The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-29
Mr.. sherman's Resolution.

amer Congress met resolution concerning
che Mississippi troubles and the panVi'ie
riot has already been exposed. inoeed'
the mere statement OF that TACT tei's the
whole story. But since he has brought
thesc matters before the public, the ques-
tions involved will, we trust, DC thorough
tv discussed. These include the very
structure Of our constitutional fabric. Mr..
SIBERIAN seeks not simply only to make the
redoraI Government powerful centralized
dcpoiism, but TO place the people OF this
country in the same relation TO that gov
eminent that the peasants OF Russia occu-
py 10 their Emperor og Government. IL Is
y serious matter and ought to be seriously
treated. Let us examine 1t.
!. Negro domination-ncgro rule-in
every State in which the negroes constitute
a maiorIty--is involved in the matter as IL
stands. II Is coolly assumed that all the
negroes are Republicans in every southern
state; that they would all vote the Repub-
lean ticket at every election il not prevent
cd from doing 30 by intimidation or force;
and, therefore. that whenever the Demo-
Gratis carry any one Of these southern states
they carry Il by fraud or force. England
made last wear a constitution for Egypt
hut has found that she might rs well have
made constitution for the Zultls. Inc
common people neither know nor care any
thing abouf il. As has been well sald, they
understand no argument and no COM
mand not enforced by the lash. MI.
SHERMAN assumes that the negroes in
South Carolina. Louisiana, and Mississippi
are 80 well pleased with the Republican
marty because il made them voters that they
are ready and willing at all times 10 show
their knowledge OF the Constitution ana
their love of their eniranchisers by voting
for the Republican candidates for all the
Offices in the State. and for membership in
the national House OF Representatives.
Surprising this assumption were wei
founded, what would it prove as to the
negro? Nothing. except that he was unft
To exercise the right OF suffrage. But
as 10 the white man, 1t may be said that
this assumption carries with 1t the
right of the negro TO rule the white man in
MI the States having negro majority.
What eIsei Why, the lapse OF those States
into barbarism; for the whites would OF
course nigra from those States and leave
The negroes to work out their own destiny.
Are the northern people ready to face these
consequences
q The negroes Of the South cannot be
induced by love nor money to move to The
North, or, if any of them are ever induced
TO 20 fhither. they return to the South as
SOON as possible. As have had occasion
to say before. the negro would rather work
In Richmond for ten dollars a month than
in Philadelphia, New York. or even Boston,
for twenty dollars month. 1t is no
answer o this 10 say that the negroes can
not get away from the South. This is not
ne. On the contrary, it would be no
exaggeration TO say that every Virginia
negro who desires home in New York can
get IL. There seems TO be a demand there
for Virginia negroes which the agents can
NOS supply. Well venture to say that if
Congress would appropriate money enough
10 move every negro now in Danville TO
Ohio, or New York, or Philadelphia, or
Boston. not one in twenty would be willing
to leave that little town, and the few who
did leave it would soon return to it. Can
Gnv libel. or thousand lIbels. answer this
srsaking fact? This speaking fact is, too
an appeai 10 all mankind against Republic
can hypocrisy. 1t Is an argument that
touches human natlwe-an argument that
everybody can understand. When the
mother of Louis XVII, as he is styled by
the Bourbons, was charged with certain
offences against her son, she Indignantly
appealed to "all mothers to testify that
the charges could not be true. So Virgil
MIA, charged with crimes which neither she
nor any OF her sons have ever even so
much as thought OF perpetrating, may base
her appeal upon the same high grounds.
The charges contradict human nature.
The negroes would not cling TO persons
who had mistreated them.
3. But look 1T the last Republican Con-
yress. 1t passed a law ior6idding the im-
portation OF Chinese into this country.
Would the white people OF California al
low the Chinese to rule that State under
any conceivable circumstances No; and
no white man that deserves the name
would expcctt. Andyet 1t was becauset the
GzIifornians were known TO be fully de-
terrained to protect their ciyilization-theli
schools. their churches, their children
their laws, their customs-agalnst THESE
vic heathens, that the Republican Con
yress PASSED the law referred TO. Ihe'
did Il 10 please the white voters OF Can
yornia and TO get their votes for the RepuD
Iicap party.
Bnt there is no reason to apprehent
unv further attempt Of the northern PEG
ole to rule the South by force. The eX
nerimept cannot possibly be made again
,yudey circumstances half as favorable Il
Success as those which existed when Gen
eral GRANT played the autocrat and sta
tionef) United States soldiers In the Capt
toss OF South Carolina and Louisian
70 oyerawe the Legislatures OF thos
states. The North saw the danger then
IT will see 1t much more quickly now
Then the word "rebel" was argumen
enough. Now IL has ceased to be even
-bugbear, as witness the division upon Mr
Cox's resolution TO dispense with I'll
irop-elad OATH only eleven votes In the ne
gatiye, although GoRpAa and HATToN ha
for months been filling the column