The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-06-19
The. Africans of the Azor.

The New York Tribune has singular ar
ticle upon the people OF African descent"
who went over from Charleston, S. c., to
Africa recently. The Tribune, perplexed
in its prophecies and staggered in its phi
losophy, performs sort OF mad dance
about the Africans. 1t portrays the epochs
OF African desire and OF African disap-
pointments down to the present time.
When in slavery they sighed for Liberia
and freedom and the light OF voting and
making laws. Well, they have got liberty,
and they have the vote and the right to par
ticipate in the makiig OF laws, and have the
same powers to protect and advance them
selves that any otner class has, and the "re-
suit, so far, has been disappointment" says
the 4ri6une.
Nor does the Tribune think they are to be
blessed by going to Africa, now that they
have all they sighed after in America. And
it points to the voyage Of the Azor as not
calculated to promote their hopes of happi-
ness by going to Africa. One tenth OF the
number, OF black emigrants died on the
voyage, and the future of the survivors, in
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Rather discouraging account, for a:negro-
phiiist journal. But the ITibune@seeks to
console itself by INDUCING the hope that re-
construction may yet result in the vlndica-
ton to title to equality OF the African race
with the,while man. The "dark man :" has
found that ono help from without" can
avail to accomplish what remained to be
wrought "through patient years Of upward
striving by themselves ri. e., the negro
efforts. But yet the devoted journal turns
with hope to Senator BRUCE (black), from
Mississippi, and, speaking in praise Of his
mental yigor, declares that his brave words
assure all wel-wishers Of freedmen "that
history will Justify the reconstruction poll
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a forlorn hope that is based upon this
one man, and conjecture that is perilous
in face OF the neur approach of that conclu-
sive evidence that must settle oil prophecies
relating to the capabilities of the negro.
We note especially that never-dylng pre-.
judice that is shown in the malicious re-
mark of the Tribune that the negroes have
encountered the "unscrupulousness and
skill, and pushing energy Of their old mas
ters." The old masters have been the ne
gro's friend. Had the advice and appeals
OF the old masters been respected the
negroes would have been better off to-day;
but in an evil hour they turned their backs
upon their real friends and took their coun-
sells from the carpet-bag scamps and fools.
The old masters" are the constant objects
of defamation by those Of the Tribune stripe;
but what have we seen? These same
old masters giving the colored people work
and subsistence while their so-called north
ern friends have been robbing them. Look
at the Freedmen's Bank, through which
chiefly northern rascals contrivcd to rob
the poor African Of more than million OF
dollars! &x
The wronged and the deluded may well
be cautious and jealous OF new friends; but
the negroes should be well enlightened by
this time as to the chief source OF their mis-
fortunes. 1t Is not in the South.