Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-01-19
to be excused for not participating III the excite

iect or sole object of what very large number believe
TO have been, the uniounded apprehension that was
created, Notwithstanding the dilemma to which the De
mocracy were reduced for some new issue slavery
while many of them admitted that this whole affair was
Godsend to their party; but what do say is, that
that had been the sole object the most efficient means
adopted TO accomplish the end in view temporarily
at least whether il will last long enough to result in
forwarding the views of any great political party in the
country will depend very much, presume, the facts
that may be disclosed by the investigating committees
Of our Legislature and of the Senate Of the United
States Blu, every thing said or DONE or that was left
uusad undone at the North has been exaggerated,
magnhed and distorted by portion of the public press
and by designing men at the South whilst every ndis-
Greet Incorporate and foolish thing, said done by
highly excited people the South has in turn been pa
raded before the people of the North with view OF eX
torng, in retaliation every species of menace and de-
nunciaon, and OF keeping the North united, until the
general but careless reader would have become impress
ed with the belief that state of things had arsen that
could only be terminated by the most disastrous civil
strife.
The New York Herald and New York Tribune both Of
which | take aud read every day, have for the last
ninety.days been loaded down with the intamma
natter is intended to operate the Southern
mind for what useful purpose have not seen, and the
other upon the North for purpose that is manifest
out between the two, they have furnished abundant
supply of fuel TO keep the most extensive political fur
mace at its utmost capacity of heat
That there good aud bad men in all countries, in
all sections, in all communities, in all parties and in all
churches even, every one must admt-and that de-
PRAYED and wicked person can set whole neghborhood
in uproar and disturb the general peace Of society
the occurrences Of every day life have taught Us all -:
that few such men effect similar mischief larger
scale, every must kuOw-and when large body of
misguided and designing politicians either end of the
Union, have brought their minds to the conclusion that
their only hope for whatever designs they might have in
view, rested upon the amount OfmhammaOry excitement,
that could be raised among their respective friends sym
pathizcrs and iOowers-and they set their heads to work.
to ind fault with everything and crimnate everybody
in the opposite section, and they in send back
their indscriminate denuncatious and recrminatons
and the ball is thus kept banded backwards and forwards
with increased impetus at every blows 1t TO be won
dered at that later a spirit OF misunderstood
Ing, d>afectOn hostility and menace should spring up
among the idle lOolers-on which may finally extend it.
self TO the whole community These two parties, the
dsuniOuiss of the South and tho aboltonists OF the
North constitute the "CapuletS and the "Monagues
Of nation by keeping all the rest in constant state
Of commoton; and plague on both their houses say
Ii the good men OF the country, those who satisfied
to live in the Union formed by fathers and
upor the and conditions that they lived would
only step forward, and take the control in their own
hands Just for year only if they did not like it lon
gerand crush both these miserable factions into atoms
they have the power to DO, and then TO keep them
crushed as there would be no serious difficulty in doing
they would accomplish an object that would be
Diary in importance only the work of their ancestors
in establishing the only resting place for the genius of
Liberty on the wide expanded globe.
We have become very much nation of hunters after
Office and of spos This is the case at least with those
who make all the mischief for the rest Let those who
are satisfied with the Union asit is elect President and
Congress who will hold every abolOnist and dsuniOnis
in the land who tainted with the spirit of either, and
all who manifest disposition TO agitae the only question
that produces dscOrd in otherwise happily cemented
L.. l.fV
try and their brthrght and it will be found that the pat
rouage and influence of the government with its $50,
600 900 of annual expenditure whatever other sum TO
which may be reduced, will be quite sufficient in few
years 10 cure the evil which will become small by de-
grees and beautifully less year after year until it will
disappear altogether. Let all oces, patronage aud in
fgegcs, be withheld from them, and dsuniouists
abolitioniS would become useless worthless and
contemplate in their influence at the polls that they would
longer be cOured aud CareSScd; and they secretly
cherished such damaging doctrines now publicly
boosted Of in their respective localities, they would
sooner proclaim them aloud, than they would make a
public confession of their ludey the religion of their
Saviour Money Place and P0oer, IS what the mischief
makers make mischief for; deprive them OF these, by
corrected public spirit and combined public effort and
the government, which is now disgrace to the age in
which We live will be restored to harmony dignity and
efficiency. In personal and private sense there
good meu OF all parties in COngress-DcmOcrats Wings,
Americans aud Repubicans-but how mauy Of them are
there who would utter threat of dssOuuou-ior which
they have been clothed with no more power than you
l. j aud how many would make a speech on slavery, If
they ei. assured that it would be attended with their dis
missal from the puOc service DO not say that there
is district In the United States from which or the
other both might not at first be returned 10 Congress
but such influence the part OF the government as
have mentioned added to the eIertion OF the conserva
tive men Of each district whose interests suffering
and whose patience is well nigh exhausted would
root them out and force them into different course OF
elton; for then their influence would not be felt and
quoted at the polls for this it Is that gives them all the
consequence they possess
But what has occurred Justify this camor for dis
olution, aud general preparation for civil war?
subscribe for receive and read hy-two papers week
besides large lot of Others that ara sent me, or that
with elsewhere; there cannot therefore, be very
much OF Importance aAoat that do not have fair OPP
portuuity 10 see or hear or and yet an wholly Ea-
informed of any necessity reason for the one or the
other Indeed have no reason for alarm, or I'M
essiues az any thing that has occurred. pray that 1t
may all be examined with close and scrutulng eye,
with camuess and deberaOn worthy Of the great in
tere-ts involved, that may what il amounts 90,
before We light mp this torch OF civil war; for any fool
NAV set fire to temple whilst the entire population may
be unable TO cZtiugIisL thc flames.
l. 10 them because old Brown with his mindful of free
uegr-ss sad deuded followers made unsuccessful t
tempt TO get up ss!yile Instruction for which he and
they have all suffered death ia form or other eN-
c.pt the two now 10 custody. | suppose not for that
matter no an end and they have passed from the scene
of their mischief aud their wickedue>s; and presume
nobody Is afraid of Jhcn now whatever may have been
tb. considerations they OccI.0ued amOrg the women
5ll children when alive.
Is any one apprchersve that such an attempt or one
on larger -culc is likely 20 be- made hereafter boy any
now living and who have witnessed the result oil their
miserable failure and when they have seen what AN
imme,ce force could be collected together any day or
u-., .cr protection Of people, and doicncc OF
rr- No M. Never
Bit will they encounter such odds again.
II surely is prevent rescue now for there are
none left 70 be rescued but two and they attract no at
tention What then i, il. We are told that a certain
set of religious enthusiasts aud tInatcd abolonists,
continue in the vocation they have oowed Tor the last
thirty ve..s end persist in preaching against slavery,
aud that those who them preach don't rise and dis
countenance blame aud denoUnce IL far iroG it, they
actually In many instances profess to feel sympathy for
Brown. Wen, then, are We going 70 smash mp tins
great Empire and arm the State against syapdhy are
We
VIZ. ! soc nothing remarkable in the fact that SYM
pahv should have been expressed for man. who had
been represented them aud by high authority too as
hero" and "a bundle OF nerves. ian honest sin
cere aud truthful man. and it, instead of looking upon
him IS 60 as wild, visionary, dangerous murderer
and outlaw who came Ehere be had no business to
come 10 execute what he had right 70 interfere WITH
/ could have been led to believe, lac was hero and
ian honest sincere and truthful man" would have
sympathized with him. also, and would have proclaim
ed it aloud 10 all the world.
Now il seems TO me, that sympathy for Brown or
wan; of sympathy for as, might constitute sufficient
reason for breaking oil social intercourse between the
sympahiser and the sufferers if they were neighborS
but rather inadequate for dissolution OF the
Union o. for arEng the State. But the mere express
sion of sympathy on tho part Of BrayRs friends, no
more affects rights Of property, than the conaemna-
ton of that sympathy the part of others protects it.
If the tenure of slavery were to be decided by this test