The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-12-04
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rtmes has q long and pungent ar
.,.,. -, m. American FiAibuater. taxing - hs
To-. I'm. Of the outlaws and dssperadoee unoeI
~.smsr,. command. The Times ought 70
s.,. .xcry,hiue, and Il speaks with the s'i Oh ~
....,. and perhaps doss know more ABOUT amer
-, Ar,,buster, than Americans know themselves
Th.rs q. however, In English journAis. e'''e'
80, Az .fFecxed ignorance Of American snaifs' Aoa
.von If the very geography Of our country "n'e"
q. ,,nIv sublime IL this Ignorance u resi .ney
oreb, 70 be ashamed Of themselves 1t III" aHee'
al and they pretend to think that Niagara faiia
.,,,,,e, into the Gulf Of Mexico, that Albany Is
Oh. earitai of Boston, that the President Of inc
Irn,,ed States IL or otseio Governor OF Kentucky
and high sheriff of the city and county OF New
yart-N thew affect to believe these and other
.ou.liv rational and credible matters, simply to
sn;,e us for achieving our national independence,
thew really make themselves much more ridiculous
than by any possibility they can make America
|, Is not long since the Times published the most
stupeudous hoax about q succession of railroad
duels in Georgia, that ever was palmed off upon
An 1uteiISsuk newspaper ~ho NV" ~ SSN"~" 49,
with portraiture of the American Fillibuster, too
eroiesque and horrible ever to have had An exis
fence save in its own diseased imagination. How
easy it is to see and condemp our own faults
when they are fouad In other people If Brother
Jora: than inherits any thing lawfully from JOIN
Bull, it is the propensity to llbuster. An Angio-
Saxon IL, by nature and necessity, lana s'eAiei
Great Britain has occupied and conquered Tins
after time, by fIlibustering Saxons, Danes anu
Normaus, till the native Briton blood became en-
tirely lost in the mixed hllibusterirg currents
which had poured into that attractive little i'ianu
from every fillibustering country on she lace Oh
the earth 1t is of course natural mat dreA' DIT
tain should become the great filiouster OF Tue M
tons the proofs of which are seen in those vast
dominions, East and West on which the sun never
sets. and all Of which she has stolen ana punoer'
ed from the original proprietors Our own couh
try she fllibustered from the American INDIANS
and stole slaves from Africa to stock II Wild,
which slaves she is now anxious to piunder oscA
TO their original condition, but is not Wiling 10 pay
Jonathan the. money which she received IL them
Therefore if Americans are fllibusters, they cams
by it naturally, and the London Times ought to
make allow ances for them. Bring up child IN
the way he should co. &c. If the father Is q PICK
pocket a robber, or q horse thief the progeny is
very apt to follow in the same steps, and the fatter
has no one buthimself to blame for it.
II Is true, that neither two wrongs nor any
number of wrongs make . right. Fillibustering
is wrong 1t is as great q crime 10 rob nation
as to rob man. A people who will plumber
other governments of their land exhibit q a1ity
of moral sense, which shows that it is only the
laws which keep them from robbing their neigh
bors of their money. We.deny that the great
mass of the American people any more approve
of fllioustering, in the London Times acceptation
of that phrase, than the people of Great Britain.
Weregret that the structures OF the Times, upon
the reckessness of life which prevails in many
parts Of this country, especially among our frontier
population, are not altogether without foundation.
On this subject the Thunderer has Numbered upon
some unquestionable facts, aud announces some
wholesome truths. 1t is well to open our eyes to
the faults and imperfections of our character, or
else we shah never mend them. 1t is lawful to be
taught by an enemy. Americans are in the habit
of considering themselves chosen people; but,
even if the modest assumption be correct, the
chosen people were not without their vices and
vices of 80 grievous and chronic . nature, that
God was finally compelled to drive them from the
promised land, and give them into the hands of the
heather whom they had despised. Let US take
heed With all our self eomplacent pride, we
have quite many fra ilties and short comings as
other pso .le, and among them the existence Of .
bloody and murderous mode of conducting personal
controversies, almost entirely discarded now by
every other civilized and Christian nation on the
face of the earth stands forth with fearful promi.
nence. No men nor nation can live in the habitual
violation Of any of the great fundamental laws of
the ten commandments, without mourning the dis.
pleasure Of Heaven and the Inevitable reeibution
which, sooner or later, follows crime Thou
shalt do no MURDER" is a very plain and positive
command, not to be evaded or FILTERED away by
any of the euphuisms or pailiations of modern
chivalry.