The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-02-14
The Black Bruce.

The BLACK Bruce.
There has sprung up In the United States
Senate black BRUCE with white (and
semale) name. His name is BLANCHE *.
BRUCE. He was born In Prince Edward
county--a locality almost equal to Lynch.
burg for the notoriety of Its native.born
citizens. BRUCE was born in that county
March the LIST, 1871. His master probably
INDUCED bit Of facetiousness In calling
him "BLANcnE." He went TO Mississippi in
1869, and there became planter. lie was
elected in 1875 to the United States Senate
to succeed PEAsE, upon whom ne was,
without regard to color, decided I'M
movement, He was elected in Febru-
sry. and took his seat in March, 1875,
and now, not year In the Senate,
he bursts out Indignantly with some .senti-
ments that have smack of the independence
of BRUCE the white, save. that they are spoiled
by an evident resentment because he has not
been accorded that social equality he sought
and which ROBERT BRUCE would have died
before be would have limited at. We bow
in humiliation and remorsc before his inn.
mortal shade for insulting bis great fame by
this allusion but the law and the tyranny
which forced the present status upon this
country conpels US to what else would never
be dreamed OF.
BRUCE is an African on rampage, and,
like an ass in a camp that carries the kettles
aGd pans, has stampeded the animals BY
running riot with his load. He is reported
to have called the President liar, and to
have spoken so angrily that the leading Re-
publicaus were thrown into great trouble
and anxiety. Senator CAMERON said that IL
was "hell of a Speech" and both MORTON
and CoskI1ne sadly and pathetically remon-
stra,ed against it. They couldn't sec how
BRUCE, harnessed 80 splendidly, could PCS.
siby see under bis trappings that he was
"political slave" as he said he was, nor how
he should complain that be was not yet the
equal Of those Republican senator's who had
passed laws to make him the social equal OF
the white man 10 the South, and yet them
selves had never invited him TO their boards
and bed. ;nd made him their equal in their
e.cgan: seeral lives. They said the southern
people mHst treat him upon footing OF 30.
cisl frateEcity; ioust, and study, and travel,
ard eat, and sleep with him, and the
shrewd black Bruce from the famed
county OF Prince Edward finds that
thev who required sl this OF southern
whites do Lo5 themselves extend the
same fra,crra and equal treatment
&c him aud his brethren. BRUCE tells
9lem the truth, and CoSKLISG thinks ne is
hssty and cratic, and MORTON says he has
n,s weighed we'll the wonderful things the
kepub leans did for him when they habilita-
ted him with the grand privileges OF Citizen
ship; and CAMERON, more honest than either
Of the other priests Of the Republican tenn
pie, bluntly declares that it Is sa hell Of
speech" But BRUCE says: All their acts
have ended only in making him and his
brethren "political slaves "-and that is the
fact. It is an honor 10 our venerable county
Of Prince Edward that this modern NATHAN
went from her borders. He has pointed his
fuger ut the MoRToNs and CoNKLNds and
CAMERoNs aud told them the "fatal truth"
With wounded sensibility, in view Of the
indifference and the exclusion from all social
equality with which he Is treated by his bro.
ther Radical senators, this proud Virginia
negro inveighs against his colleagues for
their Kaonstrous frauds against him and bis
people.
1t an earlier day had BRUCE called
General GRANT q liar We hardly know
what would have become of him. Such
an insult then would have had dire
conclusion; but the end drawing some
what nigh, and the third term having been
eXtinguished, no one seemed to be particu-
larly shocked at it. Even General
GRANT, we suspect, cared nothing
about il. BE Is too stold and imper-
vious 70 outside influences to care what Is
said now. He ID going straight along to
wind up his relations to the Government,
and the least care on earth upon his mind is
what BRUCE and his people may have to say
Of him. Were he in the beginning Of bis
office the matter would be different; but now,
rail on BRUCE, otis of no consequence"
We take no stock in BRUCE, but it is some
thing to the credit Of the African race that
one amongst them, violently injected into a
high political position, has had the sagacity
to see that he was put there through hypo.
critical motives, and that instead of the un-
limited equality and golden liberty that were
promised his race they are, after all, but gro.
LITIcAI SLAVES"