The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-05-28
A c..u,ne Read,nsser speaks.

SOLITUDE, VA, May 70. 1861.
Editors Dispatch notice from the pub
lie prints OF the day that The mind OF tne
Republican party, specially OF the NORTH, IS
very much exercised over Vrginigs future
status politically. AS for myself, l am
:. Resdjus,er In the cooI,' and voted ior
John Paul, was originally m Old-Line wing,
and In ante-bellum days II l tDougnt tnere
was one drop of Democratic blood In my
veins would most assurcdly have let II out,
and since The death OF that party always
voted against the Republican party, and
shall most assuredly vote against Mahoneism
in the future; and, as far rs my observations
90 and nv associations with the people OF
nv county. think can safely say tbat
I don't think there Is man OF the Read
iuster party who Ia or was tinctured WIN
the Conservative party but will In future
support the Conservative nominees for state
offices.
There is no reason whatever for'the Con-
scryative party To be alarmed In the future
that the "nigger" party VIII ever acquire
the ascendency in this grand old Common
| wealth. When those amendments VIII be
proposed to the people, riddance OF the
pol.tax as a prerequisite OF voting--they
will receive the condemnation OF all True
| Vjrcnians for this reason: that persons
who pay their taxes will most unquestion'
ably vote "Day," except few aspirants TOT
office. aud those 10 favor thereof Will not
vote because their names will be emblaZoned
| on the delinquent list in the hands OF the
Judges OF election. do think II man
cannot afford to pay the small pittance OF
one dollar for the privilege OF exercising
The greatest function that mortal man Is
heir TOTO vote-he ought to acknowledge
| himself an alien from the house OF Israel,
and not o citizen OF the Commonwealth.
There is no money that more checrfully
pay than the money into the Treasury Tor
| The benefit Of the school fund and that to
| the preacher. Those two domestlcs must
| be kept abroad in the land at all hazards;
and II not, 10 and behold this old Common
wealth in the next century!
| Ii has been generally understood that the
| Republican party was debt-paylng party,
and as that party has consolidated lis III
icrests with Malone, think the good peo'
pic Of Virginia ought to let them look TO
Monsieur Malone for their stipends. Wen,
! | really think the time has come Tor The
good people Of Virginia TO forget-at least
for the time being-the debt, and turn their
attention entirely TO the election that
occurs this fall, which will decide
whether Virginia will be herself again
| Auglo-SaXOn, or be subseIvent to the
American-born citizen OF African descent.
| | am well satisfied that there Is not one man
| in ten thousand in this country has any
feeling whatever TO see his colored brother
reduced TO slavery or DISTINGUISHED. The
colcred brother has all the rights that the
white man has, provided he submits him
self to the Revised Statutes. And another
thing: The negro has no friends in any po-
sition in life except those OF his old master
or men who were bred and born in the
sIavehoIdlng States. Dawes and Hoar and
such fellows are Yankees, and, like all Yam
KEGS, care for no one but themselves.
Water will naturally find its level, and
| the negro will take bis place in society
where God, the giyer OF all good, intended
him. A servant Of servants he shall be unto
bis brethren. II God Almighty had intend
ed the negro to rule America he never would
have given color 10 his hide or kink IN
| his hair, or thickened his skull, in connec-
ton with his brain. And a word in conclu-
sion TO my friends in the North: Let the
colored man alone. lie Is getting along In
| this latitude very well, and his employ ers
pay him. The thing would be all right II
| it was not for gentlemen who aspire to posi-.
| tons IN Office, both State and Federal, that
their honesty, let alone their ability, does
not entitle them to.
CHARLES SITLINGTON.