, 1880-12-26
THE FOOLS ERRAND.
One William Royal, Ex-Con'
fed, Assumes the Critics
Pointed Pen,
And Tackles Tourgee's Spicy
Screed Which Treats Of South
ern Ways and Hen.
In True Chivalrio Tone He Speaks,
His Language Oft EVin-
oing Swagger
He Brands the Author Judge a Sneak,
and Zen Dirty Carpet
Bagger.
The Judges Book he Ridioules, and
SVears Its Mission Il In
famous,
And Of Its Northern Reader Speaks as
Of an Arrant 1gnoramus-
The Judges Book BE Ridioules, and
SVears Its Mission Is In
famous,
And Of Its Northern Reader Speaks as
Of An Arrant Ign0r2mus.
But, Sad to Tell, He Branches OF, and
Turns His Talents 70 How 0ruelD

To Telling How the Southern Life Is Made
More Happy by The Duel.
s,seta. Dt,pateh to The Chicago Tr4oun&-
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 25.-William L.
Royal. late Of this city, now Of New York,
is to issue through E. J. Hale & Son, Of New
York, reply to Tourgee's Fools Erfand"
Mfr. Royal, who is spending his Christmas
here, Is correcting the proof-sheets OF his
work. Royal has occupied prominent
place in Virginia's history since the War.
He was a second in the famous fatal Aor-
decai- i-McCarthy duel in the spring Ut 1876,
and advising friend in the Smith-Elam dael
last summer. He is a great nephew Of
Chief-Justice Marshall, and was In
the recent campaign the leader OF
the Field movement III Virginia and started
daily paper known as the Commonwealth
He went into the War at 18, and was once
prisoner at Fort Deloware. About two
months since he moved to New York to
practice law.
Your correspondent has seen the sheets OF
his book which is in some respects startling.
He insists that Tourgee isapretender. He
AssA1Is TouRGEE AS 4 cAnPET-BAG9ER
who went to North Carolina to take advan-
tage Of the palmy days Of reconciliation, and
charges him with accepting bribes.
Prefacin& his book, Royal says: II
look upon the book to which 1 have
attempted q reply as q Willful del1b-
crate, and malicious libel upon noble and
generous people, amongst whom was bonn
and raised, and In full sympathy with whom
hope to live and die. look upon its author
as one Of ths most contemplate fellows OF
those who have;libeled that people. and not
at aIt less contemplate because highly en-
dowed with int diligence, but rather more so,
because, with all the disposition towards
erovellng malice which q weaker man could
have, he has yet far greater powers to injure,
and he has deliberately used these powers
to their full extent l have made no mea1y-
mouth defense Of the people of the South.
It is not on bended knee, anti with cringtng
accent that, self-nppointed advocate though
be, have brought their cause before the
world have attempted to speak for rnco
Of whom the males are men, as believe
those men would have their race spoken
for"
life and character is
''FALsE As HELL ITSELF"
| this Union are blessed with a credulity
touching all matters which tend to bring the
white people Of the Southern States into
disgrace and contempt, which as an article
Of faith would meet all the requirements
| the most enthusiastic professors OF Christian
religion could ask for. No story, however
! moustrous, which represents Southern
community in an attitude Of violence and
defiant turbulence is too gross for Northern
belief Without taking trouble to inform
| themselves correctly touching the people OF
the South, they accept any derogntory story
| that tfmd sensationafists or designing sc0un-
| o1els may choose to invent as the truth re-
| gardlng these people.
Royal devotes many pages to the reputa-
| ton Of Tourgee and the assertions Of bad
treatment OF negroes in the South, and asks
| how could the dominant race, being race
such as the Southern people are, look upon
the prospect Of complete dominion over
themselves passing over at single move to
! these their former slaves without consider
ing it one OF the most fearful throes and rev.
olutions to which society could fall victim.
Picturing the carpe-bag element, with
which Tou1gee Is placed Royal says: Tho
whole South was at once overrun with
THE LAnvE OF THE NORTH.
| Wherever there dWelt a scOundrel who
feared that luis neighbor would give him his
deserts In the form Of a coattng Of tar and
feathers, that neighborhood lost q citizen.
and the South gained an apostle OF recon-
struction. Wherever the womb Of the North
rey0lted at its burden anl spewed forth Sonic
putrid mass Of crime, the South received q
patriot who knew nothing but restoration
OF the Union and devotion to the poor, down.
trodden negro. These vultures and harp1e9
came into every nelghborhood-"
lie says: III tile people OF the
North and West would only learn
the; lesson which time would not be
long to teach they would abandon the At
tempt to force an nterconlmunicat1on OF th6
| races III the South which the laws Ut Nature
forbid. They would learn that race preju-
dice is the MOST powerful force that operates
upon the human mind, aud TINT a1l the oayo-
nets On earth cannot force a race holding
the relation to another race that ths white
people Of the South hold to the negroes to
i've in submission to that 1css civilized race.
I,sk OF death Is more endurnble to them,
and persistent effort to force tue submis-
sion mast result in constant revolution and
| bloodshod."
| TO ILLUSTRATE.
Speaking of the way in which negroes are
treated, Royal tells the following, which
happened to himself: "When the Virginia
delegation to tie Democratic Convention at
| Cincinnati went out, one gentleman, a dele
gate FROM the City Of Richmond, carried Ills
servant. negro man, with him. On the way
to Cincinnati it became necessary to travel
all night On the Pennsylvania Railroad, the
gentleman mentioned, determining that hi
servant should be comfortable, hiring q
sleeping berth for him. Mr.. Samue
| r Randall Sneaker OF the Ho1fs&