The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-07
The LESSON of the Danyille Riot.


The evidence showing that the public
understand that the blood shed in Dan
vile on Saturday rests upon the heads OF
the Coalitionists continues to accumulate.
As we intimated yesterday, with the cx-
ception OF few Stalwart Radical Jour-
mails that have encouraged that party in its
methods, the press in and out Of the State
see in ali that has occurred the legitimate
fruits Of Maaoneism, and even the few
northern Journals which are in full SYM
pahy with MALONE hardly have the auda-
city TO openly defend him, but rather seek
refuge in miserable attempts at rldicule or
garbed editorial statements Of the affair.
The Providence Rhode Island) Journal,
which is a specimen organ Of the StGl,part-
Radical-South- hating type, in one para
graph says:
"a collision between whites and blacks
occurred at Dapville. Va, Saturday, but
the reports are so exceedingly contradio-
tory that the truth can scarcely be guessed.
Ii seems 10 be conceded that several negroes
were killed. Yesterday the town SER
geant' proclaimed martial law, and no SER
vices were held in the churches. Evident
" the Bourbons are manufacturing capital
for Tuesdays election"
And in another:
"The idea of the fighting Virginia poll
tician is that he is seeking his enemy in
one street while the latter is raging up
and down another. or that they are wildly
pursuing each other In diverse directions
10 Old ~ a tat of or
the cartel has been exchanged. The popu-
lation OF Virginia may load itself down
with pistols on election-day, but it will be
more for war-like show than use, and the
opposing parties will content themselves
with mutual looks OF naughty defiance and
scorn, as they stride to the polls after the
manner OF the late Count Joannes. How
ever, IL is better TO be ridiculous than bar
barous. and II marks stage OF progress in
civilization and humanity, when the duel
has become farce instead Of tragedy, and
the people only talk fight instead OF doing
it. Eventually they VIII cease to do
either"
The first Of these paragraphs is as devoid
OF sense as the second is Of wit. The man
who admits that he could not gather the
truth from the plain statement Of facts tele.
graphed all over the country writes himself
an asa. As TO the writer Of the other, he
would hardly command bushel Of dried
apples year rs compensation for conduct
ing the funny column in cross-road
weekly.
The Baltimore Day Demoeratic), taking
the declaration of the Baltimore Americd,
hot ha rio 10 htyf Ia
logical sequence Of Mahoneism," rs a text
says:
Fourteen years ago the people Of Vir
ginia elected Conservative Democrat, ,
New Yorker-Gilbert C.. Walker-to b,
Governor Of the Commonwealth. From
that day TO this, except in the immediate
vicinity Of Mahone's home. where he as
Democrat alternated between bulldozin!
negroes and using tissue ballots, there ha
been peace and quiet In the State, ant
complete harmony between the races
Who has disturbed II? William Malone
lie and the intelligent white men VIII
have followed his blind lead are re
sronsibic for the death OF those mel
In Danyillc who. but for him an,
them, might have lived TO the peaceful en-,
OF their days long and useful lives. Their
Is hardly an instance, since the adoption O
the feconstructl0n acfS, where the negro O
his own motion has interiered with his Eel
low-citlzens, or sought difficulties, or pro
yoked quarrels and collisions. 1t has onI,
been when mean aud deyilish white men
Tor their own base purposes, have aroused
The most ignorant OF the negro race by In.
nammaiory aud incendiary appeals thai
n race conflicts have been provoked"
This Is the truth In q nutshell. and doe,
9 the negroes the justice they are entitled 20
The Dispatch has always believed, and be.
lieves now, that little trouble is to be an.
pretended from The negroes as long as
they are not tempered with BY white in.
cendiaries, whose only object Is to use them
for their personal advantage, aud who care
not what their fate may he SO that object
is attained. Nor Is the Dispatch singular
among the newspapers Of Virginia in this
position. The Norfolk Tirgiaian says
"The news from Danyille, giving details
OF the outrages there last Saturday, which
were nothing less than an attempt 10 over
ride the white people, excited great indig-
nation Ia this community and Portsmouth.
II Is simply truth to declare that no event