Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-10-10
RICHMOND WHIG
From hc Ne,r York Times.
THE FALL. pE CcIIAMyT


The capture OF the Caucasian Chief Schamyl now au
thoriiauvcly reported from ST. Petersburg will no doubt
evoke good deal of sentimental sorrow from hundred.
ofenderhcarted people who think snvares and
bers the most interesting ofmanknd and delight TO take
sides with esh and Rousseau against
and civilization For many year past the name of the
Hero of the Caucasus" has been Synonymous With ro
nance Is Western literature Newspaper articles mags.
zinc papers tones have been written about him aud
aud his marvellous exploits. Combining the prophet h
the guerilla, dwelling in rocky fortrcse so remote and
inaccessible give his existence an almost s,p;ny
thical character-bu described by tile few who from
uine to tine eonirved to gain him. a. a mira.
cal oi personal beauty, SecOutro saCacty and exaa
no1 ruling his people by the power of their religious
Faith in his supernatural ENDORSEMENTS aud beating back
army alter army OF the veterans of Ruei. from,
mountains vencrated the traditional cradle of the great
Caucasian race-Schamyls IL must be owned has I.en !,
hgre TO N the eye OF others than the mere seekers af
ter sensations There is something honest and human
III tc sympathy which Is always be excited by
the bare idea that u man Is coutcndip ,sainst
hopeless odds for passion ike the love of home or Al,
instinct like the thirst of independence and il * well
enough perhaps, TIA; in this world, which l. 20 fun of
coiistiUl Gradgrnds, should occasiou be throw,
OIL our guard by such career a. that whieh mas lust e
brought to close in the Caucasus. But when that ca
rcer mas indeed been closed and its merits aud results
come Ia be calmly weighed in tue scales of In. worlds
scrlous interests, we shall always bc oeraby certain 10
ara that there two sides the splendid picture which
mas AWak'ned so many emotions that Right does not al
ways necessarily range herself on the weaker sid. aud
that man navsometimes he in the he
N'hont at all deserving to have been ia the msory and
IL in ils.
Tor the Indian leader certainly and until time sa he No
more there will always be young ladies found TO ween
over the Woes oi Osceola good sound thrashng of
the Ddnites, with vehement persecution of the Latter
Day saints and five years hunt of brigham Youn,,
through the Rocky Mountains would suffice to make tb,
hoImon President theme for school competitions and
Pathetc songs We should have his portly form worked
Tor us in cTA~ct, and future Forrrsi would doub
less reproduce, to the and admiration of genera,
uon yet unborn the naughty hearing aud the stentorian
tones OF sublime defiance with which the Prophet of Utah
wi h..
meath the charitable Of the future into bous az
surprising lovelness his adobe.bult dairy would he
come gildcd srraglio hi. wash-tubs he ETHEREAL
Led into fountains, lustrsus musical aud cool :
la our own day have seen the Emir Abd..l
hader, despite his selfimposed and rather untrsns-
litablc title OF the "Cuttcr.o-o is o--
oiGod, Glorifcd into Il hero of the albums II,
the held he was the modern Jugurtha When he yas
captured ms admirers seemed think that he was de-
ianded o his historical dues because instead Of having
ms ears torn from his head and being cast headlong
down INTO Mamertine bath of chilling stone like his
Nnmdan prototype, he was politely escorted to Paris
punished with patent leather boots and gdnfs bor and
honiscd by .prcuy women of fashion. However they
consoled themselves by discovering striking resep;
6nce between h' head and the traditional types of the
Na'lour Meanwhile Algers delivered from the pesii-
Ience OF his fiery and fanaca ambition gradually settled
down TO her destiny colonization became possible where
conquest had been difficult enough before and Christian
cNhZaiion began IN earnest to reclaim her
own IN those wide regions from which the Vand rooted
out whole Christian world centuries ago.
Sehamyl has been the Ahd-el-Hader and the Moham-
a. that from which Tamerlane spranC he gradually
climbed ON the passions fears and supersons of his
people, by force of his adroness enthusiasm and
energy, to virtual despotism over all the tribes along
he Caspian Sea He inhamed the religious hatred OF
ese tribes against their Christian neighbors the Rus
ans, and fought the battle of sembarbarsn against
the advancing column Of Muscovite colonization with
tremendous perseverance, through long years of aterna
ting disaster and success.
All VINO hated Russia, feared her in Europe enlist
ed under the crescent with Schamy and gave their pens
10 his They represented him as the soul of free
dom in Asia the buiwark OF national rights In tnc East
In point of fact he simply the linen of the Cauca
su bent on retaining the great he had won aud
ON making progress impossible Engishmen wrote verses
about him. and Frencbmen dramatzed him for the Porte
81 Martin-not that they loved Schamyl so much but
that they loved Russia little. Russia meanw he kept
steadily on her career; and now ia the funess of time
secs her foe at her feet Her victory is the victory OF
order, commerce and civilization. If she will but i'm
prov. il in tue spirit which Alexander H. seems TO he
breathing throughout the whole body of his vast empire
she may well afford TO leave Schamy in the enjoyment
OF the sentimental sympathie while he himself receives
the sensible congratulations of mankind.