Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-09-26
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER &c. 1885.
rru.nswarahle Arguments.

Unanswerable Arguments.
The fact that the cotton crop OF tn
United States amounts for the year Il
s.706. l65 bales shows that the labor
ipg.men Of the South have not beer
idle, and that the productive laboreri
Of the South. white and black, arc
doing well. Why should any man en-
desvor to create the impression that
the landowners who have treated the
negroes so kindly as to induce them to
raise annually five millions Of bales OF
cotton have at the same time deprived
them of the right of suffrage, bulldozed
them into voting the Democratic ticket,
or into remaining away from the polls,
and so alarmed them that they live con-
stantly in fear Of death or some out
rage?
Isita reasonable story that the Ia
borers, who produce five millions of
bales Of cotton year are the victims
Of wrong and oppression? Are the
white proprietors of the land such fools
Is to demean themselves in manner
that would drive all Of those valuable
laborers away from their plantations?
Who credits such statements? Who
really believes that the negroes Of the
southern States are unkindly treated by
the whites? Does JOHN S. WISE!
Not he. We suppose that it is true
to-day as it was thirty years ago. that
the southern negroes are the happiest
laboring class in the world.
How far is it from Danville to Phila-
delphias Less than q days ride.
Why do not the negroes Of that town
take the cars and find homes among
their professed friends in the Quaker
City9 Why do they not shake the
dust of Danville of their feet, and re-
pair to the headquarters Of philanthro-
py? Why do they live in fear and in
peril Of death at the hands Of assassins
and murderers rather than shelter them
selves in the arms Of the SHERMANs,
FoRAKERs, HALsTEADs, and REDS
of the North? A short ride would
land all the negroes in Danville in
northern State. Only few hours in
terpose between them and their north
ern champions. How is it that they
prefer the company of southern man.
eaters and man-slayers?
How is il that Richmond with .
population of only eighty thousand has
more fine churches belonging to the
negroes than has Cincinnati with her
hundreds Of thousands of population?
There are perhaps fifteen thousand
adult negroes in Richmond. These
could all find employment in New York
city, we doubt not, If they would go
there. Fifteen thousand negroes against
q million and . quarter Of whites would
not find it hard to secure homes for
themselves as servants. Why do they
not 90 thithers Certainly they can
there get higher prices for their services
than they can get in Richmond? All.
perhaps it is because the most blatant
northern advocate Of "justice to the
negro" in the South never pretends to
offer him in the North anything but a
place in the kitchen, or the stable.
Mr.. WISE has caused all these north
ern enemies Of the South to open their
batteries upon the whites Of this Sec
ton. lie it is that eggs on these viii
flers Of Virginia and her southern sisters.
He lis the man who asserts upon the
stump. and has it telegraphed to Nu-
RAT HALsTEAD's and other papers,
how he can show that there have been,
We don't recall how many, but perhaps
. hundred elonies-murders, many Of
thsm--in Danville and Pittsylvania
county and vicinity since the close Of
the war between the States. And yet
the negroes are SO attached to Danville
that they constitute, We think, q ma
jority Of the population Of that town.
Isn't this fact IN unanswerable argu.
ment against the truth Of the charge
that the negroes Of Danville are afraid
to vote the Republican ticketg
People Of Virginia, it is for you to
rspel the libels and ISLANDERS Of your
enemies. Elect FITx LEE to be your
Governor, and you will never be trou-
bled with another campaign of vilifca-
ton and vitupsration. These charges
are now used in the vain hope Of making
party capital out Of them. Put your
foot down upon them on the Sd Of No
vember and crush the life out Of them.
The current viii DO the last campaign
In which such charges will be used if