The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-24
MAKE Republicans Respectable.

MAKE Republicans Respectable"
This has been the burthen Of the State
Journals lucubrations for some time past.
It even ran its head against that prince OF
naves, PORTER, in the vain hope that 1t
could be reinforced "by responsibility"
and by some aid from Washington, in its at
tempt to relieve the party of such rs he. 1t
has found neither reinforcement nor en-
couracement, and has Of late shown signs
of being ultimately drowned in PORTER. So
far as the Convention just. held by the Re-
publican party in this city is indicative OF
the success of the effort at responsibility
the attempt to mix up a little more white
with its black, and make republicanism
something better than q mere "negro par
ty''-it has been an utter failure. We OBJ
serve no well known new name in the dark
list but one, and he is certainly altogether
incapable of lifting up those he went to help
out of the quick-sand, and must sink with
them.
Republicanism in Virginia is unlike re-
publicanism anywhere else in this world,
save in the other Southern States. The
party was established by Northern Metho-
dist preachers, and eamp-fcilowers and ex-
pert rogues, who followed the army into
Richmond. They assembled the negroes
at nights while the whites dared not leave
their houses, and taught the simple Afri-
cans to hate the people who had raised
them, among whom they were compelled
to live, and who alone could give them en-
~Iornoa,& and ,,ooopc of cuhc;stanpo Tbav
did more. They enrolled these negroes in
leagues against their own Virginia peo-
ole, and drilled and garrisoned them for
the political campaigns that were to
come against the native whites, whom
these negroes were taught, parrot. like,
md drilling, and the rules which gov.
erned it, no rebel was ever to be trusted
It is needless to refer to the history Of the
last five black years to show how strictly
the injunctions of the hypocritical invaders,
generally propounded at religious meeting,
in the midst Of praying and singing, have
been obeyed. The last act under this per.
picious and atrocious war upon the white
people OF Virginia was the attempt to de.
priye every white man, with few inglo-
rlous exceptions, Of the right to hold Office.
Had that attempt succeeded, we should
have had here in Virginia hell,upon earth
! for both white and black. -
Thus we have q .republicanism here In
Virginia utterly different from the republi.
canism Of the North. Here it is, in fact.
black republicanism as the Journal, the
Republican organ, implicitly confessed "a
pesro party. s. ~ &: Gsts
From the government OF such a party
every thoughtful patriot not blinded by
prejudice and bigotfy has endeayored tt
{ save Virginia. Such government coult
only be made up OF those Incompetent and
III pntrastWofthy persons who had been con
,pacuous IN lmbuing the negro nnind with
the worst prejudices against the virginians
and with the fatal delusion that the bes,
friends Of the negro. and the best men to
81 rule I,s, Wsre the hypocrites who had
misled them. These, together with illite.
rate negroes, who could neither read nor
WTits,and such thor personspa were willing