Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-12

t0eif IutoBy W.
folly, &c. Don Quixote WAS . crank
Of this order.
We have among as . CERTAIN CLASS Of
people
who take from each race al its vices
from neither its virtues. Asaruls, these
moperels despiss their negro ancestry
and are envious and jealous OF their
White ancestry. The one will not recog-
r;ze them, the other distrusts them,
and nearly or quite all the outcry about
negro wrongs comes from these mon
sreIs. They are classed as negroes,
and undertake to speak for them, and
by representing to the negro that he is
suffering great wrongs they think to
get control over his race and TO use
them for their own ends, aud they
thus give themselves notoriety
of which they are passionstely proud.
They become leaders, preachers, &c {,
among them, and very often tempt
them to commit great disorders. These
mula,toes years ago got the mastery
over the negroes Of st. Domingo, where
they were very numerous, and OPP
pressed and msletreated them to such a
degree that the negroes rose upon them
and massacred them without mercy.
They are striving to get control over
the negroes among US, and whenever
they succeed they use them for their
own base ends. They are those who
aided by certain thieves and adven-
turers, called carpet-bsggers, are ever
stirring up bad feelings among the races
here, sometimes ending in local con-
flicts and blood. One Of them, called
Fred. Douglas, nearly white, with no
more claim to be called negro thsn 0
mule has to be called horse, very
much spirited by the cranks and crooks
who gather at Washington in large
numbers, thinking himself to be
too important q parsonage to wed with
negress or mulatto, finds . white
woman and mates with her. This gives
offence to the negro population, and be
at once goes to work to regain his lost
ground among them, and, as a means to
that end, goes around lecturing and
speaking among them, persuading them
that they are the worst-abused people
on earth, while, in fact, they are the
most contented and best-fed laboripgpeo.
pie in the whole world-msde manifest
by the rapid increase Of their popula
tion-and.freer in every sense than the
laboring people Of Europe. Of course
the white crank Hoar quotes from this
Fred. Dou ,las, and would produce
pandemonium on the basis Of his
speeches and false clamor, and would
have Congress to enact law that would
cause all the cranks and crooks IN
England and America to hold jubilee
when Cinnamon, mulattoes, Indian-wor'
shippers mot Indians), women's-rights
cranks, &C., would hold high carnival
By way of illustration Of the claimf
Of this man Hoar, I will call attention
to
A SCENE
in one OF the Virginia courts soon aftel
our Revolutionary war. In this suit
one Johnny Hook was plaintiff and
Patrick Henry attorney for the defend
ant. Johnny Hook had brought a sui
to recover the value Of some cattle
taken from him by the patriot army du
ring the war, and Patrick Henry in his
speech. after dwelling in words Of clio
quence on the universal joy Of the
country on the triumph Of our arms
exclaimed : " Yes, gentlemen of th'
jury, we hear the shouts of gladnes'
coming up from all the land, from
mountain and plain, but over and above
this roar Of Joy We hear the voice o
Johnny Hook crying Beef beef Pay
me for my beefl'" And so it is with
you, Senator Hoar. We hear the GLAD
tidings of peace, reconciliation, forgive
ness coming up from all the land; we
hear the happy songs Of the negro
coming up from the fields Of his labor
we hear through al. the South--now tina
thieves from the North, despised there
and focking here when we were pros
trate, have been driven away--no CRY
of want, no voice for bread. Taxed
and ground, as we'll IS the West, b
the capitalists Of the East, both races
here are yet prosperous, and tho cry o
want and woe is heard everywhere ba
within our borders; and amidst al
this acclaim Of peace, prosperity, ant
goodwill among the races here
voice rises up in our Senate
halls-a voice from New England, I
mongrel voice" Lo, the poor negro
10, the wronged Chinese Lo, the nobl
red man !" This, sir, is your voice
this the meaning and intent Of the reSo
luton you introduced in the Senate il
its last day; this the base defamation
you hiss out against our people to b
published through all lands at tim
when We could not refute the slande
in words or with truth. 1t is a stab il
the dark it is the arrow that flieth b,
night; the arrow of the cowardly Par
in the heel of Achilles.
Your purpose is directed, sir, not 81
much at the southern people, not 81
much for the negro, but poisone'
shaft aimed at the white race Of the Pa
oifc slope. You, sir, under the guise O
a negro-worShipper, are championinl
the cause of the Chinese and "the nobl
red man ~; the one underwriting an
starving them out, the other tomahawk
ing their women and children. You
sir, and all such as you, are the
DEFAMERs OF OUR RACE,
disturber of public peace, de
famer Of a people heroic in war, mag
unanimous in defeat; rising from thei
calamities, from the desolation Of war
from the universal disorder Of carpet
bag rule, as no people have ever done
going into the national legislature, and
faithful to the laws Of honor, abso
lutely voting millions to pension tn
soldiers who overthrow them in war.
call on the ages for an example lik
this, and none can be given. You trem
BILE and grow pale at tho thought Q
reconciliation between the people of tn
South and West-among our peopl
everywhere-and you would keep ther