The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-03-27
Intercourse between the Sections

Intercourse between the Sections.
An invaluable medium Of good under
standing and harmony between the States is
the social intercourse between their citizens.
Nothing else has done so much good in the
way of eraSing the wounds of war and as
suacing the rancors it inspired. Many
very prominent men Of the far North have
annually visited the South, and they have
carried back with them correct views of the
real condition of the South and the effects OF
the social revolution brought upon Us by
those who held the power to rule US.
The great misfortune of the South and the
Union is that the government of the South
was directed after the war by Il people ut
tcrly unit to decide upon any question OF
domestic policy for the South. First. Their
minds were fred with rancor towards Us,
and their measures for governing Us took the
form of persecution instead of being de-
signed for our gooC. Secondly. They were
entirely uuacquainted with our social con-
diton, and had no knowledge Of the natrtr e
of the distinctions between the two races
and the ineradicable difficulties that stood in
the way of making the two equal in any
thing. Either of these two causes WIS quite
sufficient to disqualify our rulers from be-
coming our judges OK for making laws TO
meet the condition of the South.
The true statesman would say that go pco-
ple should ever be placed under the govern
ment of men so utterly disqualified. Natural.
" we have had the conset uences that must
flow in all such cases. We have had laws
full of persecution, and We have had laws
intended to force equality where it was utter.
ly impossible without MULTIPLYING the law of
nature; and that is more s.an man can do.
These measures Of our incapable judges were
designed to humble the spirit and degrade
the very souls of the people Of the South by
reducing them TO social as we'll as political
equality with their late slaves. Humanity
as we'll as custsm should have taught our
rulers that this ever possible was an out
rage--thus suddenly brought Ipon US. So
sudden o social revolution could not have
been looked upon by any sane man as less
than breaking np OF society, attended by
hundreds of causes for distress auS,!oss, and
relieved by no present alternative, and in
deed, hSrdly By hope itself.
TWAS one OF the most aggravated cases Of
misgoYernmeDt that ever occurred Indeed,
its like &as never before known. We still
founder, US it were, in the Quicksands into
which our rulers have forced us, although we
begin to Soc the CLEANS of hope. The i'm.
partial observer would ask how this could
have been. Our rulers were of the same
Caucasian blood with ourselves. Why shoGld
they have desired 10 degrade us below the
barbarian? Again, they were fellow.citi-
gems with Ourselves in a contederated re.
public, in whose prosperity, force, and dig
nifty should be centred their pride, as it was,
furthermore, their hope of security and pros.
perity. The world will wonder that such
men, SO in,erested.with US in maintaining the
common good and eherishing the Sympathies
OF race, should have iDaicted upon The South
a line Of measures that have proved so disas.
trous to the southern States themselves as
we'll as to the dignity and power of tie ma
tiop.
1t is the most wonderful chapter of his.
tory ever made by nation. and it is fear.
ADMINISTRATION Of the destruction which must
ever succeed where passion, hste, and party
rapacity direct the helm Of government
1t MUST require time to relieve the country
Of the terrible effects. Werepeat, that great
help towards restoring harmony to the coun.
~ and contentment to people is the free
REORGANIZATION OF intelligent people b.
tween the North and the South. No man
understands matters under discussion so
sell AS he who secs for himself. The men
'ho come here With fair minds, and mix !,
~ me people. and observe closely .he
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