The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-02-03
White and Black.

The ultra Radicals, who protest against
distinctions on account Of Grace, color, or
previous condition of servitude," do not
fail daily to force those distinctions upon
the public attention to the disgust of all
decent people. Our restless Senator LEWIS
is amongst the most active with his impor-
tunities about the blacks having Il bit of
everything. He is guide, guardian, and
friend Of the black delegations, and leads
them like torloru hope to the White
House and to the attack upon the Presi.
dent, who, from all accounts, is heartily
weared Of all sorts of delegations, and
especially black. But Senator LEWIS is i'm
pervious to any impressions of the Presi
dents impatience and nausea. His tall and
Wiry form approaches at the head of the
column to the Presidents room steadily
and formally rs wooden statue. He sees
not the curling lip and the changing hues
OF The Presidents cheek; but he intro
duces his friends Sambo, Cesar, William
johnson, George Washington, and Thomas
Jefferson, with perverse persistence, and
they, feeling their consequence with I'M
perturbable seH-possessien. bow their self
complacency In " condecoprehadcn style"
Gen. GRANT never fails to express him.
self with oil allowable energy. He is tired
of these delegations, these wearisome COM
mittees. He begs them TO 60 home-to
quit quarrelling about the otices-to be
quiet and harmoniOus--and, in substance,
to let him alone. If he were possessed OF
some of old Hickory's impetuous will he
would swear in way that would end these
terrible visitations led by the indomitable
Senator.
We are sorry for Gen. GRANT. He dom,
love the colored people-he is tired o
them-and yet he has to put on the appear
ance of courtesy in receiving them. The
grave Senator has just as little affection TO-
the African. The Richmond black mol
had both him and Mr.. Boris in most un
comfortable, and not altogether safe, posi-
ton on the famous 18th Of April, 1867 an(
the scenes of that day in no way helped t.
elevate the colored man in the regards o
either OF them. Had the negroes not beel
SO numerous, and voters at that. we doub'
whether either MIR. Boris or the Senator
would ever again have said word in eulogy
Of them.
But Senator LEWIS Is simply overstep'
ping the bounds of prudence. He misun.
derstands his Radical brethren just as SUM
NER does. They do not expect that ne
groes are to hold Office, and they regard any
member of the party who presses the
claims Of a negro for an Office that "pays"
as Q great goose. The white Radicals here
have no idea OF such thing and when
they hear that Senator LEWIS has declared
to President GRANT that the offices should
be divided with "loyal colored men," they
say, "What a fool LEWIS is" Well,
Senator LEWIS don't understand fully the
dark and vain ways OF Radicalism. He
may be green, but we suspect he is sincere;
and that Is very bad thing to suspect a
politician Of!
But this pressing Of the negro for office Is
simply calling attention to him as BLACK,
snd making q distinction which radical laws
farbid! SUMNER and PORTER want to divide
the juries equally into black and white
men, thus by law declaring the distinction