The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-06-16
Virginia.

Virginia.
HORACE GREELEY once said that the Nn-
piuia politicians were the shrewdes' IN 'nc
Tn,on. They seldom or never made mis-
take. These politicians, rs Mr. oRkki@f
styled them, have not lost their cunning.
They have, however, sometimes yie'aeu
too much 20 the "squeamishness OF the
northern Democrats, and been reluctant 10
initiate their brethren In other southern
States. who have found II necessary 10
assert their superiority as the governing
race.
There are in Virginia In round numbers
100000 white voters and 12s,ooO negro
voters. The whites may divide upon an!
question that comes up; but not the ne
grocs. These vote solidly, or almost soIid-
ly-for the exceptions are too few to be
nosed-for the men 10 whom the majority
Of the white people OF the State are op-
posed. The white voters divide, Tor eX-
ample, upon the question OF refusing TO
nav thirteen millions Of the State bonds
issued in 1871; but the negroes vote as a
mass upon one side. Not that they Know
or care whether the State debt be one mil
lion or hundred millions, but because
they hope TO rise nearer to an equality with
the whites by voting with party that will
divide the offices with them, and recognize
them as fit to be Legislators. clerks, &c, DC.
They would have voted with MALONE and
his gang il these had proposed to pay all
the debt owing by both Virginia and west
Virginia. They are. in effect. In state OF
war with the men who would have the
Commonwealth ruled by the white race.
They are consumed by an inappeasable
passion for recognition by the whites as
equals. OF course the Mahoneites deceive
these negroes when they induce them to
believe that they prefer negroes to white
men for any Of the Offices in the Common
wealth. Every white Mahoneite in Vir-
ginia knows just as well as every white
Republican in the North that 1t would be
better for the peace and welfare OF the
country II no negro were ever per-
mitted TO take office. There are not
half as many offices as white men
are anxious and willing to fill. There
is no Office which a white man cam
not fill better than a negro-fillw without eX-
citing any prejudice against himself, and
without causing any disturbance in the
community. The ruling race should rule.
but to lord 1t in the smallest degree over
white people is not one Of his rights.
The northern people know nothing about
our condition in Virginia. They see so
few negroes, and have so little to do with
them, and treat them with such thorough
contempt, that it is difficult for them to
understand the situation in the South, or
to sympathize with the feeling OF indigna-
fi)n which warns up the blood OF a south
ern man when negro is placed over any
white man. A thousand times more indig- |
nant is he when negro is put over white |
women. We don't believe, however, that |
even in the North any white man could be |
found to applaud the act Of CAMERON, FARR, |
and BLAIR, il be knew that the two negro |
trustees appointed by them could by uniting
with three OF the white trustees remove
every teacher in our white schools.
The people OF Virginia are reasonable
now, as they have always been. They are
willing to change the Constitution and |
laws so as TO allow negroes to teach all the
negro schools and to be the trustees OF all |
the negro schools. But they are not will
ing-and never will be willing-and there
is no consideration thai can induce them to |
be willing-to let negroes be trustees OF
white schools. IL CAMERON had had |
the power to put the negro schools |
under negro trustees and had done
so, not ripple would have been
produced in Virginia by the act. The
sense OF justice Of our people is strong.
They know what is right, and are always
ready TO do what is right. They know
what is wrong, and are always ready to
condemn it. They condemn CAMERON,
therefore, as traitor to his own race, a
disturber OF the public peace, an enemy OF
the white people OF Virginia, and an ally
not only Of the negroes OF his own State
but of the men in the North who traduce
her.