The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-28
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THIl1IyRsDA Z ..5,..sE PTEMBER %, 1876,
A pisunion speech.

A IQSunloE aSpe6en.4
tsEoRaE WILLIAM CUaTis, tho editor OF
HarperS Weekly. Is one OF the most lib.
eral ai the leading Republican politicians
OF the North He has the reputation OF pe.!
ing q :. Miss NAsCy z In politics, but be Is
really as dangerous q politician as BUl1ER'
or MORTON. He affects purity only to prac..
tice the more effectively what he does not
preach, and advocates civii-sersice reform
as D means Of giving him influence with the
better class Of Republicans, with whom he
pretends to 60 astray from the fold OF Rad.
icsl rascality merely that he may lead them
back again into that fold. he Is a practical
tiisunicnist, though he owes his fame to
what was supposed 70 be his attachment to
the Union. In q word, he Is q wolf in
shecps cIothing--a hypocrite. That the
reader may Judge FOR himself what sort Of
q man this Curtis is, we give an extract
from recent speech Of his, as follows:
nThc KEY is lii the brain Of men. sosin
respect to the condition Of the South. The
whites have an intellectual power which
would assert Itself IL eXerted, and control
the negro despite Republican administra-
ton. say the only solution, OF the south
ern question Is the destruction In the minds
OF white men OF the South that there is any
hope OF their return to power in the form
of the old Democratic party. (Cheers.l Let
that once become the conviction OF the
white Democrats South let them under
stand that while there are differences in the
Republican ranks they are a unit upon TINS
question let them understand that the
nominees of the Republican party arc de-
termined upon that fact, and settlement
soi the southern question will inevitably
follow
- Was there ever more infamous PROPOSE
tion made to intelligentpeopie: Thewhole
power Of the Federal Government is by the
Republicans constantly invoked to secure
to ignorant negroes the right to vote as they
please; yet here is prominent Republican
deliberately proposing practically to dis
franchise every white man in the South
and to render his brain work unproductiyt
and fnitaess so long as he shall persist in
voting for the candidates Of the Democratic
party. Let the southern people understand
says Mr.. CURTIS, that there is no hope OF theil
return to power can the form of the old De
4aoTatic party What, thent Why, o
course, that they must return to power, i
at all, as Republicans. AS long as theyW
the Democratic ticket they viii be PARIAHs
The moment they determine to vote the Re
publican ticket they will become as patrioti
as LoNGsTREET, or MosBY, or SETTLE, o.
SENER, or BALL. Alr. CURTIS is the cham
pion OF free suffrage. He will have it tina
even the illiterate, vulgar, panper-negroe
shall vote as they please. Yet he calls upol
the northern people to deny that same priv
lege to the educated, refined, taX-payin:
whites OF the South. sE,.s.E
q Read that extract again. See how tn
llypocritical villain coniesses that he wou!t
punish men Of his own race for being supe
rior to the negroes. He admits that the in
tellectual power OF the whites is so ia
above that Of the negroes that the forme
will control the latter if allowed to do so
and he coolly, calmly, and villainously pro
poses that the Inferior race shall by tn
northern people be enabled to control tn
superior. rs it possible that our northern
brethren are sunk so low in prejudic
against, and hatred OF, the southern peopl
that they can patiently and quietly listen +
such language? Will they not rebuke it
author and his allies at the ballot-box?
We class all such men as GEORGE VIII
LIAM CURTIS among the disunionists. Th
Union which our fathers established wa
entered into for the purpose Of promoting
the general welfare, and OF drawing stran
gers together rs brethren Of q common
country. The Union that CURTIS woul
have would be union OF superior State
with inferior ones-a union OF southern
servants with northern masters-a union il
which the people of the stronger sectiol
would rule the people OF the weaker section
by combining with the ignorant, the vicious
and the unprincipled, OF the latter section
That is to say, it will be minority Of tn
taxpayers OF the country who will rule tn
majority; for If the white votes only wer
counted, the Democratic candidates woult
undoubtedly be elected by large majority
Let the northern people think on thes
things, They do not value the goodwill o
the South as they would il war with som
great foreign Power were imminent. The.
do not treat us as they would in such Al
event. They invite-nay, compel-us t.
remain in Union in which they are no
willing to recognize US as equals. Is thi
rnionism or disunionism? a.sHr s.a
t-tsf@
,,-,,,t ~, The Tweed Case.
The arrest Of WILLIAM M. TWEED in .
country with which the United States Gov