The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-05-19
What the Radicals Have Done.

What the Radicals Have Done.
We copy from the New York Tribune
the following extract, based upon the let
tiers Of its correspondents sent through the
southern States:
"Our correspondents have now been so
)one in the disturbed districts of the South
that we can form from their letters dis
tinct idea OF the state Of society in that uu-
fortunate part of the Union. 1t is q melaD-
cholv picture that they draw for US. The
most intelligent, the influential, the educa-
ted, the really useful men of the South, de-
priVed of all political power, have come to
look upon themselves rs the outraged sub
iects Of a despotic conQueror. Taxed and
swindled by horde OF raScally foreign adj
venturers, and by the ignorant class, which
only Yesterday hoed the fields and served in
tne kitchen. they care nothing for politics eX-
cept to throw off the oppressive woke they
have no interest in national affairs they
would call themselves OF either party, pro-
yided their rulers were only of the other.
The refuse Of northern cities, who went
southwark after the war, out at elbows and
destitute of character and education, now
roll in splendid carriages, drink rare wines,
glitter with diamonds As big US Fishes, and
steal faxes as fast as New York street
commission. It Is no wonder that the i'm
poverished planter, growing poorer every
day-the eX-Contederate officer who fought
80 bravely for q cause in which he honestly
belieyed-the professional men, accustomed
all their lives to hold Office and lead the
Dublic sentiment Of their communities
look on such things with rancOrous hearts.
They might submit to be ruled by soldiers
who had beaten them in battle, but here
they are plundered by suffers and camp
followers"
Could southern man represent. in
stronger language the evils in the South
that lave been caused by the Radical mea-
slres of the Government since the war !
The Tribune, in continuation of its article,
e,nsures the southern people for violence
and personal outrages by kuklux organiza-
tons, But where else save in South Caro-
lima does 1t appear that these accusations
are well founded? Even there they are
greatly exaggerated. And in that State The
Tribune has portrayed condition of hui
initiation, oppression, and robbery which
might well drive any people to madness.
Did such state of things exist in any
country outside of this Union the Tribune
would daily pour out its sympathy for the
intelligent and oppressed race, and rejoice
at its deliverance, even though effected by
rebellion. But in the case of South Caro-
LIMA that paper breaches submission, and
attempts to console the people with its rem
edy Of general amnesty and impartial sui.
frage.
We could not probably. have in the
f,,i ;,l
against the Radical party now in possession
Of the Government. Logically, it stamps
the act OF making the late slaves voters.
when they bad not the first qualification for
the exercise Of that privilege, as the great
est crime ever committed against civiliza.
ton. This 1t was, and the worst Of its evils
have not come upon us.
4, The monstrous condition of society the
tribune so pointedly and vigorously exc.
crates Is caused by this very measure Of
negro suffrage. Well may it say e'this Is u
miserable state Of things indeed for a
republican Governments burlesque:
upon the sutfrage-auhen the only restr1c-
tom upon ooting is that the uoteS shall NOT
oe cast for the most Intelligent and ar
t.ous citizens" What more could aee
gsyf & s.
And what is the remedy! The Tribune
says: " Universal amnesty and Impartial
satrdge.N That, 1t thinks, will restore
the Union. But it means more. The Ir.i;-
bnne unquestionably means by tImpartial,
suffrage" the resort to a test-tax Or intel
hgenee--by which there shall be a limit
put. upon the participation of ignorance
and bsrbarism In elections and in the gov
eminent OF the country. II is to this de-
vice that 1t looks. as the means Of retriay.
ing .he land from the terrible effects Of un,
!. i,Iaitea Negro safffase--that suffrage which
the same paper has urged the South to