Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-21
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER q. 1889.
The Cause Of Troubles In the South.

The Cause of Troubles In the South
Instead of conceding the right of the
people Of the South to deal with their own
internal troubles in their own way, the
northern papers, with here and there IN
exception, assume that these are troubles
which northern quacks can instruct us Of
the South how to get nd Of They pre-
sumo, too, 10 give any quantity OF advice TO
the southern people, and in fact assume
that they are our superiors and possess
the FIGHT 20 prescribe remedies for all the
ills from which the South is suffering,
though they are themselves responsible for
whatever is wrong in the relations of the
two sections.
The Philadelphia P,rss of Thursday last
had a patronizing article of the kind we
have alluded 10. 1t assumed the role of
MENTOR. after having catalogued our al
legged sins, and closed its article as fol
lows:
1--WE have exonerated the body Of the
southern people from any responsibility
for these outrages, and have welcomed the
declarations Of their best representative
journals. But action is needed US well as
utterance. The South needs 10 protect It's
own honor and its future safety; and II
the crimes against the ballot-box 60 on the
nation must see whether 1t can protect its
own security
SO we are TO be "bossed" by our north
ern brethren. whom we had supposed to be
only our equals in political rights, and par
ticularly in tho right TO manage our do
nestle affairs in our own way. Suppose
x,,o ~o.,,r,, tbo co,, ,,lip,apt oDd dounond of
Pennsylvania that her miners shall be de-
Gently clothed and fed. There is more suf-
fering among the poor in Pennsylvania
alone than there is amongst the negroes of
oil the southern States taken together
We printed whilst the National Assembly
of the Knights of Labor was in session III
this city few years ago an article which
upon indisputable evidence made it APP
pear that Pennsylvanians had no sympa-
thy to spare for the southern negroes.
The Pres threatens the South. IF the
crimes against the ballot-box 60 on"
quoth that paper, 1.-THE nation must see
whether 1t can protect its own security"
This is an ambiguous endorsement of the
proposition to pass national election law
as a means of perpetuating the rule Of the
Republican party. And this threat comes
from Pennsylvania of all the States in the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., the home Of QUAY
We say TO our Philadelphia contemporary
that the Republican party is responsible
and blamable for all the race-troubles in
the South. The carpet-baggers and scala
wags vino followed in the wake of the
nations armies and plundered the south
ern people from 1865 10 1877 were practical
meddlers. The northern Republicans Of
to-day are theoretical meddlers. The
former wronged the South themselves.
The latter by their conduct induce negroes
and others TO wrong the South. We mean
10 say that if Mr. CLEVELAND had been
reelected President Of the United States
last fall that fact would of itself have
almost solved the negro problem.
The Press, we have said, has catalogucd
our sins The reader viii notice, however,
that il threatens us with punishment for
only one offence" crimes against the bal
lot-box." That is TO say, AL will be for
gotten" if we will vote the Republican
ticket. Two of the crimes charged against
Us are that our elections are fraudulent
and that the recent contest in Louisiana
was marked by all the "old features of ter
rorism and usurpatiOn,' although there
were two northern Republican congress
men on the ground, one Of whom at least
has testified that the Louisiana election
was fairly conducted.
We must give separate paragraph to
the charge that 1.-THE honest verdict of the
people" in West Virginia is counted ota"
whatever this may mean. West Virginia
is as reliable Democratic State as Vir-
ginia There is little room for doubt that
FLEMING was lawfully elected Governor.
The majority returned for Corr was
manufactured majority. Virginia negroes
who had no right to vote in West Virginia
were colonized in counties remote from
the centres of intelligence and there
caused TO vote the Republican ticket, there
being, as the Press possibly is not aware,
no registration law in force there. This Is
one of the "crimes against the ballot
box" which we are 10 quit committing on
pain Of having our elections placed under
the control Of ignorant negroes and other
Republican partisans.
We say 10 the Press in no bad humor
that the remedy for the wrongs existing in
the South is the death and burial of the
Republican party. If there is at present
a more uneasy feeling in the South be-
tween the whites aud blacks than had been
known in twenty years" it is due to the
Vaccinations of the northern Republicans
and their allies in this section. If fire
Quent reports OF violence and outrage
come 10 excite doubts and forebodings,"
this violence and these outrages are the
natural result of northerners meddling
with matters which they have no right to
touch. II in the South wrongs break
forth with frequency" northern political
PAUL Pays are the remote cause. though
their presence and their manipulations
cannot always be proved.
La conclusion. We repeat that the remedy
for whatever is wrong in the southern
States is the death and burial of the Re
publican party. And we tell our Philadel-
pha contemporary that we in Virginia
hold MALONE responsible for the hbels
with which his northern allies so freely
pelt the southern people. Pray, first cast
the beam out Of your own eye, and then
you shall see clearly to cast the mote out
Of your neighbor's eye. The number of
white men wronged in Pennsylvania is
greaterthan the number of negroes wronged
IN any southern State
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Malone.