The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-02-19
NEGRO Rule in the South"


ing into southern State affairs win eV'aen'
interest, and has dcigned to investigate po'a.s
that in time not long past 1t was in the haoi'
~ a;an..;,a of more sunmariiy and gener'
ally with disposition towards incrredusi'y as
TO southern statements and facility OF truss
in the stories Of adventures and OF ti''
manufacturers OF sensation narratives io'
firing the northern heart. We have DC
Goubt the Times has discovered tna'
i. has been often de!uded, and 1t no" VIZ
with feeling OF indignation WHO" s'''"S
the fact. :,
Tho Times is aroused by The wrongs IN
scrcrai southern States, and thus declares III
horror OF the governments where the
negroes are in the ascendant:
.A.a moment when the sad condition OF
Stairs in Louisiana is attracting the atten'
ton Of the whole country, and when MIs,ls'
sinnj has elected steamboat porter to inc
Tinted States Senate only because his shin
is black, the proceedings Of the SoGth Iilo'
tina Legislature are more scancaio"> t"'ii'
at auy time since the close OF me WIZ l.
No one can deny that some OF .nu n. n,n
hers of the colored race have 0'>pi'.tu i.'
nor.ci;v for public affairs. lc'' o"'ii- ~
combination OF Untor'unale cac"' ,c go,
IN, race has not distinguished n>ch i'o
, ,i,I IN The three States VIC have MENTIONED.
VIII Louisiana we have recently ce'i' ~
80, !" '.. I'D ,yc need not now refer TO il more
IN Gc,ail. Mississippi is not iii so oad coz,
I;t;op and has not been pluNdcrcd 10 'he
soncc ry,ent. but the recent elections prove
10, .he State can hope for no 'ubS'ah'!ai
nro>pcrity under its present conlrol. 80 ~ 49,
Snr..yer in South Carolina that negro doi'i,
ratjon in affairs is most pFohouhceo' apu
there its evils are most apparent.
..;r there were any doubt OF the untltheSS
~ ~, nres.n. rulers of the STATE 10 n"io
the trust now rcpoSed in them, tEey "ou'u
no y molly removed Iy the pcru>al o,
.kn,ah Of the proceedings of recent session
of The LEGISLATURE which we PRINT Ia ail.
orLcr column. Those Who have hopea t!'a'
waters we're improving in South Caroilha
will he sorey disappointed By TINS lales.
snec;,ncn of the temper which controls tue
Iaw.nuking power Of the state. Iheie
would be little cause to complain that 'uc
manners Of the legislators are not Dcttcr 'ha,'
IN former years if their morals had improved.
But Ills, unhappily, does net appear 10 DC
the Csc. The Legislature OF SCUM taToiiiIa
is arrarcntly gang Of thieves, lhtcn! o"!
upon Numbering the Feop'e won II Is sup
posed 10 serve. Long practice has mace tnc |
Legislature OF the Siatea perfected system .,
ori.aDdagr. Ignorant negroes, t!anspIantco
from &c cotton fields to the bills Q, the Gap
ito, where they have been drilled ny uh>cIu'
pl!ous white adventures, have ha'uiai! |
made mockery Of government, ana oanh'
rupted the State. 1t is not surprising tnat
such legislators, representing constituencies
Gebascd By a long period OF EaSsalaee. ana
under such tutela.c. should have dispki!eu
AZ ingenuity in fraud which has no parallel
IL history. :,
at is among the least of Tie dcporabIe
consequences Of negro supremacy in South
Carolina that the credit of the Stare has been
utterly destroyed. The State debt has been
increased over 100000 since the close OF
the war, and nothing has been secured I'D
pubic improvements for this prodiSal waste !
OF the public revenues. The bonds OF the
State are worthless. and matters have now
become 80 desperate that the robbers VITO |
rule i: are forced to depend for their steal
incs upon the p,tance of taxation which can |
still hc wruDg from an impoverished people. !
Pubic morals have been so deha>ed that any |
hope Tor publication from within the State
can hardly be entertained"
The Times then proceeds with an effort 10
"un!osd" the Republican party Of the cnor-
NOUS burthen of these denominations. First
declaring that the Republicans are not to
blame. it next asserts that they were CON-
PEELED to give the negro equality and the
ballot. There never was any such necessity.
Neither General GRANT nor General SHER-
MAN dreamed of it; nor did the Republican
PARTY intend it. Only after the counting OF
me negroes and the discovery of the advan-
!sgc the Republicans might gain by their
votes was it dctaGeined to give them the
ballot aud the right TO hold office. That act
degraded southern governments 'ind plunged
southern States into ruiz, and the Repupi'-
:an party is resr' ,psible for that. =,
Nor CO., the Times find excuse tor that
party from the consequences ID the pea .''''
they were "the work of political ao'e'i'ut'
-. crs who have been always denounced D!
=. the Republican party" First, these az
yepturers were but the spawn OF Inc ne
nub,ican policy. Secondly, they were neither
disovned nor denounced authoritatiVeiy D!
the party; but were countenanced anu suS
tanned by 1t 10 the administrative and Iesis
,.,,ve departments. Indeed We may ado
The judicial also.
Sill further attempting to explain for TIT
GOOD OF the party in power under which
these unparalleled evils have been VISITED
upon the South, the Times asserts that sir
most Of the States no disastrous conse
.-.encaR have followed measure demand
"ed by Justice and national security ri. e..
the enlranehisement of the negro. Their
could be no greater mistake. Every south
ern State has disastrously suffered from 1t
In this State the representative body ha
suffered logically from the degradation q
the constituent body.~os2Never before tn
conclusion OF the war was 1t limited that
bride had been accepted by Virginia legi'
iator-nay, it was never limited that on
had been offered. For the purity q
representative men was such that no ma
dared to approach one of them with dis
honorable proposal. Since the degradation Q
/ the constituent body, bribery has tainted tn
Virginia Legislature and inflicted the stat
OF dishonor where all had been before spo
less. All the States where there are man
negroes. whether they are in the majority Q
not, suffer greatly by the troubles afIectin
public administration in every way from th
large incompetent vote which takes part i
elections.
The evils, therefore, are general, thong
more ruinous and horrible in some Stats