Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-11
SUNDAY. ..........A AUGUST II. 1899
The Atlanta Ontrape.

The new postmaster at Atlanta, Ga. who
put negro to work face TO face with a
white lady, has received the following let
ter from one of his suretcs;
ATLANTA. GA, August 8. 1889.
Ge,,eral J. p. L,seis, Postmaster, AH1ntd, o. :
Dear Sir.-l signed your bond as post
master for Atlanta. believing that YOU
would recognize il as the act OF q man who
wished 10 do what he could 10 aid the
Federal Administration IN securing an
efficient discharge Of most important
function of government in o large and
1ourishing commercial centre, such as
Atlanta Is. Further than this. | supposed
that Won would not overlook the fact that
INV signing your bond was also the act of
enc who places the preservation OF tho
white mans supremacy, both North and
South, immcasurahly above All other
worldly considerations, and yet VINO
Rrdently desires 10 lll s. strife and bitter
ness. and the promotion Of peace, har-
monv, and concord between all the people
of all the States. For long the southern
people have conceived that TO he a Kepub-
lican meant desire 20 humllate ordeOase
the white population IN disposlng OF those
issues that spring from the relations Oh the
two races in the South.
Ia hoping that H. was your purpose SO 10
discharge your official duties a. to dowhat
YOU could 10 dispel suca belief have, 1t
nppears. been mistaken. and | an con-
strained to send letter 20 the Post-Ofice
Department at Washington signitYng my
wish TO be relieved a. one of the sureties
on your bond as postmaster.
Yours truly,
Henry b. ToMPBINs.
General IEwIs was completely knocked
out when he received the letter, but when
questioned refused to talk.
The northern Republican papers Will of
course use the fact that the whites Of At
lanta burned the postmaster there IN efhgy
as going TO prove that the Democratic
party ought 70 be put down all the Re
publican candidates for Office elected, and
a law passed putting all congressional
elections into the hands of negroes and
other Republican partisans.
And. strange TO say. whilst the Republi-
can malgnants are thus attempting to fire
the northern heart and to make silly igno-
ramuses believe that new rebellion has
broken out in the South, WILLIAM MALONE
and his followers will be part and parcel of
the party which will thus make war upon
their southern brethren. The money
which MALONE will procure from the North
20 be expended in debauching the voters
IN Virginia will come out of the same fund
upon which FORAKER and all the rest
of the South-hating candidates OF the
northern Republicans will draw in or
der to meet their campaign expenses.
The money that Quay Will send to this old
Commonwealth viii be, not exactly blood
money, but money collected in the North
from men who hate and SANDER the south
ern people and who will contribute to the
Republican campaign fund because they
expect the money thus contributed to be
used in the unholy work of huIniliating
the southern people, pandering to sectional
preiudiceS, sitting patriotism, aud perpetu-
ating the rule of party which ought to
have been killed and buried out Of sight
twenty years ago.
What else can the South 10 than suffer
and be strong"? She can at least put the
seal of her condemnation upon her own
sons who caucus and associate with her
enemies and encourage them to go on IN
their diabolical work. For let it be re-
peated q thousand times and upon every
stump in Virginia that the southern Re
publicans have it entirely within their
power to prevent the passage Of any ma
tional election-law and TO cause the unholy
war upon the South TO cease. That war is
kept up 10y southern white Republicans.
They are responsible for it. They would
put the southern congressional elections
into the hands of negroes. They are the
guilty parties Never let them lose sight
of this disoraceful fact