The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-05-08
Advica with Rod in Hand.

GREELEY has grown as conceited anC
puffed up as he is fanatical. He addresse!
the southern white people in the most pa
tronizing and authoritative manner. Hs
wants to know what we have been doing u
qualify negroes to vote, and tells us that hi
does not believe we are discharging our du
ties towards the enfranchised, who, he as
sures us, are going to live with us whether
or no. He chides those whom he chooses tc
address as Conservatives thus: d" Of course
you do not burr. school-houscs wherein
black children are taught, nor mob their
teachers but your voices are seldom heard
in earnest rebuke of such dastardly Of
fences" How fatherly this is! Dear Fa-
Their GREELEY, what do you propose to do
with us for our manifold crimes?
1t is confessed by the philanthropist that
we "are POOR; but he sticks to his text
that we are delinquent. We have rarely
seen a more pompous display of self-con-
ceit. What is worse, he is sort OF repre-
sentative man Of large class of northern
fanatics who look upon Us as little better
than slaves, to be chided and punished by
them. Ruined and DISTINGUISHED, and sub
ordinated TO our late slaves, as far as Fede-
raj laws and persecution could subordinate
us, we are censured for not educating the
late slaves as rapidly as the fanatics think
we should A more arrant set of med
dlers-a more impudent set Of mcn-ncyer
lived.
The southern people have achieved Won
ders-they have borne with unprecedented
hardships and insults sufficient to have
driven a sensitive people to desperation,
and yet they have restrained their natural
impulses and preserved the order and dig
nifty of the community. With so many
reasons to make the education of the blacks
disagreeable burthen, they have taken 1t
upon their shoulders and achieved what no
other people have done before them.
And yet the pharisee Of the Tribune holds
up to us the example of "the first settlers
of New England" who he says severe still
poorer" than we are "yet," he continues,
"they built school-houses and hired teach |
ers when they had barely roof over their
heads" OF course the cost of schools and
teachers was low in accordance with the
poverty Of these people, and there is moth |
ing particularly meritorious in their act,
the more especially as they We're teaching
their o,cn children, and not Africans just |
freed from slavery. Did those people ever
teach the Africans at all when they had
them?
And GREELEY adds-what he evidently |
conceives to strengthen the example Of |
fered Us by these pious New Eneanders-
that they established these schools % even
"while they allowed no one to vote but
members in good standing of the recog-
nized Church, so that loafers and Uagd-
" bonds acre utterly porer1ess." Not only
"loafers and vagabonds," Mr.. GREELEY,
but every man who did not agree with
them in religious opinion. The Govern
ment has forced as to admit not only
"loaters" and "vagabonds," but barba-
rians too, to the right to vote. We are only
advised to copy part of the example of
the settlers of New England They edu-
Gated their own children we must
educate negroes, who pay no taxes.
They excluded "loafers" and "yaga-
-bonds;" we must submit to be ruled
not only by those in the form Of carpet
baggers, &C., but by the illiterate negro
and paupers also. The negro is put upon
us, and then we are asked why we
don't educate him and make him fit
"for the grave responsibilities the
Government has "imposed upon him."
Would it not have been wiser had GREELEY
and his Government qualified the negro
before comforting these responsibilities
upon him? What right has he or any like
him to censure others when they have been
guilty Of such an outrage on policy ana
justice and the safety of the country
We reject GREELEy's ,reproof and his
examples. Let him take care OF his own
people and study the Justice of his own
opinions and policy. In short let MIN
pluck out the beam in his own eye before
he maryels ut the mote in the southern
mans eye. ----.--------