The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-13

!" IT.. a
~1v.et contemporary that there Is good
a., cf tliaereace between treating tue ne
rroes a they ought TO be treated ana treat
inc them a. the equals 81 the white race
There 4 a vast difference between using
= negro with the pcliseuess due to him, anu
allowing him to come into public meetings
and nut himself o. an equality w''n Wv
whites. We still say. "sureIy the w"~
~von,d not have US refuse the votes OF me-
croes. . but we do not thereby comm" cur
Olives TO the policy Of sending negro dee'
!. -. N conventions called to nominate
candidates for Congress or Tor electors
There was not negro In The DIstr'ct'Oon'
v.n,ion that nominated GEORGE d. WISE
e. Congress. There was not one In the
Convention that nominated the candidates
for electors whose names appear on the
regular Democratic ticket. There were
for,y negroes, we learn, In tue Convention
th.t nominated the electoral ticket whica
the Whig daily flies at the head OF us cor
umns. q,
The Whiq viii hardly claim that the nj
teenth amendment gives the negroes 'ne
RIGHT 10 hold Office. When that Amendment
was peuding In the Senate OF the uh'teo
States one OF the Republican senators moved
IN amend Il so as to make II read, "The
riyht Of citizens OF the United States to vote
or hold office shall not be denied or aorioseu
by the United States, or by any state, y"
.ccoun. of race. color, or previous CONDITION
of servi,udev; but the words 10 italics were
for some reason left out Of 1t. Suffice IL 10
saw that the Constitution OF the United States
does not require the people OF Virginia 70
elect negroes to Office, nor to permit negroes
10 obtrude themselves into Democratic
meetings, nor to appoint negroes as DELE
gates either to congressional or State con-
ventions.
Can the Wing give us the name OF SIM
gle negro that was ever elected to Congress
by the people OF the northern States can
II give us the name OF even one negro ne
publican candidate for Congress In all the
North? Is 1t wrong for us in Virginia 10
foll,w so good an example! Is 1t expected
that Virginia Democrats shall be more lib
eraI to the negroes than the Republicans OF
Massachusetts, or Vermont? Are we to be
upbraided as violators OF the Constitution OF
the United States, unfai.hiul TO our obliga-
tiops as citizens, and wavers OF southern
bleedy shirtbecause we do not choose 10
do what the people OF no northern State
have ever done or ever been expected 10
dor Is the Radical party of Virginia TO be
outdoue by this new MALONE party ? When
did the Radicals ever go so far as TO de-
nounce the Democrats OF Virginia as de-
string "a war Of races"S
What is it that the Wing pronounces I" q
question Of good faith and fair dealing Y!
Does it mean TO say that "good faith and
fair dealing" demand that the requirement
Of a poIltax as prerequisite to voting shall
be done away with in Virginia? We again
ask, Why do not f" good faith and fair deal
ing" require Massachusettsto do away with
the similar provisions in her State Consti-
tuition? Or do "good faith and fair deal
ing" require more of the people OF Virginia
than OF the people OF New EnglandS Per-
haps the WING means to go further, and 10
say that "good faith and fair dealing" re-
uuire all people who would be true TO their
obligations and duties as citizens Of the
United States to permit negroes TO come
into their meetings and TO appoint a due
proportion OF them delegates to all our party
conventions. But no. No Journal 10 Vir-
ginia will ever preach such doctrine.
Again: What does the Wing mean when
II charges us with an "evident design 10
inflame public prejudice against the Read.
iusters on account Of their policy Of exact
and equal justice to the cotored citizen, as
4oeu as every other citizen"7 Does that
journal mean to say that to be in favor Of a
polI.tax qualification for voters, both white
and black, Is to be in favor Of denying
"exact and equal justice TO the colored
citizeu"s The Wing will hardly answer
afirmatively; aud vet II that is not its
meaning we fail to understand the drift Of
its article.
The Wkig asks "the good and sensible
men Of the Funder faction" the following
question:
evil they contribute to the destruction
OF the present happy relations between our
white and cOlored citizens and the inaugu-
ration here OF the reign OF terror which ex
lists 10 Kentucky Alabama, and Mississippi
We do not believe 1t. We know, indeed
that the great mass OF our white people
West as well as East. North as well a;
South--are not to be precipitated into az
angry and violent collision with the ne.
groes, with whom they are now on excel
lent TERMS .H
A most unfortunate question. Who broke
up the happy relations which existed be-
tween the whites and blacks Ia Virginia fol
several years previous to 1879? Not thu
.'Funder faction" but the MALONE faction
The negroes had recovered from the Graz,
occasioned by the advent of the carpet-bag
gers AID the doinys OF the scalawags. ant
had settled down into a condition OF happ,
contentment IN their proper sphere Of life
when the Mahoneites last year again eXcitet
all their foolish hopes. There were four
teen negroes In the last General Assembly
Would the Conservatives or regular Demo
Gratis ever have "infiamed their preiudices
so as TO have thus again made them law
givers for this honored old Commonwealth
Does the Wing think that the whites ale re
quired by "good faith and faith dealing''
to elect even one negro to our State Legis.
iatures II not, 1t has no right to reproach
any regular Democrat with anything be hal
ever said or done.