The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-04-26

- Wsvelopment Worth ObsofSs.
Oar readers will remember an assault sa's,s
made spoa Mr.. Craig, NJ. @, OF North cArohna' ~
Che House o. Representatives, by ene H. H. he.pe.'
NcstA Carclina sbolitionist nov residing 10 sN"
YORK. Heepe encountered such stout ~.
shat he was unable to inaiet any injury upon sa.'
Craig. A bowieknife and revolver were awe
wards found upon hts person. He has sAteiy Puo,
imhed card 10 reference 20 the transactioa, ~
which he boasts Of his assault upon csss' ssy'
that he battered Afs lace % severely that Wv.
savs him several severe and Staggering blows a
-~ss ssvsss Afm such bcsting as he desei ,es'
when ssverai aud sepata'
Nssnbatants. Heper returns his thanks 70 gu.
TOR Hale and Judge Blair, two OF nature Ao'.s
sAea. neither OF whom (hel had ever the aons. W
sse BEFORE" who became his securities sefo'o '"'
magistrate. Mr.. Craig refused to prosecute him.
The letter IL filled with the coarsest ana mo''
scarrilous abuse Of Craig and other Southern gen
tlemen, Astounding With such language ~ coward
Iiks,r dirty WORT" apro-saavers demsgogue,
"ovsrgrows sisvcdrsving gseroter," &C., &c IL"
clear esm the bad temper and gross personal tiles
II tAe article that the writer must have been 80
Vsrely handled In the ARRAY. That, no wever'
point cF pes the slightest moment. If superiority
In esues strength 10 . virture, there are but Jew
animals which are not superior to man. kTk
from an ass might kill Napoleon none bul ASSES
would eiaim that their longeared comraae w"'
therefore the better of the two, OF tue sFee'ef
warrior
That which IL remarkable In this affair, Is 'ne
prominence given to IL by the Free Soil press; tne
manifest feeling OF exultation at this assault upon
"a Southern N. O. in his seat, by the same press
which made the welkin ring with excavations oil
the indecent, barbarous, brutal and covardiy con-
duct of Brooks, of South Carolina, in attacking
Northern Senator of the United States in ~ SCAT
and tho instant aud simultaneous sympathy aud
aid extended to the assailsut by Free Soil Sena
cor and Free Soil m0msef OF the House OF Repre-
sentatives, neither ~ whom, he himself scknow-
hedges, he had ever seen beforei But that which
is far more worthy attention than these signih-
ssant Ia ktastons of the spirit and temper oil the
euesaies Of the South, 10 the broad glare oil hsh'
which Helper In his note indiscreetly throws upon
the real purpose OF his party. 81 have never ne
says. "untn within the past week, been Sc tho'
roughIy convirced of the imperative deity that de-
voiYes every good citizen Of the country to use
his utmost eedsavors, net only to keep the diabo
cal institution out OF the rev States, but Also so
far a. In his power Hes 10 rage fierce and e9e''
~twating massds. against it in The old States"
How any sane man can doubt that this Is the
upiversai sentiment Of the anttslavery party, we
are ct loss to imagine II the institution be the
gigantic social, moral and political evil which they
represent, they are bound as honest men TO
use every means in their power to bring about Its
overthrow. That this IL what they are driving at,
all their acts testify; and there ia nothing but
their occasional disclaimer, to warrant different
opinion--their disclaimer who justify the use OF
murder, robbery and perjury by the sensible
classes to secure their emancipation, and VINO act
upon the principle that 1t is right to do evil thar
good may come. Nothing 10 more evident than
that the war of both English and American Adolf
tionism is against slavery 10 the old States, not In
it's possible extension against the institution AS 1t
exists not In its anticipated oshoots; against tie
fountain head of the alleged evil, not its ren1otv
branches The contests which have hither 20 oe5ar
red between the two parties In Cong .tss are but
affairs Of outposts the real object of ASSAULT that
upon which the hearts of our eneries are all con-
e,ntrated a. the heart of one man, that which &C.
cupies their Imagination ~ day and their dreams
by night, is the overthrow Of slavery in the States
where 1t exists, ard 1t is only not upon their
songues becsuse a premature outcry would blast
their scasme, aud the sleeping victim before
the torch a. ready to be applied