The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-04-13

An Infamous SemasMs ~
W. are pleased to see that, in the speech "
yoAo t,rahem, ccunssi for sickies' a. reio,
cha Nav York Democratic Nt'cs' aoa ~"eu
orcbaniy received the revision OF '""' ps'soa,
has omitted the infamous senstnien's !" ,ess,u I"
The female ser, which followed aud amp"heo h's
s.s...,nn Of the ,ibel--"fraiity. thy name 10
canaan He might, with equal regard To decen"
80 truth. have aiso omitted that scandalous
oaotation. Mr.. John Graham ought not to judge
vor.s by the silly aud sensual wife Of Mr.. Oar
sscsies, or BY any other unhappy exception tos
EEK which, a. q ser, 10 pnre and noble, far above
the puress aud MODEST conceptions Of the author
OF the sneer Quoted By Mr.. 0raham--a gross and
degrading utterance, which would briog reproaeh
upon the womb that bore him, and the innocent
breasts whose milk bic reptile nature has eenve't-
ID inte poison. John Randolph once said that, In
every hour Of trial and temptation, the memory
Of the time when he knelt at his mothers Knee,
and with her hands upon his head, she taught
him that Divine prayer, sour Father which art In
Heaven" had returned to purify and succor him.
There never Was great man yet who did not re-
vsrerce his mothers memory; TO whom she did
not appear ali angel OF light and love, aud by her
hs jadged al, her sex, and for her sake honored
them sill, and believed them. with few exceptions,
pure anu VfttSou8 buo kcVu. Wuat mhu VI Tue
Washington courthouse, with a mother, or wife
or sister, but must have heard with uputterable
disgust, this boon companion aud boosted friend
Of Dan Sickl<s, standing with one hand on the
dead body of an sdulterer, and the other on
the head of Q maRslsyer, and exeiaimng,-
"Yrailty, thy name 10 ,coman, We must admit,
gentlemen Of the jury, that the female sex ge.
Morally Jra1fn Probably, the gentlemen of the
L. AA> Aal IL. -.
thought the "fraily," even In this case, Of weak
and abandoned woman, 10 shared by the masculine
gender In the proportion of two to one. Probably
they thought,-"you should not judge the women
Of America, or Of any land, Mr.. Graham. by such
female society as that which your friendship with
Sickles, Butterworth Co, would be likely to in.
troduce VOC ~" Probably they remembered that,
10 ninety.Iias oasss out Of every hundse of female
fraiity, u wAs one of the other sex that threw
temptation In their way, sex. amongst which, sit
must be admitted, gentlemen of the jury that
chastity 10 the exception, 1t Is among women the
rule.
We have nothing to say in derogation of the gen.
ersl ability aud eloquenee OF Mr.. Graham's
spsech,-but II is marred by this hideous excres-
cence; aud If he values his reputation be will omit
the quotation as we'll as the commentary, for the
whole thing 10 as superfuous as it is vle in any
permanent edition of his speeches. We don't know
that he 10 any relation of the great New York ad.
vocate. David Graham, but If he be his son, be has
mot inherited with bis fathers splendor Of dictou
his good taste and loftiness of spirit Lst Mr. John
Graham form his opinions of Woman not in the
hot.beds of the ultra fashionable life large cities
but on the models which society at large present /;
in such women as Mary, the Mother of Washing.
ton IN bis own mother; or any one Of the millions
Of mothers who, every day, are teaching their chill.
dren the only lessons Of virtue and piety which
they ever learn, and which to mould their
whole future characters; or let him study the fe.
male creations Of Shakespeare, who knew more OF
human nature than Mr. John Graham; or let him
open biz Bible aud read the lives OF it's faithful and
heroic women, from her whose chaunt Of triumph
heralded the march Of Israel from the Red Sea, to
the true aud saintly women who while .Indas be-
traysd and Peter blasphem med, were Last at the
Cross, and earliest at the Grave