The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-29

A CAPITAL LETTER-Ffench Impertiatnce-
The obtrusion OF the "irrepressble nigger' on
our Minister in England, by Lord Brougham,
by Nd means constitutes the only attempt that
has been made 10 annoy, if not insult our
Ministers abroad by the advocates of negro
equality. Our Consul General in Egypt, MI
De Leon. has lately been made the subject of
such annoyance by the "African Institute" of
Paris. The consequences, IS will be seen from
the subj Joined correspondence were not pre-
cisely the same in Mr.. De Icons case He did
not submit in silence to the insult, but wrote
an admirable reply, from which we extract the
following:
In my own country my name has been mu ch
connected with this very subject, but always
in opposition TO mistaken phIlan thrcphy,
which, III my judgment, has assumed 10 be
wiser than ProNldeuce-stronger than God
and which, wherever triumphan has bruught I
forth weeds ashes and blood as its only fruits
as witness the emancipation OF St. Domingo
AID the 81 itish West Indies, and the horrors
of the Cooile traffic in red skins TO substitute
for the black. Il is no reproach TO the eminent
names that figure in your association 10 say
that we, who live under the sy stem, IL com
pTehend it better than those who either draw
apon their lmaeinatlons for their fact Is, OF ac-
Cept them from The poisoned lips and pens Of
oar native traducers, themselves eq ually igno-
rant or needless OF the truth.
Let them reflect whether any large commu-
nity would willingly and cheerfully live in
aud Gle for the ,permanence OF an institution
which really was At once a misfortune and a
crime, ana a clinging curse 10 themselves
an0 :neir children. Even now the spec tacie is
presented to the world OF eight millions OF
" hite freemen deliberately discussing the dis
yuption OF beloved contederacy, as an alter
native TO be preferred 10 the abolition OF slave
~ IN the Southern States of the American
Union. This alone should convince foreign
FhilanthTGpists OF the hopelessness of the task
they have undertaken, in imitation OF the benev-
Olent ladies' In <E.op's tdbles-"to scrub the
EthiOp " whichever did not all previous ex-
peTIence teach the same lesson. Nor are these
sentiments strange Us coming from an Ameri-
can citizen. The fathers of our republic refused
~ reco 1nize either an equal or citizen in the
negro. They left him to that condition which he
has ever occupied since the hieroglyphics
were engraved upon the rock tablets OF Egypt
-(where he figures ever as a bearer o. burdens;
never Us a CONG queror or a king)-down TO the
present day, when France seeks "apprentic j"
and America retains slaves in has defendants.
With regard TO the slave trade, America frs [
declared it piracy, and at this mOment her YES
sells are busy IN suppresSing the traffic.
should not American prefer TO follow in
The footsteps OF the sages and patriots OF the
Revolution, rather than in those of a faction,
which In his own country has as its chief pro-
phe,s an elderly female romancer and male
"Belisarius," who have paraded their stars
aud their "stripes" over Europe for the dis
grace ard defamation of their native land !
From these reasons, which l might, but will
not, multiply, you Will perceive, sir, that
could not consistently or honOrably, either dc-
cept or he silent under the EN- barrasSing cir
cumstauces in which your communication
placed me. But while responding with perfect
frankness, have sought TO do SO with all re-
spect TO gen ntlemen W hose motives do not ues
ton, and remain, with sentiments of high con-
slueratlon, your obedient servant