Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-13
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1888


We remarked last week thatior the present
Democratic Congress 10 admit The four Terri
tories which are ready 10 become states
would Ne 10 protect the South from wrongs
IN Federal legislation; but We bad no reason
then % hope that MrRAT HHLsrEAD would
ioln In the chorus Of Republican voices
which bad even then begun 10 say that The
South should be bet slone. So II is, how
ever; be comes ont unequiyocally for adj
ml,tine the new States referred 10, and as
signs the fact that The Republicans can thus
perpefuste their sscendency In Congress ~
reason for not disturbing the pence OF the
south. We quote from tho CommerclalGa-
zc'te:
"Itleto Oid virginia that we look. under
Tho new AGmnlttrltiou, q take The foremost
place 10 thc true reconstruction ~ the south,
ma thai thl. leadership shall eventually
make the weight az Virginia greater IN the
republic and her iaue iaircr in me time 10
come than her share IN tho high distinction
q the Grand historic past
"'Nifh the Nicc-Presidcut elected 10 pre-
Side in the senate, Rnd no loss of senatorial
f.afe. the Republicans hold the Senate firmly.
81 The House is Republican boy working
majority barge enough Tor al practical pur'
poses.
.'Tho first work ~ The next Congress, 'he
FIRST under the Harrison Administration
,bouli Doe 20 admit ~ tue Union four new
Siqtcs- North and SOUTH Dakota sud wash
iugton and Montana Immediate step, should
boz taken l0pcrfect tlc arrangements. Ite-e
flur States would mean eight new Republic
cIu senator's
"Anl shall VIC then rush 20 force the
States ~ the solid South Into tie rude ct
usm'ut oi the most difficult oil an questions,
that of races comUiuelcd on the zane soil ?
SO. let The southern states gradually fol-
l1w TIE example o. old Virginia, whore mnn-
hood suffrage rs almost. and soon Will be al
together. established beyond question. This
is already wonderful progress.'
"'Wilh malice toward none and charity
f)r an.'" And that is TIE maxim we would
urge al' our f,ioW-citiZnns t0 adopt iu til7
d,y % triumph that i,lucompamhlo, tbatth
r.in,lstyd Republican party may be worthy
ITS hi1h Jr.uny.'
Mr. UNuEtp has now ncknowledgod-
what wcueycrc,ud get him TO acknowledge
before thf election that The fifteenth amend
lneutopcratcs upon STATES, mott upon persons.
Replying 20 o correspondent who wrote him
rsi Dee believed he 0lU,rEiW had taught
anI would teach that Republican House Of
Representatives. VIII never admit as "a mcm-
ber a man WHO gets ms certificate by fraud,
intimidation, or murder, he writes a. follows:
"Ilow, We may ask our friend. IS the legal
proof to be furnished that there hive been
fraud and inumidauuu2 There Wil 'c moro
tbsn twenty districts IN which no Republic
can candidates were an the hcld. How shall
inry Do contested Where we have not
been able 90 sbow That the acis n the people
Of the State are The acts oi tie State. how
.lrll wo prove legally that lalf million men
brave been disiTanchised because they are
E,mhlieaus3 The census table, and clcc-
ton retu0s, taken together, show certain
things, but not according 30 tho require
neut. OF legal testimony
"rhe Republican minority IN the next
House ia quite large enough for business.
Nctahe 10 the House can spend lts time
more probably than Ia q great number ol
contested election cases. We would De in
favor Of looking into a case IN South Caro-
huaand one ~ Mississippi, but not with ideas
of Icseuung boy sudden violence a great
wrong. but u healing The difficulties ilom
th, hoft0m.'
"1ho Dakotas and Montana and Wash.
futtun will be admitted ~ states. There
VIZ pee no question about th" Republican
supremacy iu jle senate, with the House
strongly Republican The Republicans VIII
have TIE laW-mlkiuc power IN their hands.
There comes With 70 the greatest possible
gravity Of responsibility. We cannot euro
tbe troubles IA the southern states 10y co.
ofclyc laws.
"If we should propose The evortiou OF
Wltuy force We ugN not tud public
op'uion favorable 10 Its exercise, and 70
would not be profitable o. sec ourselves
lrlin In the conditions that surrounded Pre-
sideuj Hayes a. The beginning Of bis Admin
i-trstjou. We have been through Tint eXpe-
riCOce, and do not want a repetition. We
must recognize the Legitimate power OF pub
he opinion within any section Of the country,
ard the proper force Of the hleheSt inteli-
gcuce; aud we must understand how pro-
i1uudly and dangerously delicate the race
question II IN States where blacks and whites
are 10 almost equal numbers.
"Thofe Is dynamite scattered there and
we would not Raii0p over IL irOn-shOd. We
must not Yield the point that manhood sui
frage shalt be sustained; that protection
shall be sGov,lcd citizens under the Constitu-
tiou. but let Us seek the methods that have In
them the core Of peace"
That strikes us as Slate-crait--as good
doctrine, TO have come from the standard.
bearer Of the bIoody-shlrt brigade. Let the
new States come ia at once, so that their adj
mission will have nothing 70 do with the
next presidtutial election. We aye not
afraid OF them-uo more than IlALSTEAD now
Is OF the solid South.