The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-05
hntipathies of the Races.

81 TIE citizens Of African descent" no nol
see much from the North and West to en-
courage the ideas of equality in all things
with the white race which the fanatics AND
1.-THE party knaves have been preaching to
s,,them. The demonstrations in Rochester are
rot cheering TO their raee. The Outrage
= committed in that city by a negro upon the
person of white girl is an outrage which is
not rev in that part Of the world. But the
difference between preceding eases and
This Inst is that the deed was done by negro
';pon awhile person. That Is all, and in the
public estimation of the North that is every
. Thing.
lhc manifestation Of rage towards the nc
gro was only the outburst OF sentiment
which exists and has always existed. The
hostility between races is ilTepressible and
4. ineXtingi.is!laDlc. IN the case Of the negro,
the political condition Of the country and
party interests have caused him to be pctted
2 10y ouc part of the Union, and in that part
Of the Union the same causes have tenn
porurily reprcssed manifestations Of aversion
towards him. But at last the occasion has
been furnished that called out the real feeling
CT the -'!s;tcs, and it promptly displayed
a., -.,~l
p community unused to violent demon
-etIations, and with no practical acquaintance
with the stratcgies and processes of Judge
LYNCH, undertakes to mete out his judgment
upon the negro whose outrage upon the
white person had filled them with the desire
for vcngcance. Unskillcd us they are, their
expedition goes awry, and they are foiled in
=, tleiy effort to get hold Of thcir intended vic
tim. The disappointment only maddens
d them, and they continue to hang about and
plot to carry out a purpose which could only
lave succeeded by being promptly and forci-
bly, accomplished. One failure is defeat. The
moment the officers were appriscd of the
purpose Of the mob, and strengthened their
means OF defence, the mob was frustrated
finally.
But the passion dispGlyed-the thirst for
revenge upon tho black man--shows the
natural hatred of race for race which exists
III the North as well rs elsewhere. It has
only been temporarily dormant, but will
never fail to show itself when there is all
occurrence that is calculated to arouse it into
action. Almost contemporaneouslYw with this
Rochester excitement happens the demon
stration against the negro in Kansas City.
There negro purchased ticket, entered
the opcra-house, and took his seat amongst
the "reSpectahle' auditors. He was not
allowed to remain. He claimed his rights
the Mayor and police backed him. But the
audience allowed no peace and no play until,
covering under the storm he had raised, the
poor negro accepted his three dollars and re-
Hired. 1t was found that such storm as
that could not be quelled by the conservators
Of the peace in any other way. 1t was i'm
possible to seize upon and arrest the grand
volume of public indignation which swept
over them like waves of the sea and stifled
their voices and paalyzcd their arms.
= 1t Is needless to discuss the question.
: Events take their natural line, and it will
only be few years before we shall hear no
more Of it. The blacks will consult their
own comfort by endeayoring to keep in their
own society and elevate it rs much as posi-
bic by improving its manners and its know
ledge. In the few cases where, by temporary
! encouragement given them by the grossly
i unjust and unconstitutional decisions of such
judges as UNDERWOOD, they force themselves
amongst the whites they certainly can
find but little comfort-tley must feel
I'll at ease and unhappy in obtrudiDg
amongst persons who have no community of
feeling or sentiment with them, and hy whom
they are regarded with indifference, if not
j, contempt. Of course the blacks will learn
.@all this i'll time. They will learn it ut the
North sooner than Mt the South. There is,
indeed, less real sympathy felt for colored
people at the North than at the South. But
neither in one section nor in the other is it
= possible that the fancied equality that knayes
and fools have Induced them to hope for will
ever be realized. 1t would be bad alike for
white and black that it should. But it is
impossible.