The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-08-09
&C. 1ational shame.

orders to break down tue lnlluenCo vi 'ho
host informed and the most intelligent OF
the constituency. Conspirators against the
state had their followers amongst the lower
orders, and at last appeared with them In
the field armed to threaten and to deter
opposition.
How closely the example is followed IN
the '.novel Republic" of America we
have seen the late slaves of the land endo"-
ed with equal rights with their late nha',
ters. and series Of measures aaop'eu
by the Government designed to put thoSo
slaves in open hostility to their MASTER
to band them and garrison them' a"u tu..
them upon the only responsoie anu o'''y
o,n.b,e mart of society to oyer"neinl IL
and DESTROY its influence and prevent It's
n.r,icination in the government OF the
aountry, The means to accomplish tnls
Object are as INSCRIPTIONS as any resorteo
70 nv the usurpers Of Rome, ana the amol-:
tion which suggested them Is as se'flsh anu
&C corrupt rs any that ever animated Inc
breast of q Roman politician. ...a
when we pursue the comparison little
farther we sec that in our case the facts are
far more humiliating-far more revolving
to every noble sentiment, every principle
of social order, every view OF pollcy
for the preservation Of national peace
and national dignity. Romans OF all
classes were RomaDs-true Caucaslans.
The lower orders might be elevated, ana
were capable of elevation and ready asslmI-
lation with the higher. There were not
two distinct races in Rome to add their
hates and incompatibilities to the strltes Oh
ambitious and corrupt men, backed ny Iheii
followers. The color of the skins was the
same, with the Slightest shades OF dlherence'
Rut here we have races as distinct as pny-
steal differences, tastes, and haDlts TAU
make them. One white, the other black.
So that where the tyrant of Rome put down
the white man with white men, our tyrant-
himself white-puts down the white man
with the black man. All the world IN dill
ference. Rome, then, with all her CIVIL
commotion and war of classes, was heaven
itself in this world compared with the nor
rors of that collision which is contrived by
the cruel and unrcIenting predomlnatlns
party in this land.
But since our case is worse than that Vi
conservatism and virtue in Rome unuer the
wars of the rival chieitains, then may we
no, hone that the solution OF our trouoies
NAV he more propitious than that OF the
Romans? Certainly the age III Which We
| live is more advanced in the knowledge o'
| the science Of government and IN Inc aseh,
cics which promote the Improvement anu
prosperity of people. Naturally we
should be more ready to revolt at measures
and conditions calculated TO degrade SCOT
ety and prevent the march OF improve
ment, Naturally we should be more read
ilv appalled, than even the Romans "o''iu
have i,ceu at the measures that nave peeh
deliberately perfected with the view OF de-
basing the superior race OF the country 10
s,Ibordnation to the inferior-the TWO De-
ing as distinct in every sense as the colors
which mark them.
Therefore there is every reason TO be-
Iicve that the public sense everywhere
will in time revolt at the state OF things IN
this country. and that we shall he saved
from the fate Of Rome. Nothing sustalns the
present wrongs perpetrated by white men
upon their own race but the passions OF
the recent tratricidal war. When they
die. As die they must, the national heart
will throb with grief at the wrongs that
have been done, and the dignity, as we'll
aS the Justice of the nation will be indicated
by relieving the true society Of the land OF
the dcgradation-the ponderous weight OF
humiliation and shame that has been
heaped upon it. Without some act OF
justice that will redeem the land from the
shame that covers it, it can never attain
TO the great power and grandeur to which
it is entitled, as well from the character OF
its people as the wonderful natural re-
sources which till the land.