The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-28
The Line of Color.

What nonsense it is to be accusing the
white people of Virginia of Rising the issue
between the races. All who live in Virgil
MIA know that there is not the slightest toun-
da,ion for the assertion and they equally
well know that the blacks organized them
selves us party Immediately after the war,
with leagues and leaders whose avowed pur'
pose was to keep out of office and out OF
power all white Eirginians-or "rebeIS,
as they called tlcm--this term being tanta'
mount to call VirsinanS.'
But look everywhere South and North
Look to the Ohio Convention, SO fully no.
ticed in yestel days Dispatch. There you
see the negro demanding office and equality
standing up as the man of unalterahle
color--as distinct in his feelings and de-
mands as he is in his color. Look at him III
st. Domingo and IIaytiand Liberia. Every
where he keeps up the distinction between
himself and the white man with unaltclable
fidelity to the natural distinction from all
| other people which was fixed upon him by
| the decree of Heaven.
So il will always be, Mr.. HuGHEss ploHS
INTERPRETATION of the will Of the Creator To
| the contrary notwithstanding. Nothing can
change the isolation of the African. Even
those who have cruelty cndcavorcd to force
equality with the blacks upon uS-those
northern people who have protested to think
il. practicablc-have been unwilling to per.
nit it amongst themselves. The negroes
who are their ncighbOrs rise up with the
| Interest complaints at their exclusion from
office and from social equality in railroads,
steamboats,, hotels, schools, dc. And does
any one suppose that their clamors Will Sc
cure this equality for them among northern
people any more than with white citizens
elsewhere:
What vast amount Of humbns and ny
pocrisy there is, to be sure, Oh this SUBJECT.
The negro cannot and will not give up the
claims of color. He will claim what he con-
siders his rights. and claim them as blach
man. He asserts that as dlncE man he
has been denied those rights. Probably he
has been excluded for that reason. just as
men Judge many kinds of animals and fruits
from color. They know that some colors
indicate superiority, and Others lnfcrlolity.
The black is known by his skin to be un-
suited for the higher duties of society, and
also unfit. from insupeabe personal ohjec-
tons, for social equality with the highest
type OF man. So he is inevitably rejected in
the process of selection for place and dis
tinction. Naturally he is not satiStied-natu.
rallv he thinks himself qualified.
The black man absurdly blaZons and pa-
rades his own DEFICIENCIES and di<qualtica-
tious. He has neither wisdom nor modesty
enough to keep him from Hunting them be-
fore the world, and demanding for them not
only liberation, but admiration from those
who can feel for them no other sentiment
than disgust when so obtruded upon them.
Perhaps Mr.. HUGHES will learn before he
gets through this campaign, more from the
negroes themselves han from the whites, that
he has made great mistake about the special
OF the Creator to point out the
way in which the two races are to live TO-
gether upon a footing of equality. But learn
what he may, he would be the las man IN
the State TO advise the negroes to break up
their negro army aud vote independently,
each man as he chooses. He wants their
votes before they disband.