The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-03
THE MPOTENT RAGE OF THE ABO-
IITTON PARTY.

Since the triumphant passage of the Ne
traska bill by Congress, there has been . ra
pid and anusihgly iudicrous subsidence and
evaporation Of abolition hcroism. and resist.
to the death-pluck, In all the Northern and
New England States Calls to arms no longer
are heard from the camp of the enemy
Now that the time for fighting has come, and
the South has triumphed they do nothing but
utter long and piercing howls Of disappoint.
ed rage and grief. Nalorous editors, like
GREELEY, who fear the devil much less than
| they do gunpowder. pugnacious parsons, like
| the notorious PARSER; philanthropic Bloom
ers. like krcRETIA MoTT; and musket Low
ing professors, like the venerable SILLIMAN,
have abandoned all idea of resisting slavery
with pitchforks, blunderbusses, muskets,
broomsticks, and pocket pistols. When the
''damnable bill of fiendish abomination' roll
ed, like the car of Juggernaut, through Con-
gress, smashing SUMNER, WADE, GIDDINGs
| and WENTWORTH, we expected to hear OF
GREELEr's at once hosting his battered old
white. beaver, and his muddy boots, on the
tpp VI pune, rs a. lot tHc ufSCOiii-
forted faithful. HENRY OF NAVARRO desired
his soldiers to rally. when pressed by the
| enemy, to his white plume, as it fiuttered
amid the -susees of the bloody fray; and we
certainly expected, from the tone of the 1F'-
bune, that by this time GREELEY would have
been seen, leading his black, yellow and
| white regiments acrossb Mason and Dixon
line, to exterminate slavery, and selze our
fair and broad possessions. And after the
threats of the NEw HAVEN professors, we
certainly believed that old ,SILLIMtN would
lead his awkward squad of scholars, aided
by that luminary of YALE-INcREAsE Ma
THASIEI TARBORX-the learned Professor of
Latin, to the siege of the University of Eir-
ginia
And we lived in the hope of seeing the
twenty-five hundred parsons tucking up
their gowns, "girding on the sword of Gideon
and the Lord andfenlivening their march
South with down east hymns, rs they hasten
ed, with apostolic blows and Knocks" to
smite the goddess Molakites hip and thigh
But alas, the pluck of the puritan soldiers
NV III tiCii ClitI ave anu
the parsons have abandoned all idea of con-
quering the South with carnal weapons.
Indeed, all idea of resisting the Nebraska
bill with force of arms has been forgotten;
the courage of the long tongued heroes hav-
ing, like that of Boz ACRES, ooZed out of the
palms of their hands Nor has Il single one
of the strong minded women, who menaced
us with an invasion i'll the event of the pas
sage of the bill, yet left her white-livered
husband in charge of the sugar-rag and era
die, and marched in his boots and small
clothes to the proposed seat of war. As has
been the case for the last twenty five years.
the yalsrous and alarming threats Of the abo
litionists will end in smoke and gas. After
few weeks of Indignant bowling, impotcnt
yells Of rage, and after the limited consump-
ton of straw and other combustible mater-
ais, in the shape Of effigies, the anti-Nebraska
party will collapse like a cracked balloon
That party is marvelously like that formida bic
article of theatrical stage property, painted
paSte-board dragon, constructed to yonit
forth large amount OF flame and smoke, but
destitute of dangerous teeth aud vicious vi
tality. If you can brave their sulphurous
epithets and flaming abuse, there is no real
danger-IOt q particle