Washington telegraph., 1856-05-14
From the ~ o. Bulletin.
Fanaticism Overlapping Itself.
T II E L E S S ON

Luz HuSu oI tHe triumph Is frequently
| the prelude Of defeat, since the insolence i
produces in the unworthy causes them tc
adopt measures which effect reaction
The manner in which victory is improved
or abused is therefore the best criterion ot
the wisdom of the victors and intrinsic worth
of their cause. History is full of example.
of this kind, which are pregnant with in.
struction
When the British oyerran South Carolina
lin one of the darkest periods of the Rev.
olution-and were desolating, without pity
either for the aged or the young. that noble
State, with fire and sword, Gen. Marion. as
the news of their eruelties reached his ears.
would rub his hands in apparent glee and
exclaim: That's right, the physic begins
to work" And lie was right; the physic
did work. The reaction, which he rightly
judged would come did come. The people
were reused. and the enemy disappeared
more rapidly than they came
So with party spirit and party measures.
The headlong fury and unchecked violence
which an unexpected victory causes in the
ranks of an unworthy faction upset the
hopes of vaulting ambition, which thus over
leaps itself Recent developments cause US
to expect the same results in reference to
the insane madness of abolition fauatieism.
Flushed with triumph in TIE election of
Speaker of the IIoase Of Representatives,
this faction is exhibiting recklessness of
conduct, and an utter abandonment OF any,
thing Ike ordinary common sense and po-
lltical prudence. tia. must ere long exhaust
themselves and prodlce in the meantime a
reaction in the minds of sober, rehecting 9
people to the extension of slavery, or to
slavery itself in the abstract.
We want no bet:erevidence OF the lengths
and depths to which he negrophilist mania
III the North has been carried than are Of
tered by the Transactions of a late meeting
held in New perhaps the most in
telligent and ;es,hetie city in all New Eng
land-and to the parts played at the ridicu-
lous and unsecmly exhibition by the most
distinguished Professor of Yale College
At meeting held in a church there recent
ly, twenty Sharps' rifles were sub
soribea, to be presented with .nauy Di-
bles, to a company of emigrants who were
about proceeding to Kansas The most
conspicuous advocate of the measure was
Prot. Silliman, { grave octogenarian who
has been inStructing Southern youth all his
life Surely. heis in the dotage of his rea-
son as we'll as of his years, or the unhealthy
excitements of the times have confused the
machinery of his mind in common with
that of thousands of others 10 the same Sec
tlon of country. As to the action of the
notorious pscudo-religious gambler and buff
foon, who has been pGifed into Importance
by the newspapers, IL. W Beecher, moth
ing less was expected than he should greed
dily seize upon the occasion to crafty his
inordinate vanity and to exhibit himself III
bis appropriate character of hypocriiical
mouniebank and political ringman
But Prot. Silliman, man who has been
feted in this very city, whose age, expert
ence and intelligence qualify him, as one
who would suppose, to exert a restraining
influence over the wild surges of passion,
folly and ignorance that surround him.
should be found herding with an insane mob
for We can remark the assemblage, the
place and object being considered, as little
elsc--stimulaiing them on to acts of violence
and blood, acts that may involve them
and their families in difficulties with their
government. and which may even embroil
the country liz all horrors of a civil war,
surpasses in blindness and utter folly any
thing which the madness of the hour has
given birth to. Just think of missionary
these emigrants are regarded by the pi-
GUS people who send them as nothing less
than missionaries of freedom and--j-st
think. we say, of missionary going to
benighted land to propagate the gospel with
q bible in one hand and a rife in the other,
so that if the former failed to convince, the
latter could at least silence objections
Nothing has ever called forth the unbrokeu,
universal anathemas Of the Christian world
to greater extent than the propagation Of
Mahomedanism In this identical manner
Embrace the Koran, said the enthusiastic
missionaries of the great imposter, and the
only alternative In case Of refusal, was off
with their heads. They tina; take the sword
shall perish by the sword. said a greater
man than Mahomet, and whom these rife
christians profess to follow.
This prostitution of the Church and the
Bible by the sanctifed infdels. their gro
tesque and scandalous proceedings, must
shock even New England and the North
The native common sense, and common pa
triotism and common religion of the great
mass of the people there. must, it seems to
us, be shocked by them. They must be
felt to outrage even ordinary decency, to be
caricatures upon the gospel. and an insult to
the principles of its founder. But whatev-
er may be the effect in the North of these
unnatural distortions of christian conduct
there is one effect they should have in the
South. Our hotspurs will doubtless say
with their sound judgment perspicuity, and
that all this sectional fury and these silly
ebulations of hot-house imaginations, and
impotent threats, should be met in fierce
defiance, with counter braggadocio and We
hement threats, and thus the excitement o
the two sections should be famed into al
inextinguishable conhagration, which. in it
resistless spread. should wither and devou
every green thing, leaving the country
blackened and unsightly mass to shock tn
nations, and forever extiDguish the hopes @