The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-12-16

rerhearnnce @ A. lislsnisEa II High Places.
A treat change has cusns over tho country In
twenty years. Aboliaohists who, twenty
vars since, would hare hesn universally
loashed and denounced, are now elevated In
acme quarters to certain degree OF respecta-
biiity. They are treated with unwonted cour-
,esy, and even tender regard for their ieei-
ings 10 now and then manifested among very
much respected people At the North and IN the
Federal Metropolis We were struck the otn-
~r riny. with the omission by that veteran, IN
fiuential and admirable paper. the National
fa,.ilis<nc,r. in publishing Mr.. Voorhees,
xueech. of the orators reference to SEWARD
and CLIPPINGS, a. being, in the language Of the
Tnfsgigsneey, aof personal character, not rel
eyant 10 the defence. Mr.. VOORHEES, is draw
ing picture Of the temptation Of Cook, and
ne introduced the tempter. That astute law
yer knew the force OF this course OF reasoning
and he could not have introduced ttin more
skillfti or happier style. Nor could there
nave been anything more relevant To the
cause. The Inselligeacer offers with him and
omits this altogether We would as soon ex-
sect patron of the fine arts to boast OF a
picture of the .TKMrrATIoN," Of which he
was the fortunate possessor, from which the
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lion would be irrelevant and unjust to 80 re-
spectacle an individual as the Devil. Inc ioi-
lowing is the part left out by the inten'gen-
cey.
.The chief Of these men, the leader of great par
W. . Senator 4 long standing. has announced TO
the country that there is his her Ia than the Con
stitution, which guarantees to each man the iuii
sa 81 S., s anssd n tine law
Seward. and not the law of his fathers He has oi
forth ,s sases of abnlitionism, who now cover
md SIX iIk under hast, denias OF Your complicity
" tn he bloody result OF your wicked ana mnnoi.
taud Tel the world why this thing has happened
Tell this ury why they are trying John b Cook Tor
hat he was doing RI ht You taug ut him higher
law and then Pc nted out to MN the held OF seton
Of slavery, says: 1T can and must be abolished,
and you ard must do it What worse Old the pris-
aet. circumstances determine possibilities; and
lou htless the circumstances with which John
Brown had connected his plans made the Poss'
country, unmpeached and uncontradicted that the
reat Senator Of New York had the whole matter
submitted to him, and only whispered back; IN re
sponse, that he had better not been told. He has
boldly announced an irrepresslble conflict between
itious PHI asses, his her law and irrepressbe con
1ict' warrant and invite the construction when
oIaced upon tn .m. Yet they are either in chains
with the frightful gibbet in full view, or sleep in
tIsh0Qored graves. Whl G the apostle anu tndStet
spirit of resurrection is loaded with honors and
fares sumptuousiy every dav. Such Is poor, short
handed justice in this world.
IAN old man. and for long years member OF
the National Congress from Ohio. next shall testl-
" here before you that he taught the prisoner the
terrible error which now involves his life. Serviie
instructions have forever been on the tongue anc
iips of Joshua r. Giddings. He SAYS that when
the contest shall core. when the thunder sha
foll and the lightning FASH and the slaves shall
rise in the South in imitation OF the horrd scenes
of the West indies, when the Southern man sha
turn pale and tremble, when your dwellings SHAH
smoke with the torch of the incendiary, and DIS
NAV sit on each countenance. he Will hail 1t as the
spproaching dawn of thst political and moral mil
lannium which he is well assured will come upon
the world The atrocity of these sentiments
chis the blood Of ho.est patriots, and no part OF
the prisoners equals their bloody import. shall
he old leader escape and the young follower die !!
shall the teacher whose doctrines told the prisoner
rhat what he did was riaht, 90 unscathed OF the
IL htning which he has unclaimed: Ii so, Justice
has fed from her temples on earth, and awaits us
only HE h to measure out what is night between
man and man..
In no feeling of unkindness do we allude to
this subject. No one, as we have on more
than one casion'manifested, respects the In
teNigeneer and its veteran conductors more
than we. Wemake this reference as remark
able evidence'of a change that has taken'place,
and a gradual exaltation of abolitionism to
responsibility it never knew before. Alas and
alasi