The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-12-29

That there is Il marked difference III the
constituents OF negro and white blood does
not require scientific demonstration. Ihe
fact is sufficiently proved by the course OF
the Stalwart Journals. The smell OF negro
blood l. enough to start the average had-
jcal editor to raving. but white blood ordl-
nar,ly has no more effect upon him than so
much cold water-particularly southern
white blood. A pointed illustration OF this
is furnished by the Yazoo Miss Tragedy.
AT Yazoo, on Christmas-eve, five white
men were shot down by Il party OF negroes.
The fact was duly reported by telegraph
together with conclusive evidence that the
assault upon the whites was cold
bIooded and premeditated. There was
no cause for ill-ieeling. unless 1t
arose from commendable effort on
the part of one of the whites who were
killed to keep the peace between two ne
groes. Yet for the most part the staIwart
organs have passed the matter by SIM
ply as the subject of a news item, and one
OF the most infamous outrages that bavs
ever occurred in this country has been
made notable by an almost entire absence
of editorial comment. When the people
OF Danvile, smarting under the grQsses'
indignities, resisted an assault, which, had
it not been resisted, might have resulted IN
the sacking OF the town, and in so doing
killed and wounded seven negroes, the CO.
itorial columns of the Stalwart papers
were rendered lurid with bloody-shlrl
articles. and some OF the more IA
bid editors threatened the South viii
armed Federal Intervention. They pre-
tended TO see i'm street-rior. which
under the same circumstances might have
occurred in any community. North OF
South. and which was melted by emlsSa
ries of their own party, evidences OF al
entire subversion OF law, both State anC
Federal, and justification for the mos
high-handed Federal usurpation. They
claimed that the negroes that were KILLED
were political martyrs, and they wept II
sackcloth and ashes over their woes
Ho Yever, in the case Of the Iazoo tragedy
where, in time void OF excitement, SOM
of the most respectable citizens OF TN
place were murdered, we fail to discoVe
the slightest suggestion from Stllwar
source that the affair was an outrage, or tha
II calls for even the midest condemnation
On the contrary, one OF our esteemed cor
temporaries of the Radical stripe in
brutal effort to be witty congratulates tn
country that the negro has learned to b
handy with the pistol. Yet after all Their
, is some consolation in this discrimln;
ton. 1t is an evidence OF Stalwart desper;
r ton. Nothing short OF desperate cauS
b would develop such despicable weakness
t Ia this position we are sustained by ID
! following significant paragraph from tn
q Boston Globe:
: give unoflending white men were she
o down by. a party OF negroes. OF cours'
neither politics nor race prejudice In
IS ANYTHING to do with it. But suppose th
:. white men had killed the negroes instea
re OF refraining from shooting because I'll
l. streets were full OF people. We can rcadll
II imagine what the Republican papers
D. this vicinity would have said about |
es They would have had a new rebelho
X started before night, and would hay
issued frantic appeal to our best Poop
r to save the country i'll 1884 by voting Il
De Republican ticket"
o. In other words, it is anything to say
l.. IL "the grand old party" the violation
ts truth, justice, and the laws Of humaniI
IS not excepted.