The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-04
DAMNING YOUR ENEMIES.

There is no more convenient and common
method Of disposingaof AN enemy, than to
damn him. Where the laws of the land pro-
tect him. and there is no direct mode of
inaicting punishment upon his person or es-
tate, nothing is easier than by fiirt of the
tongue to send him to Tophet. Men, who
have even in this life so little power of each
other, appear to labor under the impression
that each one of them has the key of perdi.
ton in his pocket, and can lock any body up
whom he chooses. This would seem to be
serious belief among fanatics. At all events,
they manage to make their dupes think So
| Thus Brigham Young, the most thorough
| paced debauchee and unmitigated scoundrel
in the United States, is everlastingly sending
somebody or other to He'll. The last victim
he has got hold of is Old Rough and Ready,
who according to Brigham S late pronuneia-
mento, is now in the place of torment. Here
is what he says:-"It was told him, while he
| was on the plains, that President Zachary
Taylor was dead and damned, and it has gone
through the States, from side to side, that
said SO. 1t was first given out that the Nor
mons said so, and then that Brigham said So;
well, backed it up, because l knew it was
true have just as good right to say that
| President Taylor is in hell, as to say that any
| other miserable sinner is there. Was he any
more than flesh and blood? Ihave as good
right to canvas him, in q religious point
| of view, as l have to canvas the peasant
upon the dung-hill He has gone there; and
SO have many others; and the Lord Almighty
is removing the bitter branches, as foretold
in the Book of Mormon"
This is the genuine spirit of fanaticism,-
curse your enemies instead of loving them
consiga every man to perdition that don't be-
lieve as you do, even though your belief may
be the greatest of absurdities, and your life
the life of hypocrite. Would that this spirit
were confined to the Salt Lake of Utah!-
Well is it for humanity that the future fate of
man is not at the disposal of his fellows.
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IHE FAIR AT METRoPoLITAN HALL,-The
Fair for the establishment of Sunday School
at Port Mayo, is still held in the basement of
Metropolitan Hall. Honored as we have
been by the gentle statesmen, we can speak
knowingly of the exquisite delicacies which
their tables afford. 1t should be esteemed
not only great pleasure, but an honor, to
make an investment in such things, made and
retailed by such fair hands. In addition to
this, when we remember the holy cause for
which the Ladies have devoted their ener-
gies, who can deny tribute as well to that
cause as to their pions zeal7 We should like
to see the man that could.
"SANDs' SUIT IN EQuITY."-We are in.
debted to Mr.. A. Morris, publisher, for
Sands Suit in Equity. History of Suit In
Equity, as prosecuted and defended in the
Virginia State Courts, and in the United
States Circuit Courts; by.Alexander H. Sands,
ESQ, Counsellor at Law; Richmond, va
This work, which is intended to supply the
young men of the legal profession with
hand-b book to guide tnem in the prosecution
and defence of suits in Equity, has received
high Communications from the most eminent
members OF the Virginia bar. We should
judge it to be useful, not only to the younger
but the older members of the profession
Judge Scarburg, the distinguished Professor
of Law in the University of William ana Ma.
ry, says he regards this book "as an impor-
tant addition to the legal literature of Yir.
ginia. It will be an exceedingly convenient
hand. book to the profession generally, and
{, the younger practitioner, it viii be iara,
lnable." Commendation equally strong has
been expressed of the book by G. A. Myers.
r. Z. Grattap, and j. III. Patton, Esqs., of tho
Richmond bar, and by VIM. T. Joynes, Esq.,
of Petersburg. We understand that it will
be introduced as . text book in the Law
School of the Uniyersity.
For sale by Mr.. A. Morris.