Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-18
THURSDAY...........JUNE Is, 1873!
rne Neeroes North and South.

General LOGAN IS an aspfant W tue
Office OF President Of the United States
a candidate for the nomination OF the
next Republican National Convention
and. like so many other northern men,
assumes that as most Of the Republicans
Of the South are negroes the policy
promising to his ambition the most salts
factory results is that Of commissioning
Che condition Of these southern negroes.
He has not word to say in behalf OF
the northern negroes. In the speech
which he made the other night to the
negroes of Washington he declared
that so long as be has voice il shall
be raised in defence Of their rights, &C.,
&c.
The first thing that is suggested to
anybOdy's mind by LoGAN's palaver
is the fact that Republican Congress
and a Republican President took away
from these same Washington negroes
the right to elect their own officers
and we suspect that LOGAN was one Of
the men who, fearing that negro rule
in Washington might render their real
estate less valuable, coolly deprived
the negroes of that city Of right or
privilege they esteem very highly, and
in effect turned over the city govern
ment 10 the control Of the whites. 1t
is easy to denounce southern men for
SURPRISING the ballot; but it would
not be easy for Mr.. LOGAN to point to
any such wholesale suppression Of the
ballot in any part of the South as was
that suppression which was the work
of himself and his Republican asso-
ciates in Congress.
There are about fifty thousand ne
groes in Mr.. LoGAN's State Of Illinois.
There are about thirty thousand in this
little city Of Richmond. And we ven
ture to say that the negroes in Rich
mond are much happier, much better
contented, in much better circum-
stances, and have much brighter pros
pect before them, than the negroes Of
Illinois. We have no idea that the
negroes of Illinois have half as good or
half as large churches or schools as the
negroes Of Richmond have, nor half as
many Of them. In every ward in this
city there is fine negro church. These
churches are not merely churches in
name, but buildings as large as those
used by the white people, and having
larger congregations.
So as TO schools. There are in this
city many. excellent public schools OF
all grades intended solely for the ne
groes. One Of these-the Normal--iS
furnishing year after year number OF
graduates we'll qualified to teach the
negro grammar-schools here and else
where in Virginia. Thousands of young
negroes are in training in the numerous
negro public schools of which this city
can boast. In q word, Mr.. LoGAN's
own Republican State cannot point to
half as much work done in the interest
Of the negro as can this small city Of
Richmond.
Richmond is situated only twelve
hours from New York. All the best
negroes in this city could, We suppose,
il they would, find employment in New
York, and get higher wages than they
receive in Richmond. Why don't they
move 10 New York? or TO Philadel-
phia. OF to Boston T? or TO Chicago
Because they we'll know that they are
better off where they are.
Mr.. LooAY's cheap pledges are no
thing but words. He and his party
cannot afford to raise the question o
the comparative conditions Of the north
ern and southern negroes. He is ,
mere hypocrite when he proclaims it Il
be his purpose TO do anything for tn,
negroes except such things as will have
the effect Of securing for himself theil
votes.