The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-10-08

~. rsore m the absisaci2" And then he pro-
.sois. fa ms wav, 10 state the obstacles to
yeece. Now what are these! Hear him
dgai hen the storm is abroad for purposes
.'s-rEt.g bic 10 US, in the moral as in the physi-
wo-.a-,ckeA PROVIDENCE has let loose
ayoa rs .s scoarge Of mankind. - Stop
sior, iaau pious Clerk of the HannapeI.
d, s.op and let us discuss this with you a I
Iit,le.-N asl is meant by the "storm being
abroad" Decelvers, impostors, all the tribe
deal m ;gapeS and figures. What storm is it
thstwe aye lHl We are in a war, and war
@. our ov Il ,raking too, for tre began the war
hy seiz ~ French ships at sea and in our
ru,iS. aud by making prisoners of French Peo-
Me; ana bow. thou iroihy declaimer; how thou
t1.a oi tfoprS, is the storm TO be put an end
70 bat by peace!
Bat, ven tell US, that this storm is abroad "for
f.f.e-e> .asrrutable 10 u.s." Oh. no; the pnr-
p.s ar per.tcglY inscrufable, as have shown
ABOVE. ne profits Of Ear 10 its advocates are
s. clearly In oe defined, as the amour; OF your
slrecar-.-,p PROVIDENCE has let loose upon us
HE scuarga Of mankind;' and therefore, TO
talk OIL .sIug peace IN the abstract is extreme
folly. .iteu Il, Captain, II was the cudgel,"
IS >lrq. observes 10 Bobadil, when the lat
t4r con. 4irs of being Planet-slruck. Indeed,
Nh Gaming, Providence has had no special
s;.;a aEatast as: indeed, and indeed, il is not
Providence who has ueitered IN the war; ii
was Nh. PM and his associates, siding with
the old Governments ofEurOpe; they it was
and not Providence, who first let loose the
genius ag1 courage Of the French People
against .ea regal and ecclesiastical establish
IueA,> &. Europe, and you and your colleagues
have assisted mainly IN preventing those as
SaltantS rom lay Ing down their arms. The
measures II ftyranica and besotted men calling
themselves Statesmen, and not any particular
decree G.: Providence, have produced the dan
gers w9ich YOU describe. But, suppose you
10 be Tigut IN this assertion, bow does II agree
with other assertions that you have made upon
tbs and former occasions!-lf it be Providence
VINO mas let loose Napoleon upon US, why do
,ou rev lie Napoleon! II he be an instrument
IN the hands of Providence, is it jusr, nay, is it
not impous, to rail against him for what he
has done, and is doing, in that capacity! To
rail against him for doing what Providence
-orces hin to do, is, in fact, 10 rail against
Providence. And thus ii is, that a trothy
Coxcomb, intoxicated with The plaudits of a
seville aud venal crew, exposes himselfto the
ridicule and contempt of men of sense.
Ii We adopt this doctrine OF Mr.. Canning; if
we aGmif that the legation OF Bonaparte is OF
divlne origin, il seems to me, that we must, al
once, cease all our philippics against him On
account OF the devastation, the plunder, the
b!oOGshet, and all the other horrd things that
are said 10 accompany his footsteps. The
Russians charge him with having caused the
CITY OF Moscow TO be burnt. This is not IIus,
but, suppose il were true? Who would dare
to blame aim, or even the act, if the doctrine of
Dir. Gaming be admitted? Moses did more
II the way oI devastation, slaughter, b!Oodshed,
ana the rest of it, than Napoleon has DONE
Upon ore particular OCCASION, as II is recorded
in the Holy Scriptures, the army under Moses's
20 md lilo all the n n thar
he attacked, and "took," says the Bible, ''all
the women Of Midian captves, and their little
ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and
all their tIoaks, and all their goods. And they
bGrnt ali iIeir cites wherein they d"eit, aud
all their gouG!v castles with fire. And they
took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men
and OF beasts. And they brought all the spoil,
&c. to Moses and EIeazer the Priest'-Well,
but things did not stop here; tor, as we are
told in the same chapter "Moses was wroth
with the officers of the host" and for what 2
We shall tear. "And Moses said unto them,
have YOU saved all the rOmen alive ?-Behold
these caused the children Of Israel, through
the counsel ot Baiaam, TO commit irespass
against l4e Lord in the matter OF Peor, and
there was = plague among the Congreg gaton OF
the Lore. Now, therefore, kiU every male
amongs: ;he little oneS, and Kill every ar0man
that hatH EnQWn man by lying with him. But
all tie wnHeu-chiidren that have not known
man by !, lHg with him, keep a!ire for y0ur-
selreS. '-I'hese acts are recorded III the
book ot Numbers, Chap. XXI.
And, s. 10 Joshua, who, next after Moses,
appears 70 have been the tayorlte instrument in
The hands OF Providence, he not only slew men,
women, and children, without regard 10 age or
condition; he not only set whole cities on fire,
AID exteImlnated their inhabitants, bur, upon
ore particular occasion, when fighting against
most rascaiiy combination OF crowned heads,
namely. tie King Of Jerusalem, The king OF
Hebron, the KING OF Jarmuth, the hing OF
Lachisr aud the King of Egion; upon tins
occasion, Joshua, not finding the day long
enough for the completing CT his slaughter,
commanded the sun and moon TO stand sun
and, il is written, THAT the sun stood stlil and
The mooa stayed, until the people had ayeng-
ed themselves upon their enemies!
Now, as Mr. Canning will not, presume,
attempt 10 question theJustIce and propriety OF
the acts thus recorded, So, he will not deny that
they are 10 be justified only because the actors
were sc, en-, or, 10 use his own words, "!et
loose, by PTOvIdence;" and, II this be JustiL-
cation, as ii is held 10 be, OF Moses and josh
ua, has not Mr.. Canning been providing JUS
uhcation for Napoleon, even supposing all the
acts ascribed to him have really been committed
by him? The killing of all the grown women
and all tie male children of the indians, and
The ordering Of all yhe young girls TO be Kept
alive for tic soldiers, seem 10 equal al least any
thing that even Sir Robert Wilson has atirlbu'-
ed 10 BUnaparle; bui, then observe, III lhe case
Of Moses, lie was, we know, sent by the Lord
TO cause these orders 10 be put in execution;
whereas, as We have hitherto been led to be-
lieve, Bonaparle is an infdel, and more likely
TO be sent by the Devil; but we are now told,
all at once, we now hear il roundly inserted,
that he is sent bv Providence, that is TO say by
the Lord, and of course, that his legation has
the same origin US that Of aloses; whence, II
we were to admit the doctrine Of AIr. Ginning,
il would naturally result that Bonaparte is 10
be uppleuded instead OF censuied for the Kill
.ngs, and burniugs, and devastotions that have
been asc.Ibed 10 his commands.
Some persons, and amongst others, have
been repfoaeiied with being an apologist Tor
Napoleon; what, Their, ought 10 be said OF The
mar, who, IL the most public manner, holds
him forth TO the nation as one sent against, aud
lei loose upon il, by Divine Providence itself,
aye, ty that very Reing IN wh0m. ia q DrhyeT