The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

express Its contempt Tor virginia aud the
South in general. because Of the very preva.
| lent belief that the outrage at Harper's Ferry
is the precursor Of dangerous times. Itaccuses
| the press of tanning the excitement and is out
of all patience because the opinion is very
| general here thai the leading members Of
great Northern party were ccEnizant OF
BROWNS designs before they were put IN
execution. II takes occasion 10 pass 'oi'y
eniogtum upon BRowr himself, Saying mat
'every thoughtful and dispassiona'e person,
whether at the South or At the North, must
recognize in the demeanor, in the language, In
the ideas of this stout old fanatic, the stnG Of
| ,sbieh ths gtauias heroes Of nlaakiad are nade--
,iy4piieifv, a5soiwte faith IN has ideas, re-
! Agioas tarnssfness Of purpose, and the qRiet
rage 81 a man eoaseieHt,opsiy heaest Of piu."
The South, we presume, is Mother thought
fui nor dispassionate, for it can see none of
these things in Old john Brown. On the
contrary, it recognizes in him hardened
felon, who has made up his mind 10 die game,
very common place sort of character in
deed. No man in the South, SO far as we can
learn, has The slightest objection 10 his
being considered a martyr, as we are threat
| enei that he will be considered. The North
ern people are perfectly welcome to consider
him just what they please. No man in Kan
sas doubts that he gent there for the purpose
of driving his trade of horse thief with great
| or facility, and more certain profit No man
| doubts tha, he took five men out of their beds
| at night cut their threats, and left then; in
| the highway No man doubts that he crossed
! over into Missouri murdered a stakeholder
burned his house, stole his horses, and ran oil
| his slaves. No man doubts that he had de-
! termined to waylay and murder, one after
! another, every member of the Lecompion
! Convention. No man doubts that he came TO
! Virginia with the single design of numbering
J and burning, as he murdered and burned in
| Kansas. No man doubts that he did make a
| nnrderous assault upon the town and Arse
nal of Harper's Ferry, in pursuance OF long
| settled plan. MOI doubts that hissconfed-
erate-FoRBEs--c nioated his design to
| Senator SEWARD. of New York, US long ago
as May, 1855.
! The en- lire press of the North unites in beg
| ging off this criminal. The pulpit. the public
men, whole communities, express their admi-
| ration of his attempt upon the safety of the
| Sou rhern people. He is said to be the stuff Of
| which heroes are made-his piety is extolled-
| he is stated to have quiet consciousness that
| he was doing what was right as we presume
! he had when he took the men out of their
| beds and cut their throats-and in this very
| article, we are told JOHN BROWN scattering
flame and death into q peaceful State, under
a rigid sense of duty STEALING watches being
| part of that duty under rigid sense" OF
which he labored,) ''was n phenomenon full
of warning" &c. And the South is expected
to remain perfectly calm, when it hears these
| continued shouts Of reclamation, and knows
that the entire North, so far from feeling for
| ;t, J,pi iop IF g hero
VIII Use chief claim to an apotheosis consists in
his attempting, ''under q stern sense OF duty,
| TO set on foot plan, the realization of which
involved the murder of every white citizen
| within its limits!
| Is not the South iusifable in duplicating
vast majority of the Northern people in the
| attempt of Old JOHN BROWN! Is not the
| whole North, at this moment applauding 1t TO
the very echo -! 1t is not worth while 10 tell
| US that men disapproye of a criminal act,
| when they so extrayagantly admire the criml |
| mails. Ali deeds OF daring spring from desire
| TO gain the applause of mankind. If man |
| kind, or that portion of it among which The |
| criminal was nurtured, applaud his crime, 1t |
will not fail 10 give birth to others who viii |
| follow in his footsteps. The South, when |
| they hear these passionate bursts of admira- |
| ton cannot but believe that the North regrets, |
| extremely, the failure of Old JOHN BROWN
| Unutterable scoundrel as he has heretofore |
| been--murderer, incendiary, and hcrse-thief-
! the only thing that redeems him from general |
| condemnation in the North, is This attempt 10 |
! carry terror and death into the peaceful homes
| of the Southern people. That is the great and |
redeeming point in his history, when read by |
Northern eyes. That is the mantle that covers
all ,he crimes Of Il life spent in warning with
i.. tlN,x
ought TO stand between him and the gallows,
which, Tor II thousand crimes besides, he richly |
deserves. And yet, we are expected TO clasp |
TO cur bosons men who think it 4 good deed |
to cut our throats. Ii Old BROWN had not |
been dis.inguished in kansas work'-if he |
had been a mere private individual-and if as |
such he had committed murder, we should |
not have heard word in his favor. The only |
thing that exalts him in Northern eyes is that |
he tried TO murder all The white people in the
South Ut cannot be said that the Northern |
people have, in point of fact, any great love
for the negroes. Anybody who has ever been |
among them know better than that.
We must not close this article without no. |
ticing the defence which SEwARDs friends at
tempt to make for him. FORBES says he COM /
muDicated the whole matter to him in May, |
1858, and that his reply was ought not to |
have known this, or words to that effect
FORBES asked him to stop Old Brown who |
was for Immediately carrying out his plan
SCENARIOS friends say that the plan was not
Immediately carried out, and that doubtless he
stopped Old BROWN. The evasion is not even
specious. 1t is simply pitiful, and nothing
more. The charge is, that in May, 1858, SEW
ARD knew that conspiracy to overthrow the
Government was in existence. 1t was his duty
to communicate the fact Immediately to the
proper authorities. ANY man who knows of Il
Mot to commit murder or treason and does not
communicate it TO the officers of the law, be-
comes particeps erinfinis. This SEWARD did
not do. On the contrary he seems TO have
made this knowledge the basis of his famous
..rrepressible conflict" speech, and then to
have gone of without breathing syllable OF
old Browns designs. Whether he prevailed
on old Brown, for the time, to lay aside his
plan. is nothing to the purpose. He knew of
it, and he did not let the Government into the
secret although as a Senator he had sworn to
support the Constitution. He left old JOHN
Brown armed and equipped, ready to break
out into open rebellion on the first favorable
opportunity
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch
The Suspicious Person, &c.