The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-07
General Beauregard's Letter.

j General BeaureEaTu'S Letter.
TheFlett Of General BEAunsaAsD, which
we published on Saturday last, reminds us
of the case Of young WznwosrH, of New
York. whocomnlitted a crime which shocked
the sensibilities of the whole country, but
who, nevertheless, showed upon his trial
that be had had such provocation as no son
had ever before been subjected to. General
BEAuREaARD sets forth as a justification Of
his ATTEMPT to ~unify" the blacks and
whites of Louisiana that he has done
nothing more than agree to extend to the
negroes the privileges which the laws Oh
that State already require to be EXTENDED EXTENDED
to them, aud that the condition OF analrs
there has become intolerable and demands
remedy at all hazards. He seems to deem it
all-important that the unprincipled carpet
baggers should be driven from power and
from the State. t .t.......
As young WALwoRrH increased his moth
er's troubles tenfold by bis attempt TO re-
dress her wrongs and render her position
secure, so General BEAUEEGARDs effort to
conciliate the negro will increase the
troubles of his native State tenf0ld, at the
same time that it will ALLEVIATE him from his
best friends. AS well endeavor to tame
tiger by feeding it upon raw flesh as try TO
appeaSe the negroes by conceding TO them
the rights and privileges which General
BxAuREaARD has promised to aid in securing
for them. Increase Of appetite will grow
by what it feeds upon" He will find, too,
. that social equality is involved in his resolu-
tions. He cunningly cites the cases OF
whites travelling and visiting public places
in company with negroes, whilst he omits
all reference TO, and all attempts to justify,
his agreement to put the negro and the white
children into the same public schools. IL
is not necessary for us to say that the WHITES
will not attend the same public schools
which the negroes attend, nor that if they
did social equality would would be the IN
cvituble result. These propositions are 100
wen known TO be true to need argument Oh
illustration. The distinguished Creole him
self would hardly undertake to deny either
Of them. What, then. There will be prl-
vate schools for the whites in Louisiana; ana
this must be what General BEAuREGARD cal
culates upon, or else he is traitor 10 MS
racc. And then what? Why, the negroes
will demand admission to these private
schools, and General BEAUREGARD Will have
to concede this to them, or else the carpet
baggcrs will still have the advantage over
him, What did G. Ii. PORTER, the carpet
Dagger ex-congressman, say to the negroes
last Friday evening in this city! he
advised them to demand an equal or
4 fair division of the Offices; and he would
lust as leave advise them to demand
admission for their children into both
the public and the private schools
= of Richmond. Indeed, we have no doubt
that he would do so if we Of the Conservative
party, In order to conciliate the negroes,
were wicked or foolish enough to take the
position he now occupies. 1t were PLAINLY
worse than political suicide for us to at
tempt to compete with PORTER in making
offers TO the negroes So General BEAuRE-
GARD will find it in New Orleans. If he
agrees TO sit in the same box at the theatre
and the same pew at church with negro,
the carpet dagger will promise to take SAM
30 home with him to dine or sup. IT Gen.
crnl BEArREGARD agrees to eat at the same
hote-table with the negro, the carpet-bas-
ger will promise to sleep In the same bed
with him. If the General agrees to admit
negroes into the public schools, the carpet
Dagger will tell them that he would bave
them admitted into all schools, high and
low, public and private. Who fights the
devil with fire is fool indeed. But tell the
Truth and he will flee. Such is the proper
course to take with the negro-uncompro-
missing hostility TO everything that even so
much as sguints at social equality. If the
negro is as good az the white man, let him
show the fact by his acts. Let him stand
upon his dignity. Let him refuse to 30
where he is not wanted. as white man,
however humble or Hnlearned, would be
sure to do. But ne is not the white mans
equal, and he knows it, feels it, realizes 1t,
dreams of it, and would fam shake OF the
conviction. But in vain. 1t is his fate to
look up to superior race; it is the white
mans to look down upon an inferior race.
SAMBo thinks that he could get rid of this
feeling if he had the entrfe to all places that
are open to the white race. But in this he
is mistaken. The Caucasian race Is destined
to possess the entire earth. Negroes, Ma
LAYS, Mongols, and Indians. must all disap.
near There will be no more chance for
them to survive to the. end Of time than for
the Undertook to hold its own with the
matchbox. "The fittest will survive"
If we rightly apprehend our position and
destiny, and walk in the way that these will
make for us, we shall be among the con-
ouering CaucHsians. But if, on the con-
tlarv, we shall prove recreant to our trust
and false to our race, the work will be done
without us. If we adopt the line of policy
recommended by General BEAuREGARD our
descendants will be no better than d mongrel
race, and the pure Caucasian of Europe will
be chosen TO root out mongres and the inte-
rior races of men, and fill the earth with the
descendants of that pure royal Caucasian
race whose deeds constitute all that men are
proud of, and whose history is the only his
tory of the world.
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