The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-08
r,apttation-Tax. Negro Jur1es. &C.
!. the WAig OF saturday We found on the

!. s,apttation-Tax. Negro Jur1es. sc.
In the Wig Of saturday we found on the
second page the following paragraph;
~ while the Dispatch Il noisily whocping
mn the colored troops TO help the Fander.
- venture 20 call the attention OF coioreu
waters 10 ssome Facts which are given IN
mother column for their consideration:
We miuht hesitate 10 make publication OF
.sk,a sppesl 10 our colored citizens, but from
She fact that we are now merely treading on
che heels Of our Funder contemporary,
whom we merely follow ut an humbIesdis'
tance."
OF course our curiosity was at once ex-
cited. and we hunted up the article referred
20. We give the following as specimen
Of Il:
.Fverv coIored vote Tor Garfield but
veakens rezcjuslment, aud goes so lar 10
ALLEVIATE the colored voter from MS rea'
friends, the Rexdiusters, and the only peo-
pie to whom be can look ior tue protec'ion
Of his race In Virginia. ,u
mont and vote the Eeadjuster ticket, and
ueyi vear he Grand army Of disfrdnchised
cniorSd poters tciH be liberated 10 strengthen
the party Of free thought and independ-
ence In Virginia. Let the Readtusfers iali,
and the colored man will relapse Into utter
ins!gnidcance hereafter. -
oTbe Re3djusters offer them Dug
prize--one for which al passion, all sent''
ment, and oil nonsense should De al ooee
laid aside. The prize is a free ballot, fair
count. a non.increase OF taxes, Don'in-
crease OF the assessments on property, rep
resentation on lures, protection OF their
civil rights by every county court 10 tne
STATE. and last. but not least. eood ana
efficient free.school system for their eni'-
dren."
..Next year the grand army OF disfran'
cbised colored voters will be liberated ~
Howl BY the removal OF the capitation
tax. The State Of Virginia Is to be remand
ed 10 the condition In which it was ten or
twelve years ago. Last winter there were
fourteen negroes in the General Assembly.
Let the programme sketched above be car
ried out, and then there may be negroes IN
the General Assembly from all OF The fol-
lowing counties, In each OF which the negro
voters are more numerous than the white
voters: Alexandria, Amelia, Brunswick,
Buckingham, Charles City, Charlotte, Cum
berland, Dinwiddie, Elizabeth City, Essex,
Gloucester, GoochIand, Greensville. Halt
fax, James City, King and Queen, King
William, Lancaster, Louisa, Lunenburg,
Necklenburg, New Kent. Norfolk county,
Northampton, Nottoway, Powbatan, Prince
Edward. Prince George, southampton, Sur
~, Sussex. Warwick, York, land the city
OF Petersburg.)
Is It expected that the white taxpayers
OF Virginia are going to submit quietly to
any such attempt to organize this "graud
army OF DISTINGUISHED colored voters y?
The Grand Army Of the Republic tries to
dominate the northern section OF the Union.
The Grand Army OF impecunious negroes
who feel so little pride in their citizenship
that they will not pay one dollar year for
the privilege of yotiDg-this Grand Army
IL to rule the Old Dominion. What an iD.
spring war-cry! CELEBRATE the disfran-
chised colored voters! What band OF
patriots FALsTAFF's cankers OF long
peace were doubtless such patriots-not ne
groes, OF course, but men who did not value
their rights as citizens any more highly
than do these negroes, who are unwilling to
pay one dollar year for the privilege OF
electing their own rulers!
But the proposition needs no comment.
II il Is not In itself sufficient to bring the
white people OF Virginia to sense OF their
duty in the coming election, now less than
three months of, then 1t will be useless to
try to arouse them. Let them sleep on in
iancied security until they find themselves
once more 10 The condition in which they
were when HuNNIcuTT, LEWIS LINDSEY,
JOE Cox, Old Specs HODGES, and such like
characters made constitution for them.
But to what purpose is the eapitation.tax
appliedf All OF 1t Is used in the support OF
the public schools. SO it appears that the
men who compose this "grand army OF dis
iranchised colored voters +" not only have so
little pride OF citizenship that they refuse TO
pay one dollar year for the privilege of
voting, but SO little regard for the welfare
OF the c0lored ehiidien-their own chill
dren-tbat they also refuse to pay that same
one dollar year towards securing to those
children the benefits of a commen-sehool
education. RIDDLEBERGER. PAUL, MASSEY,
and the rest OF the leaders in this move
ment for the liberation Of the grand army
OF disiranchised eoiored voters, II they do
not experience
"That stern los which warriors feel
In foemen verify Of their steel"
must at least feel proud Of themselves "a
the champions OF these patriotic and intel
1igent .coIored voters who thus stubbornfy
refuse TO help Themselves and eall on those
leaders to come to tbeir rescue. The pay
ment Of one dollar year win "Hberate"
any private or officer in that grand army.
But be will not pay that sman amount,
though for 1t he may secure net only for
himself the privilege OF voting. but for his
children chance to learn TO read and write.
Come, gentlemen, march out your Grand
Army! 49,
ExAGGEgAnoN.-A writer, represented
to be "an intelligent physician who recently
visited for second time" tue section OF
which he speaks, says In a published letter:
~ In 1874 .Dassed over some nortions NJ