The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-02-08
Civil Rigl,ts-No,a Opinions.

poor consolation in our troubles.
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Civil RiglIts-N otable Opinions
Itis fearful to look back upon the horrors
o f Radical misgoyernaaent: bat it 10 dei'gnt-
t.ul to feel the hope that the nation may soon
be rescued from thcm by the sober second
thought of the peosac. For lorg years tue
truth was hidden from the northern peoF:e,
and they hid but faint idea of the dlsor-
der, expressions and s1tferings at the So'-tn'
An ind ependent northern press, through its
ewn enterprise and proper sense OF duty'
gathered up the facts concerning theScohdi-
ton OF the South and presented them 10 inc
world. They gave the REPUTATION 10 tue
fulsaboods pat forth by the Federal Admin.
is'ira1ion apditsiEfamous pimps and accusers
End the people had fearful history OF the
ruinous effects On the South of'RaGical recon-
struction, Finally, the committee OF Congress
sent to Louisiana in their report more IMAM
sustained the representations referred 10 OIL
the independent press. Truth isshining with
brilliant light over the whole North, and
honest and independent public men are dis
cussiug it freely, and holding up to the peo'
ple the dark picture of the ruin wrought BY
the mischieyous policy of the'Radicals.. The
halls of Congress, too, ring with the just de-
nuneigtiens of shat policy, and everywhere
we behold the signs Of the waning fortunes
of the Har:party and theirtyrannica govern.
ment.
We were struck with the bold and just
declarations.of Mr.. ELpRBDeE, of Wisconsin,
In bis speech against the civil-rights bill.
We offer to Che reader on extract from it,
which suggested this Introductory:
"Thelegis'ation Of Congress since the close
of the war upon the negro question, and the
effects of that legislation upon the southern
States, and even upon the Union Itself, stand
perpet,sa. reproach TO the party 10y whom
it was enforced, and an represent rcmon-
STRANGE aud protest against further enact.
ments in the same direction.
at ought to be enough to 'call a halt ,
that entire States, once proud and majestic
common ~eaths, are in ruins, lying PROSTATE
before us,-in 'the'ver struggle and article of
death-the work of our legislation. Look ut
South Carolina that once proud and pros
porous State, with her three hundred thou.
sand preperty.holders, two hundred and
ninety thousand of them white, including
the intelligent, educated, refined men and
women of the whole State, subjected by
this kind of legislation to the control, DOM
nation, and .Spoliotton of an uneducated,
sem-barbarous African race Just emanci-
pated from the debasing and brutaliZing
bonds Of slavery. Look at Mississippi, Ar
kansas, Alabama, and Louisiana, once the
most genial and fairest portion Of the Re-
public-grand, mighty States of the Union,
marching. rapidly and proudly forward in
the outward and upward march OF wealth
and civilization, rent and torn by civil strife;
rarsged, desolated, and destroyed by actual
DGr-a war0f races brought CD and kept UP
BY congressional legislation. This state of
things is mot the result Of natural causes,
but 1t is the result Of the unnatural re-
laiisn in which the two races have
been placed to each other. 1t is
the result of the conflict which may
always be expected when it is attempted to
subject men Of culture, civilized men, men
accustomed to freedom, to the domination
and rule of brute force. The history of the
world furnishes no instance Of harmonious
equality and commirglinS of such antago-
nistic. forces, aud certainly not by the sub.
jugation of tho intellectual to the physical.
The white race, with its pride Of blood, the
memory of its achievements, the conscious.
ness of its superiority and power, will never
brook African equality or live ueder Afrl.
caniZed governments and the sooner this
TRUTHS realized by American statesmen the
sooner will the remedy for the evils that are
upon Us be Devised
This..is the language of the patriot and
statesman. His whole speech was the elo-
quent eutpouring Ola just censure upon a
bad government. 1t must have inspired a
feeling OF remorsc in tae minds Of the authors
of the evils which Sc dread(ully afliict the
nation.
Mr.. CHrETENDEN, Of New York, Repub.
lican, had the judgment to form very proper
opinions on the ulject, and The courage TO
express them In the face Of the domineering
and exactisg party to which he belongs.
How truy,h speaks OF She New England
people wheE he tells what their feelings
would be if the negroes were in large NUM-
bers amongst them. Hear him:
"Mr. CHEIENDEN: I do mot want to 90
down with my party quite Sc deepas the bill
will sink it if IL becomes theLaW, and that is
the reason why speak.
81 shall Soteaganst the bill for two rea-
sons, which j will briefly mention. / Was
born in Connecticut. have for thirty-two
years been citizen of the State Of New
York, and do not believe there is a single
town In New England, or one liz the State Of
New York, having railroads and stelegraphS,
whose white men would favor Or vote for
this bill if you We're 10 reverse the ratio OF
population giving such towns in New Eng.
land aud in the State of New York TIE same
proportion of black spen that South, Carolina
md Louisiana now have.
81 admit the justice, l admit the con.
o Tmity Of the bin which will probably dpass
o day With the late constitutional amend
nd 'nts, so far as l understand them. Butthe
Dill Is nevertheless an offence aud menace to
he dominant race. Say this is prejudice, OF
,enti ment II you please. l am practical
nan, aud believe it impolitie unnecessarily to-
rex W. bite men, North and South, BY passing
his b. aow. 1t will, moreover, in nv
udgmekt, breed michel. prejudice, and cru
city, to be weaker race in their struggle for I
/ higher civilization. It will Inevitably, I'm.
ess human nature has chaagaS, expose the
black man TO aew persecution. ard will raise
,ew barrie rs to the rapid elevation of his
ace. Let il no. be supposed that the battle
# / he black Haan is finished. He cannot be