The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-29
The Native Republicans.

The publication of MeSSrS. BOOKER and
HAMILTON, inviting a convention of native
Republicans at Knoxville on the first OF
November next, is received rather coidly at
the North, as we anticipated. We were
not surprised to see their letter calling that
convention. The great body OF Republic
cans who came into the South with the
Federal army were mere plunder-seekers.
Thew were without character and without
capacity above the low cunning, which,
stimulated by greed, has been so actively
and successfully employed amongst us. They
got the ear Of the negro at time when the
white people dared not leave their houses !;
and before the whtes-whO owned all the
land and had to bear all the burthens of the
country-could, with safety and peace,
meet to consult about the general welfare,
the blacks were, through the mallgn lnflu-
ence of these new-comers-these camp
followers and plundererS-banded as one
man in hostility to the southern people
and in support of the wicked men who had
filed their minds with so many unjust pre-
iudices towards the whites, upon whom
alone they depended for occupation and
support.
These plunderers and camp-followers at
once took the lead as Republicans, and
those natives who Joined them were COM
PEELED to take what were called back
seats" The plunderers moreover got the
ear of the Government, and have monopo-
lied all the patronage Of the Federal Ad-
min,stration dispensed in the South. Patriot
ism they had none no more had they OF
humanity and honesty. They cared no.
thing for the Republican party. Their ap'
petite and their avarice governed and i'm
PEELED them. They would have joined any
side that had the power to sustain them In
their places the holders of offices for
which they were incompetent the custo-
dams of trusts to which they were faith
Jess the appropriations to their own use OF
the property Of others; the rude heetorers
as Federal agents over a people amongst
whom they were not fit to live, and who eX-
Grated them as they deserved to be.
Now, it is not wonderful that this horde
Of beasts of prey should become disgusting
to native Republicans. 1t is we'll known
here that the southern native Republicans
have for years denounced these intruders
and eamp-followers with heartfelt bitter.
ness. It is a wonder how long the feeling
has been restrained from public expression.
Months ago, however, the Republican State
Journal lnyeighed against the injustice Of
the Federal Administration in dispensing
It's patronage exclusively amongst these
strangers.
We repeat, we were prepared to see thu
call from Messrs. BOOKER and HAMILTON
but we were equally prepared to see i
coldly received at the North among the
Republican newspapers. Have the NATIVE
Republicans OF the South the stamina q
back the two gentlemen above named! w
doubt it. They will inveigh and curse PR
yately, but they will continue to lay thei
necks in the sand for such men as PLAT7
and PORTER, and srowEEL, and WELLS, an
CuaTIss, and THAYER, and the hundreds 9
others to tread upon. ..M
We doubt whether the Knoxville Cor
yention, whose call is based upon o wide
spread discomfort amongst native Republ
cans, will be attended by them. They lac
she pluck TO bh there and openly declar
themselves. The only way to wind up tn
narpeE-baggers and cadet~sellers is for til
southern people TO rise up IS one Fan an
tree the South from the disgraceful bcndae
they haye been compelled to endure
these invaders, by the conntenance an
support they have ynost ppjustly receive
srosu the Federal Government.