The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-03

obtrusive spirit We sometimes observe, m
the battlefield of HE, men who do not appear
fitted by nature or habit for the rude encoun-
term which they are engaged, and whofnough
they fight with valiant soul. are constantly
pressed back by stronger combatants, till
they retreat or fall Perhaps Butler was one
of these, possessing talents and virtues wor-
thy of a higher station, but. from lack of the
requisite nerve and hardness of temper, una.
BILE to command the position and fortune to
which he was otherwise entitled. 1t panied
the sensitive heart of Ward, himself rolling
in wealth, to look upon this picture of pa
tient merit in low estate; to see the SCOTS
and sneers 1t daily receives from the unwor-
thy; to behold how parvenues turn up their
dainty noses at the poor schoolmaster, and
to watch the corroding cares and exhausting
tells of this humble laborer for his wife and
child. Our amiable benevolent, celestial
Ward, gazes upon this spectacle till he can.
not contain himself, and he determines
that Butler shall no longer grope his
sorrowful way through this vale of tears.
He resolves that he win rescue him from
this slough of despond and with his own
hand conduct him to the gate of the Celestial
city. He executes this most philanthropic
purpose, and sends poor Butler with the
greatest expedition to better world, If any
earthly reward could be deemed adequate
for this superhuman benevolence, it must
have been the words of the dying man. He
does not speak Of himself; he does not in
woke vengeance upon the hand by which he
fell, but he simply exclaims, oh, n,y mste
aud child :" and his wearied and gentle spi-
rit passes to its rest.
Yet there are those who pronounce the An
gel of Death who released this humble NOR
tai from the heavy bonds of earth, and en-
lowed him with angelic vigor and happiness,
cold blooded, malicious, cruel murderer !
1t is an uncharitable world. 1t would stamp
the brand of Cain upon the brow of the ami
able, the meek, the forgiving Ward 1t
would cause the dead to appear at the rich
mans banquets, and amid wine and revelry
shake his "gory locks at him who did the
deed. 1t would make him start at the falling
of leaf, and hear the very brook, as it rolls
along, murmuring of murder 1t would
make his slumbers frightful with terrific
dreams, and when he woke would show him
in the pale moonlight a CHASTITY spectre, the
shadow of a thing in his own mind so horri-
BILE that to look within himself were worse
than death. 1t would make the green and
beautiful earth condemned cell, in which
he should linger away an existence of tor
ture, in the agonizing expectation of a tribu-
nal which cannot be deceived, and which adj
ministers justice without reference to the
riches or the poverty of the offender.
We say manis an uncharitable animal Would
that the jury, which tried Ward, had all been
as amiable, as lovely, as humane, as the pri-
soner! Instead of exposing him to the per-
secutions and misrepresentation of his race,
they would have acted towards him in the
same benevolent spirit which he exhibited
towards Butler, and set him free at once from
a world where the good are never appreciat-
ed and the very excess of virtue blinds men
to its beauty.
syI 1t is singular and ominous fact, that
some of the leading journals of New York,
such as the N. Y. Times and Tribune, devote
INSCRIPTIONS attacks upon the South and its
institutions. They omit no opportunity, no
pretext whatever, to influence the minds of
their readers against the South. The press ola
nation at open war with the United States,
could not be more hostile, malignant and de-
famatory than these free-soil journals. 1t is
not enough that the people of the South are
daily and Systematically plundered of pro-
perry guaranteed to them by the Constitu-
ton of the United States, not enough that
they are denied equal rights in the common
territory of the Union, but every effort is
made by these free-soi organs to represent
them as the aggressors, and hold them up to
the anger and revenge of the Northern peo-
pie. No good can come of such madness and
njustice-nothing but increased alienation,
deepening gradually into the most bitter hate,
and ending in the sundering of those nation
al tie which bring two exasperated sections
IN daily contact with the things they loathe"
gYF We have from HoLBRooK, Periodical
Glencoe historical tale, by REYNOLDS,
whose stories of this kind have quite popu-
Lar run with the novel reading public.
HoLBRooK has also laid on our table the
May No. of Harper's Monthly, which is the
closing No of the fourth volume and the
fourth year of the existence of the popular
magazine.
IMPORTANT MOVEMENT IN THE SENATE. |
The important feature 1.-THE Senate proceedings
on Monday was the significant speech of Senator |
Slidell OF Louisiana, on the Cuban question. The
Union says the extraordinary disclosures made by
he Senator were based upon authentic and unan.
'werable evidence, which will astonsh the country
and will show how steadily and yet how stealthiy
he most INSCRIPTIONS schemes have been plotted |
regard to Cuba, while at the same time all three
nave proesssed to be friendly and one at least sol
emnly denied the very plot which has now been |
clearly fastened upon all.
The National Intelligencer takes more mod crate
view Of the case, and regards that portion of the
sUeech in favor of CLOTHING the presdant NTH Oh,