The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-12-02

A Negro Cabinet-Omcer.
NJ. (,ARyYgrp owes bis election, Ia ono
view Of Il. TO the use Of fraud, force, and
corruption on tho part OF the Republicans !;
but leaving those uujustidsb'e Appliances
out Of sight, he owes his election to the. ne
rroes. II Il said that the negro vote tvrned
the scale IN Indiana; and as the loss Of Ia.
diana Ia October certainly caused ID defeat
OF tieneral HANCOCK, the negroes OF ght TO be
credited with the election Of M. CiARrIELp.
The negro vSte in the State Of New York
Is almost II not Qaise large eaough to have
given them the balance a power Ia that
State also ia the NovembeV election, there
being some ten or eleven tkousaud Of them.
But whether OF not tie pewIy-eected
Presitscat owes hts SUCCESS to the negroes,
as some u onrcoptempsraries have claimed,
there Is no doeht Wherever that the Repub-
licass eve tlresr small majority Ia the next
House Of Representatives III Is now said
20 De only two) to'tke votes OF the negroes.
THE negroes elected every Republican
cent TO tbw bodyaf,om the southern States;
and Of Republicans so chosen there are q
dozen at least, we think. Two al them
were elected In Virgins; several in Ten
uessee; one or rso in Kentucky; and others
In other States. IL Is beyond question,
therefore, that the Republicans owe their
majority IN ,lse next House TO the negroes.
Now, then. the negroes clamor for recog-
milton. They ask for q Cabinet officer. Why
saouli their request not be granted? Why
Shsli they DC refused so reasonable demand
II the Democrats were circumstanced as the
Iepubticaus are, they would not be expected
10 comply with such request. But what
reason can any consistent Republican
offer for not complying with its The
negroes, they tell US, are the equals
OF ise whites in the eye OF The law;
which the whites are entitled; and have as
clear right to vote aud TO have their votes
counted as the whites. 1t follows aeces-
sarily that they have as good right to bold
offlce as the whites. IL, therefore, the Re-
'publicans believe what they teach, they
cannot deny to the negroes representative
sin the Cabinet.
VIII ii he said that Cabinet officer is
brought into intimate association and per-
.sonaI contact with his associates in the Cab
,inct? That is exactly what the Republi.
cans denounced General SCHoFIELD and the
white cadets ut West Point for not doing.
They demanded personal contact and inti'
mate association. a cadet at West Point
is made 10 stand by negroes when on pa
rade. and eat at the same table with the
negro cadets. Is q Cabinet officer re-
Quired TO do as mucbY Nay, verI-
ly; and no Cabinet officer ever did
or ever will associate ons terms OF
equality with negroes. The talk OF the Re-
publicans, except tbat of few fanatics, is
hypocritical. They have no more fondness
for negro associates than the Democrats,
who honestly avow that they hold the ne
gro to be of an Inferior race. How many
negroes did GRANT, SHERMAN, or BLAINE,
to whose support the silly negroes are al
ways ready to rally, ever have as visitors in
their houses None; and yet the poor
foolish negroes in Virginia infer from read
ing the speeches OF such men that the
white Democrats Of this State are cruel IN
refusing TO do what these worthless have
never done and will never do.
But we are wandering from our subject. |
Let us return TO IL, and ask whether Mr.. |
GARFIELD will have negro in his Cabinet |
Why, be would scora the idea. Ills eyes |
would fash indignation at the white man
who should seriously propose such thing |
to him and to negro who should prefer
such a request be would make an answer
that would enable the applicant to see that
the prospects of social equality between the
whites and the negroes in this benighted |
land are still
"Darkly, deeply, beautifully dlue.r