The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-09-12
Help Us, C ass, !, : OF we Sink.

Ever since the Conservatives opened in
80 earnest their powerful batteries OF artillery
and lang Encs Of 6harp's rifles upon tne
lean ranks OF the Forcible Readjusters it
rhas.been apparent to every observer that
.feaEan desperation have seized their whole
,WoHgang, and wild desertton is the order OF
the day among the strongest and most hope
tfuio OF the clan. Especially has this general
rout been most apparent since our musketry
- opened upon them all along the tines On the
'Ist instant from Winchester, in the grand
Valley OF the SHENANDOAH, TO the growing
city Of Danvile, on the extreme south OF our
borders. The fact has been more than once
alluded to and st,iklngly illustrated in the
columns OF this newspaper. but the follow
ring editorial paragraph from the leading
iReadiusters' organ of Wednesday shows
very eepclusively that their last hope OF
x success has fed, and that in the agonies OF
!, .4sishonorabe death they make last and
,piteous, appeal for help to the colorea PEG:
pie and Republicans OF the State. Just
= Tread il, all, peoples and colors:
~. ..At last the colored citizen OF Virginia
- has an oppa, tunity to vindicate his inSesti-
ii ure with tue elective franchise. At last a
u great issue. has arisen which has no e0nnec-
;-1tien whatever with party politics, either
estate or7naticpal, and by which the voter is
.remitted fully to his patriotism and intelli-
,gence as the guides of his ballot. What
will the cologesl citizen do with his? wiz
lhe now really. identify himself with the peo-
ple, Of whom be is legally one9 OrHil he
90 with the brokers against the people,
against free education, against free Suffrage,
andtfor an increase OF taxes? To do the
latter, whether by not voting or YotiRg for
1sheI serong. man, gilI fearfuly impeaeh both
Ibis intelligence ana his pariotism.''
.This;is the last and desperate appeal OF
=, ahe. dying gladiator. When before, in it's
] Refine, did The, MaaoNE organ ever appeal
/ otthe, colored man for help, or show him
G. nlrtesy above duss5 brute, or lift It's foot
fr sin. of his neck? Even when dozen or
SO GfIhat, GLASS, of :their own. appointment
as delegates, appeared 5n the Mozart-HaH
Co, &an,ion, sall association or afiiiiaTon
will. lsheB was refused, and the leaders and
their 'Gclowersden,ed theimpeachment and
SONG q ito conceal their caagrin, charging
tba, Il sssa colored delegates bad been bought
an, and their EXPENSES paid 10 the Convea-
.,;an nv ~funders, bankers, and BROKERS'
M hrin, { fhe Convention into reproach and
ot,;uml This fasehood was made not a
week ago. in one OF their Valley organs, and
hsstbeen taught secretly among all the white
nsot..e tn, " associate gith.
But nows When matters have become per-
Secslyslesp .rate and their fraud and dishon-
@xsty ,aS posed and made odious among all
tse tax~ payers and honest men, they come,
like the drowning man catching at straws,
WITH tileaa shameless appeals and advice ad.
dressed to the coIored man, whom they have
heretofore IGNORED and despised in every
Z relatisn OF Eiie except that OF the obedient
- nenssi.
The gensibEe and honest portion OF the
coiored people will not respond to such r
dishonest call.