The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-10-13
North ana SOUTH -T' .the Point.

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j We fluid a: very suggestive article .in The
I! New York Times, from which we Gull q few
sentences. s 81 aSs
/ The Times begins BIZ asserting that The
negro must be protected in his rights, and
tadds: III Az; !. Il. 81 $; I, ,si =
i .eBut to sit down and invent storsesso!
murders, or to eXaegerate the rumors which
come in all sorts OF wild shapes from Ala.
bama or Louisiana this is a work which we
should have thought no man OF ordinary bu-
manity would be willing to ndertake.5 The
attempt to set North against South, or white
against black, Is not only not JUSTIFIED
.by the plea Of political necessity
but that plea only asgravates the offence.
The, sooner the whole country Is az
peace the better will It be for the
people. AS we pointed out the other day,
we cannot afford to have large section
Of the Union king in d state of prostratioD,
not 10 say Of absolute beggary. When the
South was prosperous we derived practical
advantages from her prosperity. The south
ern people came here for many Of the neccs-
stiles and almost all the vluxuries of life.
| That source of trade is gone, and can any.
| body suppose that the mercantile community
does not feel the loss2 The effort to excite
fresh ilI-feeing between the North and
| South is, therefore, short-sighted, viewed
| merely in its relation to our own interests
| even if we did not choose TO consider it
from higher ground"
All this is true and IS TO the business re-
I.latons of North and South, unless a differ
ent policy towards the South be pursued,
there will be yet worse news from)the South
for our northern friends. There will he re-
pudiatiou. Not reputation from malice or
vindictiyeness, bus Reputation from Reces-
sity. IL.
With regard to the source of. the rumors
of the reputed southern cruelies the Times
makes these sensible remarks:
- We have noticed one very curious fact,
and it is this: the reports Of q reign of Ter.
ror,' and all the rest of it, never come from
the State In which the said reign is said to
have broken out. Almost all these blood
and.thunder stories are, oddly enough, dated
from Washington. You read in the head
line, sFrgbtful Atrocities in Alabama
More Negroes Butchercd.' But when you
come to look little lower down, you find
that the dismal tale is dated from Washing
ton; and this. we must confess, strikes US as
very suspicious. Some weeks ago We dis:
patched several special correspondents to
Alabama and Louisiana men on whom We
knew that we could depend. We have re-
ceived and placed before our readers three
or four letters from tbem, but although they |
show (what we all knew betore) that south. |
ern society is utterly disorganized, yet we
cannot see any evidence Of areign of terror"
The Times says the Republican party be-
gan the work Of reconstruction and will be
held responsible for its successful accom- !
plishment. That responsibility it never can
fulfil. It's reconstruction had the fatal sordid
seed in it of which it must perish. The ob.
ject TO gain votes by giving the negro the
ballot, all unit as he was for it, is the great
and ruinous error of the whole system. The |
Times says:
ga perfect project for restoring peace, or
der, and prosperity to the South would have |!
called for something more than human in
genuty or wisdom TO devise"
And the plan for gaining Republican votes
by masking the negroes voters was the best
thing that "human ingenuity" could in.
vent for the purpose OF deieatlpS any pro-
;ect" that might have been proposed. Butfor.|
that plan, for the qualification Of party greed
and partisan rapaeity the Republicans could
have made, probably, a wise system of recon.
struction. Party deprayity is at the bottom
Of all our woes.
Finally, the Times announces the follow
ing proposition, the truth of which none Can
deny:
ave shall never have united country
while one section Of the population is being
bounded on to crush the other section. Party
interests and politics afford no excuse for a
crime of that kind"
Here is the whole matter in nutshell.
And when Shall this bounding on of one Sec
ton OF the Union to crush the other cease ?
The question is for the North to answer.