The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-01
,lcIlnlond 1lsylatrh.
Il EpNEsDAY JANUARY 1. 1879.
ofacial Reports Of outrages.

Official Reports Of outrages.
The organ OF Jar GOULD congratulates
itself that Mr.. HAYES did not, without hav-
ing some basis for his charge. aliude In bis a
annual message to outrages committed upon
voters in The South by the managers OF the
Democratic party. That journal seems TO
be rather surprised TO find that the Presl-
dent really had heard OF such outrages.
We all know tbat he has a weakness for
yarus concerning the wrongs Of SAaDo.
When it was announced in November, 1876.
that Mr.. T1LpEN was elected, and when Air.
HAYES had not learned that be himself
would be counted In BY an electoral COM
mission. he made speech TO some OF MS
neighbors in Ohio, in which be declared
that he regretted bis defeat chiefly because
OF the unprotected condition in which the
negroes OF the South would be left by
the seating Of Dir. TLDENs Mr.. HAYES
showed second time that he was fanatic
on the same subject when he passed by all
the capable gentlemen who were applicants
for the marshaIship OF the District OF Co
lumbia, and conferred that Office upon ne
gro. In various ways has the President
proved that he may be attacked upon bis
blind side whenever there arc negroes con-
cerned. lie is perhaps disposed to "com-
pound for sins he is inclined to by damnlng
those he has no mind to-" AS to this we
know nothing; but it is generally the case
that fanatics are pursued by some sort OF
ayengins angel, and we have right to
guess that our President is one OF those who
go about to set up religion OF their own
because they have failed to live up to the
teachings OF the religion OF their fathers.
We quote from the New York Tribune:
sour Washington dispatches state that
the President will transmit TO Congress,
when that body reasscmbles, a large mass OF
evidence respecting the southern outrages,
much OF which was ready for Congress
when the session opened. This evidence IS
contained in official documents-the reports
OF district attorneys, marshais ana depu-
ties-and will make interesting reading Tor
those sanguinc Democrats who have been
insisting that the whole story OF political
murders in South Carolina and Louisiana
was newspaper fiction. The extracts srom
these letters which are given in our WASH
iDetor dispatches slow what an excellent
foundation the Teller committee will have
for its work.
Yes. These reports will be rich read
ing. The officials who have sent them 10
the President are the same who are de-
scribed by Mr.. COKE OF Texas as plunder-
ers OF the whites of the South. A beauti-
fui set OF documents they have prepared for
the northern market, no doubt. They are
working for their bread and butter, and
have doubtless done all they could to make
out a good case OF outrages perpetrated
upon the innocent darkies whose wrongs
are expected to boost either GRANT or
BLAINE into the presidential chair and per-
petrlate the incumbency OF the g marshals,
deputy marshals, and district attorneys"
who in South Carolina and LOUISIANA
have been larassing the people and eating
out their substance. These documents are
mere libes upon the parties charged. They
were written by pIacemcn, and carry no
more weight than the unsupported decara-
tions of negroes and unprincipled carpet
bacgers are entitled to. They are, in
word, not half as good evidence as could be
furnished by Mr.. WHITE. the 1r'6une's
own correspondent, who visited South Ca
rolina recently, and remained there several
weeks for the purpose OF investigating the
truth Of the very charges now repeated by
Dir. HAYEs's undcrlings.
However. the day for these Investigations
to "pay" the unprincipled Radicals is past
aud gone. The BLAINE committee may re-
port what it will, aud it will not add any
worth speaking OF to the strength OF the Re-
pubIcans in any part OF the country.
BLAINE may gain some votes in the nomlna-
ting convention OF 1SS0-which is al! that he
is working for just now-but he VIII NOT,
bv the measures we are commenting upon,
add one electoral vote TO the Repub-
lcan strength at the baliot-boX. The
South has nothing TO fear from the libels OF
either 1.-THE marshals, deputy marshals, and
district attorneys" who have prepared the
testimony which the President proposes
to utilize, or Mr.. BLAINE's committee OF
President-makcrs. The campaign OF 1874
put an end to the delusion that the northern
people were to be forever chained to the
Republican car by string OF manufactured
outrages. The future will emphasize the
lesson that the late Senator MORTON OF In
diana learned in that memorable year.
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Tho GREAT and unusual distress which