The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-09-12
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
rr,so~ ,T.r.,... september ~, 1855.
Tn. CHAIN Gang.

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Friday Morning, September y, .SSo.
Tho Chain Gang.
Some days ago stated that the only freno1
man wa had heard of Ia Richmond, was member
~ an. chain gang The Philadelphia Bulletin,
,rh,,h used to be a very conservative paper, W.
~. f.,lan from grace In these Fremont ana f,e'
so,, d.vs. takes the matter up with great siA''S'
.,a gives its readers to understand that Inc un
for,unste ball and chain man Is thus fnaha.'e. '
s,s po,tical views and that the sin for WHICH NC
thus punished is (Biach Republicsn'sm
we hate to spoil this capital joke, ano VIC sec
o.. an.a,,c for this unfortunate ball and
-. 80. - maize his fortune, by going to the
Nnr,h and representing himself as Black kepuo-
H., m.r,v, IN Southern despotism and tyranny,
.h., arc half inclined to hold our tongue, and
-, s.v .,o,ber word Bat truth compels US to
or1yb,an the Bulletin upon the inter esting fact
IN a, none bu, offenders against the laws are con-
d.mned to the Richmond chain gang. Being about
half civi;ised according TO the Bulletin, In this
part of the world, we compel rogues, rioters and
ioafers to do the city some service, by way OF
compromising for the damage they have inflicted
upon the community. We are so intoleranf ana
bar5arous as to have no mercy upon crime or cri
mnals, no compassion upon rascals OF any sort,
from the lowest pick pocket up to the genteei
scoundrel that runs away with another man
wife, When we become thoroughly "civilised,
we shall be able, no docbt, to vie" these matters
through the philanthrophic medium Of the Bune'
tin and perhaps even go a step further, so as 70
have hordes of slung shot and shoulder-hittng rut
fans at every corner, and to burn down churches
in the most enlightened, scientific and Christian
manner.
The chained Republican, as the Bulletin with
exquisite Righteousness styles the loafer and GRIM
inal who is the solitary representative Of Fremont
In this city was not elevated to his present con-
spcious position account of "his political views
unless the political views" of his school, as IS
possible embrace offences forbidden by the laws
Of the land. His position in the chain gang is not
the result of his Black Republicanisrn, which is
not we beg gravely to inform the Bulletin apenal
and chain gang offence under the laws of Virgil
MIA. There is at this moment upon the chain
gang an unfortunate Scottish gentleman, of no
mean repute in the literary world, and considered
by many besides his countrymen, poet to be
named in the same day with Robert Burns, whose
confirmed habits of inebriety have reduced him
to the same melancholy position with the chained
Republican 1t might as well be commended that
on account of his poetry, as the Bulletins pet,
because of his Black Republcanisml
The Bulletin proceeds as follows:
"rbere are at the present day, men chained and
dashed too, in Kansas, and under its laws" who
have been guilty of nothing more than a disap
prevail of repeal of the Compromise Governor
Wise has already issued q vermilion edict, declar-
ing in plain terms, and without any reservation
that any virgnian who votes for Fremont, should
be held guilty of constructive treason-and this
too ohen he kn0,cs that at this minute, majority
of the white voters of Western Virginia are in
favor of the Republican ticket and that Virginia
ticket Of that nature has been formed. But to re-
turn to the chained Republican. In Italy where
the feudal expressions which the Virginia press
proposes reinstating 80 generally prevail political
offences regarded as blacker and more afro
cou3 than arson or homicide, and there the leader
Of the chain gang is always friend to freedom
or rather opponent Of the powers that be-
There thousands and tens OF thousands OF white
men-and woman, too-at this instant In the
North, who, if they dared express their views re-
lative to the Buchanan gag law chivairy in Virgil.
mia, would find themselves subject to lash
and chain-or worse, if the chivalry dared do half
they boast.
"Chains and balls.-why not the rack and the se-
cret dungeon, which apiked wheels and all the
other little beauties of chivalric feudalismt'
As to the fancy picture of the Northern men
'ehained and dashed in Kansas the Bulletin for
gets the Southern men who have been mutiated,
murdered, and, in instance, fayed alive, by
the amiable and highly civilized Free Sellers sent
to that country by the pious evangelists of New
England In regard to the "vermlon edict" of
Governor WISE we have only to say that it is as
yet a pure Pigment of the Bulletins imagination.
AS to the assertion that majority of the white
voters of Western Virginia are in favor of the
Republican ticket, we have only to say that we
know no part of Western Virginia where such an
assertion could be made without being denounced
upon the spot as an insult and calumny How.
ever, the Bulletin says that Fremont electoral
ticket has been formed In this State, "a piece Of
arrant nonsense,) but, for the sake of the argu.
ment, granting the fact we are willing to leave it
to the day of election to decide how many votes
Fremont gets in Western Virginia. If the editor
of the Bulletin would only travel through that
beautiful section of the State and ascertain public
sentiment for himself, he would find that there is
no portion of Virginia more loyal to Southern in
situations, and in which Fremont is held in more
utter detestation, than Western Virginia As to
the rest of the nonsense about chains and balls,
racks and secret dungeons aud spiked wheels"
we trust the Bulletin will dismiss its apprehen.
sons Of course that intelligent paper does not
believe one word of its own raw head and bloody
effect Of deceiving and irritating the masses
When the crimes of Black Republication become
known in Virginia, when men are found here who
will advocate the sublugation of the Southern to
the Northern States the laws will provide an ade
qsate penalty. The criminal against society who
is willing excite sedtion and boodshed to desc.
late our households and pollute our hearthstones.
will not be sentenced to the chain gang but to the
more appropriate penalty of the scatfold The
Bulletin was once, as we have before said ma.
tioual and conservative psper-so much so, that
we formerly extracted from its columns some very
pointed denunciatons of the party of which it is
now the organ and with which we think we can
refresh its memory, if it is desired.
Monument 10 Madison.
1t IL a humiliating fact, that at this time there
is 10 monument to mark the resting place of the
iiustrious Madison and that the stone over the
mortal remains of the great sage of Monticello, is
fast going to decay. We were pleased. however
upon a recent visit to the establishment of Mr. J.
w. Davies of this city, to beautiful plan for
an appropriate monument over the grave of Madi-
son. which he is executing at the expense Of some