Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-25
injure, retard, or paralyze the onward


march OF the southern people.
1t pretended TO desire the freedom OF
the negroes for freedoms sake, but it
really sought the enslavement Of the
white people Of the South.
Its cry was preserve "the Union OF
our fathers, and at the same time Its
greatest leader was declaring that the
Constitution OF our fathers was "a
league with hell and O covenant with the
devil"
CHANGE OF POSITION.
II declared that the bond Of union
could not be broken that no State
could secede that the States Of the Con
federacy were still States in the Union
in spite Of their ordinances of secession.
But when the war closed it declared that
the States OF the South were out OF the
Union and must remain rs conquered
provinces or be readmitted upon such
terms as ii might dictate, and each State
was compelled TO submit a constitution
to Republican Congress for its ap-
proval as a condition precedent to read
mission into the Union, and old Virginia
was made TO comply with this demand
before she could re-enter the house she
had done so much 10 build and stand
again under the flag which she had de-
Tended with her blood from the heights
of Canada to the plains OF Yorktown. In
the second war for independence, and on
the field of Buena Vista. Cerro Gordo,
Molino del Rev, and Chapultepec.
1t denied to us the privilege of going
to ourselves and overpowered MS aud
coerced us into remaining with the
North, and ever since we have
been treated by this God-and-morality
party as having no rights in the Union,
and We have met with nothing at its
hands bat curses and abuse.
We have stood it all in the Providence
OF God. With consciences devoid Of
wrong; with spirit that neither chains
could bind nor tyrsnts could break /,
With the courage of Spartans and new
energies born OF our necessities, with n
devotion to right and "a love for tho land
baptized with the blood of the martyrs
to a cause which had for its leaders the
brightest lights that ever shone in the
armament of Gods creation-meD who
seemed to be the very aggregate OF the
creative genius of Omnipotence-we have
conquered calamity and rodden under
our feet calumny and stand out to-day
in the morning sunlight of an era which.
in spite OF Republican legislation, is
gliding our hillsides and our noun
tain sides, our fields and our forests
with the ruddy hues Of prosperity.
AN ERA OF PROGRESS.
Our peaks which have stood like mon
uments to our great dead are yielding up
their treasures our waterfalls, the de-
light of the landscape painter, are begin
ming to hum With the wheels Of indus
try our forests in their primeval growth,
with their mighty oaks and gracefully
towering pines, so long the shelter of tho
fleet-footed deer and even the surly bear,
are echoirg with the sound Of The wood
mans axe and the shrill whistle OF the
steam engine.
Our cities are expanding, our towns
growing, and new ones are springing up
everywhere. Capital is flowing into our
borders, and the business eye of the
country is directed to our unsurpassed
advantages. orr material wealth, our sa-
lubrious climate. and TO the blessings
which kind Providence has showered
into our lap for the benefit of mankind.
Great social and political problems
which for time troubled is have been
solved, and Caucasian civilization and
the white mans rule have been fixed
upon safe and firm foundation, and
virtue and intelligence are no longer en-
dangered by vice, Ignorance, and super
stitiOn.
How bright are the skies above us as
compared with the dark clouds that
hung over us in the days Of recon struc-
tion and carpet-bag and Repu blican
rule
Are our skies to be made murky
again Are dark clouds to obscure
agaia the sunshine? ? Is the progress of
the South to be checked? Are tho
shovel and the pick TO be withdrawn
from our mines? Are our wheels OF in
dustry to be clogged ? Are the fires OF
our forges and furnaces to be smoth-
cred? is capital to flee from us as from
d land Of infections and plaques? Are
turmoils and troubles and difficulties,
and it may be bloodshed, to take the
place OF peace and harmony, law and
order?
All these things ere threatened, and
We are living in an atmosphere OF doubt
and fear, uncertainty and dread.
HATE AND MALICE.
Led on by devilish hate, inspired by
devilish malice, finding that the bloody
shirt can no longer be made to do its
work, that confidence between the sec
tions is fast sprlnging up, and fraternal
feeling is being kIndled, and that the
Republican party is rapidly weakening
in the North under the influence of q
holier and better sentiment, the Reeds
and the Dudleys, the Hoars and the
Lodges and the Dayenports in their des-
peration are seeking to convert the
South into bowling wilderness.
For months they were laboring to con-
coct scheme by which they could
secure control of congressional delega-
tions in the South, and finally they
brought it forth from their den of dark
ness and wickedness and with brazen
faces presented it to the House OF Rep
resentativea
What is it Ifal the devils had con-
spired to destroy our peace and prosper
ity and bring riot and disorder and ruin
upon our fair land, they could not have
framed a measure which would more
completely accomplish their purpose
than the Lodge-Dayenport bill. He
should have said simply the Davenport
bill, for Dsvenport's brain conceived II,
Dayenport's hand penned it, and Lodge
was the mere puppet that presented it.
Looking into the faces OF men made
in the image Of God, and not in the like
ness of the devil, is there a man here
who endorses this bill?
The speaker paused for a reply, and,
hearing none, said he was glad to find
that there was no man present 80 deaf to
reason, so lost to shame, so dead to
justice, so devoid Of manhood, and so
destitute OF the characteristics OF Virgl-
nian and white man, as to stand forth
under Virginia sky and proclaim his
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