Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-31
Exciting Sectional Prejudice.


The Boston AdUertiSer having stated that
The Republican party assumes false atti-
tude towards the young voters OF the coun-
try when il calls attention TO the history OF
the country for the past twcnty-iOur years;
that at least one third OF the presen; voters
know the late evil war as they know the
war OF ;he Revolution, and that the appeal
to The bloody shirt is an abiect failure be-
cause il is an appeal 10 old associations and
hatreds. the Providence Or. ~ journal
Iashes itself into a frenzy that fully con-
vinccs us OF the correctness OF the 1Ti-
bunc'S dog-star theory regarding enthu-
siasm for the Republican ticket. Among
otter things the journal says:
But the theoretic giving up by the South
and the surrender did not settle, as it
proved, all the questions to arse, based
;.pon the original denial by the South OF
the supremacy OF the nation in national
affairs. The acknowledgements OF the col
ored race brought up the old question in
new phase. The negro became and Is en-
titled TO the right TO vote. The southern
Democrats said at once the war wagcd
against the Union is now TO be wagcd
against tie coIoTed voter.
The doctrine OF secession became the
doctrine OF "a white mans government"
In TO the date Of the last election in the
South the negro voter has been defrauded
OF his vote. He has been cheated, or he
has been cOGrced. The principle-thAt OF
opposition to the fundamental law OF the
land and to the General Government-was
and is the same, the application OF it only
being changed. Is IT "passion" to de-
mand obedience the law? Has the name
of authority under the law, the name OF
security under the law, the name OF consti-
iuiional rights, the name OF suffrage, the
name OF murder, no meaning to the "young
vOtervI Is there no 81 moral power In
the voter who was too young to participate
in the defence OF his country as against
civil war for the destruction OF the Uniony
But the Republican party has not forgot
ten how much it cost in treasure and In life
to maintain the Union; it is not blind to
the fact that the South is not vet recon-
ciled TO law and order, as required by the
Constitution, and il is compelled by the
frauds and violence OF the South TO recur
again and again, in the interest OF humani-
" and Of law. TO the "passions" which
or the murder Of a Print Matthews in
Mississippi. II is not the North, it Is the
South, which keeps alive the discussion OF
the essential principles. And the Adrer-
HSer and its Bourbon friends in the South
may rely upon it that the North, young or
old, Will never cease TO preach and to vote
so long MS in the South the penalty for
voting the Republican ticke; is the loss OF
life.
In its efforts to defeat the Republican
party the idCertiSer ignOleS the fact that
the South is still struggling against the prin-
cipies il opposed and waged war against
from 1861 to 1868: and that it is in sense
as important to uphold the Constitution and
constitutional doctrines now as il was then.
"Old hatreds," indeed! The North hated
and hates only the doctrine OF secession;
tie South hated and hates the supremacy Of
the General Government in Federal affairs.
And the idUertiSer-does not sustain the
party Of law and Of liberty.
What tissue Of riot. Yet, after all. we
are not sorry to see the few-the very few
leading papers that support the Republican
ticket indulge in such TRADES. These
organs only prove that it is neck or no.
thing with the Republican party, and open
tie eyes OF the northern people to its utter
want OF anything Ike principle. They so
far overstep the bounds OF truth as to dis
gust all honest and right-thinking men,
and raise up champions OF the South
not only in the Democratic but in the fair
minded Republican journals OF the North.
They Justify the demand for an explana-
ton OF Mr.. LOGAN's threat that the National
Government must so beyond resolutions
and declarations" They give color to the
suspicion that the Republican party will
dare to stifie the voice Of the South in the
presidential election il the northern mind
can be made ripe for such an outrage.
When we consider all the sources OF en-
lightenment that are before the BLAINE
organs they are open TO the charge Of
wIlfully flying In the face OF truth
and justice in order to arouse Sec
tional prejudice. In short, as We have
said on several occasions, such language as
that used by the Providence journal ind-
Gates an effort to pave the way for another
presidential steal. viii the scheme work ?
We think not. While we reiterate our
warning, we also remember that there is
great deal Of truth in the saying, "Whom
the gods would destroy they first make
mad"