The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-09-13
4. Vary Large Dish of Grow.

Tho philadelphia Evening BuIs''n' the
~ ~ the blackest and most hypocriti-
cal wing Of the Radical party In that c'ty'
r..ccn,,y got TO sooling with the "coior
unen and has had its angers burned In the
ho,,se Of rs friends. In championing the
..,se Of the man and the brother and IN re-
falling his woes its real, and hatred OF inc
.o,thcrn whites, went so far ahead OF "s
veracity and discretion that an "in'e'''.
cent negro Of Norfolk" could moi s'ano
!, and has been moved by a sense OF JUS
,,.. % write n letter to the editor OF the
p.I,e,,s. setting forth few solid fac~
a 70 the treatment OF his race IN
virginia The full text Of The euer II
nat nublisbed. but the BaiIsfsn informs US
ssa, n was surprised to learn nom II
shat s,v Negro has some rights in Nirginm'
tina, we have negro mechanics among W )
chat many OF the down-troddcn race are
permitted to drive hacks. ice-carts, w.
and that the business OF selling In the mar
rss Il not confined to the whites.
Had the Bulletin stopped with this adj
mission it would have displayed wisdom.
Rut II did not. The instinct Of mendseity
was too strong in IL, and II could not re-
sist the temptation to pour out its venom
even at the risk of stultifying ITSELF In
commenting on the points presented by its
correspondent, as ii ediforialiy states them,
IL says:
"The negroes OF Norfolk have made
good start. and they have so far overcome
the prejudices of the past as to De wen
established In business and TO MI many
places which until recently have been mo-
nopolized by the whites. ms
showing Is certainly satisfactory. III proves
that in the very spot where slavery once
and that only twenty years ago-tourished
the down-trodden race has raised Itself 10
n respected position by It's industry ana
energy. II proves also that the prejudice
which in the South was stronger than else
where against the employment OF negroes
Is rapidly being overcome"
Was there ever such brazen peryersion
of facts by implication, sucha disingenuous
effort to mislead!
The truth is that no such prejudice as
the Bulletin alludes to has ever existed in
the South, and this showing" as 1t terms
Il. proves ANYTHING but what il would inn
press upon its readers. Wherever the
negro has been content to keep within hi:
proper social sphere he has met with every
possible announcement from the whites
and the energy and industry the Bulletin
makes so much Of is due to having his
hands upheld by the "old slave owners"
His children have been educated at the
expense OF the whites, his churches have
been Systematically helped by them, and
the paupers and lunatics Of the race have
been charge on our pockets that has been
cbeerfully undertaken.
But the Bulletin, in its squirminS and
floundering. gets still further into the mire.
"Facts like these" it says, Fought, for
instance, TO break down the last barriers
OF discrimination between the two races
which the best educated negroes IN this
this city claim still exist here. Philadel-
phia ought not to be behind Norfolk in
affording equal rights and equal opportu-
mites to blacks and whites" IL better
evidence than this is wanted to sustain oul
position that the average northern Radi-
cal has no use for the negro except
10 manipulate him politically, we don't
know where it will be found. The simple
logical deduction is that while in the once
"hotbed Of slavery" the negro has a
chance to make himself respectable and
earn an honest living, and is afforded every
facility for so doing in the hotbed OF abo-
lition he has to sue for the privilege; that
for practical and substantial sympathy in
any effort to better himself he must
look to the home OF the slave-driver,"
not to the home of the " slave-stealer."
The whole tenor OF the Bulletins article
demonstrates that northern interest in the
welfare of the negro consists in keeping
the word OF promise to the ear and break
ing 1t to the hope; and the sooner the ne
groes learn this the better it will be fol
them. The fact that the negroes OF the
South are not still better off is owing tC
the teachings of just such papers a.
the Bulletin, which excite them t.
aspirations that never can be realized
How far the Bulletins "surprise
will influence its course in dealin!
with the color line in future we can
not say. We confess that we have lttl
hope that it will ever really learn eithe
common sense or decency. Yet we shoul
think that the large dish OF crow it Ia
been forced to partake OF on this occasion
would at least cause it, for the sake Of NJ
pearances IL for no other reason, to moo
crate its zeal In the cause of the souther
negro until few ordinary rights have bee
accorded the down-trodden race" on il
Ahroohold