The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-08-27


fatigable effort. While a nomination may
not be equivalent to an election, yet We all
know that q magnificent triumph awaits us
if we bat labor to achieve it. The people have
spoken with unanimity unparalleled, and
through you, their chosen representatives,
have selected their standard-bearer for the
impending struggle. The contest between
individuals has ended; henceforth the strug-
gle will be CARED on upon higher
plane, and will become death
with ideas, principles with principles.
In the presence of such struggle who can
be Indifferent or neutral; who can sit idly
by and suffer all that he holds dear to 60
down and be submerged beneath that Radi-
its crest and ruin in its wake? Iapprehend
none Of those before me, and none OF those
whom they represent. No matter what his
personal preferences mgy have been, when
the final struggle comes every honest Con-
seryative, true to our old party shibboieth
that .he who is not for us is against u.s."
will gird on his arlnor, aud where is the
thickest of the fight there will he be found
battling for the overthrow of wrong and the
triumph OF right.
i
was not unmindful of The grave responsible
tiles which will be imposed upon the mem.
bers of the Forty.fourth Congress. Ques-
tions of mightyand far-reaching importance
are pressing for immediate solution. Do you
at the condition Of our. country and you
will find ready answer First in import
ance, perhaps, is the present deplorable
nond;t;op Of rho conthprn Stotpo The do.
yastation and decentralization caused by the
war, the elevation to citizenship of four
millions Of serfs, and the successful eff
forts of the dominant party TO utilize
this element for its own political pur-
poses by clothing them with the elective
franchise and arraying them in bitter an
tagonism against the whites, and by para
living and irritating the whites by test-oatbs
and acknowledgements, has produced con-
dition of affairsat once frightful and alarm
ing. The colored race has demonstrated
what all thinking men anticipated-its utter
unfitness, both morally and Intellectually, for
the affairs of government. Wherever it has
had control social and financial ruin have
been the inevitable results, and wherever by
it's numbers it became an important element
in the body polite its influence has been po.
tent only for decentralization and corruption.
Lavish and prodigal expenditures Of the
public funds, taxation amounting almost to
copfscation, and enormous public debts,
which of necessity encourages reputation,
violence and crime, and loose administration
of the laws, have been the fruits borne by
the Radical congressional policy wherever it
has obtained full control. And to-day the
question which forces Itself upon the atten-
81 fyrl nd M ri
is, how are these terrible ills to be RENE
diede Some solution of the difficulty
must be reached, aud that speedily.
What is the remedy, and how should it be
applied? Time will not permit me here TO
elaborate my views upon this subject: But,
in passing, will say that lifting of the bur
den of public debt and the prohioltlon
against contracting more, and an utter cessa-
tion of all attempts, by legislation or other.
wise, on the part of the Federal Government
10 use the colored race for political purposes,
will partially, at least, remedy much OF the
evil. If left alone to the control OF their own
judgments and impulses the colored people
would soon find their natural position, their
antagonism to the whites-not natural, but
fomented for political purposes-Would gra-
duaIly die out, and the two races-mu'
lually dependent upon each other
would move oD, each in its appro-
pirate sphere, to the solution of its own
destiny. The colored man is to-day clothed
with all the civil and political rights pos
sessed by the white man, and is amply pro-
tected and guaranteed in their full and free
enjoyment. No one proposes TO take from
him or interfere with his possession and full
realization of them. In the name of COM
mon sense and common justice, what more
can be required for him? Is it social equality
with the whites? Then, answer, that that
requirement will never be met; no, never.
Legislation is powerless here. Legislation
can no more prevent society from regulating
its own relations than it can prevent water
from seeking its level. The " "ciyil-rights
bill.Dso called, with its abominable and un-
constitutional provisions, if passed into
law. would prove powerless to accomplish
this result. and its only effect would be
10 yex and harass the whites, and ruin,
IL not destroy, the blacks. This bill has
already passed the Senate of the United
States, and awaits only favorable opportu-
nity to be passed by the House OF Represen-
tatiyes and to be signed by the President'to
become h law. Let this bill once become a
law. and the doors of your hotels, your thea
tres and places of public amusement your
railroad cars and public conveyances, your
University and State institutions of learning,
and. worse than all, those OF your common
schools. will be thrown open to the colored
people. and mixed schools become the order
of the day. Heavy pains and penalties are
denounced against any who presume to OBJ
iect or interfere with them in the use and en-
ioymert Of any and all Of these institutions
az fully end freely in all respects and upon
the. most perfect equality with ourselves.
Gould tapalicism be more intolerant or mad
ness and hate more supreme!
Thn passage Of this bill into law would
sound the desth-Enell to our whole educa-
ii )nal system, and the negroes whom we are
educating chiefly at our own expense would
be the greatest sufferers by it. :,
He was aware that it has been whispered
in certain quarters that the President VII!
veto this bill should 1t be passed by Congress,
h,,f what authority is there for this statement!
Has the President ever so officially DE.
clared? he certainly has officially recon-
men6ed in distinct and unequiyocai terms
fnrther legislation to secure the colored peo-
nIe. in the better enjoyment of their rights.
What rights Are they not already in the iull
possession and enjoyment Of every civil ana
political right that We are? What DID tne
President mean By his recommendation 70
Congress except the enactment OF just sucn .
Infamous legislation as this bill emDodieS
No, no. He will never veto this Dill. ae q.
Ethe Governor) had no faith in these unom-
cial outgivings, made undoubtedly 10 secure
| su pport in his thirdterm RAID, which, 10
| NV Judgment, is fully as infamous as THIS
bill itself. / am not a third.termer. am 10
favor of the !" one.term principle;" and
am not for, President Grant for any term:
He holds his place by virtue OF Rsdiea!
votes. This measure was conceived and
brought forth by his political and