The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-03
The Colored People.


A card from colored persons in the kadi- }
cal paper expresses surprise that TINS paper
should expect colorcd voters to vote any but
the Radical ticket. They did not refer to
.thc main point made by the Dispatch, which ,
was not about the votes OF the colorcd men,
Int about the resolve OF the colorcd convcn-
ton which, while beStowinS tulsome praise
on people outside of Virginia, passed cen !
sure upon Firginians for not educating CO. /,
lorcd children. This was rs unjust rs !,
1t was impudcnt; and the card alluded
to above adds t. the impudcnce OF this ]
ccnsurc by affecting surprise that they
should be deemed so ungratcful to the Re
pubicans as to vote with those who they so
recently said should educate their children.
The whites of Virginia were not able to cdu-
cate their own children; they with difficulty
provided them with bread.
We had no money in the State treasury,
we had no government of our own, and
were powerless to provide by law for the
education even of white children. And yet
the poor deluded negroes excessively bcplaS-
tered the northern philanthropistS, and
meanly ccnsurcd their own Virginia people
for not doing what they knew very well
they could not do. A piece of fattcry on
the one hand, and injustice on the other,
which could ut such time spring from no
other motive than that for party effect. We
did not, and do not now, think the negro,
with all his proncnCSs TO icalouSy-Wlth all
his wcll-known facility Tor listening to the
whispered representations Of wrongs done
and prcmcditated towards him, from that
of "tricking" him to that Of returning him
To slavery-would of his own suggestion
make such complaint against the people
whom nc knew so well, and with whom. Tor
his own happiness and prosperity, it is so
necessary for him TO maintain relations OF
alnity and concord. 1t is the suggestion Of
Il devil with Il white skin.
We know it is matter of publicity that
the Legislature of Virginia of 'GG had this
subject of education under consideration,
and were only prevented from putting it i'll
full and vigorous operation for the want OF
means 1t was the general sentiment OF the
members of the body that there must be a
system of education that must include the
blacks. They were free, and it was the
common argument that they must be edu-
Gated to make them the more capable OF
sustaining their new relation. But most
aSsuredsy the failure to mako provision for
educating the white children should he
taken as conclusive evidence that there was
an obstacle then, not to be overcome, in the
way of educating the blacks.
We have not counted too largely upon
the early dispelling of the malisn influences
which have clouded the minds of the colorcd
pcople and set them against the people OF
Virginia. They are joined to their idols
True, not so devotedly as they have been ;
but quite enough SC. The gas-bass, such as
LINDSEY and the inflated and consequential
preachers, who think more Of making laws
than obeyiug those of the Heavenly Father,
are still the yociferous worshippers in the
temple of carpet-baggcry and through the
system of clubs and general intimidation they
coerce thousands who do not believe in
them and haze no desire whatever to
follow them in the path of folly and in
justice. Stilltherc is growing sense of the
error of making war upon the white race
of disturbing the relations between capital
and labor-of breaking with the people who
are kind towards them and solicitous for
their welfare, and running after those
who arc strangers to them and merely
desire TO use them TO get into Office.
Aud the number of those who are thus be-
coming enlightened will steadily increase
until none will despise the carpet-baggers
more than the colored people. We have
never had any strong convictions that their
number would appear very large on the 9th
OF July. There is yet too much tyranny OK
crciScd by the clubs and the brutal portion
of the colored people over the voters to eX-
rcct great many to leave the main body.
! me very existence of this tyranny, shown
n III the beating of negroes at the polls and
d ''le nobblnS of Doctor BAYSE for during to
= oiief Tor Congress against the nominee of a
packed" convention, proves also the ey-
istence of discomfort and Discrimination 70
tge ass laaaWSyomhe fanatical and reckless lead
>'Se---." 1whe way of prescribing and
ers II u whites, upon whom they
wronsing tnsfor everything. In time the
really depend snmtht Thh EaS Ren vte
Disconnected az. 9sh ss nd sAmdsh viii
ho .m large efoGgh to defy thei~4Sa'lm u
dators, and ultimately put them down .1s -
the tables be not then completely tuiheAe
by making the tyrants themselves the wv, W.
Tins of the tyranny they have laasn'' 'iie!
NAV be thankful. Their present iiiS'fu'-
lions are Of kind that generally return !"
plague the inventors.