The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-10-14
Louisiana Grangers-The Negro,

We desire TO cali especial attention to the
following paragraph 1t is extracted from
reliable Republican correspondent sent out
by the New York Times to Louisiana to col
lect information with regard to the state OF
things there. We invite attention to the
specu!ations Of this intelligent correspondent
relative to the negro ard his susceptibility
of elevation in the scale of civilization:
"Tbe Changers desire to restore order out
of chaos by getting back once more an active
local magistrucy who can punish crime on
the spot. They desire, moreover, to make
such coacerled ttforts us will drive away all
adventures who want TO profit by the care
less, un;hinking confidence of the colored
man, and to make regulations for stand
ard price Of labor that shall be agreed upon
by mutual consent. They believe, more
over, that in time they can teach the negro
to save. Until he has learned that lesson
all the desires of the North for him
are but dreams-u bsantill cottages
of the brain. We Republicans hoped
for the freedmen condition resembling
that Of the yeomen Of England. We wanted
to see them possessed Of some fifty acres Of
ting with skill, investing with prudence; ed.
ucaIing their children ia the love OF law and
order; becoming year by year a source OF
wealth TO their State and of pride to tue whole
country. Such is the docility, affection, and
trusting nature of the negro that in three hun.
dred or four hundred years this may become
fact. At present it is the merest poesy. The
negro is idle, thievng, and hopelessly igno-
fhn N N
when he has learned the sanctity Of property
and the necessity of labor when he feels the
tugging of those ambitious which are at the
root Of genuine industry, he will realize
what has been hoped of him. He is in the
acorn stage now, and those who want to see
him an oak will have to possess their souls
in patience. Such an institution as a free
yeomaury does not spring up in a few years
from an enslaved people, even among the
proud Caucasians. Let those who hope this
OF the negro count how many years elapsed
from Ruanymede before there was yeoman
class in England. When they have done
that, let them wait in patience for the negro,
and not SANDER the kiHdest friends he has
the southern landh0lders-by swearing that
their malice prevents him from rising. In o
future letter will give details Of some eff
forts that have been made by them to help
him rise, which have failed because he can.
not rise" sEi s. ..E},t!
We see here frank opinion that until the
negro is taught to save, all the desires of
the North for him are but dreamS-unsub'
stantial coinages of the BRAIN" We see,
also, in the speculations of this mau of calm
judgment warmly sympathzing with the
negro that he may learn this and become
source of wealth and pride to the whole
country" in about sthree hundred or four
hundred years. That number of. years
would be q respectable period of time in the
slowest aud most plodding age. Now, with
the engineries we have it would be as two
thousand years. In that time what may no,
happen? These slow virtues Of the African
| will not have time to crop out before thi;
country will have undergone revolutions
which will leave few traces of him! Blu
can he accomplish what this intelligent Re
publican carves out for him in all time?