Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-11

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rabelled against and determined 20
overthrow the dynasty of George, Ming OF OF
Great Britain. or If you choose PRESIDENT
for life for an English King has less power
than our President. This great reDelllOn
,vas hailed 10 the world IN our Declaration
! Of Independence. The world knows tn,1i
result. Genceforward let those VINO can ~.
resistance and force used by peopie "
Establish a Government OF ther own,
vbetber successful or not, take warning
that they are making war on our peciara-
| t;on of T1dependence-on the right OF man
| and making Themselves the advocates OF
fine divine rights Of kings, rulers, ana
tyrants. In the contemplation OF our ~
claration of Independence there IL no SUN SUN
word as rebellion as applied TO peoples OF
| States acting together. Let the WOrd De
forsver blot1ed from American thought.
and let those who have now failed, or may
hereafter fail. in resistance TO what they
may consider usurpatlon ana wrong, DC
! treated a. brothers conquered, not rs
criminals. Such is the spirit and genius
of our Declaration of Independence.
Ia 1861 took form the great rebellion OF
the northern States against the Constltu-
ton and laws of the United states OF nearly
one hundred wears. 10 both OF when ne
northern mind had grown ayerse. mat
Constitution guaranteed the institution OF
| NEGRO slavery. To this institution tue
northern mind. partly from sentiment, III
part from selishness and jealousy. IN part
from a false idea ut that time intense ABOUT
| the unity of the races and couiu0u
! brotherhood between them influenced by
a passing rel giOus zeal ana popular uclu-
SION. had become hostile, and that Consti-
tuition. guaranteed 10 the people OF these
States equal rights for persons aud pro-
perry in the common territory; ana 10 TINS
! the northern mind had grown tauatlcally
! hostile. III part because OF the apprehension
of tho increase Of the power OF the slave
States. i'm part from the belief that 10 limit
the slave territory would destroy slavery
! but manufactures the northern peopiewere
| hostile TO the occupation OF any more TERRI
tory with slaves, because the slave LABOR
would be in competition with their own,
or what thev called free labor. Hence
the great rebellion of the North against
the Constitution and laws of the United
| States. The public OPINION IL the
world, ever changing, ever Wnlnlsl-
cal was in sympathy with the North,
and houce the arsenalS ami workshops
and the commercial fleets were al
the command of the North, and soldiers
recruited from all lands tor her armies. 10
! combat this rebellion the South had a pop
ulatlon of some 5000 600 from which 10
form her armies and $500 900 slaves To sup
DIV them with food. That and nothing
| more. except an occasional blockade run
! ner with a few arms. and transportation
wagons were gathered up for the most
mart from the battle-tieid5 of her Veto
RES. No navy, 10 manufactures or ma
Chine-shOps and very poor transportation
facilities. not sufficient TO feed, much less
to move aud concentrate her troops; and
vet 10 make this great northern rebellion a
| success cost the North $1,000, 100000 and
more in killed, wounded, and disabled
! than the entire number of soldiers ot the
| southern army, with a pension necessity OF
! 800. O0O, 900 a year for the survivors.
The South was loyal TO the Constl-
tuition and laws-the North disloy--
| al The northern rebellion succeeded
and emanclpated iOOO0,OO0 OF poor
| whites In the South, who had been push
ed of from her fertile lands by the mas
ter and his slaves on to the mountains and
ridges or into the swamps and barren
lands, where their lot was peace, 1gno-
rance, and poverty. THIS successful re-
bellion. this emancipation OF the white
race, has opened the South 10 the COM
mcrce and capital of the world, To mining
and manufacturing, and let the Ight ID
! upon her unparalleled resources ana ell
matte advantages. The result has been IN
| the last fifteen years unprecedented rail-
road building and bringing TO view mine
rails SO advantageously located and 50
abundant that competition from the North
| Is impossible and the same may be sad OF
| many other things. The result must be
to make the southern States unless nam
pe-ed 10y some silly tariff Legislation, the
| manufacturing centre OF thus continent
at least The negro, deprived OF the pro-
| lection of his master and transferred from
that form of slavery to the destroying
slavery of society, low politicians, adven-
turers. and to the domination and debase-
! ment of mulatto rule and seml-pontlcai
| preaching. mongrel and demoralzlng, IS
truly the only sufferer from the success OF
the great northern rebellion. IL IS we'll
for the South that this great northern re-
belion succeeded. But while the South
was loval 10 the Constitution and laws
of the United States. and won tor her
self imperishable glory. undying fame
IN their defence, yet the southern
States were as much in rebellion as the
northern. The south rebelled against
a change of dynasty. The Government was
about 10 go into the hands and under the
control OF n party that had virtually de-
| clared war against tho Constitution anu
laws of the United States as TO the institu-
zion of negro slavery, 50 called, and the
common rights of the people IN the Terri
| torles-Territories won by the policy OF the
South and IN part by her arms. Had the
| South succeeded in putting down TINS re-
! bellion of the North it is difficult 20 say
what the result would have been. But we
| must conclude that we would have estaD,
lished the greatest slave power the world
| has ever seen--conQuerlng and TO conquer
and this would have made most OF the great
| body of the southern yeOple-whlte peo--
plea poor miserable population, pushed
| of on to the poor lands or into the swamps
| TO give place 10 the master and his slave, or
! TO 90 into the great armies that would nave
! been hurled in every direction for conquest
| aud may be yet, while the tcrtue lahds
would have been occupied by the master
and his slave, as was very much the case
before the war. This. after our era OF con-
Quest was over. would have brought ter
rife conflict between the master, his slave
and those who sympathzed with nm
and the poor whites, and these con-
hicts would have been repeated until the
the negro would have persisted by violence
that the white race might possess the land.
But now he will perish by gradual means,
for be will sooner or later snare the same
fate here as wherever he has been "A slave.
He Will perish, too, by the hands OF those
who pretend 20 be his protectors. when
the tide of emigration begins 10 How INTO
the South in earnest, as soon II Will, then
the bell Of doom will have struck tor the
negro. He will be first driven from the
foundries. the factories, the machlne-shOps,
from town and city rs domestic servants,
then from the fertile lands where be gets
work and knows no wants. lie Is sur
rounded on every side. He is 6,00C 900, IN
creasing perhaps $1,000 year. The white
man is 52OOO.OOO, increasing 100000. In
another twenty years the negro may be
:. 900. 600, but the white man will be lOO.-
DOC. 900, for his increase Is geometrlca, so
10 speak. Then will begin in earnest the
struggle between them for labor, employ
ment, existence. Verify the success of the
great northern rebellion was the doom not
only of African slavery in America. but OF
the African race. There is destiny that
shapes our ends, rough hew them as we
NAV" Call il By what name you may, there
is something here that Furnishes and re-
wards, creates and destroys men and na-
tions, races and peoples, and worlds.
JoHN ;. SWAMI.
Charleston, ". "a, July 30, 1888.
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