White Men.

The report that in Louisiana employers
had last year Influenced the votes Of their
negro employees, thereby securing the vote
Of that State for SEYMOUR and BLAIR, was
last winter made the text of many dis
course upon the unparalleled wickedness
and hopeless disloyalty Of the southern
people. 1t was even gravely proposed in
Congress to exclude the Louisiana MEM
bers. In fact, there was no available pun
ishment which FoRNEY and company would
not have thought too light for SO grave an
offence. The idea that ANY negro should
be dismissed, or even threatened with dis
missal, from employment because Of his
political associations was deemed so cruel
that none but red-handed rebel could
possibly have entertained it. The same
measure of protection from their employ
erg which FoRNEY would fain extend to the
negroes he does not wish to extend to white
men. These are fair game, and deserve
immediate dismissal from the Government
employ if they dare to think for themselves.
We quote from the Washington Chronicle of
Monday the following eold-blooded para
graph. 1t says
"There are at present employed Mt the
navy-yard some five hundred men, almost all
of whom are understood to be Democrats.
These Democrats will, of course, vote the De-
mocratic ticket in the coming municipal elec-
ton. Many of them are from other cities,
and are retained here only by their employ.
ment at the navy-yard. If retained until
after the election they will help materially to
carry the Sixth Ward for the Democracy.
The ward is close, and this much help may
easily turn the scale against us. Should Mnt
occur, our defeat in the Sixth Ward would De
due to the commanding officer OF Inc navy
yard, which, under Republican administra-
ton that has elsewhere indicated its intention
to put Republican in office, would be q curl
GUS anomaly. 1t cannot he said in this case
that the interests of the Government would
suffer by the change. through getting In less
competent men than the present mount ents,
for there are numbers Of Republicans equally
rs we'll qualified for the work who are in want
of EMPLOYMENT, and, ceteriS paribuS the friends
and supporters OF the Government are entitled
to precedence over its political opponents"
The base hypocrisy Of the plea set up in
| favor of the right of the negro to be free
from the control of his employer is thus
confessed by the leading Radical paper in
Washington. FoRNEY teaches that it is
right to compel intelligent white men to
vote the Radical ticket, but wrong to COM
pei ignorant negroes to vote against carpet
baggers and scalswags. The GOODNESS with
which this is done is decidedly refreshing.
Men who do not support the Radical ticket
are declared to be enemies, not Of the
Radical party and policy, but "of the Co.
vernment." They are therefore entitled to
no consideration at the hands of Govern
ment officials.
If any considerable number of the ne
groes in Virginia should vote for WALKER
as We understand will be the case-this
same FoRNEY, who thus proposes to punish
white men for their political opinions, will
be the first to raise the cry that the negroes
were oyerawed by the whites, and to de-
nounce the latter as no better than savages.
He is your genuine "white man with g
black heart.''