The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-03
rse perverseness of Some Men.

w parverseness Of Some Men.
Y,,,n,ed,ately after the war--indeea, upon
49, vary heels of the Federal army as IL en-
LIZ. ."o this citv-came the army Of hypocrates
ond knayes. who assembled the negroes IN
Dub,ic meetings, and under the garb OF re-
lision, and with long, sanctsmonlous iaccs'
.anoht them to hate the southern whites
and form leagues to oppose the native
whites and support the newly-arrived hypo-
critics and knaves for all offices of pro1lt
and honor in the Government.
These leagues, and the impressions OF '1c
false teachings Of the hypocrites, nave con-
tinued with somewhat declining c1hc'e"',
down to the present day. Such m ARA! VI
the negro population OF course 'o'ccu
separation between them ana INC WIZ
people, upon whom they made open war;
Naturally, the separation should nav.
complete. and so it was. ON! Inc '','l r.s
hvnocrites and workers OF c''l al" ~"
white yirginians were with them' ine,i
,r,,,,;zot;on was black-So black rs hardly
70 hermit the inconsiderable wmee spo'S
th.t were upon it to be seen.
we all know what trouble this State has
had on account of this banding OF the ne
erees against the whites through the I'M
ecrupulous Misrepresentation and artlul
devices of the bypocrites and knaves. Inc
apprehension that through the negro vote
the State might be brought under the mis-
government of dishonest, incompetent, ana
thieving persons, came near DESTROYING all
hope, and brought the industry and enter
prise of the State to the verge OF ruin.
A wise forecast, united public senti-
ment, and self-control amongst the peo-
ME. enabled us to escape this wretched
fate, to the great benefit Of the State and the
well.being of everybody, white and black
Since this happy escape men have begun
20 learn something. Even Republicans have
discovered that the device Of establishing
mere negro party was unwise and impolitic-
tbey might have added treacherous and
criminal. They have publicly admitted that
such device$if persevered in, will ruin
the Republican party. This has been put
In print in the Republican organ IN this
CITY BY the man who furnished pretty much
all the brains the party had TO 60 upon IN
the election campaign Of last year.
Yet we do not see that the Republicans
are improving the complexion of their
party. At a Republican convention in
Farmyille the other day Judge RIvEs, Of
.Albemarle, expressed his regret that there
were so few white people in the conven-
ton, and of course it followed he regretted
that it was so black. He should nave regret
ted that, with his antecedents, he should
himself have beer found in such body-a
body whose almost exclusive backness was
caused by an atrocious tampering with and
deceiving OF the negro.
But Judge K1vEs, finding his uncnvlable
lot to be what it was. seemed Gctcrmlnedto
make the most Of the situation, and pro-
ceeded to curry favor with the untutored
blacks by abusing great many things. He
charged the State government with unl;sltli-
fulness to the school system, and he de-
nounced the Richmond press for talking
treason. This was all very well to address
to the negroes. for that sort Of talk has been
the staple Of all the OrationS to the poor
something better from Judge RlvEs. lie
has been treated with marked forbearancc by
the Richmond press, and no cause has been
given him for an accusation so unioundcG.
But the line Of Radical argument with ne
groes has worn so deep a channel that Rad
cal speakers cannot well keep out of it. 1t
is to abuse the whites and lament the fate
OF the negroes rs wronged and outraged
people.
How is the Radical party to correct the
error which its ablest leader has admitted
that it has made if such orators and teach
ers as Judge RlvEs are sent to preach to
themp If he leads them, he will always
be doomed to sit in conventions with so few
whites and so many negroes as to excite
his regret if not his modification.
We take Judge RIvEs as 4 representative
man Of the perverse body who still pcrsc-
we're in promoting the division Of society in
politics upon line Of color. They have
had time and again the opportunity to re-
unite themselves with their white fellow
citizens, and such sensible colored people as
know the true interests of the State, but
they seemed to prefer the darkness and the
strife OF race. They lend themselves to the
continuance Of the divisions which are
inimical to the peace and prosperity Of the
State, and reject every opportunity offered
them to restore their kind relations with
their own white fellow-citiZens and help to
assuage the prejudices and hatreds Of the
blacks ESQ recently engendered), and to res
cue the State from the most miserable strife
that ever cursed nation.