The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-02-19
xrom tue iRhiladelphis Amtrtesn'i
' p~OfcssNr n. Puryear.

and frankly hut With TIE stroueest '.. e
Raurbonism a. yet observso'e u" '"o "'''''
that have reached the American.
R,cuxoNo COr.LEGE, RicBMoNp, WY
January -, mel. )
To 0.e Editor Of TIE american:
sir-Your tate favor. requesting III!
views on certain topics, was duly receNeu.
a" not deem II necessary 10 reply to your
i,oni,,cs ssriafir,, but will so express my
se1t as In effect to ee,brace them.
The people OF the 3 ortb, you zen os.c"m'
main Of the solid SOUTH" and WISH 10 ue'
s,roy this soIidiiy. hseems 10 ine toat ,ne
first thing TO do Is 10 ascertain tue cause y,
This State OF thiags In the South-,nouen i
mas remark, IN passing, mat tue No''" y
about as solid a. the South.
The people Of the Sea'h, at the c'cse al
the var, accepted lis tesni's IN .gooo is"sl'
and were prepared TO return 10 ,nelr uo,.
rs law.abidiug citizens. 5n their ingenuoor
simplicity, they supposed that as the Nofto
had fought for he msin;o nance oil me Union
the first consideration woasd be It's elernai
ipteority. Instead OF this, however, the
Federal Constitution; which was the ooha
az nnion. was immediately assailed ana
over,hroNn BY the dominant NORTH, no"
anshed with victory and thirsiIng lot
VENGEANCE. Then commenced the Mucous
war OF reconstIuci0n-a waf ~ageu WIN
mpskeis and cannon on an vnafmcd ana
proslrate people. Amendments 10 tte Il eur
eraI Constitution were declared 10 be rail-
fled which simply destroyed that once Sac
cred instrument. The Federal Sso'eIn-
ment. by yrtue OF these amendments rear!
nrescrites the qualifications oi suhF~ge !"
the STATES. and is actually present OK eiec-
fiops i'm the States 10 controI Tue IT,
suIs. The Constitution OF our iatneIs
is thus completely overthrow; r'"e
autonomy IL dead. over the grave OF
the Confederaied Republic, a. ioimed u cen
tury ago, floats triumphant The nag OF eon-
soltdated dcspotism. UDder me Operations
OF these pretended amendments saNage
race. In a large numerical majority IN >eVe'
raj Of the southern States, l. lited III mo
mont into citizenship, armed WIN Inc oar
lot. and, In many cases, gO9ded ana s'lhu'
lated by the Federal Government, its agents
and cmiss,nies, into wrath, lawlessne>S, ana
crime. They were taught TO belieVe-and
they did belieye--ihat the whites OF lDe
South were their irrCcODci'able enemies,
whom they might iniure and insult as they
n,eo.ed. These semi.barbarlans. Unnamed
with wrath and hatred, and supremacy ln-
cou,p.tp,t 10 the duties OF citizenship, were
thus made the governing majority. Such
a hi the world bad never seen before
such AN act OF cruelty Gnd wrong bnus no
analogue in all the annals Of crime. III PIT
laQe. piunder, arson, murder, rape-WhicD,
indeed. largely !oilowed-bad at once be-
come universal throughout the South, Inc
law vould not have been more guilty man IL
is. for II was the logical tendency OF Inc Jaw
10 produce exactly these and similar results.
That these results did not fully and every
where ensue is due to a cause more potent
than human statutes Negro equaliiy was
the boon and the declaration OF the law;
but the negro, governed by his God'giVen
instincts. refused TO accept The boon, ana
denied the doctrine. In the presence OF
race supei Tor 10 him by birth ana elood, III
stinct with the doctrines aN TRADITIONS Oh
civil and constitutional freedom, the negro,
though frequently galvanized by ihnamiha.
tory rb,tOiic into spasmodic courage, ana
braced by the promise and expectation, In
the supreme crisis, OF foreign sympathy ana
aid. realized, after few years OF convulsiye
struggle. that political rule was not his
y6le. and that his only security was
to be found In his natural place OF
acknowledge inferiority. This is the les
son, Mr.. Editor, that he has learned, or
Is learning; quite a different lesson YOU
taught him, or attempted 10 teach. Now,
when millions OF these negroes, born ana
raised us slaves, were turned loose among
us. and armed with the ballot, inf LINED with
hate their sense of wrong qulckened aud
intensified by seditious utterances on the
mart OF their new.found friends, taught TO
believe that they were the favoIltes, the
awards Of the nation 1.-THE victorious ma.
ton that wouldIOOk. at least with compla'
.cencv, on any outrage they might commit
on the "rebel" " hites-the people OF these
southern States. who owned tue country,
and alone were competent, or had the fight,
TO rule II, were banded, Of necessity;toge'her
10 protect their lives, their property, their
honor. What would the people OF PennSy l.
yania DO il heatben Chinese were suddenly
thrown into their State, enfrancbised In a
mass, In such preponGeraling numbers that
the political power OF the Common wealth
was likely 10 pass immediately INTO thelr
bandsi Would you be able TO do as wei
as the South did! Would you be able. by
innate superiority and by peaceable means.
10 keep down these pagan idolaters and pre-
serve the institutions OF your state and the
property Of your citizens from dissertation
and destruction Ii amalgaIatlOn with
them was utterly ont of the question felt
TO be chine against blood and nature; il,
lutl Hditu dli YOU iONNl' dbu lbNNN
all you hated; il, led on by these feeling,
and embroidered by encouraging messages
and tue promise of aud from abroad, they
should proceed summarily TO bring you to
the dust-ahi would not the Schuylkill and
the Su>quehanna redden into wrath, aud
the cry, that slenc. s laws, ITO arms
TO arms" i down from your mountains
20 the sea. Juch, and worse, was the ter
rible environment OF The people OF these
southern States. They did not do what you
would have done, and would have been
justified ia doing. Blood Is thicker than
wafer. aud triumphed over II. They calmly
asserted their iAnate superiority, eXertcd 4
Just power Of repression and control, and
so vindicsted their God-given right TO rule.
So, IN some eeBse liberty was maintained;
so, life aud property were protected; ana
so, female honor was saved from threatened
deilement The same necessiy, though
weakening, Is still upon ne; and so long as
II ldsts the South, unsedueed and unter!i-
fled, will be, trust. as one KAN.
II the solidity OF the South is 10 be bro
ken, then tiDes who caused it must do the
work. You came to sollheru men, and, ia
effect, ash theR to undo the work Of your
own hands. Tte so-called amendments TO
the Federal Constitution subjected all that
makes life dear among W, or even tolera.
Die. 10 the brntish passions. of an inferior
race lust lifted ~ force and III palpa6le
violation OF the Constitution out Of slavery.
Undo your work, or at lesst have She cOur-
age 10 declare the truth Of history, that
these amendments ase not PARTS OF the Con.
stituii5n.
The thirteenth amf pdneat was ratified In
1865 by Virginia, Lolistaua, Missouri, Ten
nessee. Arkansas, SoafA Carolina, North
Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia aud The
sotes OF these States were necessary TO lis