The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-04-25
Miscepenation Advocated.


II anybody could be surprised at any hne
OF conduct that the New York Herotd
might pursue, he might be surprised TO ma
that journal advocating iscegenation-net
in terms, it is true, but in effect. 1t tells
how an of,icious or benevolent New
York lawyer wrote letter to convict in
our penitentIary giving him gratis sach ad-
vice az he thought the convict needed, ana
how the letter was returned to the lawyer,
and then adds its own advice to Virginia.
or course the convict is the negro who was
sent to the penitentiary for marrying
white woman. By the way, the Herald
forgets that Rhode Island and other north
ern States have laws forbiddng the inter-
marriage OF whites and blacks. We quote
from the Herald:
at can scarcely be doubted that State
law which pronounceS q marriage con-
fractcd between man OF color and White
woman q penal offence Is in conflict with
the fourteenth amendment OF the United
States Constitution declaring that no State
shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridse the privileges or immunltles OF
citizens OF the United States II Is as clear
that this amendment is intended TO Abolish
all distinction in civil rights as it is that the
fifteenth amendment is intended to Abolish
all distinction in political rights between the
white and colored races. The privilege TO
marry al will is civil right which cannot
be stitutonally ABRIDGED in the case OF
any citizen Of the United States, white or
black"
Does the Herald suppose that the learned
jurist who presides in the Supreme Court
OF Appeals of Virginia has never heard OF
the fourteenth amendment that he and his
associates have never considered the consti-
tutional questions which that paper in its
ignorance raises rs il new? 1t evidently
does. But it is vastly mistaken. We adj.
wise the Herald to procure copy OF the
opinion Of that tribunal in n case mot this
-one) which recently came before it under
the statute under which the New York law
yer's pet was convicted, and to study that
opinion before writing any more upon the
subject. There is also at least one opinion
OF the Supreme Court OF the United States
as to what are "the privileges and immuni-
ties OF citizens or the United States" which
would be profitable reading to some ether
people than the writer for the Herald. We
shall not take up the argument. We 20 on
to show that the Herald advocates m'<ceee-
nation. 1t says:
"The southern States will not benefit
themselves politically or financially by cling
ing to the prciudices Of 4 social condition
that has passed away, and stubbornly re-
fusing to conform their State laws to the
new order Of things. IL they desire to Sc
cuse ut home that peace and good order
Without which they cannot expect renewed
prosperity, their first object ought to be to
harmonize their State laws with the Fede-
raj Constitution, and to cease prosecutions
that SAVIOR of the old days OF negro slavery"
The impudence and Lrazen et1rontery OF
the man who could seriously pen such
paragraph must excite sort of admiration.
.sPeace and good order" can only come to
the southern States when they iegalze mis-
cegenaion! And this from the leading
journal OF northern civilization the eX-
press image and embodiment OF the senti-
III Mt OF New York refinement!