The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-07

sieors;a---The South.

The South.
The enormous majority given Tor oolr
ou1rT, the Democratic candidate Tor Gov
ernor Of Georgia, is surprising even ~ ~
OF The South, although when we reaees upo :.
the condition Of the southern populas1lons ~
shon,d not be matter OF wonder. AUD go
;,,s. NJ Georgia has acted will all the south
own states act. She has acted naturally, and
the causes existing there have produced
their proper and unavoidable results.
when the war was over a vast horde OF
birds and beasts of prey, that followed the
northern army feasting upon camp garbage
and robbing the southern people in a man
ner unequalled for its barbarous cruelty
and ylllainy, remained in the South under
the protection OF the military authority
doing all they could to harrass and plum
der the people. Very many OF these,
greater villains than terms can describe
them to be, were put into Office Dy
military commanders to rob and hector
over people already plunged into the
deepest distress and poverty. They sought
to bolster themselves in their places for
stealing and persecution by infaming the
MINDS Of the negroes with every feeling OF
yindictiyeness towards the whites and in-
flating their ideas OF their own consequence
and Of their ability and right to rule the
whites. We need not rccur to the terrors
that were let loose upon the land. They
are too we'll remembered. But now that
we look back upon the times we speak OF
we feel wonder and admiration alike forthe
spirit OF copstancy, self-control, and hope
that prevailed amongst the pcrsecuteda and
aggravated people Of the South. Not even
during the war was there such heroism dis
played as then appeared in the grand con-
duct OF the southern people.
But as time passed the circumstances and
the scenes were changed. The military a'l-
thority was withdrawn and great body OF
the negroes discovered that they had been,
By the Radical vultureS, made dupcs and
tools Of, and that they had no reason to
hope for employment and favor from any
people or power on earth save the people OF
the South, amongst whom they lived. The
power that sustained the rogues and villains
who were left behind by the army being
withdrawn, gradually the means Of robbing
and hectoring over the southern people
were taken from them, and, like wolves at
the approach Of day, they SUNK away, leav-
ing the fields in which they had SO ruthlessly
torn and devoured their victims with the
cowed demeanor of detected plunderers.
Under this changed condition OF things,
what should we look for? Why, that the
white people-the owners OF the property
OF the South and the only men that are
capable OF ruling-should take the political
control in their own hands, and that the ne
groes, being absolutely dependent upon
them, should unite with them and conform
to their views Of public policy-that the ne
sroes should trust to their own white neigh
bors, upon whom they were so dependent,
to fill the public offices and manage public
affairs. Could anything be more natural
Could the negroes be expected still to hold
to the wrctches who had deceived them and
robbed the country OF the very revenues
which the negroes themselves had to as
sist in raising by taxation: The negro
race is not equal to the Caucasian race;
but it has sense enough to discover facts so
plain as that the Radical robbers had used
and abused them, and that after all il was
upon the southern whites alone that they
had to rely for employment and for all the
real encouragement and comfort which
grows out OF the usageS OF community.
This is the " situation now in the South.
Its consequences should be as clear as noon
day to men Of the commonest understand
Inc. And yet we see so-called leaders OF
the North pretending to see in effects that
are not only natural, but absolutely ineyi-
table. signs of :. intimidation" by cruelty
and terrorism to the degree Of murder OF
black people. boutwell,, the most villain
Gus OF hypocrites, affects to regard the mat
ter in this light and boutwell, is n priest OF
that large body Of bad northern men who
are afflicted with malignity that is shell
born and hellward bound"
The southern people-thosc OF the intel
ligent Caucasian race (and nowhere on this
earth is there a people more thoroughly
civilized, more just, and more liberal, or
moro devoted to law and order)-are now
ut the head Of their own local government.
The negro population being inferior in in-
tellisence, energy, and consistency OF will
and policy, must inevitably submit to their
superiors-nay, their supporters and pro-
tectors. What wonder, then, should there
be in the result of the Georgia elections
Can the Vermont God save the mark J
Yankee hope to exert greater influence
upon the negro in Georgia than can the
citizen OF that State, who is neighbor to the
negro and who gives him the means OF llv-
inge The Vermont bigot may influence the
operative in the Vermont mills, as he has
always done; but he cannot influence the
southern negro. The Vermonter has always
exercised more censurable political infu-
ence over the man in his employment than
ever did southern man. How villainous'y
pharasaical is the whole system OF measures
against alleged intimidation Of negro voters
nut in the form OF law by people who
have been INSCRIPTIONS and ruthless in re-
curing all persons in their employment to
vote as they themselves shall vote, upon
pain OF losing their situations il they refuse
to do SO!
Then logically, philosophically, and po-
litically, the negro goes with his southern
people. The whole South must, therefore,
so en- naasse against the party that has lost