Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-30


Power that would make war upon TINS
Government. When the Republicans
make war on my people by putting tanned
sayages over the heads OF civilized white
mentor that is what the negro Of to-day
is-then | become their enemy. lhey
thereby proclaim policy which no foreign
nation has ever avowed, and / should nov
care, in case of invasion by Great Britain
TO see the British navy sink every war yes
sci belonginc TO the United States. destroy
every CITY on the Atlantic Coast, and smell
every babitation on the lakes from Duluth
10 Bufalo. When the Republicans seek
the rum of my country, the South. WISH
all the harm to their country that can pos
sibly befall it.
THE soUTH's PROPOSED BOYCOTT.
"As to the proposed boycott, there IS
nothing new in it. IL is simply renewal
of the non-importation agreement OF hevo-
lutionary times that was headed III VIZ
ginia by such patriots as hlcharu hehty
Lee. The difference that would make IN
the enforcement Of the boycott would be
to except our friends from the JeIlhs Vi
such a movement" 49,,
"But do Won think the boycott would be
n success 20 asked the Press correspond
ent.
nlete success because the spirit OF our peo-
ple is not as nigh as il was III the Rev0lu-
ton of l776 or the civil war OF lSbl- %. but
there is no telling how far the spirit wiii
rise under the evaporation o1such an out
rage as the Lodge bill"
HIs # your fear that the enforcement of
the Federal election law, if passed, would
bring about negro domination III the
South"
mo sir. il will never accomplish that.
II would. however. bring about great dis
turbance in our social, business, and pooli-
tical relations. and probably would end IN
military despOtlsm If not resisted IRON the
beginning. Its first effect would be to re-
store the carpet bag supremacy that exist
ed from 1865 TO 1876. and our people would
prefer a military rule 10 the permanent
establishment OF such state OF AFFAIRS.
The title of the bill is a misnomer think
that il should read as was suggested Oy y
late member of Congress from the State OF
Georgia. speaking of certain act some
wears ago A bill to raise hell IN the
United States of America.
SPEAKING FOR VIRGINIA VOTERS.
Are these views the opinion of many of
your peopleF"
~ am perhaps too old 10 answer posi-
lively for them all" replied Colonel kuihn,
but in this expression think may sale
" saw that | formulate the opinion OF nine
,
GINA when | say that any white man IN
free State who would buy or lntimidate
white voter deserves to be sent 10 the pen
itentiarv, and any white Democrat IN
black State who could buy or intimldate q
black voter and compel HIM toyote against
the northern Republicans and who refuses
TO do so, deserves 10 be hung"
what, then, in view OF the present
condition of the suppressed negro vote IN
81 20, no m n Ol1frnYupy
| the negro vote always 10 be suppressed! :"
"Yes. if we are TO remain civilized"
"Have you ever thought what shall be
| done with the negro!"
Yes. long and anxiously," was the re-
PLY.
"And what is your conclusion" lasked.
ut is that the policy proposed by
| Thomas jefferson and the men OF his day
shall be adopted IN our day-to wit, ne
portatioD to Africa: that Is the only
| chance left 10 the American negro to avoid
| determination. He cannot exist as per-
manent factor in our civilization. because
| at least under our form of government anu
| those that have been tried IN the west
Indies he has been proven to be IN
| capable Of being ChristianlZed or edu-
Gated. You can tame negro under the
| slave system; you cannot clVlllze nm uh-
| der any system on this continent. II trans
|
| portions of the West coast Of Africa under
| the influences Of European and especially
| Belgian civilization. he may do better. As
en- intermediate agent between the white
| coloniZer and the native negro he may MI
! a place which is now yacant-a position III
which he Is badly needed
| HOW TO EXPORT THE NEGRO.
"But how would you bring this about 2"
| "Rv ceasing TO waste southern money on
negro schools and converting II into u
| fund for his deportation by Offering MN
| free land and education in Africa, both TO
| be furnished bv the Europeans. The ne
gro regards what he calls education rs only
another form of fetish and he will submit
| to be transported across the Atlantic
| Ocean 10 get it"
"But how far would the funds of the
southern states 90 i'll this directlon!
Il can speak only for the State OF Viz
| GINA. think if she should restrict such
emgrants TO the breeding part of the negro
population. a. suggested by the author OF
| AN Appeal TO Pharaoh denying the
privilege of emigration TO all negroes OF
either sex over thirty-hye years of age, our
funds M time would accomplish il. We
now pay $3.50 900 of white mems taxes an
nuallv TO sustain negro schools IN thus
| State, OF course. we suppose thGt
| ships would be manned by the colo
MES, we paying for transportation. We
do not want the North to have anything
to do with this plan OF settling the negro
question. We do not want them 10 CON
/ tribute money, either personally or by
! Government appropriation: II they dd
either we would doubt Their sincerity.
Further than this. can say that Virginia
will be willing TO give M that portion OF
her representation IN Congress winch Is
based on the black population # the right
of suffrage IS taken from the negro.
General Adams Views.
In canyassing the views of citizens there
are but two opinions TO be obtained. those
for and against There Is no middle
ground. Some Republicans, while ardent
| ly fayoring the bill. are yet uncertain IN
their own minds whether the Lodge bill
| will accomplish all that ii should do III
compelling free ballot and an honest
count. General Edgar Allan is one of the
leading lawyers of the State. lie has been
associated as counsel with every congress
sional contest i'll Virginia, with one or two
exceptions, since the war. He was counsel
for John Wise in his contest he repre-
scented j. II. Platt. who was ultimately
seated by Democratic House over John
Goode: he fought Edmund Waddlll's case,
the present member IN Congress from this
district, and has been prominent as one of
the leading Republican lawyers of the
South for twenty years. He Is talented,
fearless. and wealthy. and is past junior
commander-in-chiefo of the Grand Army of
the Republic. For twenty-five years
past" he said, 1.-THE people of the North
have piped to the people Of the South on
the negro and all other questions pertaining
thereto aud never yet have they got the
people of the South 10 dance 10 the music
OF the Union. The growth of evils sur
rounding the suffrage questions has made
rapid strides since the Hayes regime. and
much as it is to be deplored. strifes which
ought and would have ceased twenty years
aeo on an honest acceptance on the part OF
the South of the political equality of all
men before the law. it is nevertheless
true that we have reached that stage
at which the law-making power of the
nation must simply determine whether we
shall have what is called partisan
board to give us an honest count or still
submit to having the political complexion
of our Federal legislative body and the
executive branch OF the Government con: