Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-10
APoIitical Remedy.

4 Political Remedy.
To the Editor Of he Dispatch:
A narrow view of economical and po-
litical affairs has never been IN harmony
with democratic profession and promises.
Far-reaching and all envelopng a. are the
principles OF Democracy the time has
come In virginia and other sections of the
South where there ~ the presence of large
numbers Of negroes, for the Democratic
partv TO contract its lines and narrow lts
too ample policy even at the sacrihce OF
some OF its heretofore expressed cardinal
principles. Sectional bias and even race
prediudice is not only dlscountenaneed,
but condemned. and all blows at the
enemy have been struck straight out from
the shoulder and above the belt, but the
devil must be fought with fire and not
with water.
Nothing il more natural ard universal
in countries where unrestricted suffrage Is
permitted than for the political parties OF
opposite views 10 avail themselves hrst OF
every argument, practical and theoretical,
in support of their particular doctrines,
and when argument and reason fall OF
success. they then resort to strategy. ana
in the event of its failure they rush II ne
cessity requires TO violence IN order to I'M
press their views. THIS latter is revolution,
pure aud simple, which is the last appeal.
OF course, when argument and reason can
not prevail with the adversary on
account of the thickness OF their
skulls and the consequent Impenetra-
bilty of the same TO such subuetles OF the
mind as reasons, why Is II not lawful ana
right to apply to them remedies when are
practicable and mprehensible to then Oh
fuse minds. or in other words fight them
with their own weapons:
If il is desired 70 have sectional or race
lines drawn, and the opposition Will have
the fight on no other grounds, narrow as
is that conclusion, why let IL be so. Ger
tainly the Democratic party Of Virginia IS
at no disadvantage upon such ground.
When the gauge OF battle IS thrown down
the gauntlet should be picked up at once
and the weapons Of the blatant and VAIN
glorious negro Republican leader Lang
ston, used against himself and party.
There is no better way than to heal
phvsician with his own medicine, notwlth-
standing the odds are with the Democratic
party or white people of the South IN the
way of the heaviest artillerv-namely,
brains and money, TO say nothing OF the
numerical majority OF the whites IN the
State. A single little remedy OF the home
opathic order IL to be found in every con-
qressiopal district in the South. which, If
applied to the negro party, would cure
them of all unreasOnableness in politics,
thus insuring the election OF a solid Demo-
cratic congressional delegation from the
South without a single exception.
This remedy has already been known TO
southern Democratic voters, but has been
only used as heroic measure, and not Of
ten and only in extreme cases, and when
ever applied has always been effective
without absolutely killing. In the dark
| DAYS following the reconstruction of the
| - 4. ~. . xu4a fnnpI
sarv and applied with such ample success
as the redemption of the South from ne
gro rule and the gain OF Democratic
| Congress at Washington.
! II is a force measure that will in all pro-
| liability Offset much OF the forcibleness OF
| the so-called force bill.n The effects Of
the application of this antIdote would be
| such a protection to the heretofore anti
protective South rs the widest enthusiast
and advocate Of protection In the Republl-
can party of the North had never dreamed
of in his philosophy. The remedy pro-
| posed is the nOt-emplOynelh OF ne
| gro in any position whatever that
can be as well filed by a white
man. There are thousands OF such
situations now occupied by negroes that
are sought for and can be better supplied
by white persons. Among laboring white
men the complaint Is universal that the
labor of most manufactures Is performed
by negroes, to whom are given the prefer
| ence. and even IN stores, where greater
honesty and integrity is required on &c
count Of the handling of merchandise and
| money. negroes are employed as porters.
| For instance, observe in this city, n negro
in charge az porter of nine out OF ten OF
the storehouses on Cary. Main, and
| Broad streets-positions that could I'M
questionably be more aptly. filed
bv white men than by the present occu-
pants who are but enemies in the camp
vipers, who are nursed to sting their bene-
factors. This policy forced upon the
white people, as it is, would either cause a
political amalgamation without, however,
attendant social equality; or, would cause
a migration of the blacks such as Is now
In progress in the Carolinas, and which is
making those States solidly Democratic
for all time TO come IN spite of Democratic
discussions and its following evils.
The cause of this migration of negroes
from the Carolinas has long been patent to
obseryant travellers through those States,
and is entirely attributable TO the fact OF
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of negro labor and III
it's stead the use of white labor whereyti
practicable. such as in households and on
farms where white labor can be obtained.
The work of these depopulated States Is
either done by owners and proprietor,
themselves or by hired white help. In
such localities the negro, when found al
all. is a Democrat, and very glad, too, tc
be one.
The negro yoke never fell from the neck
| of the CarOlinians until they came TO the
determination TO do without the labor OF
the African oppressor, and the moment
this conclusion was arrived at the YOKE
fell TO the ground, and there it has laid
the relict of the worst oppression TO which
anv people were ever before subjected
and there il will continue to lay until II
has turned to dust or until the white popu.
lation shall have become so effete as e
AGAIN intrust themselves to the tender
mercies of the negro laborer, who then be
comes the master. a dependence that Il
the most pitiable that can be conceived by
the human mind.
While suggesting this in the light of tn,
results of this remedy IN sections where !
has been tried. il is not forgotten that thu
law of retaliation IL a relic OF the earlies
stages of society, and is almost the emana
ton of a british mind, but the exigence
of the time and place demand this forlorI
method OF treatment OF people who, 1
would appear. are devoid of a sense of self
government, who although they have eye:
cannot see. and who have ears but vii
not hear. a people Of whom, it has proba
bly been too harshly said, can DO tamet
but not civilized"
With so simple remedy at hand VIII,
not try IL, since not only grand politica
result of perfectly legitimate accomplish
ment may follow, but disenthralmen
and emancipation of the white peopl
from domestic slavery that has beef
more CALLING and grinding than was eve
the seryitude of the African himself?
CLAY STREET.