Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-19
ooneral PRYOR at Fault.

The New York Herald OF Sunday contains "a
long report Of an Interview between General
RoGgR A. Favor and reporter for that paper
Ito.,cupies several columns In some portions
of Il We think We can SEQ that General PRYOR
read the reporters notes and corrected them 70
suit himself but o;hcr sentences are too clumsy
70 have passed under his lnfallible eyc FOR
example, the FIRST sentence in the following
paragraph:
"Tne South sees IN us manufacturing inle-
rests q promise AMI tho potency OF nc" ana
most fiourirhinc regiyne The actual Indications
Of public sentiment IN the south are oil III we
direction OF a protective policy. mean lhe sen
tment OF the people. Even ia Ioxes, who're
thoro are no manufactures, the WOOL interest
clstnors for protection. Tho mineral resources
of Virginia Tennessee. Alabama, and other
states also demand Proiec9l men M ' yn ma ne
cotton StAtos. The com binCd effect OF these IN
nuences. ] repeat IL 10 MAKE thc sOutnorh
people the champions OF protective policy"
Of course General PRYOR quoted jobs IYN-
DALLs famous phrase, Tho promise and po-
tency." DC. We make no objection to General
PKYoR's theory or guees As 70 the prevalence OF
the Protectionist doctrines in the South. We
should lie glad TO see all sectional Issues DIS
carded. and tho voters OF the south divided on
economic questions. But right here IL where
General PRYOR is at fault There Is no
divide on any issue that docs not promise
70 benent Them from social point Of
view. To assume that tho white voters
OF the South even have It IN their power to induce
the pegroc. 10 divide on economic questions Is to
assume what is nota fact We are panied and
surprised 20 end General PRYOR talking "a be Is
reported in tho following sentence 10 have talked
70 the HsTald's reporter:
ION the contrary. IL is my clear conviction
thai 10 Is a solid Democratic south that makes
soiid Republican North, and that for ary loss OF
votes In the south tho Democratic party would DO
more than Unidentified by an accession oil votes
and power in the North"
Now II this report be correct General PRYOR
fayors the policy Of turning over a few oil the
southern States 70 the Republican psrty-or, TO
tell The whole truth. u the control OF the ne
groes-in order 20 induce some OF tho northern
States 20 vote the Democratic ticketl in the
name OF common sense nnd patriotism, General
PRYOR, how could Virginia, or South Carolina,
on Louisiana, or any other southern state be in
Identified for her AfricanizatiOn by an aces
sion Of votes and power to the Democratic party In
Maine, or New Hampshire. or Vermont or Mas
sachusetts or even IN a dozen northern States7
General PRYOR remembers with what effect
that great orator LEwis KOssUrn quoted In
Washington city In 1850 she memorable words OF
hAHfIS nero sthli4s bVA hSiP lhu,
/ cannot do otherwise" With her hand upon
her heart and her face 10 The North, the South
has peen repeating those words for more than
twenty years. Her al-su1icient reason for her
soidity is that she is powerless to do otherwise
than as she has done bay In and day out sho has
all this time been defending her civilization. She
has had no opportuntyto stand for politco-eco-
nomical principles. nor TO unchurch Democrats
holdipg heretcal doctrines or to disfrocs leaders
teaching such doctrines. She has been forced
sesinst her will 10 defend herself against out
siders Ignorant pretenders who know nothing
of The true condition OF things ia this section
have kept her standing guard oil This time. All
the men who toll us that We can afford 10 divide
on economic questions 20 long al tho negro
holds The balance OF power are Quacks contrast
ed with whom Dr. LASGRADo was a verltable
Galcn.
IT, a. General PRYOR says, the southern people
see In thoir manufacturing interests the promise
and potency OF a most nOurishing future and
have become 1.-The champions OF q protective
policy why Is It that these same southern peo-
ole voted fer GROVER CLEVELAND, M snti-Pro-
tertionist- Haven't the Virginia people, for In
stance, whom HORACE GREELEY pronounced the
shrewdest politicians In the world, sonse enough
toknow whether they can atord TO break up the
solid South or not?
Look how differently the two sections are con-
ditionod. The North can dissolve her solidlty
and never be made aware by any resulting dis
astors that she has done So The south can dis
solve her soldiy only upon condition Of lapsing
into state OF misrule and humiliation not
much better than condition Of absolute bRrba-
rism. Practically Republican rule In the South
would lie negro rule, and negro rule wonld oe
death For her to dissolve hOr solidity would DO
TO commit suicide.
Tue reconstruction measures and their results
paralyzed for years every interest ia the South.
And yet those measures were tried under tho
rule OF white military officers acting as civil Of
neers. Negro rule as IL would DO in the South
under tho negroes themselves would result in
depopulating the southern states OF all the
whites
General PRYOR has committed olunder. He
has arrayed himself with those foolish philan-
ihropists who suppose that negro is only
white man with q dark skin; whereas the truth
10 that TO attempt 20 make the negroes even
tolerable rulers and Lawmakers is 70 try 10
make water float upon the top OF oil. The
white man Is on top and will DO on top in the
end, or else will abandon tho South.