The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-15
THE DAILY DISPATCH
MONDAY noRNINo. JANUARY IS, as.

MONDAY MORNING. JANUARY IS, lsss.
"SoufH SrpE VIEW or SLAVERY" There
have been good many books written in the
South, with the view Of setting before the
world the real facts of the condition Of Sou
thern slaves. These books have been truth
full, e-like pictures of slavery as it is, and
some of them have been written with great
ability. But the misfortune is that they are
so much waste ammunition, that the guns
have been fired 1T too long range, and have
not reached the spot where alone they could
be effective. Satisfactory they have been to
the South, which did not need satisfying but
never reaching the north, where alone such
books are needed, and where Uncle Tom y
WAS doing its daily, wicked work of eaiumny
and misrepresentation.
The book before US is from a different
quarter. II is from q Northern pen-the Rev.
DIR. Adams, an eminent divine of Boston
Ths writer has lately spent three months at
the South for the health of an invalid. He
tells US that before that period few protes
with the South by ties Of any kind than ne.
He says that the last thing which he did out
of doors before leaving Boston, was to sign
the remonstrance of the New England cler
gyman against the extension of slavery into
the contemplated territories of Nebraska and
Kansas, a remonstrance which he had assist
ed to frame. But he went to the South, as
he informs us, too much absorbed by private
circumstances to think of entering at all into
deliberate consideration of any important
subject of public nature yet for this very
reason, perhaps, the mind was better prepar-
edto receive dispassionately the impressions
which were to be made upon it. DR.. Adams
goes on to give those impressions, and the
reflections which spontaneously arose to
use his own language, he submits those i'm
pressions and reflections, ''not as a partisan.
but as a Christian not as Noitherner, but
as an American, not as politician, but as
lover and friend of the colored race
And nobly has he performed his task. We
hesitate not to say that his book is the fair
est picture Of Southern slavery ever drawn
by Northern pen. The evident honesty,
sincerity, ispassionateness,-th earnest de.
sire to learn the truth and totell the truth and
the genuine Christian spirit which breathes
from every page, must gain for this book the
ear and the heart of every honest and Chris
tian man in the country. No one can read
it without the deepest respect for the author
as patriot, aChristian and a man.
We hesitate not to say that if this book,
with its sober, truthful, ingenious statements
and reflections, could obtain general audi
ence of the Northern public, it would do
more to dispel ignorance and prejudice and
to cement the bonds Of the American Union,
than any book on the subject which has ever
been printed.
CASE OF THE PRIvATEER, GENERAL ARM
sTRoNG.-There never was case which ap
pealed more strongly to the justice, the hon
or, the gratitude, and the interests of this 90
vernment than the claim of the veteran sal
lOr Capt Reid, in the case of the American
privateer, General Armstrong. We confess
that our blood boils when we think of the
villainous spectators who have been allowed
to hang on like leeches to the public treasu-
ry, and gorge themselves with public plumber
till they fall off from repletion and then re-
member that this noble and gallant old sal
Tor. has for forty years in vain sought Justice
from the Congress of the United States for
wrongs endured in most heroic vindication
of the honor of our flag from barbarous and
savage assailants. The case of the priyateer
brig, General Armstrong, as stated by the |
Washington Union, is briefly this:
She was privateer brig in the var of 1912 IA.
when we needed and had hat volunteer sea militia |
which the bold Independence OF oar citizens and |
letsers OF mar9ue can at moment create II is
not questioned or denied that she was legally com
rhmssioned. then young and gallant officer of |
our merchant marine previously a midshipmsu
IN our navy, Capt Reid, took command. On
certain day in September, 1914. he threw anchor
IA the port OF Fayal, in the Azores, possession
OF the house o. Portugal. The British fleet had
been ordered TO concentrate at Jamaica for the
purpose OF attacking New Orleans, and this action
d Reds prevented that arrangement. At that
tune, and long before, and ever since "a everv
body knows. the Braganza dynasty of Pog, ,.eal
cordial slliance"-that is to say, the British gov
eminent have made, kept up, and hold This
Portuguese government ShortlK after Captsip
Reid drew up unoer projection OF the fort
OF Fayal, IN neutral Territory, British SQUADRON
entered In secret that, e lem, friendly port A.
some time they threw their boats h the nioht
and attacked hi:3. The action is one of the mos,
memorable ia history. ~
He defended himself against an oyerwbc,ming
force Tor ten hours resisting successfully two boat
attacks, and one by an English brig of lS guns. and
ended by scnttling the ship to keep her from falno
into the hands OF the enemy, who afterwards set
her on tre. and thus destroyed her. The slaupbter
OF the British was unprecedented In mili,arv or
naval annals. The land rang from end to end wiss
praises OF the noble seaman Corporate ho5;ss
voted him swords, and senates resolutions sad
Generals Scott and Gaines received their sugcrds
tor the Niagara campaign at the same t;ma with
Reid Tor that gallant Fayal action. hen then feir
that our citizen marine was Just &C soSd IA onr ri
uzen soldiery But in all this tr,a and ever since
the claim which the owners a. lac brig General
Armstrong have justly essrnst Great Britain and
Portugal has never bees settled. And among the
owners was the gallant young sailor who fought
the ship; He has since become distinguished in
The preesat United States flag, which first 6oated
over tce House Of Representatives in 1918 ia of his
so.s design, and was made In his house. The teie
graph signals from Staten Island, in New York har
eor-snd, we believe in consee uence, NEST if no,
al, otnefs IN the eountr9s-come from his hanas
Our most active stetssifei-such as Wehs,er 80
Clay, (whose sor, James B. Clay, actually "tooL -
papers and len Portugal the ground OF this Ga;
not being acceded TO Mt once,) and afterwards ~,
distinguished jurisconsuIt and diplomats, h M
Ciayton-endorsed the justice of his clairn ,ysa
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