Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-23


Mise 10 q gentleman :n Virginia has been
fusnfsAe5 ahc Richmond News for publ
cation
New York, Dec. %.
Thank Neu onoe again for that sweei
kind letter 50 grateful at this particular
fil7.s. Vixen 50 many folks are saving
IDcan things ahout nc. They do rot dis
turh re because / lirow / am right ard
tiss' jlty are wrong. When a man l.nows
he IS right ne Is serene and abuse docs
ro rai'c htm TIE knowledge that tnev
pre- violating plichteG faith. ard doing
raean atsrcputahle ana dishonest things.
" aReS them irritable and abusive. In
sense tatir wrath a'ntiscs me. In another
sa1sse ! IN moved by pity for their mar
ro@-niEaedncSs and Tindictiveness. They
. canH@t Turn hack The hands of time or
Oh tegate history
lersc most heartily with all you say
a. tl1e Importance of denying suffrage
10 ignorance, AID limiting it To intelli-
/ g~ce Any fair limitation OF the tight 10
1853 sufficiently educated to posses I'M
derstan3iag IS we'll as character must be
=. arC5cd 10y every right-thinki1g man;
Il bp- whan the limitations are not imposed
II H. good faith; when they are applied with
q the confessed purpose Of race disCrimina-
tan ANA when they are enacted by
fraudulent abandonment Of pledges and
u j. defiance of ali authority: the questions
selti~g are broader than any question
I part. or color and recur TO the propo-
whether, in detiarce of law and
precedent. , factionai oligarchy in per
Pe,G1ty can establish itself. by over
thsawiaE. all Democratic Republican
& erGan Ont in any State OF the Union.
Fat is The question presented by the
Virginia situation. We are just at The
b. s.2ol5 Of the inquiry. You are much
mistaken If YOU consider ny cause is lost
Z went 70 the courts simply TO have ji-
5i-ial determination whether the ce'rts
Ne power to redress this characte II
rnE. II the supreme court suStains che
Sews OF the court below, congress will
,attrQnc this issue with 30 pretence for
Swing the sufferers have redress in the
rts IL must meet TIE responsibility.
and cannot shut its eyes to the fact that
sNcrE 1ro.nise II Inc nation 10 the negro
rare stands broken. in defiance of the
pledges which the States gave ehc nation
thrv ya1rs ago: and thot if they are TO
Tag1ain broken. the nation stands guilty
Of wrong and q crime to these people.
No people can exist in a free community
without The power of self-protection The
ls=as Of freedom and political serfdom
are Inconsistent. The man who freed the
slaves saw this so clearly that they be
slowed suffrage upon the negroes. as a
means Of political protection. pre-
rnztrely
NEGRO SUFFRAGE a CRIME.
Negro suffrage. as and when il was con-
,fc!~cd vas hot1 4 crime ard 4 blunder.
Jt never ought 10 have been conferred I
she time 1t was. Ii ought 70 have becn
ua6e gradual But it was conferred,
wisely OF nrwiscly. And the Southern
St4tes soIemn1y coveranted 10 accept it
a. The present time il is nothing like as
dangerous OF. as monstrous proposition
4 II was then. There arc thousands and
hgu5ra Is of thousands OF negroes fully
Qualiiiod for the exercise of suffrage. The
cls.Acnt Il untitled ignorance might easily
lie ,.4,aChcd by equitable laws if they We're
fairly administered, and the evil might
ihus be practically eliminates.
sat foul device thjnly disguised,
rit universally admitted whereby 1t IS
Sought 10 remit every negro possible TO
political Slavery without touching the
west or most ignorant white, is Iepus<
rant TO every sense OF manhood. OF far
SiEhtedncss. or good faith.
The negro is not what he was thirty
wears ago We. as much as anybody else,
ha~e encouraged in him the aspiration
for liberty and the sense of manhood.
With those feelings stimulated and those
RIGHTS Acknowledged by US. we have
geen him rear children pay his taxes. &C
cumulate property. vote. serve the state
as her soldier and grow up not only with
tho pride Of citizenship. but bearing its
burdens along with his white fellow
citizens is it manly. Is it just is it
honest TO seek now TO fitch him out or
tsis rights TO trample out his ambitions,
30 remit him TO a serNile position?
Would any white race stand it? Can
re expect him 10 remain with us, so de-
1raaed2 Can we afford to lose him
Nith his place vacant where would we
neg Do we moi boast that he is the best
-r servants Are we not spared the ~
rannv OF more exciting labolinG classes
would not our condition be pitiable If by
4 course of mean tyranny and the deniai