The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-11-02

Negro Suffrage.

,rha telegraph has brought the ststeniesnls
that there is some plars rropossca py so1ac
Rai,;ca, noiiticians 10 take away gu fira ss
from tho negroes TEis is hardly the case.
We have NO doubt that many icadlns kaei';
csl no,;,Icias,s repent them that the South
d q .ccorfed an increase In representation
IN congress through negro enfranchise.
n,ent. and this moment II they could see
how TO fake this additional representation
from us they would do so. The plots OF
our northern brethren tending to the de-
triment OF their brothers Of the South have
generally resembled those OF JosEPn's breth@
rem. The addition to southern strength
in Congress was che incident to the great
fanatieal crusade which greatly disturbed
the peace OF kenorthern resolutioaists. sa
But how are they to reyolutionise back
wardss They would do il II they could,
but how will they? With the opening OF
the gate TO the African the South got nine
or ten additional representatives. THOSE
cannot be taken from the South, unless the
African is sent out at the same gate through
which he came. The dilemma is one yexa-
tious to the Yankee, and in using that term
we mean not oil northern people by a1ugiui.
The real Yankce is too well known to need
explanation, and be will always be found
yituperatiye and hostile to the South. he
has been mad that the addition to southern
representative strength was consequence
OF negro reimbursement.
And how Inconsistent and hypocrit1cai
they are! Do not all OF us remember how
those persons sought. apparently Will
earpestness, TO console the Caucasian
Of the South when he complained OF the
fearful consequences Of establishing le-
gal equality OF races in the Souths They
told MS that the fittest would triumph;
that the superiority OF the white man would
soon make him master Of TIE situation, and
reestablish order and prosperity, and main
tain decorum and virtue.
True, we listenedsto them with little pa
tience and no respect, satisfied that thelr
promises would never be realized through
nny help from them. We knew better than
thew did the condition in which they placed
lis. We relied not upon them, bat deter
mined ourselves to make the best OF sltua-
ton brought upon us against our Will and
ont OF which we could not emerge. But we
knew what we could do, and that we are
doing.
Our brothers find that with all the power
OF force and fraud they could employ
against us we have wellnigh reached that
mastery which is absolutely necessary for
the protection Of the order and virtue OF
society. Governed by the superior race,
the negro voters assist in the triumphs OF
their superiors, and that enrages our dear
brothers. SO there is unquestionably much
murmurring and cu>sing Of the negro and
OF the South. The whites are denounced
for alleged tyranny over the negro in one
breath, aud in the next the negro is cursed
rs fool and an ungrateiul knave. How
can he after we have freed him vote for his
master who whipped him? This is what
they say, and the more they say the more
they are perpleXed and enraged.
But so it is. The negroes are voting
while the whites are getting their votes
and sending to Congress the representatives
we had before negro equality. and also those
which were added to southern. representa-
ton when the negroes camein.
And what are they going to do about it: