The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-30
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81 IL have watched with the closest shtsEest
tina columns os your excellent papeF from
che very beginning OF the present poiltlcai
campaigms The earnest ana ante manner IN
which Che Dssp1tch has advocated the cause
~ 'Ti,dcn. Hcnaric and Reform places It
snsrrst she fHbst dignsfed and reliable,
ioa,rnals Of the day. The utteraIices OF the
DisDatch are entitled TO weight because Of
their calm and dispassionafe spirit. We
need reform In Journalism as well as In poll
tics, aud the day is last approaching when
editors whose vocabulary; begins with ran
cor and ends with hate will be left to She
calm and deep solitude that win haunt the
lamented Morton after the 9TH OF November.
i TIE ERECTION NEWS
Is simply glorious West Virginia Is q solid
shot for the cause OF Reform. The Radicals
talk about solid South. w hat do they
think OF the solidity OF the State that
OF adding to the power OF the solid North
against the oppressed South
& What a sad commentary upon the ina1U-,
ence of this party. West Virginia was o.
child OF their own ADOPTION. The chic has.
grown strong, and now repudiates the prin-
ciples OF It's progenitors. Truly. - whem
the gods would destroy they first make
nad.0 In addition to the positive strength
following the complete accession OF West
Virginia, the moral effect not only tends to-
render more solid the already solld South,
but It solidiGes all Of the elements, even in
the North, that have hitherto had the
slightest tendency to cohesion. ;.
Have our Radical friends ever troubled
themselves to inquire into the causes that
have led to
SOLID SOUTH?
They are the authors Of their own undoing.
From every southern State the news comes
up that our colored friends-long since
tired Of looking for the "forty acres and q
muie''-are now looking to their real in.
terest, which is inseparable from that OF
the white man Of the South. Until within
the LAST year Or two the freedmen OF this sec
ton would not listen to arespeetable white
man on the subject of politics. Now they
attend public discussions, and manifest the
deepest interest. In respect to their en-
franchisement, the Radical party performed
another brilliant deed, the effect of which
has been to make n solid South. In order
to secure the colored vote that party has
persistently insisted upon poisoning the
minds of our colored brethren against us.
The effect, at first, was to accomplish the
desired object; but the heart OF the colored
man il too kind to retain the evil passions
that the sons OF charity would engender.
A reaction is taking place, and before it Is
over the Radical leaders will be sicker OF
their dissembled humanitarianism in behalf
OF the southern negroes than they now are
in contemplating their West Virginia blum
der. Speaking upon this subject, am re-
minded OF the sable individual down in
Georgia who, upon being told that Wash
ington was born in Virginia, replied:
You spose dis niger didn't know dat. 1
know he wasn't born wild dem Yankees.
Ell he had been born up dar it never could
have been said he never told lie.' Dem
Yankees been lying to us niggers long
enuff."
PUBLIC SPEAKERS
in this section are endeavoring to show them
that the people Of the South, and particu-
tent in their opposition to the institution Of
slavery than their protested friends at the
North. They are informed that the institu-
ton was first fastened upon Virginia by the
influence of Great Britain, and after
wards by the insistance Of the
northern people. They are informed
that, whilst the greatest Of Virginia's
statesmen were advocating the abolition OF
the slave trade the North was urging the
adoption OF the constitutional provision
whereby the slave trade was continued I'M
til the year 1908.
They are informed that Thomas Jefferson,
in the original draft of the Declaration Of
Independence, provided that African slave
~ should be forever abolished in Ameri- |
ca; and they are further informed that by |
the influence OF the North that provision |
was erased. They are informed that slayeess;1; !,
existed in all the States OF the North at one
time, that they sold their slaves to the
South when they were no longer profitable,
and then raised q cry Of righteous iindigna-
'tior, against the barbarism Of slavery. They
are informed that whilst Oliver P. Morton,
the great high priest OF Radicaism, was
urging that the negro should not be clothed
with the power to vote, Wade Hampton
proposed to invest him with the rights OF
freeman. $50 5., =. ~
They are informed that whilst northern
emissarieS are endeavoring to poison their
minds against their best friends, the State
OF Virginia, in her poverty and desolation,
has provided system OF public schools for
the benefit Of themselves and their children
forever. a.t
sta'se1 THESE FACTS
are touching the hearts and reaching the
minds Of colored voters, and before the reX-
piration OF another decade the enlightened
negroes will move in solid phalanx with the
solid South against those puritanical spirits
at whose instance the "horrors OF the
middle passage" were experienced by the
ancestors OF men whose votes are now So
licited because their friends (as they falsely
allege) have always hailed from the North.
II Is solid comfort to know that the
South is solid. II successful in this cam
paign, and solidly believe We will be, we
will not only have solid South, but a solid
government, solid man at the head Of it,
q solid fulcrum on which to rest lever Tor
the overthrow OF the Radical party, solid
interest In working for the perpetuation OF
our institutions, and o solid front against
constitutional encroachments. We will
bury the whole rabble Of conspirators so
deep under the solid mountains OF obloquy
that not one OF them will ever again fall
upon a solid stone step beneath the friendly
visitation OF solid stroke Of the lordly king
of day. ,I
The Democratic party Is the party OF
solids as well as the party OF squares. She
is solid in her own ranks. and square upon
all the issues before the country.
rFor the Di.natcb