The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-02-24
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN MEN.


We have read with some interest the furi.
Gus TRADE Of Theodore Parker in Faneuil
Hall at the Nebraska meeting. We have
read his bitter, insane and INSCRIPTIONS de-
nunciations Of the South and Of the North.
And as we read his speech, and pictured in i'm
agination the swarming crowd Of halfcrazy
zealots, with their faces infiamed with pas
SIGN, and their vindictiveness and bile reused
to fever heat by the fiery anathemas Of this
New England Peter the Hermit, we could not
but recall very different scene which once
occurred in the neighborhood of that same
Boston, and which has been most graphically
described by an eminent Massachusetts,
statesman. 1t was the arrival of Southern
Shareholders, with George Washington at
their head, coming to the relief of Massa-
chusetts from wrongs and indignities IN
which the South had no such interest as her
self, and which she was not prompted to re-
dress by any motive under heaven but the
most exalted, generous and disinterested
patriotism. Then Southern patriots were
welcomed at Boston, says this Massachusetts,
statesman. like angels from heaven And
but for their wisdom and valor, Massachusetts
would at this moment be petty province of
the British crown. Our blood boils when
we think of the base return which the South
has reeei red for the gallant and uncalculat-
ing spirit in which she rushed to the rescue
OF the colony of Massachusetts,-at the in
famous ingratitude with which, at the very
aitar where she offered her life in the cause
OF Massachusetts, murderous hands are now
stretched out, eager to be laved in her blood.
We know that in this speech Theodore
Parker praises the South for it's courage, its
unity its fidelity to its great idea upon the
subject Of slavery. And some of our South.
ern contemporaries seem pleased with the
tribute. For ourselves, we do not covet his
praise. 1t is the fabrication with which the
serpent anoints his prey before he swal.
lows it. 1t is the fllet adjoining the
brow of the victim led to the sacrifice. Let
him abuse US to the extent Of his immeasura-
BILE malignity, but, for Heavens sake, let him
spare US his praise. We cannot reciprocate
his compliments. We cannot say of him as
ne has said of the South, that while we de-
splse his ideas, we honor his frankness and
courage. On the contrary, we despise alike
his principles and his character. We have
not the slightest faith in his manliness or his
honesty. His piety he can scarcely believe
In, himself. The only portion of his eulogium
upon the South which is pleasing to us, is
that IN which he declares that not drop of
southern blood runs in his veins. Thank
Heaven for that Southern blood never vet
flowed in the bosom of traitor. There
have been Arnolds, Burrs and Parkers, but
not one OF the cold blooded reptiles was ever
warmed into life under a Southern sun.
His denunciations of the North are even
more reckless and vindictive than any he
has ever heaped upon the South. And they
are equally false, base, dishonest and malig.
nant. "1t's foul bird that defles its own
nest" He, Massachusetts man. AYERS tina.
the people of the North are the most cowardly
and mercenary race on the habitable globe.
And why! Simply because they uphold the
Constitution and Laws of the country in re-
gard to slavery. That is the sum total of
their crime. For Theodore Parker himself
explicitly admits that slavery is recognized
in the American Constitution, thou Oh he says
that his ancestors agreed to it for money.
making purposes. However that may be.
the compact was made, and no man. but a
thorough going knave, ever sought to avoid
the fulfilment of solemn covenant on the
ground that the other contracting party had
selfish motives in making it, or on any other
ground. The Northern people are not the
mercenary wretches and pusillanimous dough
faces they are represented by this unnatural
monster. Fully aware as we are, that, ow
ing to the vile arts and ceaseless agitation of
such incendiary miscreants as Parker the
two sections may one day be brought into
collision which will rend the Union into
fragments, we will not underrate the COURAGE
or the strength of our foe, if indeed the
North is the foe of the South We therefore
pay no more respect to Parkers libels of the
North, than we do to his praises of the South
-s-'S 40 tAc SdInc,-tO Stir nm
the worst passions of the Northern peonle-
to excite them to envy, hatred, bloodsbed
dissolution and civil war. That which be
denounces as proof of Northern pusillsn;u,.
a'y, we honor and admire as the virtuous and
noble performance of the most solemn dr,v
OF republican citizen, fidelity to the law
which he has himself created. We onlS
wish that the Northern people were more
generally guilty of this heinous crime .nd
tnaf they are not. is the fault of the nrea oh
ers OF the higher law" who have jahor.d
sundays and week days, morning, noon md
night to SOW the seeds of discord fan.,;o;sr.
ana treason through the whole LENGTH a,a
breadth Of every Northern State. The NJ
Is able to vindicate itself against the calnm ~
mes OF man who is alike a traitor 70 tha
Union and to his own section. When ' he
charges the North with coward;ce .nd 49, A'
plaify' he defames the whole raca f go ~
which they sprung he defiles the srsv nom u
e'ery Northern soldier who fell in the ho,,,o
fields of the Revolution, for it is ;mnaa :,'e-