Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-31
proving tbs, they src catering to sectional
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feeling a. Tue North.
But what WAITED to say was this Whilst
You are putting our people on their guard
by publishing what these tends In human
shape arc doing, why do You fail TO let US
see how those "hloody instructionso are
received BY their sable pupilsf / think the
one quite as important to be done rs the
other. The Ignorance and indifference OF
our people to this IL astonishing.
You can easily open their eyes by publish
ing occasionally extracts from the columns
OF The negro paper. the Planet, which u
published weekly here, and which J could
wish hsd more subscribers among our white
citizens. Asa ample OF what you might
CLEAN In this way allow me 10 tell you that In
the issue OF that pager for March 23d you
will ind an attack upon the character OF
Mrs. Obedish McCreary, OF Accomack. who
was lately outraged by a negro Dsmed
Fletcher, and protest against bis iynching
for that crime. la the same Issue YOU VIII
ind a repetition OF his protest against the
PUNISHMENT OF w. II. Bonaparte, the Hamp-
ton negro who was convicted OF nbdnciiug
. tblrteen.year old white girl-the protest
this time being extracted from Bcston pa
per. which calls this child "the dissolute
wo nan who eutrapped Bonsparte."
In another column you will find recorded
the Planets report OF Rev. Justin ID. tui-
tons endorsement OF the negro candidate
Langston's miscegenationist declarations In
his canvass OF The Petersburg district In Ia
vor OF mixed black and white race.
And 10 conclude the Instances tsken from
this paper YOU will find 40 insulting attack
upon Judge Tlouruoy's late speech before
tue Powba,an Club. though bis declaration
that the negro should not be allowed TO vote,
toe main point OF the attack upon him, was not
imprudent, as you suggest, but coiollary
from your own lately.published demonsirs-
ton that the negro had no right to vote be-
cause the fifteenth amendment bad never
been ratified.
Ii seems to me that when we know the a.
forts the Republicans will make next iall 10
draw OF so many white men 10 their party
Il. 10 defeat the Democratic party In Nlr-
sinia that we should AZ once commence our
efforts TO defeat them; aud that there can be
no better way OF d0ing this than to let our
white people know the effect upon the ne
groes OF such advice as is given them by
Cable, Tourgee, Chandler, General w. L.
sherman, and others, who speak as repre-.
sentative men that csn always command
hearing through the Foram. the North
American, or any other periodical that repre-
sents what they call the higher plane OF
thought and advasced moral ideas. / re-
for beginning the work now, that We will
have little but ourselves to rely on. II we
remember Mr.. Cleveland's social and pollii-
cal recognition Of the negro. and call TO
mind that 10 1887. when he knew the In
portanes OF concllatIng the South, whose
unanimous vote was required for his re-
election in 1888; Mrs. Cleveland, going with
the President on his fishing trip TO the Adiron.
dacks, made a pilgrimage to The tomb OF
John Brown, we must be convinced that
those whom we have the best right 10 regard
a. our friends do not comprehend our feel.
ings towards the negro, nor appreciate the
danger that grows out OF evil, as the negros
prelude TO social equality.
| note, Messrs. Editors, your amiaOle ad-
vice that we "should use no harsh words In
presenting this matter TO the northern peo-
ple,n Which, properly rendered, means
thst we should INITIATE the mild expostula-
ton OF The lamb in It's argument with the
vol. With great respect fer you, Messrs.
Editors, | cannot agree with you. Flesh
and blood cannot stand the injury they have
done us without becoming exssperated.
"The flesh will culver when the pincers tear"
"The blood will follow where the KNIFE IS
driven "
Neither can / agree with you that "there
Is In the North much better feeling toW2fus
the South than there was twenty years ago
vastly better" Try them by the touchstone
OF regro suffrage: The Republicans will not,
the Democrats dare not, concede the South's
position that such right conferred on me-
aroes is destructive to liberty, and when ex-
ercised without the contrasting check OF an
eyerw helmlng Caucasian force. will lead to
the rum OF all our NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
social, and civil. They will not or cannot
understand that republican government Is
not adapted to all men without distinction OF
race or color.
Truth. you say, is mighty and will prevail.
Aye, but how long first. through what trials
and tribulatious OF bleed, msrtyrdom, and
despair? What truth so mighty as Chris
tisnitys How far las It prevailed In 1900
Years OF effort? Do not Nohsmmedanism
and Buddhism contest the field with 1t to-
dsy? OF course it will prevail. But how
loug, oh Lord, how long must mankind
wait TO witness that consummstion
ONE OF MANY.