The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-30
The Colored People and the Tribune

The Colored People and the Tribune.
The New York Tribune is exceedingly
philanthropic always to the descendants OF
the Africans imported into this country
long years since by the ancestors of the
northern people-possibly of Mr.. GREELEY
himself. That is very well; but the 1ri-
b,,ne never fails to make a fling OF some
kind at the white race while plying or en-
couraging the negro. This is very bad.
We do not suppose Mr.. GREELEY himself
does this; nor do we suppose that those
who do it in the Tribune office are actuated
merely by wanton malice. They have got
ten so much in the habit of this, in carrying
out the Radical policy against the South,
that they cannot help it.
The Tribune has letter from North Caro-
lima which pleases it very much-a letter
evidently written by some man who either
knew nothing Of what lie wrote or who
was only manufacturing little capital,
personal or political. Take single asser-
tion-thus: "About half the colored chill
"dren in the schools of that State-chil-
"of the patriarchal system-are so nearly
"white that nobody can tell to which race
"they approach the closer" Who believes
this? 1t is very great falsehood-a con-
densed statement of what the North Caro-
lima writer communicates, and condensed
by man in the Tribune Office who is pro-
foundly ignorant Of the whole subject.
- But since the war has given the freed
"men the control Of their own families, the
amalgamation has almost wholly ceased,
" proving that it was the whites-not the
blacks-who were responsible for it OF
"old." And going back in this back
handed way of dealing out opprobrium, II
the northern people had never brought
negroes to this country for the purpose OF
putting them into slavery there would now
BE fewer negroes here and less amalgama-
ton.
But this aside-who that knows the trutl
does not know that this whole statement l.
entirely without foundation There ID
diminution of the marital relations amongs
blacks and general decrease in the mum
her Of births of colored children, as ii
generally known, in the South. Negr'
men are less willing now to incur the re
sponsibilities Of families than when the.
were supported by their owners. There Ii
hon q n
and therefore fewer proportionate births
Foticide and infanticide, too,-things al
most unknown in the South before the war
have become quite common, mothers prefer
ring to destroy their children rather thar
support them. 1t cannot be shame, becaus'
the giving birth to the offspring of illici
intercourse inspired no such feeling in for
mer times.
Whatever may be the case in time t.
come, this is the condition of things now
and must continue to be until order, politi
cal and social is better restored. We re
gret that it is So We state it with no un
kind feeling to the blacks. 1t is a poor way
for the Tribune to help the negro by libel
ling the white man. 1t is unnecessary an(
outrageous. The white people of the Soutl
are the best friends of the colored people
In southern hands the blacks will have every
chance to acquire property and knowledge
whilst the prejudiced and uniformed north
ern man only succeeds in making them un
happy and slandering US. 1t would be use
full TO MIR. GREELEY to come down here ane
go amongst the people, and find out the truth
lie would derive great deal Of information
that would be useful to him, and enable hin
to enlighten u great multitude of men whom
he has misled in times past.