The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-06-02
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
MONDAY rrerntne, june 2, 1886.

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Monday Morning, Jn1e 2. 1855.
Brig. Gen. Webb.
The late letter of Brig. Gen. Webb, formerly Oh
the regular army and more recently OF the New
York Courier and Enquirer. Is consdered oy tna'
m ..oct aolaaar' upon the slavery ques.
n tba Southern Sebsstopol does not fall by
thsthonh.heu n "a ~ obstinate Is the SebastopeI
ON ,hs p,.et Sea, which Gen. Webb promised
.ho,,,a an ,.,,hu two weeks after the landing OF
~. .,,,., .,m;es. bu, which so long in falling
ar, az. .,,ies after numbering away 1t II about
-, had to make peace and to request the Empe-
ror a. Russia to be good enough to pull bis old
e,rtress down himself We want to do justice to
Can webb. and therefore we beg to inform the
ueopls of the South that the individual who mas
lately become so prominent among their assaiiantS
4. none Of the common slangwhsngers OF the Adolf
ton press; none Of the vulgar herd OF 1Feeiey
and Raymond's, whom nobody ever suspected Oh
decepcy. yeracity, or good manners, but SORT OF
. sveli gentleman. a retired officer of the army
an old cranv of I,ouis Napoleon, and one OF the
MINER tan of New York society. He was former
10 !. r.t;on.I no,itician, but, unfortunately, has
f.uso of late wears into the cold and elammy en-
hr.ces of W. IT. Seward, who happening to be Go
,.-no, ~ New York at the time Webb fought his
Ana, with Tom Marshall, interposed the executive
elemency. saved the Brigadier from the peniten
,iary. to which he had been sentenced by New
York jury, and thus created an obligation which
has proved too much for the native chivalry OF
Webb's spirit
This famous parsonage has more recently visit
ed England where he seems to have figured even
more conspiculousy than our old friend George
Jones, We beg his pardon-Count Johannes-ano
to have been on the best terms with the best So
ciety There are some men who can never exist
out Of what 10 called good society; dsi'cale
plants, which, placed in the shade, pine away anu
die; but, exposed to the sun, become haray, IuAu-
RANT and odorous Such is ]. w. Weoo' brs'
General. &c We don't hear of Weoo' wheh III
London associating with the plebes; with the MD
die classes; with the professionals; no, not even
with the barons of that fourth estate OF winch ne
"a himself conspicuous member We don't remem
her in any of his letters from london, 10 nave
heard mention made even of the potent and moo
dv Thunderer of the London Times, whose light
ming flashes scare timid souls upon this side OF
the Atlantic and whose muttering thunder rever-
berstes through both hemispheres. Webb's eagle
,spir.tions scared higher even than the thunder
cloud on which this monarch of the press sits en-
throued. We hear of him in palaces and csstles
be dimes with Earls, Bishops and Dukes; he is
hunting Russells deer, or settling the affairs Of
creation with Clarendon. That parsonage who
once declared that the Anglo-French alliance was
intended to apply to the West as well as the East
explained to the satisfaction of Watson Webb that
he didn't consider America as being in the West
which explanation the volunteer American pleni.
potentiary at once communicated to the American
people, through his organ, the New York Courier
and Enquirer in consequence of which, the clouds
of war cleared from the Western horizon, stocks
rose generally in Wall street, and Gen. Webbs
stock in particular, became stiff and infexible,
that he has never been able to get fair view OF
his mother earth since that moment.
We now perceive that to Gen. Webbs pronun-
siamento upon the Brooks and Sumner fracas,
must be attached more than ordinary Importance
and significance. This is none of your Greeley
aad Raymond missives, written in garnet at a
penny line by some poor devil of white slave,
whose condition morally and physically is far infe
rior to that of Virginia negro. 1t is Vermilion
edict emanatin2 from the full brother of the Sun
and first cousin of the Moon, who regns in unap-
proachabls grandeur over the public sentiment of
the land OF the fowery flag. Webb is the greatest
man OF m0Qeru tul6b ne ID tuc 0ioCofciCA Va tuc
magnetic telegraph the author of the Declaration
of Independence and the Resolutions of 90 and
90; the protector Of the New York and Erie Canal
inventor of the Paixhan gun, the cotton gin, the
steam engine, and, as is well known by few con-
Adential friends, wrote the most Of the works at
trIbu.ed to Burke, Blackstone, Shakespeare and
Homer In short, few persons in this country
know how great man he is, except himself. and,
ON account of his modesty, he keeps the matter a
profound secret When such a potentate comes
out against the South we say, as the coon did to
Capt Scott, we come down, don't trouble yourself
to discharge another of those long barrelled commu
nications we only ask time to make the necessary
business arrangements, and, as soon as they are
made, the South will leave the United States en-
saasse, and Gen. Webb can come on and take ex.
elusive possession of "the colored population"
We have heretofore given our readers the sub
stance of Brig. Gen. Webb's letter. 1t is unneces.
sary to repeat it. We have only to suggest that
the Brigadisr be at once made Major General
and placed in command of Free Soil Army in
Washington. With such precautions for the pre-
servation Of peace and order, it will be unneces.
sary for the Free Soil Congressman to go armed,
and even Horace Greedy can visit Washington in
perfect security.