The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-10-10
Rirtusaah gispatte.
=. MORNING. 49,. DOT. 10. 1852.

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s.., ai.posed 70 think soneta mes
,ss .n.r.e,er Of the ancient Phartsee has
49, ...a,,h.. misunderstood. II 10 true ne
-. ..,,.s,icrablc sinner, but he atoncd for
). :. rsnraxtne everybody's sins bat his own.
:, ~. fsxorite peccadillo, Of devouring the
..... az widows and orphans be not al
sa .,,.r COMPATIBLE with our modern ideas OF
IA wrong 1t must be admitted, on the
,,,,sr hand that his prayers were long and his
s.,,.,nar sancsinonious. II IL true he prayed
tn,nnn,,e bu, that was better than not pray
,nr a, all and If he thanked his Maker that he
w,sa better man than the publican, who
lnei, beside him, ii was because he felt that
~ had earned the privilege Of shining, BY in.
dulg,ng in 1t only whom it was manitestly TO
his own advantage.
Whatever else may be said Of our elder
cousins across the water, it is obvious that
they read their Bibles, and though they some
times fall short Of full obedience to its teach
,ngs, 1t cannot be denied that they choose its
be ob,e,e ted that the models themselves are not
the best tina, il is possible to find, in the sacred
writings, but at any rate they are there.-
To prove this fact is work OF no dill
Guilty whatever. For example: the whole
structure of society, in Great Britain,
is supported by slave labor; take that away,
and IL would tumble tomorrow. Our cou-
sins are we'll aware of this fact, and they do
not dream of running so great risk as they
would do If they abandonedit. Nevertheless,
they consider slavery great sin. What is to
be DONE then, Play the Pharisee, and make
compromise with heaven; hold to the reve-
me Of the sin, but abuse the sin itself de-
nounce the stakeholder, but fatten upon the
products of his plantation. wear the cotton,
use the sugar, and pray for the blessed hour
10 come when every master may have his
throat cut by his slaves; do the one thing i'm
possible Serve God and, at the same time, wor-
ship Mammon. If there be other national
sins which il is hard 10 defend, they may be
disposed OF i'm The same manner; for your
genuine Pharisee claims n monopoly OF crime
and cannot tolerate in others what he does
every day himself
We have been led to make these remarks by
the violent tone which the English press has
assumed towards the American people, be-
cause an American General, for the avowed
purpose of protecting American settlers
against tho Indians, has taken temporary pos
session of the Island of San Juap, without
pretending TO decide the question OF right, but
leaving that matter TO be settled by those who
have authority in the premises. This act has
been represented by the English press, as 'ons
OF those acts of piracy by which the repre-
sentatiyes Of the United States are accustomed
TO settle their disputes with their weaker and
more barbaroas neighbors," and we told
In the style Of Ancient PIsToH, that, sit i.
time they should be taught that they cannot
indulge in it against powerful and civilized
nations" This is the language Of the Man
chester Guardian, paper whose whole life,
soul, blood, and existence, is derived from
bales of cotton. The London press is not less
furious, aud is perhaps even more insulting
General HA.NEy is described as "a hot blood
ed Scntherner, ENORMOUSLY identified with
Cuban and Central American flliibus ters, - a N
Indian fighter, sunacquainted with the rules
OF civilized warfare" and the American Off
GERS in general are stigmatized as "pirates ;"
and s'licensed ruffians."
Its hard to bear all these things. very hard,
especially when our government has shown
every disposition to settle the quarrel in an
amicable way. 1t is hard TO be told by peo-
pie who make knights of wholesale murder
ers like RAJAH BROOKS, and defy assassins
like the officers that shot the Indian Princes
after they had surrendered on terms, that our
officers are pirates and ruffians, and that the
men who lead our armies know nothing Of the
rules of civilized warfare 1t is hard 10 be
told it at this time, when the world has
not yet recovered from the sickening horror
with which it learned that scores of helpless
captives were bound fast to cannon and blown
into eternity and that, too, by the very people
whose officers perpetrated that abominable
act. 1t is hard to be told it by the very men
who arc crying aloud for the invasion Of
China, and the indiscriminate murder of her
inhabitants, because one of their own thick
skulled dipiomatists undertook TO bully them
and got badly beaten for his pains. 1t is hard
TO be even threatened with war, AS we are,
when our government is doing everything
within its power to keep the peace And who
are the British people, that they should be
threatening us in this style! Are they not
the same people we kicked out of the country
eighty years ago. when we were but 100000
strong. and are We not now nation Of 10000, :
600i Is not their very existence dependent
upon our cottonl DO the asses who bray in
the newspaper Offices of London and Man.
chester never reflect upon the formidable
weapon which we can employ against them
A0 they not know that the fate OF the British
government is in our hands, and that we can
overthrow it by a word Do they not know
that a revolution would ensue IL we We're to
withhold our usual supplies Of cotton, even
for few months
The Philosophy Of Emancipation.