Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-19

10 come, which they will either exact OF
which they shrewdly foresee they cnn
help themselves TO at the opportuhs
timo ?
But will this bid for the negro vote
come alone from one side Does nu
man nature. or Tillman nature either
warrant any such superstition VIZ
both sides to this fratricidal strife piu-
ding for the negro vote, and mo'ins
heaven and earth to get it, what Is 10 pe
come OF our fields? With angry pas
sions aroused among the whites ana the
negroes enlisted under them on po'H
sides with the excitable nature oil the9e
peopl. reused by white heelers on tue
ono side or the other, and the poor
blacks dipped into this white man guar,
rel, which can never do the colofeu
masses any good, and, for the matter OF
that. the whites either. is this conul-
ton OF things that BODIES anybody any
good?
BEWARE OF FRATRIcIDAL STRIFE.
Let our people OF all classes and races
answer this solemn question Tor tneni
selves. And when we have once stlrred
up the devil in the hearts OF all our peo-
pie. whites and blacks alike. and begun
this bitter, implacable hostility. III inc
very bosom Of our society, VINO Is 10 say
where it will stop? Will it stop IN No-
vember. or will it 60 over from electioh
TO election until it shall become an en-
during political inheritance, an lmpiaca-
bio vendetta. which we shall leave our
children and our chidren's children
n curse for their inheritance and a SER
pent for fish
We are told in response % this grave
view Of the case that this evil condition
Of things is bound to come at some Tune,
and Il might as well come now. Inns IS
a delusivc reply. Ii is the argument Oh
blind passion and not OF dlspa'siona,e
reason. 1t is the argument OF the self
DESTROYER. who would blindly rush to an
untimely end because he had not the
cool courage to face athrestenlng future,
leaving that future and its portents to q
providence which no man II wise enouph
TO forecast unerringly Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof IS what the
Good Book tells us in this very connec-
ton. Who of us all is WISE enough 10
know what must come beyond all perad-
venture? Who is wise enough to know
the limit which good God has put TO
the outcome OF a wise patience and q
courageous forbesrance in the sorest
pcrplcxity which may befall lis
SOME THINGS WORSE THAN T1LLMAN.
Bnt rs if TO make a last and irresistl-
bic appeal to our sense OF self-respectt
end TO our consciences as matter oil
nersonal duty we are asked: " WIZ you
support Tillman and his crew, " who have
defiled the history of the state ana
heaped reproach upon everything oil
GOOD report We answer without mo,
ment's hesitation that we do not regard
any man or set OF men az being OF
sufficient moment to Justify our consent
10 the destruction of the only party that
has given MS shelter and comfort IN the
days Of EVIL things. ..
But TO this it is replied; "Ihe SPIN
has come" and the Democratic party OF
South Carolina is already among the
things that were. If this be so now Is i
that Judge Haskell addresses his nomi
mating conference as Gentlsmen OF thu
Democratic Convention?
Bnt We contend, and will contend Y
the last, that there is no "spht, anc
can be no "split, that we, the people
of South Carolina. refuse to give GU
consent to. And the Register feels 1t tC
be its solemn duty, wherever Its trustee
friends may go, as long as there may ID
one man in tho State left 70 stand d.
the old faith and the old party, there t,
stand. and to stand like stone wall
whatever may befAll. And II tina
grand old party must go down in Sout
Carolina. We will go down with 1t, Will
its tattered banners IN our grasp ana on
trust in God mistaken. No, fellow
Caroljnians. 1.-THE party of Jefferson, tn
party of Charles PincBney, the party o
Andrew Jackson. and above all the part,
of Calhoun, cannot go down In scout
Carolina and we and our chhdrel
after us not bear the responsibility an(
the shame thereof.
LET HASKELL WITHDRAW
What then shall We do? To on
mind this is clear. Let us-let thos
Of us who want no "split," who war
no funeral in our great Democrat
family-rise up in oil the plentitude Q
our strength and appeal to our brethre
on both sides to hold Hold as the
/, love their State, their common country
! and their wives and children.
, Let us appeal TO the Haskell men,
! men whose hearts are true anu MnGa
: patriotism is above reproach, to retli
: from the field at our solemn request. IL
!. Ms throw the whole responsibility OF a
, fairs on the Tillman men as those put
3 charge by the people. And as we woal
a not forego our state and our society i'
= the sake of Tillman and his shor
: comipps so let us refuse to forego. II
great party of our fathers and our father
y fathers because Tillman, however u
4 worthy he may be deemed. happens
: be for the time being its chosen exp