The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-14
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the Express Of that city, to be diverting their
rage from the South, by occasional pop guns,
at HORACE GREELEY and Brig. Gen. WEBB
The man in the white hat is their master, and
they know it. lie may DO the Devil, and we
are inclined to think that in everything bur
courage. forecast, and that "prineely state .
| which belongs to the fallen Majesty Of He'll,
he is Devil. A vulgar Devil, earthly and
sensual, but Devil in hardness of heart and
vindictveness of temper. Whatever he ma y
be, he is the master of BROOKS and BENNETT.
the master Of their masters the autocrat of
the Northern press and politicians, who, one
| and all, march ut his heels, shout when he
| shouts, scowl when he scowls, and dare not
| dissent from him in any recommendation of
| any dovllish deed, murder, arson, housebreak-
| ing, or rape, which he chooses to recommend.
We must do these captured conservative
editors, who belong to GREELEY, who are the
prey of his bow and spear, whe follow him rs
meekly and submissively as over did oriental
captivos a Roman triumph, the credit to say
that more pretentious persons than themselves
arc captives behind the Same victorious car A,
the tail of the White Hat comes q long list
Of celebrities that it gives us curious sensa
tons to look upon. Has the Day of Judg-
ment,-we ask it with revcrence,-begun to
dawn, that already the secrets Of so many
hearts are beginning to be revealed? Look
at WILLARD FILLMORE, who, n few months
since, declared that the North, in the
event Of an attempt ia the South to rule the
North by sectional Adm inistration, as the
North has attempted to rule the South, would
never submit to it,-look at him, holding up
the coat tails of the Man in the White Hat
and shouting Hurra, and let loose the dogs of
War. Behold the rhetorical EVERETT, full of
courtly grace and suasity, swinging his hat
with measured grace in the same captive col
umn. FERNANDO WooD, Ex-senator DECKER
SON, DUELLO, Stockton, CALEB CUSHING, and
we know not how many moro, marshallipg
their solid ranks IN the same august process
sion Did ever White Hat before have such n
following? Here is a fellow, absolutely as
green in many respects as his native hills
Of Vermont, who has no pretensions to
craftsmanship, common sense, or anything
that is practical in the whole range of human
thought and action, who has blown away upon
his one idea bugle with such immense force
and amazing pertinacity that every hillside |
Is full of answering echoes, and old mountain |
gorges, that ought to disdain to reverberate |
anything but the roar Of lion or the solemn |
thundcrs of Heaven, give back the squeals of |
thip Enpt borp n
and fidelity, as if it were the blast of GABRI- |
ELS trumpet!
We have, therefore, no sympathy with the |
pulling and puerle pettishness of BENNETT, |
BROOKS & Co., at anything their master and |
captain may say or do. More influential men
th an themselves walk with docilty ard alacri- |
~ in his footsteps. At first we felt sad, aud. |
albeit, unused to the melting mood" were
almost ready to shed tears over the metamor-
phosis exhibited by our old friends, FILLMORE.
DICKINSON, CAsS, EVERETT, DoUGLAs, WooD, |
CUSHING Co. Never, since NEBUCHADEEZ-
EAR went on all tours and grazed with the OK
en-, has the world seen such degrading trans
formation. But, on the whole, we concluded |
it was about as philosophical to laugh as to
cry, aud there was something ludicrous in see
Ing these "solid men" of the North, these
portly old silver greys, with their dgnified ro-
tundity, heavy watch chains. sold-head
canes, and countenances Of portentous impor-
lance, scrambling. running and turning SOM
ersaults, to see which should get nearest to the
coat-tails of HORACE GREELEY. We have al
ways had q shrewd suspicion that ''solid men,
in general, are the most "solid humbugs' on
the face of this humbugging world, and are
mostly that kind Of character known in tie
Sayiours day as Scribes-Pharisces-
crites,-to whom he addressed those awful
Words-"Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers,
how can ye escape the damnation of help
Recent events have not tended TO weaken that
opinion.
We will, therefore, stick to our text. and
recommend the Brooks, the BENEFITS, and
others of the New York press, to give the
Devil his due, and to recolect that they
have enlisted under master who knows
what to do with mutineers. The only news
paper now in New York, or in the North, is
the New York Tribune All the money Rev.
NETT has spent to make his Herald the Ti,aes
of America. might as well, so far as that object
Is concerned, have been sunk in the Atlantic.
All the hbidinous entertainments from the
lays OF HELEN JEwETT, with which for TWEEN
y-fve years he has debauched society. until
he moral stencil Of New York rises TO Heaven
ike the foul clouds that drew down avenging
Tres upon sodom, all these have failed to Sc
'ure him the coveted reward of his prostitu-
ion. The Devil has swindled him even worse
han he has swindled the public. The Herald
S not the original, vigorous, dominant journal
# New York. That Journal is the Tribune.
That press is the incarnation of Puritan ideas, :
abits philosophy, fanatcism, sensuality, sell
shness and cruelty, whilst the Herald is but Z
miserable imitation. Even Brgadier- G eneral !
VERB is more respectable in the eyes of the ,
'outh now than JAMES GORDON BRNNErr-
WEBB is only a fool. Let GRErLEr attend at
nee to BENNETT, and stop the grimaces he is
aaking at himself and his Lieutenant