The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-22
OHansiua Patron1zinp

n II were not fact brought too often to
our attention, IL would be impossible to
imagine New York paper speaking in q
pltrOnizing way OF the southern people, or
telling them how to become model citizens
Ike those Of New York, for instance. II is,
however, we say, none the less fact
though il is PAUL CLIFFORD teaching hon
esty: BEN. BUTLER advocating q due respect
for other persons spoons; and WENDELL
PHILLIPS urging moderation 10 speech. 1t
is, in q word, insufferable impudence.
There is no one Of the ten command
ment which is not more generally re-
specied In the South than 10 the
North. There is no social canon
which is so little respected in the
South as in the North. There is no one
OF the virtues which Is so common in New
York as 10 Virginia, and no one OF the vices
which Is not more common there than here.
I'VE leave out Of view the negroes.) 1t
would be more becoming in Virginia
journal TO lecture New York on its sins
than it is in New York journal to lecture
Virginia on hers. We are not in favor Of
such lectures on either side, however, and
never indulge in them. 1t is enough for us
il we can contribute TO The well-beiDg OF
our own State. We would have her glory
in a good name; but we DO not think it
necessary in order to that eud that some
other State should be libeIled.
The utterauces Of the southern press and
people on the occasion Of tbe attempt to
assassinate the President Of the United
States have called forth from northern jour-
nails many articles which it has gratlfed US
TO read; but others well calculated to arouse
ire. These latter are OF the patronizing sort.
They assume that the bad boys Of the South
have behaved so well that they deserve some
sugar plums; and, doing out the plums to
the bad bows, these patronizing Journals ask
them IL they can't do little better. The
New York Times follows up its dole OF
sugar pIums with such leit.handed comph-
ments as are contained in the following sen.
fences
"The influential newspapers OF the South,
most OF which are Democratic, have treated
this aspect OF the event far more nationally
than those OF the same political faith in the
North, with very few exceptions-notabe
and noteworthy because conspicuous as eX.
ceptlOns. There is in this q hopeful init.
nation OF further wholesome results from
the growth Of national feeling 10 the south
ern States. Why should not their people
begin 10 take position on the real issues Of
our national life and help TO settle them
without any reference to the old contests
and divisions OF the past? The intelligence
and the patriotism OF this whole country
can overcome all our difficulties aud solve
all our problems, while those OF part OF it
may be unequal to the task"
The above is not hall as bad as some Of
the articles we have seen; yet it contains
an assumption that the southern people
have refused hitherto to "take position on
the real issues OF our national life y" and
that. too, by journal which iayors CO.
alition between the Readiuslers and the
negroes Tor Republicans, II you prefer it,
there is not much difference between the
two In Virginia. for the purpose Of taking
the government of Virginia out of the
hands OF her tax payers. In order to per-
petuate "the old contests and divisions Of
tho pasi,o the Times advocates the ALI
ance we have mentioned. In order
70 promote the success of The Republican
party, 1t talks as II the southern people were
less patriotic, or less intelligent or less
Trustworthy, than the northern people, and
prctends to think that New York Journal
has 9 right 10 lecture the South. II any
thing 10 the world Is disgusting 10 the ave-
rage southron, 1t is this patronizing, phara.
saieal palayer. Pray, let II cease.