The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-01
A Part of the Game.

A Part of the Game.
The convocation of colored people i'll this
city last week had no other purpose than to
compact the negro vote for WELLS. IL
was not Il thing suggested by the colored
mind. 1t came from the white dccciyers,
who have by IL conspiracy of circumstances
gotten the ear and confidence Of the negro
preachers and furious dccaimcrs after the
LINDSEY stamp; and who have thus estab-
lished negro slavery far more degrading
than that which has just been abolished. 1t
is a slavery of the mind-a slavery 80 AFFECT
that it forces the poor blacks into the gross
est wrongs of their best friends, to whom
they must look for employment and sup
port, and that for no better purpose than to
give place and profit to IL body Of white men
who are warning against their own people,
and who have no means of sustaining the
poor, deluded creatures whom they are
dipping so basely and cruelty.
The resolutions of the convention atorc-
said were, we have good reason to believe,
framed or suggested by the base men who
are so seriously disturbing the State by
conflict Of races. One Of those resolutions
declared the obligations of the blacks to the
people of the North for their many kind
nesscs, and especially for their benevolence
in providing the means" for the education
of colored children, adding:
but we dcplorc that there should have
"bcen any necessity for these charitable
- fo is1, hn cf
"education for the reason that it should
"have been willingly furnished by the State
cor people of Virginia, as we are citizens,
land taxed to defray the expenses Of
"schools and other public institutions.'
Now, here is most assuredly the cunning
of the leader-the great head of deviltrv.
political and social, in Virginia. The pco-
pie of Virginia are cunningly accused for
not having raised money to educate these
black children, when all know that they
have not the money to educate their own
They are accused of not doing this when
they have had no Legislature and no powerto
do anything-when their own people have
been excluded from every single office OF
any consideration whatever, and when for
months they have had no civil government
Furthermore, they are arraiSned, in the
face of all these disabilities, for not edll-
eating these black urchinS, when the blacks
are citizens and pay taxes! Here is rare
impudence. We venture to say that in the
history of the world no part of commu-
mty entitled to equal rights with all ever
fell so ridiculously short of their duty as
! taX-payers-evcr so nearly devoid Of all
claim upon the State on the ground that
they were taxpayers.
! But they claim to have not only paid
taxes, but to have paid them "to dcfray
! the expenses of schools and other public IN
stttutsons!" All, ha! There you arc pub
| lie institutions - These large taxpayers
are looking at you. WELLS has aimed this
shot ut you.
This whole complaint is one of the most
untoundcd and ungratetul ever made. 1t is
instigated by the white intriguers who are
| pulling the wires behind the screen. We
know well the people Of Virginia, and what
has been going on in this State. The whites
/ have done what none others could do if they
would-they have given employment, aid,
and succor, to the blacks. The white chill
dren of the rural districts have taught more
colored children without fee or reward than
have been taught through the boosted means
sent from the North for which the conven-
ton was so grateful! There has been more
material aid and heartfelt and sincere SYM
pathy extended by Virginians to the blacks
than has come to them from any and all
! places outside Of the State. And yet there
is put forth such resolution as this by the
slaves of the carpet-bag overSeers!
With such manifestations of hostility
from race they have never wronged, and
which has since the war been the constant
recipients Of kindness and forbearance, will
the people of Virginia hesitate for a mo-
ment as to their policy and duty? The
malice and ingratitude taught by the wicked
and selfish, and learned with strange IA
cility and perverseneSs, once triumphant.
would know no bounds this side the utter
prostration of every interest, the degreda-
ton of the government, and the destruction
of every school of any renown in the State.