Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-24
The Eegro and the Democratic Party.
To the Editor Of the Dispatch:

As it is doubtless the intention of Mr..
Cleveland to be President of the United
States, the article you printed in your
issue of the ODD instant (headed as
above) shows that the men away down
South recognize the fact we have stated.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, of
course, will receive the thanks Of the
best people of the South for what it
printed on the subject, and such
action, if taken by Mr.. Cleveland,
it is to be supposed will great
ly please and crafty the white
people living in the "solid Republican
States" who by their voices seem to
think that negro is far better than a
white man. If Mr.. Cleveland, there
fore, adopts the plan suggested. what
is there to prevent the bringing about
such an era of good feeling as existed
when Mr.. Monroe was President of the
United Statesy 0ldpeople will remem-
Der when for once the country was
d" solid " for the powers that
were. To bury the issues of the
war, and especially that "old bloody
shirt" which Mr.. Blaine, after his de-
feat, seems to have dug up" and
afterwards handed to General Sherman
Ito be aided by his cold-blooded brother
john to wave, it seems to me is what
patriots North and South should desire
above all earthly things. As a wool
dyed believer in the gamest man def
ferson Davis that our late war between
the States brought forth, and while | do
not believe that the negro is in any
(true) sense the equal of the white
man, yet if such a course will bring re-
stored peace to the country am strong
" in favor of Mr.. Cleveland's appoint
ing negroes to fill responsible places in
solid Republican States when such ac-
ton will prove greatly pleasing to the
white Republicans of such States.
OF course such action would be
also very gratifying not only to
the negroes living i'll such States,
but to the millions of the same color
and race living in the southern States.
Such action, besides, would show UP
in their true colors the white renegades
of the South, who have for years fooled
the negroes by getting them to bestow
on such white rcnegades all offices
that were worth the trouble of
asking for. Men of the North
who have so long clamored that the
white Democrats Of the South should,
in spite of such renegadeS as Malone,
aided by Mr.. Arthur, elect ignorant
negroes to ill high places, will, in the
very nature of things, rejoice that in
solid Republican States there is a pro-
spect that intelligent, educated ne
groes, who never knew what it was to
be a slave, shall fill high offices.
If the doing of such thing as
that will once more unite our whole
country, as it was united when Mr..
Monroe was President, |, for one, will
thank God that such simple course
will bring about such grand result. |
therefore pray you to keep prominent
before Mr.. Cleveland the policy
of his giving to the solid" Repub-
hcan States just as many negro Of
fice-holders as decent regard for
the public service will permit. If it
gets out in time that such course will
be pursued by Cleveland, who can tell
how many negroes now in Virginia will
emigrate before the next election to
such States in order to have a chance Of
being appointed a judge or to some
other equally important office. That
move would tend to weaken Malone
in Virginia Ia thing greatly to be de-
sired by all white men living in Demo
cratic States). To see hundreds of
colored voters from Virginia rushing to
Ohio, Kansas, Vermont, and other solid
Republican States, IN order to have a
chance Of filling, to the qualification Of
the white Republican people Of such
States, high Federal Offices, would
prove doubtless as pleasing to the real
tax-paying people of Virginia as it
would to the Republican white people
Of such States.
Please, therefore, Mr.. Editor, don't
do thing TO prevent the earnest desire
Of white Republicans in solid Republic
can States to have all the Offices in such
States filed (shen the public service
will permit III by negroes. That viii
be q cheap price to pay to have the
country once more ~ band Of bro
TIERS" NocAM.
People will not be SO very foolish
that they will allow themselves to be