The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-02-21

D>users g Yeush u Fsnastcai snssrucssem.
n m,rh, moderate the ultra zeal Of many IA.
n.,ical pArents in the Northern States IL they
would reflect upon the possible consequences
n their own children OF the kind Of instruc-
,;on they are constantly receiving on the sub
,ect Of slavery, rs illustrated in the fate Ct
Cook, CcPryc, STgvKNs and others, who have
bren hung and shot in the late Harper's Ferry
tragedy. We presume no one will deny that
the present generation of middle-aged men in
the North received 20 such training AS that
which they are now giving their own chill
dren. They were never taught and they never
heard that slavery was sin, abolitionis's,
forty years ago, being In the Northern States
almost rs rare they how are IN virginia an"
Kentucky Yet. what muititudes OF men, VINO
have never. till within the last twenty year,
discovered ans moral wrong or injustice !"
.,,xeholdiuR. are now educating their chii-
dr., ~ reoa I'd it as the sum OF all yiilalnies"
wv, ,ocanuous child hearing constantly in
.,,1.rcv such tales OF horror as fanaticism
49,. ,,xeoted with reference to slavery-hear.
,,A,ham too. from the lips of his parents,
=. .r. IN him A sacred aud tru thful as the
lin. If 0od. but must grow up with the most
,ho,ough abhorrence Of the system, and, II he
=. of /. romantic and adventurous spirit,
eagerly seize any opportunity ike 'hat WHICH
nnnwx ha,d ont to Cook and others, for the
purpose Of striking blow at what ne mas been
.,,ch, IN consider the most gigantic scheme of
.,;,ns and oppression upon the face OF the
earth. Let the Northern press invoke North
ern paren.s to beware; to put \ check upon
their rabid tongues, at least in the presence of
their children TO reflect upon the fate to which
they may he training that bright-eyed boy at
tn ir knees who is dearer to them than life,
and who receives as Gospel truth every word
that they utter. Let them look at the dismal
fruits which fanatical teaching has already
borne upon the gallOws tree in CharlesowU,
and ask If they will consign their own offspring
20 such a fate-a fate which is even more Ine'-
liable TO all future invaders and insurrection-
sst. than it proved to BROWN and his asso-
ciates.
Perhaps il is idle to expect that any change
will take place for the better in the views now
held By such multitudes in the North upon
slavery, or in their mode Of enforcing them
upon the rising generation. But unless such
a change takes place it requires no prophet to
predict that in the next quarter of century,
the Constitution of the United States will be
changed with view TO the abolition Of slave
~ In the South. One Of the strongest of the
cohesive in uences which now hold the Union
together is the patriotic education OF the ma
ture men and women of the present generation,
men and women whose early impressions were
pervaded by the fresh and glowing love of
country which, at the time of their birth, was
universal, which had come down to them
from the still recent struggles Of the Revoiu-
ton, and which were deepened and confirmed
in every loyal breast by the second war with
Great Britain, war, whose brilliant sue
cesses on sea and shore quickened with new
pulsations of pride and patriotism every
American heart But a generation is arising
which "knew not Joseph" A generation is
coming upon the stage which Taught in it's
infancy that the Constitution is a compact
with the Devil and the Union a league with
He'll. A generation is coming upon the stage
which is taught, as part Of its conscience and
religion, that slavery is a sin against God. and
a great moral as we'll AS social and political
evil. Ii such training rs this continues and
becomes universal, what must be the inevita-
bile end