The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-01-02
Yrhmend nlspaith.
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY ., 1854.
I'VE need not say that we dc not endorse
all the following communication i
The solid south and the Cause.

The solid south and the Cause.
To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
Many az The southern States before the
war were Whig--that H.. they favored a
protective tariff. internal Improvement by
The General Government, national banks.
and strong Central Government. This
latter was condensed In the platform OF the
party when Mr.. Bell was nominated for
President in these few words: THE Con-
stitution. The Union, and the enforcement
Of the iaws.v The same States are Wing
now. and always win be. The majority OF
the property-holders, merchants. LAWYERS.
&C.. before the war were Wbig. They
are so yet. The same class OF people IN
the North were also Wing. They are 80
YET, and always will be. But they have
changed their name, that Is all.
Before the war many OF the Wings in the
South and most OF them in the North were,
theoretically at least, abolitionists. But the
horrors Of negro political equality made
the Wings OF the South practically pro
slavery. II would have had the same effect
on the northern Wings had there been
many negro slaves I'm the North. Tee
Democratic party, as q party, always OPP
posed internal improvement by the Gene
raj Government, protective tariff, ma
erument buildings, sheer.show and splen-
dor. In other words, they represented the
farmers and farming interests and tastes,
plain, homespm ideas in everything. and,
i might almost say, parsmony-ceftainly
extreme economy. The Wings were the
reverse OF this. They represented the
mercantile and more wealthy classes, and
their ideas in everything.
The territory now forming the States OF
Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky. North Ca
rolina, Louisiana, and many congressional
districts all over the South. were Wing
before the war. They are so yet. Then
why is IL that the South is soidly Demo-
cratic; that is. soldly opposed to the Re-
publican party, when that party is nothing
but Whiggery fully CROWN The reason is
obvious. Republican domination at the
South turns our people over to the rule
and domination OF an alien, ignorant, ana
baTbarous race, and that class Of men who
court their support and use them for pur-
poses riIinOus to everything. The South
will make any sacrifices rather than be
subjected 10 such humiliation and woe.
But for the support and patronage given
the negro population and those who use
them, by the Republican party, some five
or six southern States and many of our
CDnEItSSlOIti ulslIlCiS MOuu DC It)UDii-
can. Ii is difficult for the northern people
TO understand why the southern are so hor-
rificd ut the fear OF negro domination.
With change of conditions they would on
ghis subject be as we are. Their humani-
tartan sentmentalty does not seem to real
ize the fact that the white man nowhere on
earth Will willingly submit to equality OF
any kind with the yellow races. much less
with the black race. Nature has placed
between them inseparable barriers and
an abiding prejudice which cannot
be and ought not 70 be removed.
Hence the present commOtion in India;
hence the bitter hate between the races in
Egypt and China; hence the riots in Cali |
fOrna; hence the humiliation OF the In |
(tians: hence the occasional riots in the |
South; hence ii is that when white man |
intefmarries with a negiess he becomes |
parfah. Those OF the northern people who |
are willing to see their own race, blood, !;
and brothers put on an equality with the
black or yellow races are governed by q |
niawkish sentimcntaity unworthy of them !
and revolving TO those high instincts that
make the grandeur and the glory OF the
white men, and they are making war on
Gods law, for the mongrel perishes.
The political privileges given the negro
have done him no good, but vast harm.
and have denoralized the South terribly
80 much so that our statesmen, both Demo-
Gratis and Republicans-for we have among
tIs many Christian gentlemen who are Re-
publicars-arc left at home, ard we are
represented most often by inferior men-
mere poiiiicians-Who seek the Office for
its pay and opportunities Now. the nolth-
ern people are rs much interested in hay
a.t,~ 81 u-nt Ia |
whether Republicans or Democrats, in the
councils OF the Government, as we are on
all questions OF national character at |
least. Under negro political equality and
negro patronage they must suffer from their
absence, whiie the South will remain solid. |
We are one people. The Stitcs of this
Union are likely 10 remain together fer !
generation or so. ii the country were |
solely under the government Of The white |
man. and each section and State felt that !
the Government was fostering parent, |
the States might remain under one central |
government for an indefinite period.
Now, what is the fact? There has been |
more suffering in the North from want |
slnce the war than there was in the South |
during the war, and venture to say there
is more want to-day in any one OF a dozen |
or more northern cities than in the entire |
negro population OF the South. The negro
has never wanted for bread, shelter, or
clothing III the South either before, during.
or since the war, save for that dark period
when some OF the southern States were
under his rule and the rule OF the low adj
venturers who plundered him under the
gIise OF friendship. Had that dark period
continued until now those States would |
have heen bankrupt and disgrace to civil
izatiOn. Better-far better-the shotgun
and the kukluX than such horrors. When
the North has so legislated or brought il
about that her own laboring people are as
well TO do in their bodily wants a. the
negro ut the South II will be time enough
TO teach their peculiar ideas Of humanity.
physician, heal tbyself."
Again: II il manifest that the iron bust
ness in all its branches, the manufacture OF
cotton goods in particular, and in fact the
great manufactures and coal production
of the country, must soon be from the
South, and the white men OF the North
must and will be here to do the work.
Do you want negro or Chinese equality
for your children?
May we OF the South, OF your own race
and lineage, who have, with you. made
America grand aud glorious, and who are
as ready and willing to 60 on ia the great
work before us all rs YOU are; may we APP.
peal 10 You TO shut your ears TO the clamor
Of negro conventions gotten up by muiatto
mongrels, white humanitarians OF the Don
QuiXotte school, and those so-called phi
taothropsts who call Moses a humbug and
Christ an impostOr, and listen TO the ap-
peals OF common scnse--of our natural in
stincts..
The negro Of the South, as d pendent,
will ever receive the fostering kindness of
the white man, and will be fully protected
in lust so much liberty as his nature calls
far q q xa1li4iaul ri