The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-07

Prince Georges county, Md, on Tuesda,
last. MIR. BLAIR was Il Free-soiler durins
the period in which the question of exclutl
ing slavery from the Territories was mi
tated. Indeed, he was the father of tht
Free-soil party, and its movement to estab
lsh a national party and elect President
But he is too much of statesman an(
patriot to look upon the Radical policy o
reconstruction with any feeling but that o
horror. We commend his able letter-sc
full of bold thought and true statesmanIkt
phiianthropy--to the careful perusal of th,
reader:
SILVER STRING, Oct. ., 1s7O.j
JRessrs. Geo. Wheeler and .g'hos. r ~,
6Ott: - l. 's'
GENTLEMEN thank you for vo,,r i;,,,t.
ton to the meeting called bv vo,,r c,,h h fn. ,.
" discussion on the issues nf the az; ,Ui
Age and habitude, which untit mo V%y, sro,,
making political harangues disounIifv mi piTn, fo,
Inc service you propose When T r',y s,,,ra,' ~,
dered my press waS. disar,nnS I for ,niitica
discussion. 1t pixies me- saI to ~, saW pUittG ti;
r,'ad loa Know t, .at our country ought TO com
man' a '"e :" 1yeryice of every true and capable
WI, 10 offer nothing more than good
W. les and zeal in such times as these {s N,
, admission Of inibecility that pains me:
we capitulated for peace, and the terms
were the rights conferred by the Constitu.
ton, yet the six years Of peace have been
employed in enslaving lis. The civil war
ended. The leaders who have prohtel
most by the power and renown and riches
IL has transferred from the conquered to the
conquerors are not satisfied. they would
now make war OF castes, and make new
acquisitions, and seek revenge on those they
have since injured, lest, If not utterly
crushed, their wrongs might grow into re-
proach and retribution. They are not con-
tent with the enfranchisement of the freed
men, with the cheerful acQuiescence of the
former 0WnCrs, but when the boon had re-
celved the legislative sanction of every slave
state, they turn upon the emancipators
and disfranchise them. Then they tell
the freedmen we do this to strip them
of the power, of the rights recently
conferred Oh you. We keep them down by
military force rs another means of prescrY-
ing your. liberty. and in this way the col
ored race is made to believe that its safety
lies only in organized hostility to the
whites, to which the armed power of the
readiness to give support. The whites are
thus made to feel that the other caste is
marShaled in ranks against them, and holds
the sword OF the national Government over
their heads at the polls and over their civil
governments Wherever any preteXt can be
shown for intimidation. This attitude of
war between the races is fostered to break
up the natural ties which grew up with
those born and reared OH the same planta-
tlonS and rendering mutual services. 1t
was really the relation of farnily-of pa
rent and chitd-amonG good people, en-
cept that the pupilage between the more
capable and inferior of the two races
was continued through life. Those
who would subiugate the Whites and blacks
alike to their political power by incitins G
hostIlltics know that the independence OF
the freedmen, rendering the owners OF cam
ltal and the soil of the South drpendcnt on
them for labor, would become new bond
OF amlty between them, aud to prevent this
all the policy OF the Radicals is directed,
10 tllWart it the Democracy should eypoSe
the motives OF It to the weaker race. and
conyIncc them Of the niut,utl interests which
oilio oiio 10Th races to sympathize with each
--icr, and expose the selfish policy which
animatcs the men of other States who would
p,<y upon the South by setting its children
to sacrifice each other that the stranger may
take the country rs spoil.
hS hluSl SOuNllCc tIlUsc NJIE WuOnl
our relations we were ever united in kindly
sympathies that we are still Trustworthy
friends. Cur position now, without ali-
thorltS over them, but whose. nccessitip5 I'M
ylte their skill and capacity for labor, with
wages to make their lands profitable, would
meet theirs, not as that Of dependence, but
OF equality, i'll dealing. The laws, of the
Government, State and n.itiOnal, 'recog-
nIZe all the rights rs the same for
both, classes. The national and the
State legislation alike guaranty them
and make them sure. Convinced of this,
the freedmen should not allow themselves
to be made the instrument OF preteXt to
enslare those who have been benefactors
to the colored race in both the relations
they have had with them. II they assist
the enemy who distranchise and put them
under loot, can they expect to find these.
yiolators Of the rights of white men lust to
those Oh another race? May they. not DC
put down in turn, and will they then be
found lenlent task-masters? Look to Low
ell and other factories at the North, where
they work their own blood as heartlesSly as
their machinery, Oh pinching wages, and
When worn out with age or sickness, dis
miss them to penury. while. enriched mil
lionaires themselves from the; profits of
their laborers and the bonuses obtained
from the taxes wrung from the people Of
the United States under the plea OF encour-
agement to manufacturers. Will they, il
they succeed id driving the southern plan
ters from their lands, OF bufying them
there, show themselves more considerate Of
the instruments used in the process than
they have been to the same caste in
Cuba, whose labor under the Spaniards
they have found profitable to northern
hon ri of
They supply their Spanish masters. with
arms and ships to keen theni in bond
age, while our navy rides round the coast
Of Cuba to enforce our neutrality laws
which might and ought to be repealed;
to see every ship sent to supply
arms and food to whites and blacks fight
ng for their liberties made prize to their
oreign master SPAIN, holding them IN
bondage. ar. Washburne, cur Minister at
Paris, has proclaimed cur recognition Of the
French Republic. We could save that of
Cuba by the simple act repeating our neu-
;rality laws, or by recognizing the bellige=
'ent rights of those fighting for their free.
lom. Our Government acknowledges those
If the Government fighting against iraedoms
thus the slaves in Cuba are held i'll Spanish
Our President will not accord
,elligerent rights to the liberatlng, but
)nly 10. the QeSpOClc sue uOr VIII ne re-
Commend to Congress the repeal OF ,neu-
rality laws, which fetter our commerce for
he exclusive benefit of Spanish oppressors.
)ur colored population may see in this
What lovers Of their race they would bring
'yer them III exchange for the time-honored
Wnel's of the soil, WhosI all their rela-
ions with them, before and since emanci-
'ation, have given proof that they were Pa
rons, always intent on improving their
ondition. II this were not so how could
hey now boast of a civilization placing
hem imineasurably In advance Of the ma
i've barbarous tribes OF Africa from which
hey sprung? ~