The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-15
The White Worsdng.Man,

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The GOODNESS and assurance displayed by
the Republican party IN this State in claim
ing that the white worSing.men sympathise
with II, Is quite amazing. The impotence
OF that party is quite unparalleled; but this
claiming of the honest white working.men
Is the browning feat of their performance In
this line.
There could be no greater Insult to white
men than that their fassr and sympathy
should he claimed by that party which never
fails to set tlesa down as merely the equals
of the negro. Indeed, Dir. HUGHES, the Re-
publican candidate for Governor, declares
his preference for the zegro lahorer over the
white laborer. We save no idea that the
white i,an will receive, without the liveliest
emotion. an insult such as that. But of what
stuff do these Republicans suppose white
men are made that they. should dare to ill.,
salttlsem thus: Do they think them negroes
with white skins and straight bair that they
should court the equality with negroes as
signed them, aud that they are so ignorant
of tire superiority of the white over the ne
gro race thst they shonld tactly assent to
the Republican assertion to that cttect!,
AS amazing as is the impudence that thus
insults the white man, it would be more
amazing If he did not resent 1T by casting
his vote ane using all his influence against
the party bsat is constantly naiigning. and
outraging his race by assuming that 1t IS
either Hss 80 good or no better than the ne
gro race. This he will do. ,,ltr>sf
The shallow sophists, who are ever trying
Il, control their ncighborS and believe them.
selves altogether righteous, ignore color
and any other distinction made by God be-
tween tue races tor they are SO much wiser
than G. and consider =" dark man !" (what
4 soft phrase J that is a laborer, the same rs
a wlateRan who labors; and that the dis
tinctien between them and othe, classes in
both cases IS the same.
To this argument is the Dcgropho'ist ana
sardid politician, who have combiucd for our
oppression, always forced.
What Il monstrous and outrageous as
sumption! Are not the poor whites pos
Scssed OF the same blood, the same DISPOSE
tions. that the rich have: And dc not the
poorcontinualy replenish the higher classes
Are not tue itch and luxurious ever decay
ing and their families dying out, and are not
the poor and rural Glasses constantly sup
plving them with healthy and vigorous re-
cruits TO keep alive professions and sustain
GLASSES that not so repIcniShed would Tic out
The class distinctions in the white race are
entirely artificial. The member OF any one
GLASS is naturally eligible to any OF those
above that to which lie belongs, and so are
those who belong 10 the highest always III
danger OF descending in the scale to the low
est.
Is such the distinction between white and
black: Will anybody, in the face OF all eN-
perience, all fact, assert that it is: The dis
tinction between the negro and the white
,aau is natural and inextinguishab'e- 1t is
made by the Creator. 1t is impossible for
him to rise or to rcplcnish the higher classes
and pursuits. Who amongst NIL the philan-
thropists deems it possible or would in his
own family allow an illustration of It's posi-
hity to occur: If there be one such he
would be regarded everywhere amongst
white people as Il leper, as Il demon, 10 he
Stunned and kept out of sight-n creature
who would better be dead than alive.
We wonder that any man should have the
hardiheod TO draw Il comparison between
black and white that makes bis own white
racc-the laOoring part OF them-either
worse or no better than negro. 1t is
enough to ill the honest hearts Of working
white men with the highest Indignation. Ii
is enough to bring their whole power down
upon the men who thus disparaSe them
with force crushing them to hopeless poll
teal death. Knowing the wrong done to
this most important and necessary part of our
own race, and thus to the race itself, we de-
test their diSparagement In this manner as
one of the greatest of outrages, and we de-
test still more the objects for which it is |
made-the sordid object which makes a man |
dspraise his own brother for personal |
advantage.
This country is to be ruled exclusively by |
the superior white race. "The fittest must |
triumph" is the law of Providence.
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