The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-03-26

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4s Nsrthera Courage.
f;,x Hammond, OF South Caroina. In his late
.,eeeh IN the Senate. whilst he retuked the az.
ere.s,ve snIrit Of tho Northern free sellers, paid
;as, tribute to the couraSs Of the Northern peo-
n.r. The late Gen. Hamilton, of the same State.
in ono of bis admirable addresses. made eloquen.
and graceful acknowledgement ef the same quail
". tits always right to do justice 70 the charac
Ter Of an iavetsrsts ensmy, even n the Northern
states are to be regarded NJ such by the south ],
{. somewhat dfacnit 10 realize that sny one seri-
ricasly entertains tho opiaion that the Northern
people are deficient Ia spirit.
why should they bel Courage 10 not an &C
CURED quality II is the gin Of nature, and we
nos even the Chinese, who are individually def.
eisnt In II. Edncation may d, much towards
modifying Rs character and development, but IL
cannot wheliyextinguish H. Theeduea,ion of the
Quaker nay make him non eombatant, bat II can
no. convert brave man into coward. General
Green. OF Revolutionary memory. who turned the
tide ofeattle In the South, was The of Quaker,
aai a Northern Quaker at that, but there was
only one greater soldier In the war of the Revolu-
tiou and that was George Washington.
There IL nothing In the education of the North
ern people which should deaden 10 their breasts
the natural instinct Of courage. 1t is true they
are Taught from infancy to regard the duel in the
came light as any other attempt to take life un-
necessarily and as forbidden by reason aud com.
mon sense AZ we'll as conscience and religion
Hence they do not acknowledge, nor recognize
that mode OF settling personal 'dificulties.' But
In this they follow the usages OF the Pilgrim Pa
theirs and OF the great mass Of the people Of Eng
land 1t the present time. There no Drawer
people on the face OF the earth than Englshmen.
The Northern people are also a commercial people,
and that 10 supposed 10 deaden the interests of
Chtyalry. But so Is En- land commercial. And
has England shown any lack OF prowessi Is not
the combattiveusss of John Bull proverbial:-
Look at him Ia the Crimes: In India; and In his
stera refusal Of the late demand of Louis Napo-
leon. ready, Ia the midst OF o tremendous war In
.he East, to plunge into another with the greatest
military power of the word, and sacrifice his vast
Commercial interests, rather than surrender
principle. Gen. Havelock was the represen tatiye
u commercial people, and of q class of them
who have always denounced dnelingyet he would
be bold nsn who would stigmstizs Havelock es
coward
IL there anything la the stock from which the
Northern people are descended that warrants the
impntation of pusisnimityf They came from the
same stock with most other Americans, aud are
Of pare English descent, though their blood Is
principally derived from the Puritan and not the
Cavalier class. Did the Puritans show any lack Of
conrage7 Was Oliver Cromwellls paltroonf Did
he or his onvisaged saints turn their back
TO the gay and gallant Cavaliers Neither the
English Cavalier nor the Scotch Presby terian ever
showed more pluck than these English indepen
ients. Their presensions to superior sanctty are
one thing their military proves quite another.
The maa who can doubt that, cannot believe any
fbing. Did their emigration TO America weaken
the nerves Of the Pilgrim Fathersf We're not the
men who faced the terrors of the bowling wilder
ness, aud time after time breasted and rolled back
the tide of Indiaa tomahawks and French bayo.
nets worthy sons of Puritan -siresg
In the Revolution, they led the way ut Concord.
Lexington and Bunker Hin, and their bones lie
bleaching eide by side with Southern bones in the
rsddest battle fields of the country. We're War
rem, Wayne, Green. knox, and Burr towards -
Burr was a corrupt aud evil man, but there never
beat a drawer heart .n human bosom. We're the
Northern naval captains of the Revolution pol
troonsf We're the naval heroes of the last war
with England, Hull, Perry, McDonongh, Cbauncey
and others, destitute of spiritf We're Worth,
Wool and others recreant to their duty in the Mex
lean war;
Nothing 10 gained by undertaking adversary.
Tho South has great eanse of complaint against
Northern abolitionism. but 1t must be prepared,
in the dresd contingency of civil war, to encoun-
ter physical courage equal to Its own. lfthere
be any lack of this quality In the North 1t is
t1ued to the vaporing abolition orators and news
papers, who may be the first to skulk from the
storm which their foul lamentations have raised.
But the great body of the people, the q1iet ,unpre
tending masses who "avoid entrance to IA qua T.
rel" when once invoked, will prove themselves
worthy eff the brightest and sharpest steel that
ever was drawn In mortal fray.