The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-01
Treas SON Rampant.

Treason Rampant.
rosUrA II. G!pprNGs delivered a lecture
upon The Haper's Ferry treason at the Ma
iional G yards Hall. Philadelphia, on the 2sth
OF October llas; friday In the course of his
remarks he said
The most Of Rrown's companions are dead !, at
least. the more fortunate among them have de-
parted. The others will probably soan follow
Their sad fate will occupy hrei page IN the MS
tor, ot our nation. Those who yet snrhiNe seem
10 have anticipated the result, and now waiting
its consuInnstisn. | reco!lect an instance. oi
.nne q hEf similar character. When the Africans
Of AIgers seized and enslaved Americans. We sent
an army and a navy To butcher them. declaring
OF tie MOTT OF hlsiers. larEe ship IN sight.
}sus under t3te protection OF the guns or tat I'M
,aenss G.rtr.ss The American commander pro
pnscd io send boat for the purpose OF blowing up
the ship. fae plans were lad the arrangements |
we're perfected. and al the suent hour oil t"etEet
NJ h.. aholt twenty men soleniniy ana silently
shook hands with their companions. entered the
boat. and stnck ont boldly t. capture an immense
shlp IN order itberate their fellow men from
honda re, They dIed-not one returned. Ihelr
ran i'll concei 1t failed: but their motiEes
were sublime, aud we honor their memories.
'.P .ght and wrong are Immutahie. II slavery were
wrnnl then, II IS wrong now, If II were wrong itr
for Anne r,caus To- ensltVe Africans. In AL our
No-cs and thou hts, and acts We should ever keep
jussi>e. | never look upon human woe without
emotion. RS deeply depore the loss of life as ANY
his associates ansht bat justice !; nor would with
hold justice from the slave nor his master
There is no MISLEADING the moral which
this story is designed 10 point. Mr.. JOSHUA
GtppiEGs, n Senator of the United States,
and IS such, sworn to support the Constitu-
ton, teaches that the inhabitants of one-half
Of this Union are Algerine or Tripolitan
Cosairs, enemies of the human race. and as such
worthy to be shot down, or have their houses
burned over their heads, by anybody who
Will take The trouble 10 do it. In his ewes
ft Is lust as laudable to come here in profound
peace, while we are still a portion of the con.
fderacy, and set The negroes free by cutting
the throats Of their mas rrs, as il was in Il
time Of war openly declared, for an officer of
the Navy 10 attempt the recapture of priso-
ners # war. confined on board of an enemy's
ship lying in full view. In plain terms he
supp0Scs that there is always war with the
SJuth and that in the progress of this "irre-
press bile conflict" anything is justfiable
which may lead 10 the enemys destruction
Is it wonderful when treason like this is sys-
,euatically, and laboriousiy preached for
years, 10 all sorts Of congregations. there
should be found men who not disposed 10
c1nfiue themselves to words !
GrDDiSGs denies that he knew anything
about this plot. Oh . yes, they all deny il,
now hat il has failed. GREELEY, HALE, SAN
BORNE, HowE-eyerv one OF them will deny il
f,r treason is a very ugly thing. 1t has killed
dead many man of far superior pretensons
to any Of them. The bare sus picion of it killed
AARON BURR SO dead that, to use the phrase
O. Senator flanagan, the hand OF resurrec-
ton could not reach him. The same suspi-
cion-not even SO well founded as that against
BURR-laid HARRISON GRAY OTIS out and he
never rose again. These two, in point of in
n .I,y,i,
ern traitors boiled down and strained off in
the shape of an essence. In morals, BURR
was better man than the best of them. As
for OTIS, there was no man of his day who
stood or deserved to stand higher than he did.
But the lips Of calumny merely breathed the
name OF treason, and he persisted, like the
leaves Of an exotic, when barely touched by |
the frost, Yes these cowardy preachers of
seditI0n all hasten to deny their guilt Have |
they not been instigating the people to pre- |
ci:ely such outrages as this for years - |
When they are raying every day the whole |
year round against ayeholders-denouncing |
them as pirates, murderers, thieves, cut /
Threats, and everything else that is horrible
declaring them outlaws, whom ii is lawful for |
any man 70 kill-prociaiming as q martvr
every slave IN the South who is hung for the |
murder of his master while they are preach |
Ing at this rate, do they not know that though |
they are towards themselves, and have 40 idea |
OF exposing themselves 10 danger there may |
he others among their hearers who viii not be |
thus easily satisfied Has Brown done any,
thing more than carry out what they have
been preaching for dozen years And. though
they may escape the vengeance OF the law. are
they not responsible, in the eyes of Gcd and of
sound reason, for all the blood that has been
spilled
But some OF them have not been so cautions
as others. They are believed to have gone so
lar as to have made themselves accessories be-
fore the fact.