The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-04-07
Hithn,ond lispatth.
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r he Negro Hegira.

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Some ey element having arisen about thls
editorial "blather," the New fork hcsasa
has de sermined:to gather as much % 'u
port N. ana reliable testimony bearing upon
tk, proceeding as possible. We award
to the Herald for its motiye, out a
nrettv sure that It viii result 10 little 70 tue
n.t;ona, advantage. The vindicttTe ana
deccitiul men who are endca ''c' 70 aou
TO this excitement for mere party purposes
viii, 90 on with their scheme, and pay no
a,,ent, nm whatever to TRUTH In all history
there Inns no, appeared a party moro base
and dishonest than the body OF men woo
arc ever ready to take advantage OF every
inc ident in southern proceedings, that tney
IN ~ tisters to their advantage SO rs 10 eA-ii
C te the northern pubic mind TO tee pfelu-
4 fec Of tho South That there arc eh''ssa-
r;.s ot work in the South to poison Tue
yn,.,s,s NJ the negroes and ALLEVIATE thefa
from their noighheTing White cit1ens We
5-,rc nc snre as that ue live, ana that 'epese
,,He,s have comprsnd OF the corrupt news
-,,auer, that arc engineering this poh&ca'
: sr;ck we are as perfectly sure.
Therefore, we hope for nothing ana eN-
meet nothing bat that they sre going 70 10
their worst in this line What matters IL
that they know that no ulesmate Saoa IS 10
come to tue country! They kno" lha'
they may cain political or party advantage
in the nearest elections by their lying ana
sraud. That is what they want. ana the
JJsrnldps truth will not weigh chxHuepin
AGAINST their yiiiainy. The Hes1Id may
observe our thanks, but we know that
which merits our execration will not cease.
Nevertheless, we kaow that Nature IS ma
s.re. and that truth is irrepressible. FL
nally. we know that it viii appear that those
who are shedding their crocodllc;tears over
the negro will never contribute cent Tor
l;s benefit: that the southern people are
. his best friends; that the South is bis Senlai
home; that the temporary muddie ABOUT
him is only for Republican party purposes
and that the negro will find in the end that
he is nobody and nowhere IN the Repubi'-
can books, but to be left at last to his late
Under the dispensatons OF nature and Pro"
violence. With these two ruling powers we
never believed the Republican party had
ANYTHING TO do beyond the determination OF
their ultimate fate as party warning against
them both for the triumph Of schemes hos
tile alike to nature and Justice.
The South knows all. 1t knows that it
. NAV hone for nothing at the mercy, or JUS
tice, or truth OF the sordid and un>crupu-
lous Radical party; but that it may Trust
everything to nature and to justice, and
never be disappointed.
We have nothing 10 fear from the truth,
and everything to hope from a just PROVE
dence.
Let us ask II Grandmother WINDOWS
scheme for facilitating every developed
tendency OF African migration did not ut
least ASSIST the yiyiieation OF this African
heiira? o. Grandmother WINDOW we do
. not think unkindiy, and will say, even II
d the lascally asitators did, like lecchcs, fasten
upon his scheme, that he neither intended
nor expected anything OF The sort.
The short and the long OF our view is that
any expectation that the rascals may have
set upon the matter is doomed to disappoint-
uncut. wur.poat that tho blacks are more
- than any other race the victims OF clrcum-
staEce. They are incapable OF suggesting
or digesting any plan Of social revolution
that is not merely violent. They IRE chill
dren of nature, and therefore deserve more
the sympathy and tender regard OF civlliza-
- ton than the wretchcs who would Use them
merely to plunge kindred community into
distress and misery. II is matter OF slow
progress to illumine such unfortunate men
as to the sinister objects Of those who delude
them. But they will lind it out at last. II the
bad men who would now use them would
complete their work they must pay out
money, dispense food, and insure to the
negro the life of " fighting cock" but let
them beware of talking about the "hdrd-
slip" of "settlng new country" and OF
the unwillngncss Of people TO support
families OF negroes to "gct the work OF one
negro" The less OF that talk the better for
them.
Or course there is to be the same end to
all the stories told by the deceitiul North TO
the negroes: "Forty acres and mule "
tells that story. The South need not be
anxious. The beginning is thesame as Will
be the continuation and the end.