The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-10-27
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80, in which the present age ae
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w AZ POLE has proved to her own sat
..o.~,,on and POSSIBLY. to that OF many others,
-, p,cu.ppIII was an amiabie ana exem-
- ,haraeter. Somebody else, taking the
s,,, from her. no doubt, has shown LucRRfiA
pnra,. =, have been worthy of canonization,
.na ner brother c RS AR has been translated to
a xaat among the Higher Gods. The success OF
,h.sa TWO writers stimulated a third TO dive
into the history of Rome more deeply than
historians are won't and he discovered that
CICERO was sconndrel, and CATILINE
a model OF all the virtues. What is to
come next we can hardly imagine, unless some
man. In the generosity of heart incapable of
hearing any one universally denounced, should
take up the cudgeis for JupAs the Apostate
it's scarcely wonderful that in such an age
old Brown should have friends and apoiosists,
esneciallv among the abolitonists. who think
il perfectly right TO cut the throa's OF slaNe-
holders wherever they may be found III is
amusing To see the competency with whlch
.hex sneak of that misereants exploits
neaeeful community not member oil which
ever interferea in the slightest degree win
anv abolitionist, so far as We can learn, is
xpsnton.y assailed some of its number bru-
tally slain. and all of them subjected 10 immi-
nen, peril, in a time of profound peace, by a
miscreant whose only apology is that he
wishes 10 overthrow the government of the
country. and when the attempt fails and the
h in he 8
hero and a martyr! 'Iet not his epitaph be
written until slavery is exunguished,' says
one of them. parodying the sentiment of Ro-
nERr EMMITT "His enterprise was the hottest
and most unselfish ever undertaken by man,"
exclaims another "He can only he deemed
guilty Of a crime by those who consider
GEoRGR WASHINGTON criminal cries
third and so on 10 the end of the chapter.
Now If there be one crime more execrable
than another, il is that of carrying fire and
sword into a peaceful country. 1t is no excuse
TO say that the perpetrator does not plumber,
or does not murder unfortunately. He goes
for the very purpose of exciting spirit from
which murder and robbery must necessarily
en.ue. He goes for the purpose Of arming
men against each other and exciting them to
mortal strife Blood must flow from such an
enterprise. and it has been shed sufficiently
even in this small affair, to make those, we
should conceive, objects of general execration
To make a rascal such rs Brown the SUBJ
iect Of eulogy, is to reveal adepravity existing
in the society where such n sentiment can pre-
vail. to us altogether incomprehensible. To
compare such man to WASHINGTON is TO de-
Grade all mankind, the greatest and the basest
alike. to the same brutal level 1t betrays a
morbid depravity of taste, as dangerous to So
ciety as it is degrading in itself.
In what respect does BROWN differ from any
ether cut throat whom the laws doom occa-
sionally to the gallows Is it that he pro-
fesses TO be a Tious man, and to be influ'
enced by the spirit of religion In what
part of the New Testament are we told that it
is our duty to murder our neighborsl Is it
that his intentions were honest? Every
scoundrel that ever swung from a sibbet pro-
fessed to have been actuated by pure motives.
He'll, we are told, is paved with good inten-
tions. But are we TO regard treason and muir
Ger as not only pardonable but commendable
because the traitor and murderer happens to
think himself justified Is every man at lib
erty to commit what outrages he may please
upon society, whenever he may take it into
his head that it may be benefited by the muir
der of certain number of its members Be
sides, this man BROWN was not aetuated by
any such spirit as this. He was moved en-
tirely by the Inst of revenge, as his admirers
abundantly prove. He had lost son. by the
hands of certain Missouri Shareholders, and
he declared war on the whole race of slave
holders. What is this but the doctrine of the
Comanchee He loses friend and he kills the
first white man he meets in return. 1t is TO
him matter of supreme indifference whether
the man lac Stays be the murderer of his friend
or not. All he wants is the scalp of white
man, no matter from whose head il be taken
This was precisely BROWNS reasoning. Some
body in Kansas killed one of his sons, in the
midst of a civil broil, and he felt himself per-
fectly justified in numbering any body he might
meet in the State of Virginia.
We are not without hope that good NAV
grow out of this affair, deplorabIe as its con-
sequences have been TO individuals. A plot
with qualifications extending all over the
Northern States, and duplicating such men as
JOSHUA X. GIDDINGs and GERRITT SMITH. is
in the full process OF development. Doubts
have been expressed whether the Governors of
the States 10 which they belong will deliver
them up upon the req uisition of the Governor
OF Virginia. II is time, at least, that the ques-
ton were put TO the test. In the meantime
the people of the North whom we dislike to
consider as disaffected to the Union. will have
an ample opportunity TO reflect upon the peril
into which they are likely TO be led by aboli-
ton doctrines, pushed to their consequences,
and the South has become aware of the man
ner in which the war is to be waged upon her
She has reason, too, to congratulate herself
upon the entire freedom of participation in
the plot which her slave population can claim
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