The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-10-08
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narsons inst out of slavery with tue oaiiot
Nv irving to force people Of their own race
,n,o equality with the negrof And by as
sun1ing that the States are unable TO admin IN.
lister their own laws for the punishment OF
crime, and, therefore, employing the whole
force OF the Federal Governments to overrun
tho States and PROSTATE their authority /:
Can they possibly hope by these measures to
improve the condition Of the Union. increase
the conteutment and prosperity of the peo-
pie, and increase the power and dignity OF
the nation? II so, there could not be q
greater mistake. Those measures destroy
public harmony and contentment, diminish
the general prosperity, and impair the force
and dignity Of the nation.
That the nation will be compelled to con-
slider the wisdom Of these measures is cer-
tain. Their effects are reaching all parts OF
the country. Like the plague OF frogs ID
Egypt, they are entering our houses and every
department of industry and commerce.
at this moment the whole nationis suffering
from them; and these sufferings are to 80 on
increasing and depressing everybody and
everything as long as the causes of them ex'
ist. The northern people will see it all very
soon, if they have not already discovered it,
through the illuminated medium of their own
suffering interests. Reputation of all south.
ern State debts will be an event that will
likely fully wake them up. Reputation Is in
eyitable in the South. 1t will come from the
inability OF the South to pay. Its destructive
consequences cannot be dreaded By the pen
niess; but they will fall with fearful heavi-
ness upon the rich. Need we say that the
latter are not iI the South. Where they are,
all know.
II was great crime to give the right of
helping to govern to the negroes, who were
unfit for the exercise of that right. 1t is
greater crime to permit those ignorant
voters to be used By rogues and villains,
that they may rob the poor people Of the
South of their remaining substance and
spread apprehension and fear amongst
them. The measure giving the negro suf-
frage fearfully adulterated the constituent
body, and has degraded the representative
body to degree that is alarming. The Legis-
latures now controlling public affairs and
disposing Of public property in the South
are Enthusiastically and lin degree uDprece-
dented in the Soutb) incapacitated for wise
legislation. What fearful picture Of bad
legislation those States now present to the
world-a picture growing out of the de-
teStase reconstruction with which our
fellow-citizens have cursed US. The
retributive justice of providentia laws
visits that curse also upon its authors. aud
we behold the North victim of its own im-
policy. Bad as are the effects now, they Of
the North have to experience what will be
far worse.
The next measure which the northern
people endeavored to visit upon tue South
betrayed an amount of folly and fanaticism
that was unprecedented. And there was no
way of accounting for ii except this: That
sordid and scurvy politicians selected the
fools and fanatics az their agents in their
schemes TO keep possession Of the Govern.
ment and monopolize its honors while rob-
bling the treasury and enjoying all the means
of gain through fraud and peculation in the
various departments.
Folly that does not pay is neglected to
die for want of subsistence. When it may
be used by dishonest men it is prolonged to
the advantage Of those who cunningly use
it; but the fools make nothing. They are
mere tools for the designing.
One would think that as the white people
of the North are Of the same race with the
whites of the South the attempt to degrade
the latter would be resented Indignantly
by the former. 1t would have been so but
for the intervention Of malice and villainous
politicians Vice and hate have led the
North to acts that degrade their own race at
the South, and inflict upon themselves inju-
ries that years will be unable to repair.
What great national folly was it that per-
mitted these causes to do such mischief!
Here is the great cvil-herc is the deep.
seated cause Of our national woe. Why
should the North desire to degrade the white
race? Should they not have been satisfied
with the position in which God placed
them-the head and superior of the five
races of human beings inhabiling the globe
What more should they want9 Would they
be happier brought down to the level of the
lowest of the Eve? The two cannot be equal
without the degradation of the superior
race in this manner. The African cannot
be brought to such equality by elevating
him. The Creator fixed his place, and you
cannot diminish the distance between him
and the white man any more than you can
narrow the distinctions between lead and
gold and make them one.
Our northern fellow.citizens have done
the most foolish and most wicked thing ever
done by people in giving the negro the
vote unprepared as he was-aud in seek.
ing to degrade the southern whites to equal
ity with him. The terrible effects of their
blind measures will long last, and they will
repent of their outrageous acts in sackcloth
and ashes.
Then, to what good end is the policy
which is now pursued for the uvowed pur.
pose of Furnishing white outrages upon the
negro? Can it promote justice or increase
the responsibility, force, and dignity of the
Union in the eyes of the world? It's break
ing down the power of the nation; it is de-
stroying The harmony of the people it is
hurting every man, except the rogues, in the