The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-01
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IRROGANcE OF FREE SOIL JOURNALS.
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which d crazy upon all subjects, and the N.
" Tunes, which has negro-monomania'
exhibit an intense state of evaporation upon
the insolence Of the South in demanding to
be allowed equal rights in the American
Union. The wrath Of the Tribune is at times
of the mad dog order. II foams at the mouth,
and barks and snaps at everything In Its way.
The Times is more deliberate and discrirni
mating, but its malignity is deeper and more
subtle None of these free soil people care
dime about slavery. The secret spring of
their philanthropy is that which led to the
first outbreak In the universe-envy of q
character and condition superior to their
own. The ancestors Of the abolitionists hav-
ing made a fortune by stealing negroes from
the coast of Africa and selling them to the
South, their descendants being prevented by
laws enacted through Southern influence,
from carrying on the slave trade, are deter
mined that the South shall not retain the me-
groes it already has, and hence the under
ground railroad, which gratiies at once the
vengeance, envy, and instructive dishonesty
of the disappointed slave-traders of the
North. We say again, as we have often said,
that the only way to quiet these abolition
gentry. is to repeal the laws against the slave
traffic. and allow them to drive a profitable
trade on the African coast.
There is an assumption of moral, intellec-
tual and physical superiority in these North
ern journals, which is very entertaining and
instructive to the investigator OF American
cockneyism. They imagine that their own
empire city, which is built up principally on
Southern staples, is the whole world Should
the South venture to suggest that it has SOU
of its own, and may some day be provoked
to vindicate its rights, these doughty Gohahs
set up a stentorian shout of derision and con-
tempt, that makes the welkin ring. The brave
fellows can overrun and destroy the South
Just as easy as you can crook your little I'm
ger! Nicholas of Russia thought the same
thing of the Turks when he put his foot into
the Danubian provinces. But Nicholas had
vastly more reason for expecting to carry
everything before him, than have our North
ern Cars. The odds against Turkey, both
in numbers and in military discipline was i'm
mensely superior to any which the North
possesses over the South. That contest adds
another instructive proof to the many which
history records, that 'the battle is not always
to the strong" The Turks, few and feeble
in numbers, have shamed all Europe by their
superior courage England and France have
been put to the blush by the sublime heroism
of the Ottoman, and, under his guidance,
have at last found spirit to throw down the
gauntlet to the Colossus of the North. Our
own arrogant and domineering potentates
may study the Eastern question to practical
advantage. Whenever they carry out their
braggart threats of visiting the South with
ere and sword, they will meet just such re-
ception as the Russians have encountered at
every step on the Danube. Perhaps they can
not comprehend it, but nevertheless such is
the fact, that there are people in both hemis-
pheres, to whom the loss of life is not the
greatest of evils, and who would rather die
heroes than live serfs.
If the South is not to possess equality and
independence in the Union, it would have
been better if she had never entered it. If
we are to have a master, we would rather be
under the most tyrannical king that ever
ruled over Great Britain. than under an abo'
lition despot There is something at least
dignifed, decent and respectable in the Brit
ish crown But Heaven deliver us from the
King Mammon of the North-the miserable
compound of bloated wealth, parvenu assu-
rance and innate vulgarity, which compose
the Northern aristocracy-the image, like
that recorded by the prophet Daniel, whose
head is of gold, whose breast of silver, whose
legs of iron, and whose feet of clay, and
which, like that image, needs but to be
struck with stone to fall to pieces. If we
must have master, let us have an honest,
consistent and good Hooking one. If we must
have an aristocracy to grow fat upon the pro-
duce of our fields let us have an aristocracy
with some traditions, with some intellect,
with some moral worth, with some manners;
rather than tribe of Tittlebat Titmouses.
upstart lackeys, Haunting about in the cast
off liveries of Europe mental tribe
-." Whose blood
Has run through scoundrels since the flood"
But the South is not reduced to this dire
alternative. She can preserve her rights in
the Union, or, if forced to go out of it, she
can go with colors flying. with arms in her
hands, and with all the honors of war. There
are those who think her commercial interests
would be immensely advanced by a separa-
ton. But she does not conform her action to
the standard of dollars and cents. What du-
ty and honor demand, that she will perform,
no matter what the consequences.
A NUT FOR ABOLITIONISM.
A bill has recently passed the Senate ofVa,
for the purpose of allowing certain free ne
groes in the county of Notteway, to enslave
themselves. These negroes had earnestly pc
titioned to the Legislature for this privilege
Mr.. Campbell, the able and estimable Sena-
tor from the Nottoway district, in making a
attainment of the facts to the Senate said that