Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-07-12
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rendered their swords to the Union
generals, and gave up as "a bad job
their undertaking TO destroy the
Government, would within a few
swift fieeting years flash in the face
of the nation the sword of political
power in place of the sword of treas
ON they had surrendered, and return
to their seats in the Senate and
House of Representatives OF the
United States, as the accredited rep
resentatives OF the once disloyal peO-
pie OF the seeded States, with the |
loyal friends of the Union counted in |
the basis of representation but strip |
ped of their rights, suppressed and |
unrepresented, he would have incur |
red the ridicule of every right-mind- |
ed man. And yet we have lived to |
see these extraordinary things.
Again he says.
Suppose another sage given TO forecast the fu-
ture should in 1870 or ten years later have fore
told that within the next decade not repre-
a seat in that same Senate or on the bench any
where In this broad land, and that not one OF
tins numerous filled any, II any. very
insignificant. position OF honor or trust IN any OF
the states of this Union. He. too. would have
been written down an untrustworthy guide and
philosopher but he would have been a true proph
beg to supply another supposi-
ton to complete the series. Sup
pose in 1890, another sage casting
the horoscope of the future would
foretell that at the end of the next
decade not one of the representatives
OF the old Bourbon Confederate line
of Southern politicians, who are now
entrenched in power 10y reason of the
or,A ,flonsa fNf a r,or,r1o emf
tering the deprivatiOns OF their con-
stitutional rights, would be occupy
ing a seat in this House, but that
their seats would be filled by Repub-
lican representatives of a new, regen-
Grated South, crowned at last on a
throne of justice, in q robe OF pOliti-
cal equality, and with diadem OF
loyalty to the Constitution and the
country; some might write him
down as n vain andfoolish babbler,
but l should say of such a one, that
he was endowed with true prophetic
vision.
In 1866 Hon. Benz. H. Hill, of Geor-
gia, declared.
There wes a South of secession and slavery.
that south is dead, There Is south OF Union tli,
and freedom. That South is living, breathing.
growing every hour
The eloquent Georgian journalist
made these words the text of his
great speech twenty years later.
They were no more nor less true at
the latter than the earlier period.
They were history merely; let me
add to them prophesy. There will
be a South, not only of Union and
freedom, but of fraternity, Christian
4 &c
right among all citizens. All hail
the coming South.
To speed it's coming | devoutly
pray that another son may soon be
born to that sunny land to bless his
mother, and lead her people; later
Grady who will exceed the earlier, in
the breadth and height of his concep-
ton of the constitutional rights oi
the citizens; a man of iron nerve and
unfiinching courage who will not feai
to be Just; "a man who shall bring, as
a meet equipment for his command
ing task, a mind touched with rar,
intellectual splendor, a soul kindleC
with a Promethean spark from Lib
erty's altar, and a heart yearning &c
robe every citizen in the royal purpl,
of equal Justice; who, moved to a no
BILE rage by the spectacle of Republi
canism in a portion of the UnioI
crouching and trembling at tn
menace of violence, will lift up hi
voice careering like a tornado acros
the land, declaring to the politica
brigands, in fiery words of O'Connell
That the thunderbolts of God ar
hot" and to their patient and lon;
suffering victims that the dawn Q
the day of their deliverance is "a
hand.
MORAL REMEDIES.
When our Democratic friends II
alize that there cannot be, under tin
Constitution, a white oligarchy j
States whose citizens are more tina
half colored; when they learn tina
there is middle ground between mai
rying and numbering the colore
people whereOn they can safely stan
when they are willing to try til
totally new experiment of crucifyin
their prejudices and their jea
ousies, and make sincere effort t
treat their neighbors Justly an
fairly, doing unto others as the
would that others should do t
,Hsm; when these conditions ensu
the so-called race problem will
more than half solved.
there are alternative solutions &
t:,c question. One is in the hands
lac people of the South, and is {
clear as light, and the way to it {
straight as line. The other T
mains with the nation. The form
may be expressed in two words, ju
tice and education-justice by Il
white toward the black man and ii
education of both.
The education of the colored pc
pie is an Indispensable factor in al
solution of the problem. The
minds must be informed, their mo
ais improved, and their manners 7
fined. The colored voter is Il sove
airn whose nOlitical dominion is G