The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-02-22

morefrequently than does JoAs MfTcHkL =, ING
celebrated Irish refugee, who now ediIs ihe
Cit,sen, paper published in New York.
In the midst Of Abolitionists, Free. Soilers,
and frantic fanatics, black, yellow and white,
he boldly, unequiyocally and trinmphantly
defends the Institution of slavery When
he first arrived in New York, the Abolition
lists and representatives of every detestable
faction and vile clique united in chanting his
praises and in attempting to secure the infiu.
ence of his brilIianttalentsa and fame. Unsedu-
ced by their philanthropic batteries, he lost no
time in administering awful castigationsto the
leaders of all the fraternities ofvipers and buzz
yards in which New England is so prolific
He laid violent hands upon the Anti Slavery
Society and it was like assailing sanhedrim
of skunks, copper heads and hornets. They
have done nothing since but empty bush
els of billingsgate upon him. No decent
man can now approach an anti slavery meet
ing without holding his nose; for no amount
of chloride OF lime can neutralse the odo-
riferous illusions of Garrison and BEEcHER.
For weeks they have done nothing but howl,
yell, blaspheme and execrate JOHN Mitchell
for his gallant vindication of slavery. They
have called him, among complimentary su-
gar plums, "a hag''-"a viper "a convict
--'' a toad ''-"a suicide ia rattlesnake
ia drunkard ia wretch -" an impos-
tor besides innumerable other fattering
epithets, which they have heaped upon him
and which are too tedious to mention. THO
DoRE PARKER, BEEcHER and GARRISON ira
vel all over New England, making him the
text oftheir lectures and sermons. The Fou-
rierites, Vegetarians, the Bloomers, and the
rest of the pack, howl necessarily at Mitchell.
But with satire, humor, wit and eloquence, al
most unparalleled, he brushes the whole
brood in every issue of the Citizen. He has
spiked BEEcHER's muzzle annihilatcd PAR
KER, and every week scatters the smaller
hounds of the pack as if they were chaff In
the last number of the Citizen, speaking of
the effort first made by these infamous fac
tionists to elevate him to the skies, and their
subsequent attempts to drag him down when
he ridieuled and denounced them to their
own degraded level, he feelingly and elo-
quently says
THUS we have got rid of our Fictitious celebrity;
and we feel the lighter and the better for it. We
stand now upon our own feet; and It is whOlesomer
than to be blown up the by the puts of fools
The many real friends of ourselves and of our
cause whom we have met with in America, are our
friends still; and it is but right to say that in
glowing anticipations of the true freedom we ex-
pected to find in this great Republic, not dis
IL ioo orr IL
truly free and clear-where the pretender is
to find his level, and the true man hisrecognion.-
If the Editor ofthe Citizen was at first lifted far
higher than his deserts, he is now, perhaps, de-
pressed somewhat lower. 1t is the operation of
see-saw, and is quite certain to end in placing him
in equitibrio. This is not country (and we con-
graduate the very meanest of our assailants upon
| the circumstance where 'he authorities will
| come under a false pretence OF law, and smash
your presses and steal your types, and wreck your
| offices. If your write nonsense, as too many OF
| you d. your penalty will be only neglect if you
write criminal nonsense (Which is just possible)
public opinion will punish you in Its own way in
the long run Fori is really free country, and
| gravitaton, and the other moral and physical
forces of nature at liberty to act. Thus your
see-saw may Tilt you high and sink you low; but at
| last you will find your place.
We understood Republcanism before we came
to New York we knew what we had to expect:
and we knew that of the aptest instruments
and strongest safeguards of Republicanlsm was
Payrhesia or freedom of speech. So we learlessly
launched this citizen of upon the wide ocean
of Opinion
Where the tides fresh forever
And the boundless currents free.
We do not repent it. There is no need to be
afraid of any or all possible conflicts and collisions
of sentiment of all the whirling eddies and
cross-currents that the infinite fountains of human
thought and lite are sure to create in such bound
less sea. The strong swimmer delights in them-
Only they who have no poe-star to look to for gu
dance, or no heart to buffet the waves, III dan
| ger of sinking.
II is true that in this living and lifegiving ocean
of liberty many strange fishes are bred and even
! Shiny monsters enough barking like the sea-dogs
of Scylla gurgling, grinning like sharks, vomiting
inky streams like cutie fish, blowing and squirt
ing like ten thousand grampuses. AS we look upon
the shoals of strange contemporaries, and hear
their dscordant noises, and the uncouth aspect
| OF them showing their teeth upbradng, threaten
ing to worry Us, we think OF Schiller's Diver, and
| the grisly sights he saw
~ shuddered, when under my shrinking gaze,
That wilderness lay developed, where wander
The dragon and doghsh and ses.salamander
And saw the huge kraken and magnifed snake,
And the fhornback, and ravenng shark,
Their way through the dismal water take;
While the hammertsh wallowed below in the
dark,
And the river-horse from its lair beneath,
And grinned through the CRATE of his spiky teeth"
Worse than this even, and more formidable TO
any swimmer bather, or diver,-some of the crea-
lures are dnclean; their utterances unsayory
and so foul do they some times make the currents
ofopinion (Which ought 10 be fresh forever.) that
one might sometimes fear the common waters are
turning into common sewer and fruitful mother of
dead dogs. Aaatbema,
Yet we are neither afraid, nor yet too fastidious
we accept, we glorify. we reve in, freedom Doubt
less pond of goldfish in royal park would be
better regulated and better hammered concer than
the oceancrypts ofthe Atlantic. But give US free
dom before all things Freedom, though Graded in
storms that sweep from pole pole, and rocked up
on tides that sway and heave beneath the Sun and
Moon.
DISPASSIONATE VIEWS.
1t is fact which is of striking significance
In regard tothe Scripturalsanction of Slavery,
that, previous to the comparatively recent
period when Abolition showed its. head in
Great Britain, all the British commentators
upon the Bible, as well as all the commenta-