The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-04

keep him in slaycry--tllat tue Federal ann!
was his friend and the Confederate ms enc.
my--ye;. rs a general rule. the race fca''''"''
on the plantations aud homes OF tie'r h'aS-
ters, the sole and trusiy guardians % '.''
females the old, or the feeble, "hise
.u tho s.rour were in The army OF
the South. They cultivated The crops
and raised tie food which suppllcu our
armies and enabled them so long to keep
tho field The negro has behaved we'll, con-
s;der;rn all things. And rs he IS among and
is 10 s,av among Us we wish him TO be
identified with and interested IN the general
wcltare--!0 be safe citizen, useful mcm~r
Of the community. and nota fostering ulcer
of ignorance, bitterness, crime, and bestla
sens,mlity--a non-producer. an ev"r'preseht
source Of mischief and danger in our MIDST.
Naturally he is kind. doclc, gratctui ana
at,cc,ionatc. Set free from selfish, unprln-
ciplcd interference aud false representations,
he would contidc in and be in accord win
the southern white race, whose prosperity
he would share-a happy, uscful, ana re-
spcctable peasant-ri>ing higher as ms
natural aptitude or special capacity enabled
| him TO do so.
But. for all his good qualities and real
merits. he is no! yet fit, morally or intel
lcc.ually, to rule or control a State--to reSu-
late lis machinery of govcrnmcnt--to deal
with its delicate interests. This cannot be
learned in a day.
The highest testimonial Of its beneficial
character which the institution of southern
slavery has ever received was given it by the
Republican party when they admitted and
asserted that it was 50 excellent prepare
tory school of Soycreigns and Of statesmen
that the southern African could step out OF
slavery fully fitted 10 stand the equal Of
BEEcuEE and of any New England artisan
| or mcrchant-quaiiied to lie voter, 4 JUS
ticc, a legislator, Il governor, Judge,
senator, and pre>idcut-tlle peer of SUM
SER. or WILSON, or WEBSTER, or LINCOLN.
Nay. is preparation TO fit the African for
such high privileges and duties they deemed
southern slavery far superior to the social
and educational system Of New England and
| the North. which had been for years before
| the war open 10 their residents OF African
| blood, but which residents the Republicans
had never deemed fitted by their system to
| fill any State or Federal office in the gift OF
| those States. II their African residents had
| the native capability, the fault was i'll their
system: if their system was right, the AM
| can must have been incompetent; if he was
| capable. and the system was right and suifi-
| cicnt TO fit him out, then the Republican
party, dominant in the North, has done him
| wrong in not recognizing the claim of his
merits to be hcir ruler and oflice-bcarcr.
But we cannot 90 that length with the
party in the emphatic Endorsement they
have given (f they have acted honestly oil
the hencii,cnt effects of slavery on the negro,
though il was, in facf, more the relation Of
guardian and ward than Of master and SER
want.
Honestly, we do not think that he is fit to
be our Judge CT ru +, or hold the money
pJhcl VI llit tNNii iIiSo9' nv W SO''''
SEIZED with all the wisdom of the Republic
can party and its diSintcrcsted regard for
the good Of our citizens. We have warm
sympathy for the negro. We most heartily
and honestly wish to sec him prosper, to see
him rise as high in the scale Of humanity as
possible, make himself every good thing Of
which he is capable but we will not consent
to putting him where his untitncSs will do
himself and us incalcuable harm; and where
he will he but the tool of designing politi-
ci.ins, who use him only to steal other rco-
pies chcStnutS out Of the tire for their use.
We cannot consent to hand ourselves over to
the party who. Tor their own ends, will prefer
and set him before us !: will make him the
instrumcnt'by which they can get at the
wealth Of the State, the property, the honor,
and the liberties OF her people.