The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-01
IS NEGRO LABOR BENEFICIAL!

K Slue HSlHiug Vi az ohs kO1aS '''~>s
from Richmond where there are many
negroes. We do not care to argue this point.
We pit our opinion against MIR. HUGHHss.
Whoever chooses to agree with him can DO
50 but it will be none the less our firm con-
yictiop that if there were not negro in Hen
rico county the land in that county would
| bring as much cash as now all the iands IN
ten such counties would bring.
at IS MEAN, cowARDLY, AND RgBELLIOUs.'
What fine words to come from man who
| upheld slavery with tongue and pen for so
many years, and did all he could to estab-
lish a RI public jim every State OF which negro
slavery was to exist! And these and many
| more such insulting epithets are applied to
| the policy of the Conservative party. Not
| that it has commenced any "crusade
| against the negro, nor that it proposes to
| harm him in any way, but simply because 1t
proposes to keep HUGHES & COMPANY out Of
Office by uniting the white men of Virginia,
who are the property-hoders and taxpayers
against the scalawags, carpet-baggers, aud
negroes, who would degrade, plumber, and
ruin Virginia us Louisiana has been ruined.
1t is this and nothing else that Dir. HUGHES
pronounces "mean, cowardly, rebellious,"
brutal" ga degradation Of the Virginia
| character" ga blot upon the fame of the
State" "inbuman, dishonorable, and rebel.
| liolls," "reyolt against the laws of God
and man." "unluanly persecution," &c.
What shall be said Of the man who thus
SANDERS white people f-who knows that
there is no "crusade" going on against the
negroes who knows that it was bis own
party that banded the negroes all in body
against their true friends !-whU knows that
we have always acted in self-detence2-and
who says in this very speech that the Con-
servatives "dare not" assail the powers
| "reauy responsible for making the negro
equal in law TO the white manf 1t is
the negro that has the whole power of
great government, one of whose officers Mr..
HUGHES is, to back up his pretensions, and it is
we of the white race who are prosecuted
by these "mean," "cowardly," brutal
characters. 1t is they who have brought
free government into di5reputc and made it
stink in the nostrS of the intelligent men
of the whole world. 1t is they who have
harassed us with kukluX laws, with such
Judges as UNDERWOOD, with scores OF ill.,
formers and spies, with corrupt officials of
every sort, with carpet-baggerS, with scala
ways, with ignorant negro lawmakers and
officers, and with whatever could arouse our
preudices or increase our animoSity TO-
wards our oppressors. 1t is upon our necks |
that Mr.. HUGHES and his party have kept the
yoke of oppression. Yet he oyerlooks all of
our real wrongs and pours out his sympathies |
on a race that needs them no more, and ap-
preciates them no more, than did CASSING's |
knife-grinder bis gushing words Of compass
sion.
THE NEGROES ALL REPUBLICANS.
81 But how shall l meet the other objection |
of our opponents, who complain that the |
negroes flock in mass to our party and
make up,the majority Of its membership? Is
the mere fact OF humble station sufficient |
objection 10 the man in a land of free iusti1n-
tons? Is it wealth and erudition alone |
that make the citizen here? Has it ceased |
TO he true that "tcorth makes the man and
want OF it the fellow" Is it what man |
has. or what he IS, that gives him tit lie to
consideration in this age and country"
Not by any means. How candid, how art
less, this man is! He first charges us with
opposing the negro as negro, and then,
when he comes to explain why all negroes |
are Republicans, he includes them in cate |
CORY with white men. No, Mr.. HUGHES,
the Conservatives oppose no man because of |
"want of station" or of "wealth," or
'erudition." They recognize all white men
as being superior to all negroes. Your little |
game of trying to rope in what in your heart
you must. despise, or else you would not
thus expect and try to humbug them-the |
poorer .whites-iute your negro party, will
not win. You cannot get@them into your
ranks by thus chasing them with negroes.
They are not so easily duped as you may
suppose. @.....
ANoTHNR sLuR UPON WHITE MEN.
Read what mir. HUGHES says:
"Study the character of the laboring popu-
lation all over the world, and where will u
laboring class anywhere be found 80 exem-
plarv in their conduct or so elevated in their
morale, all things considered, as the negro
population Of Virginia? When people of
such approved character flock in body to q
political party is that an argument against
that party or for it," .'.
German laboring men, Irish laboring men,
American aboring men. all white men who
labor, read above what Mr.. HUGHES says
about you. Where can a laborer be found |
equal to the negro?
CONCLUSION. ....t.r j..
But we must conclude. We have said
enough to show that Mr.. HuaHEs has made
a most imprudent speech. WITHIRs, or
kEMrEE, or HUNTER, or GooDE, or whoever
shall be our nominee, will use it as the most
powerful weapon which can be welded
against the Radical party in Virginia. 1t
will batter down all HuoHEs's defences, and
leave him at the mercy of his opponent.
Thus shsl retributive Justice oyertake him.
Thus shall NEMESIS do her perfect work in
his case.
The Washington Republican sees threat
in our innocent declaration that the compile |
tion aof the james River canal would
strengthen the Union. Well bet button
that no other man in the Union can see a !
threat in it. The Republican asks us why
we don't support the party that is in power
II we want TO see that canal finished. The