The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-12-12

- - Asen! The ruGlans exchaheed tko svrovd ~
- .osGn. The buildings And sane6slds were
tons. which were Visible fron a. ssVn 3 :
tnoesano different, quartz furnia 80 4 rr-r-
pei more shocking aud redectione more eiis.
man ~. da.s. snsm ssncy can paint or ~ powers Of
Ssch, Sir, as matter Of history. i 1 ..rv,,.
lnsufrection. Now let us take 1 slance n tle
,cs,c sa. y. snlnGs IN the southern States, CO.
P1osiean confederacy. Let ms Consider over
Wnatsort Of o population ii il that some ,.r.
son. among US think it not only rieht and
.omnendable, :. bat in the highestdeeree heroic.
s,aanl-like, God-like, to extend the awfni ca,
samt.y which turned ST. Domingo in to q hear ~
uloody ashes In 1901. There are between tf,ree
asa Iour millions of the colored race scatter
States, in email groups in cities. towns vile.
-, ana In larger bodies ON isolated nianta
nons IN the house, the factory and the field.
m.S.heied III together with the dominant race IN
AMOUNTING In The aggregate to eirht or nine
Miiiions. II rightly recollect the numhers e
Upon this community, thus composed it Wa.
me ne oesign Of Brown to let loose the hell
uouhus OF servile insurrection, and to bring
on ruggle which, for magnitude atrocity
ana horror, would have stood alone ia The
history Of the world. [Applause.1 And these
sI. Srirh,ful ~ nine millions, against whom this
xens, entitled with us TO the protection Of
maj compact of government, which recognizes
susis reiaion to the coIored raee--a compact
Wnicn every sworn officer 81 The Union or
VI The States is bound By oath to sunnnrt =
among them, sir, is a fair prorortion af r,,ans
ana women Of feducation and culture-of moral
ana religious lives and haracters-yirtuouss
Iatners, mothers, sons and daughters. persons
VINO would adorn any station of societv Il,
any ycountry-men who read the same bihie
that We DO, and in the name of the same Mas.
yer, kheei al the throne of the same God. form
ing class Of men from which have gone forth
some OF the greatest and purest characters
which adorn our history Washington Ief
Ierson. Madison, Monroe, Marshall These
aie '.I, .ne men, me women, for whose bosoms
pixies and rifles are manufactured in New Eng
land, TO be placed in the hands OF an ignorant +
subject race, supposed, most wronefullv as
recent events have shown, to be waiting onIy
E.r lor an opportunity to nse them. [Appiausel
Sir, have on three or four different occasions
in early life, and more recently, visited ali the
Southern and Southwestern States. with the
exception of Arkansas aud Alabama. have
enjoyed the hospitality OF the city and the
country; have had the privilege before
crowded and favoring audiences, to hold up
the character Of the father Of his country. and
to inculcate the blessings of the Union, in the
same precise terms III which have done it
here, at home, and in the other portions of the
land. have been admitted to the confidence
of the domestic circle, and have seen there
touching manifestations of the kindest feel
ings, by which that circle, in all its members,
high and low. master and servant, can be
bound together; and when contemplate the
horrors that would have ensued had the trage-
dy on which the curtain rose at Harper's Ferry
been acted out through all its scenes of fire and
sword, of lust and murder, Of rapine and desO-
iation, to the final catastrophe, am filled with
emotions to which no words can do iustice-
There could of course be but one result and
that we'll deserving the thoughtful meditation
of those, it any such there be- who think that
the welfare of the colored race could by any
possibility be promoted by the success of such
movement, and who are willing to purchase
that result by so costly sacrifice. The colored
population Of st. Domingo amounted to but
little short Of half a million, while the whites
amounted to only thirty thousand. The white
population of the Southern States alone, in
the aggregate, outnumbers the colored race in
the ratio of two to one in the L Union at large
in the ratio of seven to one, and if (Which
Heaven avert they should be brought into
conflict it could end only in the extermina-
tion of the latter, after scenes of woe, for
which language is too faint, and for which
the liveliest fancy has no adequate images of
horror. Such being the case some one may
ask, why does not the South fortify herself
against the possible occurrence of such q ca
tastrophe, by doing away with the one great
source from which alone it can springl This
is question easily asked and am not aware
that 1t is our duty at the North to answer it !;
but it may be observed that great and radical
changes in the framework OF society, inyoly-
ing the relations of twelve millions of men,
will not wait on the bidding of an impatient
philanthropy. They can only be brought
shout in the lapse OF time, by the steady op-
GRAFTON Of physical, economical, and moral
causes. Have those, who rebuke the South
for the continuance Of slavery, considered that
neither the present generation nor the prece-
ding one is responsible for its existence 3
The African slave trade was prohi ibited by act
earlier by the separate Southern States
The entire colored population, with the ex-
ception, perhaps, of few hundreds, surrepti-
tiously introduced, is native TO the soil. Their
fric I'm
ships Of Old England and New England
cloud applause.) They now number be-
tween three and four millions. Has any per-
son, of any party or opinion, proposed, III So
Der earnest, practical method of wholesale
emancipation believe most persons, in all
parts of the country, are of opinion that free
labor is steadily gaining ground. 1t would, in
my judgment, have already prevailed in the
two nor rthern tiers of the slavehOlding States,
had its advances not beer unhappily retarded
by the irritating agitations of the day. loud
applause) But has any person, whose opin-
ion is entitled to the slightest respect ever nn-
dertaken to sketch out the details of a plan
for effecting the change at once, by any Legis-
lative measure that could be adopted Con-
slider only, pray you, that it would be to ask
| the South to give up one thousand millions o1
property, which she holds by title satisfac-
| tory to herself, as the first step. Then esti.
mate the cost of an adeq uate outfit for the self
support OF the emancipated millions then re-
| fleet on the arrangement of the entire indus.
of commerce and manufactures that depend
on its great staples; then the necessity o.
| comforting equal political privileges on the
emancipated race, who, being free, woulC
be content with nothing less, if any thing Less
were consistent with our political system
| then the consequent organization OF two grea
political trties on the basis of color, and the
eternal feud which would rage between them
| and finally, the overflow into the free States O
| q vast multitude OF needy and helpless emf
| grants who, being excluded from many of then
| land among others from kansas)-t bolsterous
| laugh ter would prove doubly burdensomt
| where they are admitted. Should we, sir
| with all our sympathy for the colored race
give a very cordial reception to TWO OF
| three hundred thousand destitute emancipateC
| slaves. Does not every candid man see tha1
every one If these steps presents difficulties OF
| the most formidable Observation-Disclosures fol
which. as far as know, no man and no party
| has proposed solution! {! And is it, sir. fol
| the attainment of objects so manifestly i'm
| practicable, pursued, too, by the bloody path
| ways Of treason and murder, that we will al
| low the stupendous evil which now threatens
| as, to come upon the country Shall we per
NIT this curionsly compacted body polite, tns
incest adjustment of human wisdom, to 60 te
pieces2 (Cries of "No no.") Will we bias
| this beautiful synmetric form; paraiyze fois
| powerful arm of public strength smite W. u
| imbecility this great national intellect! Where
| sir, O, where, will be the flag Of the Uni.
l ted States9 Where our rapidly increas-
sing influence in the family Of nations
Already they are rejoicing in our divi'
| sions. The last foreign journal which have
l read in commenting upon the event At Har.
per's Ferry dwells upon 1t As something that
| will compel US TO keep the peace with the
Powers of Europe and that means to taxi
| the law from them in our international reIa-
| tions. meant to have spoken OF the Wrec.
| Of that magnificent and mutually beneficial
commercial intercourse which now exists De-
tween the producing and manufacturing States
-on the hostile tariffs in time Of peace and
L the hahi tuallv recurring border wars by which