The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-08
rance 81 the colorsd psople and have preyssadl.

rance 81 thee olorsd people and have prleyes.d1.
upon orr rights. :, 5.
we pYotest against fla recommendations
al tending 10 make worse the very condition
of affairs which they pretended 20 better.
I'VE protest AGAINST its policy as accepting
Drfnciples which are completely anti'soutn-
.ern. And were we the only man IN our beau
.HfiIl but oppressed country to oppose the
spirit and Intentions Of the new movement
AGAINST ali others, and were tour last WORD,
we would brayeIy record it In protest. But
we gre not alone. The almost universe SEN
timent of the South reschoes our protest.
Voices rise nil over the land, and With. no
faltering accents speak out against the ne"
movement. And there are voices that come
from countless graves where they are rest
Ing. who died to defend principles now SO
easily surrendered, aud these voices SPEAK
with us. The motives of the men VINO nave
s,gtIno this new movement on the COUNTY,
we do not arraign. Their motives are pest
known to themselves. They may De sincere.
They might be disinterested. But the BEST
tof motives may lead to the worst OF conse-
uuehces: and the best of men are liable 10
be mistaken. We care not whose or wnat
names may be appended to these resolutions.
But there is signature attached that we are
sorry to see. & ~
A soldiers name is there, In past days
faithful aud tried and true; name that
wears the glory of many battle'pelo, q
name that honors the nan who bears II
honors the country that breathes it-bonored
the cause towhose invaded rights II was SO
nob]y consecrated- name OF BeaureSaro.
That single name gives an importance 10 tne
resolutions of that meeting which tney
otherwise could not claim. Ills the ole,
story, The good soldier, as rule, is 6ad
noliticiap. he who leads on the battle-helds
of patriots is, too often, misled on the lngo'
rionus plains of politics. Beauresard's. sigma
ture but makes the resolutions OF that meet
ing more CALLING. We cannot but remember
now how General Beauregard, in CONVEX
sation with ourself, blamed Longstreet Tor
bisIaction. Why the change? Has the brave
soldier been entrapped by the willy poiti-
clans? Has he>merely committed Dlunaer
Or has be gone into this new movement
with eyes open to its real spirit
and certain consequences? Did ne
read these resolutions before ne
affixed his signature? If he did not,
we hope that be will withdraw bis name.
But Hwith full knowledge and deliberate
will he has Endorsed the policy set lorth IN
those resolutions. the Beauregard of the Ca.
rondelet-street meeting is not the Beauregard
of Shiloh; and the glory that rose round bis
name on many proud battle-dav has gone
down forever. The name or naues OF no
man or men can sanction the surrender OF
southern tradition, the dissertation OF south
ern principles, the degradation Of southern
manhood.
We are southern TO tue hearts core-Cafh'
olics in every fibre Of our being. AS Catho'
lies we recognize no distinction Of race or
color among the redeemed. before God. But,
as Catholics; we protest against that partl'
cular resolution of the meeting which in
lorsed and recommends the indiscriminate
mingling of white and colored children IN
the same institutions Of education.