The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-29
"Uniou Savers

"Uniou Savers
1t will be rememb ered that this time last
year this term was one Of reproach among
Black Republic journals at the North. A
porto OF our Northern fellow citizens, gym
pathising with Virginia, whose territory had
been invaded by an armed body Of emissaries
OF Northern abolitionism. held public meet
iuss TO express their adherence OF the outrage,
and 10 condemn In proper terms the vile school
OF fanatics, dsmagogues, and reverend hypo-
critics, whose teachings and agttations very
naturally led to such violence and bioodshed
- the raid Of JOHN Brown. They expressed
their fratsrnai regard and sympathy for Vir-
GINA and their execration Of that Northern
crusade against Sou thern institutions, which
they assumed must, unless checked, lead 10
the destruction of the Oon federacy TAe BLACK
Republican press heaped its bitterest safcasms
upon those meetings, and directed aheir Keen
eet ridisui. at the pa ointment partcipators IL
them. Tney were called sneeTinsiy ana CON-
tamptuousiy Union Savers" The most self
ian and sordld motives were attributed 10
them The glowing eioQaence aud patriotic
fsryor OF The distinguished orators OF the day
who were attempting " stay the tide that las
sveeping the country 10 the gulf Of disunion,
excited the livelest and most gra tsful emo tons
in Sou,h~rn hearts, but at the North they
we're unheeded and had no other effect than to
make The speakers the objec s OF vindictve
assaults of the Satanic press and pulpit
Their worst apprehensions are about to be
realized, and their warnings, then disregarded,
threaten TO become true prophecies.
Tne scene is now changed. Those who
ridicuied the &" Union Savers are discovering
a, last that the Union is in danger and are
about 10 try their own hand at Union saw
tnrm Even THURLow WEED, the great Biac
Republican wire- worker OF A bany, sees some
thing really alarming, and is making sugges-
lions as 10 means Of compromising our ,rou-
bxs. and forming a more perfect Union."-
He suggests repeats of State laws inconsiste nj
with tne laws Of Congress, and that the Fngi-
I've Slave law be amended so as TO make 1,
less obnoxious TO the North, with all "nesdfu
mayer for It's execution" He also suggests
thai a provision be Incorporated making
counties where fugitives are rescued by vio-
leuce from officers who have them in charge,
liable for the value OF the slaves rescued
This IL new and remarkable proposition
10 come from such & quarter, and a very
practical one indeed. But MT WEEDS sug-
rsstious twelve months since would have
been more etficacious perhaps. Then he
and his cOnfederates were Tor using all The
capital they had in trade including the
.HKLPKR book" in order to carry the North
for Black Repubiicanism. They could then
make 90 concessions to the spirit of patriot
asn-no Offering to the good of the country
They We're engaged in saving their party then
and rdieuled the Onion Savers, whose pa
triousm was arrayed against their sectional
ism Having brought the country TO the brink
OF dissolution, they now themselves are I'M
dertuking the TASK of Union saving. They
profess To regret many things, and desire to
updo others. Even WEED deprecates the
HELPER book now that he has used ii success
fully, aud says it is con trary TO his sentiments
and feelings. How like mockery does all this
look7 The Herald apply compares these ac-
Acknowledgements to "death- bed comics sioDs."
These demonstrations from certain OF the
f3laok Repu biican organs and leaders are a
sort OF lardy tribute of Fraud and Hypocrisy
10 Justice. They may be siIcere, bat they
look more like they were extorted by alarm
than the result OF honest conviction and sense
Of duty. DO they come in time That is the
luestiOQ.