Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-24

counrry again with Its presence. After
siavery The object OF Its attick then was
ahousbed. and the negro, who had been
~. yo,ed bv slavery from styngery 10 civil.
i1a,Ion. was made an American citizen,
and IL to-day better of IN the late slave
s,.,cs Than in the states that made war for
his enaf ipation.
NON any such platform OF social equality
"a ,ir Powde,ly proclaims TO be a leading
|ljcct NJ his order venture the prediction
mat Tho order Of the Knights OF Labor will
ncver flourish In the South. Indeed, ~ far
~ nv observation goes In the rural sections
81 Tic south. II begins TO dawn upon the
pubIic mind that under the gtiise OF clc.
,nting labor and the laoorcr mex crusade
is IN tc made upon the South to sir IN
strife In cur midst, and by that means give
a check. II possible, TO the wonderful de-
,oloun,ent Of this section within hili q
dozen y, ars. and that promises within less
tlnn anolhcr decade 10 make W. more thin
succes.f,,I councillors with the manuiac-
tnrino Nortb-their superlors In produc-
ron and the acquisition OF wealth.
Nr. powderly may not be a designing
man against IL, and do not charge il upon
lin. but his views as published are 10 full
accord with what we can we'll conceive -
n. scheme 10 break up the perfect harmony
I'm or labor system by introducing INTO the
south The "hcll upon earth" TINT has
broken out occasionally Of late years In
some localities IN the Nortb-as for in
stance the Molly Mcguire pandemonium III
MIR. Poyderly's own immediate neigh
borhood. To. day, i have no doubt, the
furnace and Iron.mill men OF Penn
sylyania. the coiton-spinners OF New
England, and other shrewd long'helded
mcuOpolistS, who dread The growtX
of these industries in the South more
than they do strikes and lockouts, are
fyuratively patting Mr.. Powderly and his
Convention on the back in their apparent
purpose 10 SOW the seeds OF discomfort be-
tween the races in the South, and, by in
citing race aniagonisms, bring about astlle
Of things as bad a Mr.. Henry George pic
lures in the Pennsylvania coal regions.
One big "negro labor riot" In the South
would be hailed by many large manu-
iactureT and coal-opcratOr in the North
with delight. for he would point to II ana
warn the capitalist not to risk his money In
such community, and thus for time
check that competition they so much dread
in this direction.
II is strange that for fifty years most peo-
ple in the North have thought themselves
more capable than we TO m mage the negro
problem. They managed II their way TIL
tbey set him free at a cost 10 the United
States Of Sc, ls9, $4,000 in money, to say
nothing OF the cost to the South, or OF the
million Of lives lost; and. now that the ne
gro Il free, we OF the South have found out
that we. the white race, have been emlncl-
pated too. The incubus Of slavery Is oil
our shoulders. The negroes have settled
down to work. They are earning an
honest living, and to-day are better oil.
better fed, better clothed, and happier than
the same number of lOw-grade, unskilled
laborerS in the North. They don't ask So
cial equality, but Mr.. Powderly says they
ought to have il, and he is willing to aSi-
tate that question where he knows 1t will
make trouble.
Now il NAV be well TO inform Mr.. Pow.
derry that the negroes are not fools. we
are educating them az We do our own race.
The school statistics Of Virginia show that
almost precisely the same per centum OF the
enrolled school children OF the races attend
our public schools, and the whites pay for
#. The negroes know this. They also
know that the negroes Of Virginia are bet
ter off IN other respects than their fellows
in the North. The writer OF this
has had occasion during the present
wear to investigate this subject, and
the results OF his inquiries are en-
bodied in a report to the United state,
Treasury Department, now In press, tha'
will be laid before Congress in December
which he hopes will tend TO open the eyes
Of the northern people to the fact tint
their onicious meddling with the negro
nrollem has 20 far not resulted 10 the adj
l. 90 a OIL.
procs, too, are beginning TO understand
their exact relations TO the white race
North and South, and as they grasp the
facts they are becoming better citizens
amongst us, and less disposed to cast their
lot with their white brethren in the North.
Possibly few figures from the forth
coming report TO the Government may be
interesting alike TO Mr.. POwderly and the
Virginia negroes at this time. The census
o. 1850 was the most carefully-prcpared oil
any that has been taken since 1870, IL
covers almost every subject OF interest re-
lating to our social and material condition.
The statistics OF PnlperiSm and Crime -
the two great sons OF the body pOlitic-are
exhaustive in every State and Territory
By the aid OF the census-tables, the facts
stated below appear. have taken Virginia
oa n fair typical southern State, ana 10
be perfectly far to the North, take seven
coterminous States, in the first five OF
which slavery was abolished many year.
ago, most OF their negroes being sold
South, before the emancipation acts went
into effect, and in the last two it never cx-
istcd because Virginia forbade II when she
coded the Northwest Territory to the
United States in 1857. The number Of ne
groes in each State named is given, and the
number Of paupers and prisoners for crime
for every 10000 negroes in each state Is
also given. To avoid fractions, where they
are over five tenths / count them as a whole
number, aud under five tenths drop them
IN Every 10000
NCgrO Negroes