The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-12-05
a Negro Candidate.
TFron the Harrisburg Pat let.

The Radlcal lSt OIL cauutuales w."
Senator in the first district has Deen m
creased by 4 negro. who longs 70 uis'lns e
| cuish himself in the legislative mans OF
| Pennsylvania. To the names of Morris,
| Moran. Lvndall, Tittermary, and a dozen
IF others must be added that of Octayius
V. Cato. II there he anything i'll a name,
and there is certainly nothing in his color,
that prevents him from being q Radical
candidate, he Is just the man for State Sem
ator. The Radicals in that body have great
need of a statesman of the stern Roman
virtues Of a Cato. In the resolutions pre-
,enting Mister Cato, the colored suffragans
of the first district intimate that they will
no longer be hewers Of wood and drawers
thew will cease to chop wood, tote water,
dump coal, black boots, and do other chores
Tor their white fenow-citizens Of Philadel-
phia. 1t is a figure Of speech by which
they convey the hint that they will not
be used merely to vote the Radical
ticket. but must have their full snare
Of the honors and emoluments of
office. This is Congo gratitude towards
hose who have bestowed the boon Of the
ballot. The glorious privileges of suffrage
conveyed by the fifteenth amendment are
contemptuouSly described i'll the hguratlVe
language Of South street aS the heWlng Of
wood and drawing of water. The negroes
OF the First district basely fly in the faces
Of their white brethren and demand the
nomination for State Senator. If his does
not ill the heart of every radical patriot
within the bounds OF that district with dis
gust we have utterly failed to comprehend
the nature of the animal. That the negroes
of Philadelphia, to whom the ballot was
given that they might swell the party vote,
should insist on holding the offices into the
bargain is more than the good temper Of
the politician of the radical persuasion in
that city can be expected to bear. But he
will soon discover that he must grin and
bear it. ,
In South Carolina and other portions OF
the reconstructed South the negroes have
! pretty nigh ceased to hew wood and draw
water in the political camp OF their allles.
A negro Secretary Of State, three negro
| members of Con ress, and negroes in
| numerous other public positions, show
their understanding OF the 18th amendment
| in South Carolina. This was not the pro.
! gramme Of the carpet-baggers, who eX'
| Oected a life estate in the offices Of that
| State by means of negro votes. In their
| disgust at negro ingratitude and white
superciliousness, many of them are o
leaving that country for that %country's
good. Candor compels the admission thut
luc pidChs WIN nave pCCu ClCSlCu W OluCe
in South Carolina are the superiors of their
carpet-bag rivals. Far be it from lis, how.
ever, to institute a comparison between
tctavius Vespasianus Cato and his intelli.
gent and distinguished white competitors
Tor the Radical nomination for Senator in
the first district of Philadelphia.
The eyes of the country are now fixed on
the 1st district. Here is an opportunity for
the Radicals of Philadelphia to give a sig.
nal test Of the sincerity of their convic'
tons. II negroes are good enough for
voters, let the Radicals show that they are
good enough also to represent Philadelphia
in the State Legislature. There should be
no wriggling in the Loyal League on Broad
street. The members of that political asso.
citation clamored loudly for the ratification
of the fifteenth amendment in this State
They sent representatives to the capital
who violated their official oaths and tram.
pied on the Constitution of the Common.
wealth by voting tor the ratification. The
mutilated Constitution stands today with
the word white written all over it as 9
monument of the perfidy and obsequious
ness of the representatives OF the people o
Pennsylvania. But that is past. The revo
lntion has been effected by fraud, but it Il
none the less a revolution. 1t has all thu
virtue and validity Of the solemn and de
liberate decree Of the people.
Let the white Radicals of Philadelphia
accept the situation with the best grace. a
negro demands, rs proof of their sincerity
u seat in the Senate Of Pennsylvania under
IN amendment which was ratified agains
the will of the people.