The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-12-25

WASHINGTON, Su,

cess, WASHINGTON, Sunday evening, Dec 23
SO mild sweet and tranquil is this blessed Sab
bath that every heart attuned to peace and con.
cord irresistiby feels that al ought to be good will
among men. But we have il far otherwise; all is
not peace, and there is precious little good will
just here and hereabout -~is s3@ e ss.-f4
The Republicans. we are Today told, are going
to leave in :" but they are very simple minded
folks who believe 1t. The Republicans are stub.
born. have just conyersed with one who sits in
high place in their synagogue and his reply to
query relative to this report is about as follows
No, SIR we are not going to cave in. We are a
people just emerging from oppression and like all
people who have suffered oppression, we are dis.
posed to oppress. We cannot forget that proscrip-
ton, insults, sneers and scorn have been the
portion of antislavery men in the House, and that
in the Senate they Were, even during the last Con.
gress, excluded from the committees We relnem.
Der these things with lignant feeling and not
in spirit of magnanimous forgiveness. We now
have the vantage ground and mean to keen IL and
use it. Some Of those voting with us are not in
heart for us but we hold their noses to the grind
stone and they dare not draw their heads back for
the fear of their constituents. Others may find it
to be their duty to compromise but the Republi.
cans will not Their ranks have Just been formed
and they will perform all their evolutions in close
order" -
A NortAern party thus exists, and it embraces
very general North Shall the two parties of the
South recognize this fact and form Southern
partyi If they do they will almost necessarily
oblige the few Northern men now standing with
them to resign their official Positions or fall into
line with the Northern party. There is no use in
Disgusting these facts. They exist, and must be
met. But how Twenty years ago this question
could be answered. There was then a race of
statesmen whose intellectual power, whose patri-
otism, and whose personal dsinterestedness se
cured TO them the respect and confidence of the
people. Where are they nowi We look through
the halls of legislation for them but they are not
there. We find honorable men, and men OF abil
ty, but no Clay, no Calhoun, no White, and no
d To
rather Than do violence to his own conscience and
judgment. The country, no doubt contains many
such men, but the times do not call them FORTH
The Senators and Representatives now chosen,
are in general, such as trade and traffic for those
Offices and are under too many obligations to act
an independent part. When men waited to be
called, the worthy were called; when men seek
the station the presumptuous are successful
There are men in every State of this Union, any
one of whom. could they come in an independent
manner, would lift their voices in the House of
Representatives. and in one hour effect an organ
zatioE; for the Representatives of the people are
not yet lost TO shame 10 consciousness Of JUS
tice. rebuke from the lips of one honest and
fearless man would be more than they could with
stand. But as it is, the most exalted appeal that
has yet been made, has not risen above q recogni
ton of partizan motives. Parties denounee par
ties and these parties have sectional destinations
chiefly and if it is true that Northern men have
seemed to- support Southern interests only to be-
tray them, then the worst is not yet c8-
For my own part thought Mr.. Milison had "a
ken the true Southern and American ground in
his speech ON the Nebraska bill in the last Con-
gress, and, if do not greatly misapprehend the
tendencies of the times the South will so declare
before long. Upon this point, shall have some
thing more to say in my next.
We are in the enjoyment Of rare dramatic sea-
son. Nr Murdock, an American actor OF rare
complishment and great power holds possession Of
the boards and of .he public appreciation So sell
dom also, is the legitimate drama presented to US
N an accnnDffshed manner. that i hold 1t to be