Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-14
Tue Southern Trorbies.


knowing, dare maintain them.
SALEM, Va. I. j.
Tae Southern Tronbies.
To the E'GtOr Of the DiS0afch:
The ugly features assumed by the
grim spectre" negro problem which
glares upon us as horrid monster calls
for our best thoughts and cGlmest con-
sideration. We have much error, stimu-
lated by bitter sectional aud race preju-
dices, TO contend with. and this feeling
affects TO condemn what it calls orr race
prejudice.
The colored people, for political rea-
sons, have been diligently aud persist
entity taught and urged to regard us as
enemies. Sneak-thief enissaries come
and inflame their minds up 20 the point
Of a gushing liberaity, take the we'll
filled purse aud HE away TO other inviting
fields of promise and gullibllity. Like
the tobacco moth. they secretly leave
the corrosive poison OF cunningly de-
vsed SANDER. The educated negro i'm
bibes ana inculcates the enmIty TINS en-
gendered, and so the leuyen spreads.
Even the prcGc6cr, Mr.. Bragg, and
others, while insisting on church equal
itv instead of endeavorng to concillate,
labors to magnify their imaginary hard
ships, meuld their public opinion and
instll into their minds a spirit OF hos
hlity and revenge to Us for what their
Yankee friends did centuries ago. His
views on church fraternity, &c., are
clearly erroneous and lis venom reveals
the scheming politician.
The colored brother is unrcasOnably
exacting and aggressive Was there ever
more petted and favored race in his
toric times ? He Was muniicentiy pre-
scented with freedom and equality before
the law-eevated, not by gradual eyOlu-
ton but at one bound, to political equal
ity-from serf to sovereign, coequal
owner of this "b0unllcss continent, to
assist the Caucasian in solving the very
doubtful problem of republican govern
ment. With all these princely bounties
he was left by his bcnetactors "to root
| hog or die" like other less favored peo-
pie. Though despoiled and reduced to
poverty the whites with whom he was
raised, seeing his forlorn condition, as
sumed the heavy burden and doubtful
undertaking of raising him from the
"mirv clay Of superstition and politl-
cal deprauty and degradation aud have
spent and are still spending millions for
! his education, care OF the poor and in
sane, criminals, helping to build their
/ churches, and aiding in many ways.
I f,tgrn tIpHl W fnUnvQI ,
Does history furnish a parallel? The
rank and file of them ale kind hearted,
polite. and accommodating but as soon
az an education is obtained they employ
it in abuse and intiammatory efforts, as
/ If they wanted to kill the goose that lays
the golden egg. Is there any parallel to
| thi'
It brings to mind the old saying,
"Give him an inch and he'll take an ell. !"
Bestow ninety -nine favors and refuse the
hundredth, and instead OF thanks you
have an enemy.
Their education furnishes opprobrious
and insulting epithets to hurl at the
whites, who are bowed down with the
increasing weight OF education-tax, from
their press, forum, and pulpit IL echo to
the blasts from higher ATTITUDES. Does
any part of history. ancient or modern,
/ furnish parallel to tine annoyance, per
secution, and cruel injustice inflicted on
a brave and generous people whose only
fault WAS to inherit property LETT by thor
fathers like other legatees, and had the
courage TO fight against overwhelming
odds Tor what their Revolutionary fore
fathers fought?
The coIored people should remember
that their emancipation was not Tor their
sal,es but for the sake Of the Union, by
which the North intended TO fat.en and
! flourish, rs it ever has done, by taxing
the South in every way their ingenuity
could devise.
The pulpit and press mould pnbic
sentiment. Does either attempt 10 di-
rect it according TO the spirit OF the Con-
stitution or the holy precepts OF the BIZ
be ? Sectional justice seems TO be ex-
tinct, and charity is too thin in the
northern pulpit TO do for the southern
whites even what Mr.. Bergh did for
dumb animals. II is a most grieyous
wrong and oppression-the growing out
rage of all time-to turn loose IN igno-
rant alien race. arm them with the dead
/ " weapon Of destruction-the suffrage,
and then stimulate them with plausible
sophistry and imaginary grievances, and
make this fair South land the camping
ground of strife and hatred, OF tumult
and turbulence. 1t is horrible inhic-
tion-a ghastly wound on both races.
The northern lsboring classes are
| Justly opposed to Chinese immigration.
Would it not look heartless, cruel, bar
barous, if the South, happening to hold
the balance Of power should vote for a
free inflow of this peculiar people and
increase the poverty and suffering OF
these laborers and subject them to their
legislation {? Is this "tar-baby" OF
fanaticism and sectional hatred to be
ever thrust in our way and clog our
efforts at recuperation Is the African
to be the Nemesis OF America.
II let alone as we let them alone-if
evil ia not thrust upon Us by press and
pulpit and meddlesome emissaries and
thirsty politicians-the questions now
disturbing SANITY minds can be quietly
settled among ourselves.
If this annoyance and agitation 10 70
continue, the sooner the General Gov
eminent begins the Herculean task OF
colonizing the colored people somewhere
outside of the southern States the better
it will be for the country at large.
SENEx.