Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-18

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South, soon TO be followed BY Al sorts
Of manufacturing. This c1esp negro
labor IN the South will enable, Is ena-
bling, our white population. both capt.
tAlists and laborers, to engage In manu-
featuring, &C., when but for Il there
would be little demand for white labor
and but little attraction to capitalists.
Therefore the increase Of the negro
population will cause . correspond
ing increase in the white popu-
lation. For Il is manifest that in the
mechanic arts and in the department Of
skilled labor, in trade and commerce,
and where mind and intelligence are
needed, the negro can never compete
with the white man. With these prog
nosticstions for the South, If they come
true-and no one who has made proper
investigations can doubt this early
verificstion-what effect will this cheap
negro labor have on the North and
West ? When it shall have sup
planted western food now brought
South with southern-produced, food,
and eastern manufacturers with
southern manufacturers, and shall put
upon the market vast quantities Of
grain in competition with western grain,
the question will be answered. Is it
known to the country that cotton-the
cotton area of the rans-Mississippi--
now uncultivated for want Of water
transit, is
MORE EXTENSIVE
than the cotton area east OF that river;
that on these lands torn can be pro-
duced cheaper, inducing cheaper water
transportation than in the West; that
the wheat district is Of very great ex-
tent? Aswith cattle and wool from this
vast region, so will it be with grain.
How long can the cattle and wool
raised in the States east Of the Missis-
sippi compete with that produced south
of the Missouri river? Let the north
ern and western people reflect on these
things and look forward to future
South-the most powerful, richest, and
most populous region in the world. Let
them leave us and the negro to ourselves
and we will yet develop the greatest
and grandest civilization known to the
worlds history. Let the South dis
pei her apprehensions about redun-
dant negro population. The more the
negroes the more the whites. and but
for the labor of the negro the South
would be q wilderness to-day. Take
this labor from the South and the jun
gle will take the place Of the cotton.
rice, and sugar-plantations, and all
progress cease; the North will also
lose her markets, and hence our ruin
would involve theirs. Well-organized,
well-controlled, steady negro labor is
indispensable to the people Of the North
and West, and the politicians Of the
| Sherman school are aiming
DEADLY BLOW
not at the southern people alone, but at
all of the people, and should be howled
down as the enemies of American civil
ization. Labor moves the world, and
negro labor is the goose that lays the
] golden egg for the American people.
But some are under great apprehen-
sion that, from the rapid increase Of
the blacks, they being also invested
with political power, the South will be-
come Africanized. In reply, let me
cite you to India, where, from time i'm
memorial, there have been two nume-
rous and quite distinct races-the con-
ouering race from Central Asia and the
native Hindoo. These natives are more
numerous than their masters white
race), but have been from time Imme-
mortal the subject race. Without this
lower race--the Soudra caste-without
this patient, docile labor, India would
be nothing; and the higher race is but
its guide, necessary to its intelligent
direction. With this labor and this
Soudra caste held under control, abso-
Lutte and supreme, India has been
for countless ages the grandest civiliza-
ton in Asia. No doubt at no very dis
tant day there will be 100000, 900 of
white people in the South, and perhaps
as many negroes and large number Of
mulattoes. They will gradually form
themselves into distinct castles, as in
India, with the same results. As for
the political power of the blacks and
mulattoes, it will pass away, and in the
returning race sympathy Of the white
population of the whole country it will
pass away without a conflict, unless
we follow-and this cannot be-the
cranks Of the John Sherman school, in
which case humanity shudders at the
conflict that will come.
There is, however, a real danger to
the negro population. 1t is that the
northern fanatiA of
THE SHERMAN SCHOOL,
going from one extreme to another, and
coming in conflict with cheap negro
labor, may inaugurate crusade against
negro labor. That the northern labor
ing population, il negro labor multiply
at the North, will drive the negro away
I have not the slightest doubt. White
labor is now driving the negro from the
border slave States, and he is being
continually forced southwark; and so,
if the time ever comes when the one or
the other race must perish, the negro
will be utterly destroyed and the YAM
kee will be his chief executioner. 1t
is idle and useless to morslize on this
subject.
THE GREAT ADAMITE (wHIrE RACE
will continue to multiply, to be fruit
full, to replenish the earth, and to take
the dominion over all things, subduing,
conquering. destroying" This race
to-day has all Europe, all America, all
Western and Central Asia; has in
vaded Africa on all sides; is now upon
the Congo-the Yankee in the lead,
shooting, subduing the negroes
there, and preparing to enslave
them on their own native soil,
and is the Brahman caste of India.
Who can dispute its power or check its
progress9 God alone. Will He do it =?
Surely not, for the God within the race
is carrying it forward. $50 forth,