The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-15


The Aouth In tonsrrss' =, law,
80 v.ah. Coneress Will COM
. e.e,an to which, aDder pFeeea'
..,n.,a.cee. All pA,riotic men iooA -
- .,l,c,tude The fact tha' "e o's -,
--.,,a~ cf that body win noi", Vs."
+" tne !, =, east oil upon the stormy
nv o". sad. snlad and TO give the stkh'-
- a.. .s,,oe,t,ag, composing aud moaera..
.n.s,oas. rs itself sign Oh e''
rs 1,ns ,act that judging from past cA-
:, IN expected not only To refrain
-. ,.,,as rood but 10 do mischief. 10 ian the
&c q, sectionai strife. possibly 10 indulge
% ,ceaes OF violence beneath the dome vi tue
r.ut,l. 10 saoush 10 make sae best iGieads Oh
~. Union ,reub,e for ,ta desuay. Ii is
mouraful and hamiliAtiag shat In this early
Won IN OF the Republic, there should be such
widespread degeaeraey OF lis public men.--
fs,mrare the materials of which Congress is
now composed with ,heeharaeter of that body
nfty years age. Itwas then an assemblage OF
the siits OF the nation in intellectual aud moral
power. II was made up OF picked men, chosen
on account of their eminent abilities, integrity
and services. 1t was body of patriots, Animal
ID aud pervaded by anintense and catholic love
Of couatry, Knowing no North, no south, NO
East no Wes,, and soiiciious for the common
gsod and comsnon glory OF the kepuohc.-
Every one knows what falling OF has since
occurred ia the character OF our public men,
With some distinxuis he'd exceptions, the MEM
bers OF Congress have attained their positions
by the arts of the d magogue, by making politics
q trade and by ministering TO sectional pas
sions and animosities. Even in the Senate o!
the United States are leading men who, there
10 stronE reason to believe, have been engaged
10 . conspiracy to excite servie war in the
Southern States, and who have upon their
heads the responsibility of all the blood thai
has been shed In the reasonable and murder
cue outbreak at Harpers Ferry, and OF the
v.c,isas which the laws of the land are about
70 consign TO their jus. doom.
VIVA, are we to expect from the assemhlage
Of such body The enemies of the South
viii come into it with all the rancor of BAT
f1sd malice and the vindictive animUsty which
viii be awakened by the prompt and thorough
punishment OF the vile agents of their nefa-
rious plans. The South Will appear there,
smariinx and bleeding under the unprovoked
outrases which have been perpeirated upon
hsr people, and the abuse and denunciation
which have been heaped upon her for the calm
and dispassionate vindication of her laws
What is there TO expect, what is there not Il
fear, when these conflicting elements shall
meet face TO face when the instigators and
apoiogists of john Brown shall meet in coun-
ell with the men whose soil they have polluted
and whose lives, property and honor they
hays put In peril
1t 10 not for the Southern press to appeal Il
the representatives of Black Republieanism FOL
justice and moderation. Such an appeal would
b Is undiSnihed as it would be idle and una
vAiling lfthey can countenance and sanction
such acts a. those at Harpers Ferry, it is clea
that they mean mischief, and that argumen
and persuasion would have more effect oil
them than, in the language of Professor BLED
SOn ITO read the riot act 20 thunder IS torn.
But we may at least invoke the representa-
tiyes Of the South TO curb with an iron hant
the ex pression of their just and natural indig
nation, and not by look word, or gesture
10 compromise cause which is now so stron
that nothing can injure il but the indiscretioi
of its own friends We feel sure that our coli
and crafty adyersaries rely pom the arden ant
tmpulslve tenn permanent Of the South, under III
influence of the proyocation which ii has re
ceived, make some rash and violent demon
straEion which Will deprive it Of the pres .ig
of the RIGHT, and make il appear the aggres
sor. Let these calculating knaves be disap
pointed. The deep stream il never noisy, an
In harmony with the prJfoundness OF South
ern feeling, and its infiexibiiity of purpose
should be the quiet energy Of It's speech aH'
action. Let the South 81 into Congress viii
. vigiiant rye and uuoending frmue>s, bu
with = caImness aud self-conirol becoming
great crisis in lis own fate and that Of tn
country.