The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-03-28
THE DAILY=DISPATCH.


Rifles for Kansas.
We published a few days ago an account OF
religious meeting in New Haven, Connecticut, Id
which number Of rifles and bibles were eon'r'o"-
ted for Kansas, Professor Siliiman and the heV.
Henry Ward Beecher being among the prineiPa
contributors We have learned not TO be astonisneo
at the Inconsistencies of abolition fanatics Any
freak that Rev. Henry Ward Beecher might COM
NIT, even to dressing himself in the uniform of q
Major.GeneraI, and converting his church into
fort or barracks, would not astonisn u.s. Hence
when be breaches up rebellion and rifles as a paf'
of the Bible we are not surprised.
Nor are we surprised at the exhibition when
Professor Slliruan has made of himself II IS true
he belongs to an institution which has grown 'N'
on Southern patronage. and so long aS oo '''
men continued to patronize Yale College ""''--
was conservative--that IS as the resu''
conservative Of himself and his interests
soo3 as the South began TO witnd'"" .,,,.-
that IL might build up its own co"es'', -,
began TO open his ewes TO the horrors Vi "a"
ord vas nar,,c,,.rlv uproarious upon the suojee'
of Nebraska Heis aman of superior scieh'ine az
,.in,,o,,s hr, belongs to class. unfortunately
co. 49, &, his section whose intellects nave re-
-, 80 c,l,ure than their morals as brief
,eniniscence of his past history will illustrate
professor Silliman is well known to many OF inc
people Of Virginia to their sorrow. lie came "
this State in 1878 or Whereabouts, having oeeh
EMPLOYED to examine and make report upon GER
tain gold mines. No man we admit, was oe''ei
qualified for such an investigation. Being ho
doubt well paid for his services, he had all the
stimulus necessary to Sc. the intellectual machinery
of A cute Yankee in full motion. He made 'he
most fattering reports of these gold mines, iaua
cd them to the seventh heavens, and was thereby
the means of inducing large numbers OF our pee
pie to embark therswhole fortunes in this domes'i'
California Not a man that was thus induced oy
Silman to invest his money In the gold mines
but lost every dollar he invested whilst some OF
them lest every dollar they had on earth. ono Oh
our citizens was robbed in this way of thirty
thousand dollars Hence Professor Sllliman is mol
likely to be forgotten in Virginia, nor VIII any
piece of rascality which he may commit cause any
sunrise in this latitude The Kansas rifle business
NAV be another smart speculation on the part of the
Professor Certainly, if he rifles the people OF Kan
sas as severely as he did those of Virginia, they
would better quit the country and give up Kansas
to Freedom"
The presidency..The BLACK hepuphcaHS'
II is said that Seward and Banks are the most
prominent names mentioned in Washington for
the Black Republican nomination for the Presi-
dency and that the negro issue alone is to be pre-
scented
When it is remembered that the next election
NAV 90 to the House of Representatives, and that
if it should, the same body which elected Black
Republican Speaker can elect Black Republican
President, ought not the South at once to prepare
for that contingency Ought not her leading
statesmen of all parties to consult and agree upon
her course in that event. and upon the measures
necessary to sustain them in any course the inter
ests Of the slayeholding States may requireS