Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-10-14

the name OF iberty-and through party
hatFed--the ballot This would relcgate
him 10 that poeition in the political and
industrial scale ia this country to which
the God Of Nature and the current OF
circumstances have indicated he truly
belongs. His value in the electoral col
lcee il overbalancel n thomand times by
his vicious use Of tho ballot. His in
etinct Of race prejudice will take every
opportunity 10 iniict a thrust OF win.
dictiveness against the white man who
asserts the superiority OF his race so
cially, and that assertion will be made
forever. Tho negro will resent the su
peronty and the conflict will be per
pctual unless the amendment is repealed.
His Acknowledgement would be the re
moyal Of tho poison OF tho adder-the
destruction of the instrument which
never has been and never will be used
for tho good Of anything or anybody,
except perhaps few office-holders.
Revolutions never go backwards
They rarely 90 any otherwise. The stu
dent OF history finds that the wisdom Of
what has been is better than what is
and will not go far before nc can see that
the c0lored voter Is not needed IN the
legislation OF this country rs a whole or
IN its subdivision.
His Acknowledgement would be his
emancipation from m injurious privilege
and secure his undivided attention 70 the
only thing which will elevate him -labor
and its rewards. The white man no less
than the negro is amenable to this law.
The South desires the repeal Of the
fifteenth amendment, the newspapers
and politicians 70 The contrary uotwith-
standing. Place the colored man where
he cannot 10y his ignorance or malice,
dcstroy tho value Of the property Of the
whites. and thew instantly become his
protecting friends employing him freely
and paving him for his labor. and per
forming for him numbcricss acts Of kind
ness. But, under the present political
relations, there IS nothing a negro hates
more intensely than white man. espe-
cially IN the form OF "DemOcrat nor
IL there moro contemplate object 90
white man than q negro with o ballot IN
bis hand prating about his "ri2hts.
The party that moves Of ever the re-
peal Of this amendment will get the
almost universal support Of the white
population Of the South, who DO not
care a continental who is President, If
thcv be left undsiurbcd TO manage ex-
clusyely their own internal matters po-
litiral ne well as otherwise. The colored
man free, but without the ballot, would
be invaluable to the South "a q laborer
and workman otherwise he is pest and
curse, and the sooner ho can he re-
moved by any inducement. private or
governmental, the better for him and all
others. My wish is that they could be
transported 10 tho New England and
other anti slavery States, and that their
citizens and doscendante could be made
t. support them (the negroes forever.
The equity Of n curse demands that those
who created itshoud bcarit. and rs those
States brought about the fifteenth
amendment with its damnable results in
tho South, il is TO be hoped that the
blind goddess with the scales in her
hands will devise come echeme 10y which
we can get rid % the " brother in black "
and send him North, and let him get all
the positions Of woll-paid labor in that
section which spoliated the g South Of
its peculiar heritage.
w. A. KIRKHAM
Petersburg, Va., September 26, 1888.