The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-01-17

The Dispatch goes through Downing,
} whom it calls the mulatto restaurant
keeper In the national capital, for writing
letter to the New York Times from Rich
mond, against amnesty. Our contempor-
airy says the negroes, generally, seem to
) oppose amnesty; and attributes their
course to a servile disposition to submit to
the lead and dictation of their white politi-
cal leaders, like dogs to their masters.
The Dispatch might have let its Demo-
cratic friends in New England, who, prior
to 1908, were engaged in the slave trade
rest, however. What good does it do to
arraign this generation for the sins of cur
fathers OF what use to say to the ne
groes
They do not perceive that they are making
war upon the only people who can help them,
| and siding with the descendant and heir of the
slave-trader Spon the high seas, who bought
their ancestors, at the rate of q gallon Of New
England rum for q dozen of them, and import
| ed them to this country. This, of course, no.
| body can be surprised at. Such blindness and
| wilfulness, however, is capable of any imagi.
nable caprice and infdelity, and those who
use the negro now may look to become the OBJ
jects of his hate and execration at some future
line.
Those Democratic slave traders of New
England were encouraged to bring the ne
groes from Africa by the planters of the
Southern States, swho were their CUSTOM
ers. If the former bought them for gal
Ion of rum-how many pounds OF tobacco |
did you give for each ? If Virginans had |
not encouraged the traffic, New England |
ers would not have engaged in it. The |
receiver is as bad, if not worse, than the
thief he not ouly commits crime HIM
self but encourages others to engage in it.
The truthful" correspondents at the
Capital, having announced that President
Grant was about to send in message
recommending another reconstruction of
the South, in which he would lay before
Congress full statement of all the out
RACES committed in this section upon loyal
men, and declare against amnesty, the
whole press of the South has been on the
tip-toe of hopeful expectation. 1t would
like Just such food to feed the flames of
hate. The President couldn't have done
them greater favor or the Republican
party greater Injury, than by sending
just such message as was foreshadowed
Imagine, then, their disappointment when
the message did come, and there was moth
ing in it, The Wig thus gives vent to
its disgust at the failure of the President
to give the Southern Democracy an OPP
to assail him:
The Presidents Ku,Klux message, which
was published yesterday, does not fill the d.
mansions assigned to it in advance. 1t 10
brief, pointless, and unsentimental. The Pre-.
ident, who during the war had to fight real
men, seems to be almost ashamed to put him
elf at the head of the embattled hosts who are
contemplating crusade against shadows The
spirits of his party demand his
,ame, influence and leadership in their inglo- :
ious campaign, in order to strengthen the =
'arty, and not being resolute enough to refuse o
altogether, the President obeys after fashion. v
lis message looks somewhat as if he were s
shamed to have to take part in so unmanly y
var, for he says as little on the subject as was
f such miserable tomfoolery. m
We told you half dozen times that the p
PRESIDENT did not intend to allow things to G.
'e disturbed in the South again but that
lis whole desire was that we should have
'eace, which he knows can only be Sc
ured through quietness. The sea, after
eing dashed into fury by a hurricane, does
lot instantly return to calm placidity
or does nation at once subside into the
erfect repose of tranquil peace after such ;,
storm of war as we have just passed B
trough. s.
The Whig is afraid we shall have r
ureau of religious education established R
a the South by the government, to propa- p'
ate Republicanism, and train up the
sing generation to loyalty. We have no
ears from anything of the kind. We can
OF force the growth of politics either by
he bureau, the bayonet, or the spelling
ook in this country, and it is about time
70 recognized this fact.