The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-06
How a Canuck Talks to Gen. Grant.

HOW a CanucR Talks Ky "O"'
from the Montreal Daily News, Marcn 1'.J
RADICAL REPUBLICAN, TYRANNY.-;.. a AZ d
sad commentary on General Grants All
ministration that, after holding office o.
President for nearly three years, be can lind
no better mode of governing one-third OF
the United States than brute force. Poland
under the Cars has now tit counterpart
on this continent but the Poles were never
doomed to the hideOus tyranny OF being
placed under the hoof Of a freshly-emanci-
Dated negro, and all remonstrance silenced
by the bayonet. We had hoped that
General Grant would have seen the i'm.
perous necessity Of healing civil dlscord
in the land, so that the United States
could present an unbroken front to the
foe. The moral blindness Of the Radical
Republicans who hound him on is inexpli-
cable. Can they not read his proclamation
in the light that it will be understood in
Europe? Is it not an official confession
that those who attack the United States
can count on active allies throughout the
South, where a gallant people, outraged
beyond endurance, will borrow the first
weapon to hand to free themselves from
oppression? What burlesQue on princi-
pie, what satire on the staggering pre-
tentions of Ctfban liberators, and the cal
culated ovationS to FcnianS, this muir
derous game Of guarterlng Federal troops
in southern States There is not one edu-
Gated man in the United States who Will
honestly declare that the whites can be held
in subsection to the blacks. We have no
prejudice against the negro but we must
forget all that we have been taught, reject
the evidence of our senses, and treat his
tory rs myth and juggle, before we can
admit that, under any possible conditions,
the white race will bow down before the
negro and call him master. Yet that is the
p:th of General Grants proclamation when
Invested of official verbiagc. The blood
hounds Of the press are eager for the
hunt. Genuine mawworms. with peace on
their lips, pride in their hearts, and the lust
of power and pelf, they impore Congress
TO supplement Gen. Grants decree by leg
islation which can torture where the bayo-
nets cannot strike. We may be asked what
concern it is of ours whether the iron hand
of military despotism falls on the South.
We answer: Because it is an outrage against
civilization to degrade freedom Americans
below the level Of ignorant emancipated
scrfs. Because it is repugnant to the in
Stincts of our education, our training, and
our race. Because it is abhorrent to the con-
science, and in fragrant violation Of the les
son which history teaches us. How came
it to pass that at West Point Academy
the untameable antagonism of color cropped
up, and that General Grants son was fore
most in asserting the dominance Of race
Have the northerns obliterated the dis
tinction of caste? The northern disdained
association with the negro, while at the
South he was caresSed and treated as a
petted child. The northern would shrink
from personal contact with the negro,
while at the South he belonged to the
family, and went on terms of familiarity
with the household. Southern gentlemen
greeted the negro with friendly courtesy.
There may have been brutes. There are
brutcs in all communities. Wife-beaters
are not extinct amongst the emancipation
lists, but as Il general rule the feelings of
the negro ut the South were not wounded
by in avowed rcpugnance on account Of
color. The insidlous policy of the radical
Republicans has been to build wall Of
blood between whites and blacks at the
South, and incite the latter to distrust, sus-
pect, and hate the former. The yileSt mo-
tives inspired this policy. Radicals dread
ed the influence of old associations. They
feared that the negroes, whom they needed
as their servile tool, would return to their
old allegiance. Hence the eXecrable con-
triyance of clothing the negro with the
franchise and closing Senate and Congress
on the most illustrious names in the South.
For these reasons we denounce General
Grants manifesto as an insult to the age
and disgrace to civilization. Instead of
appealing to bayonetS he ought to have
ruled constitutionally, and proclaimed an
amnesty. He ought to have restored to
Southern whites those rights of which they
have been so long and so manifestly de-
priyed, and not create an American Poland.