The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-04-27


be an evil day for the country when the rail
road lines proposed by the committee or
undertaken by the Government.
We do not think Congress will be incline
20 RIM the railroads. The committees wor
on that point will 20 for nousht. The tru
policy is to help through the water hne
which will be everybody's highway, and WI
rcduce the cost OF transportation and Keep
reduced.
ANARCHY IN ARKANsAs.-Ihe suspension
OF civil government III Arkansas by cor
f1ic. of Wrc,chcd factions, held in check D.
he fortunate presence OF Federal troops u
he State capital, challenges public atten'loi
TO the widespread anarchical tendencies ant
sni.it of faetIous turbulence which exist IL
the Sou.h and Southwest, accompanied os
an unsettled, feycrish feeling III tue "es''
which might easily be kiDdcd into u dapSe:
ous fame. The condition or the pu1le
mind in large sections OF the country las
seldom given so much reason lor aPpfcuch.
sion and foreboding anxiety. Zee recehl
occurrences at Little Rock are among the
srmr.,oms Of deep.seated diSeaSe.-NcU
York Herald.
r is "a deeply-seated disease" indeed,
and 20 ordinary remedy can eradicate IT,
The disease WAS communicated to this conn-
try when the people Of New England en-
wassvcd in the slave trade, buying negroes
Nth New England rum and selling them TO
the South They thus introduced into lie
bosom Of society al element that cannon De
assimilated. 1t would be as reasonable TO
suppose that brick-bal thrown into the
stomach could be digested as that race so
dissimilar, morally and pb ysieaily, from the
ruling race in this countr: can be a>S!mlia-
ted upon footing OF equality with that SUI
perior white race which Sct1'euano ci'!iized
it. There is your disease.
1st. Your capture and importation Of ne
groes; and
I'd. Your fourteenth and fifteenth amend |
ments.
Dreadful disease it is, and it will continue |
10 plague this nation unit, it is eraGicatcd.
When and where have these distinct races
been cra.crnizel without disaster to society |
and ruin 10 civilization: VIII the northern |
phian;Eropists and reiigioniSts tell the
world? They must have considered the
subject fer they controlled the action Of the
Federal government in the disposition it |
MADE Of these southern States. Bad they |
am examples to guide them: Ii not. upon
what did they Ease their theory, and upon
what principle OF justice and sta;esmansbiF
rested tie measures Of the Federal govern
mcGt:
TIE disease is decp-Scated." Look ct it
everywhere. Look at Alabama, and MisSis-
sippi, and Louisiana, and Arkansas. Once
the most peaceful, and faircst, and brightest,
aid richest parts OF the land we inhabit;
no~ disturbed, dsordered, poor, degraded,
and miserable. There you behold the
disease" It was generated by unScrupu-
lous ayarice and inhumauity at the North
and developed by the cruel and inpoisic
measures Of the Federal Government.
Virginia is considered as having escaped
to greater degree than any other southern
State, except Kentucky, from the horrors OF
reconstruction. Lock at her. She cannot
or Will moi pay her debts. She is unhuppy.
Her lands are unproductive and her people
are reluctant to bear the burtheus necessary
to sustain her credit and her honor. Why
as t9 Virginians are good people-they are
proud they arc honest-they are pair'otic'
Why don't they prove their devotion TO lhe'i
honored mother?
The " disease answers the question
The lands are deprecated; their prouuc
tiyepess Is cartailed; the public charges ar
increased; large population OF improy'
dent and badly.regulated people is added tt
the constituent body, imposing burthens ant
paving but a small share Of them; the pub
lie councils are degraded, the public admin
istratior vexed, and all the operations
government and domestic economy so revc
lutionized and disorded that discomfort al
dependency have taken the place OF hop
and content in the public mind. Men ar
impatient OF the burthcns imposed upo
them. Never before was SO happy coul
try as the South SO suddenly converted b
bad government into land Of disordered il
dustry, poverty, discomfort, and dcgrads
ton.
The prices OF land in Virginia will te
accurately the parts where the negro is
the majority and those where the WIFI
man is in the ascendant. Itwould be bette
far for both il they were separated, and eat
were left 10 manage bis own affairs in b
own fashion. The great error Of the Go
crnmcnt is in tying them together upon
footing Of equality. Unjust be fatal to bot
Man cannot nuliify the laws of God. Tho
laws may be temporarily eyaded, but tn
Will ultimately prevail, and woe to tho
who attempt to resist them.
II sou attempt to ciyilize the Indian
mixing him with the white man you ext
inmate him. II you attempt to compel t
termination of The Caucasian with the neg
you attempt thing which certainly will |
of success. II the white society is stro
enough it will in time drive out the b
barians; il not, hybridization and utl
degradation will result.
Whatever may have been the motives
the Government Of this country in bringil
upon it such condition of things as ext
in the South, consequences have grown o,
Of it, and must hereafter grow out Ii, whic
the nation cannot get rid Of by temporiz,n,
The "disease" is too deeply seated for tt
miserable political quackcry Of these day