The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-25
:, :. unite unsracious in northern people,

u is quite unsraeious IN northern pe"p ae
- their representatives, to be eNoe"'
VI ',r - force black and white equality upon
W, 18th NJ the moment that the wll'c peo-
,,e are taxing themselves heavily 10 pay ,''
tho education Of colored people. me nc
proes pay very little tax. one-h'th oi .''s
tax on property in this State ~ appropriate.
"a education by the State, while the couh'.es
hove authority to levy an additional tax ior
the same purpose. This city has expended
oreat deal of money in building hne schooi-
s,,,sso s,rpassing in elegance and commo-
a;ous,ess any educational building ever be-
Cor. erected in the State, save ut the uniyer-
s;tv md the Military Institute. These fine
bindings are divided between white ana
black, and large annual appropriation Is
made to pay the costs of educating the Gull
dren of both colors, with whom they are
crowded. The blacks have accommodations
and opportunities unknown to the best ana
most distinguished people of former days,
and they are treated with kindness they
have never known anywhere north OF Vlr'
ginia.
How cruel it is-how ungracious-at such
time, with these proofs of the dispositions
Of the southern whiteS-their large appro'
priations I'm the midst of their poverty 10
educate neeroes-that the Congress should
endeuyor to cram down our Threats their
laws about social equality! The people OF
the South are endeaYoring by education to
give the negroes the capability of elevatlng
themselves. The manner in which they I'M
prove this opportunity must be the test OF
their fi,ness for the elevation the lawmakers
are endeayoring to establish by force of law.
How do they suppose that people can cheer
fully pay taxes for negro education white
they are daily threatened with humiliation
to level with the very beings they are ell
deavoring to lift up to higher stage Of
civilization?
But Radic,lism has laid its plans for secur-
ing the vote of the colored race, and Radical
leaders find it necessary to continue to resort
TO new means of amusing colored people and
binding them TO the Radical party. These
ideas of social equality serve the purpose
very well, and hence we see them llcrsistrnfly
agitated. Like all their schemes for making
The blacks slaves to themselves, these ideas
of Radicals only tend to disturb the peace Of
the negro and impair the general order and
thrift. But one just consequence il that they
iniure the Radicals. The appropriation of
the time of Congress and the money and
power of the Government to this party
speculation in negroes is all the time
alternating the great sovereign power
of the white people of the United States
from the party in power and its policies.
The devotion TO the idea that the negro is
their salvation, will in great degree he the
death OF the Radicals Their true policy |
was the paclication Of the whites by gentle
and just government for white and black,
and the restoration Of political equality to
the States. But they have, like the poor,
deluded dog in the fable, cast away the solid
wealth which they hid In their hands, and |
gone after the shadow-the great black |
shadow-that led them off into quicksands |
and African bog> and jungles, out of which
they will never come.
If Congress passes its supplementary civil
rights bill, and forces whites and blacks i'll
discriminatory into the same schools, it will
abolish the whole school system in every
southern State except where negroes hold
the power. Then let Congress take the
States under its control and abolish the State
1t will DC then time for that.
Better that this should come than that the
whites should submit to the destruction of
personal freedom and social conyentionalsm
in life, which are indispensable to the preser-
walton in life of the order and decency of So
ciety and of virtue itself. 1t Is well that Con-
gress should understand this. 1t can do many
things, but 1t cannot tlample the spirit of the
white man into the dust. 1t may force the
squirrel and the rattlesnake, the hedgehog
and the rabbit, the wolf and the kid, to live
in peace and harmony, but it never can force
social equality between distinct races ofmen.