The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-12
RirbnIo1in Dispatrb.


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The Disease sf Secsisnalism Alsrtal - the
Unisn.
In the whole histosy Of popular delusions
there has been no instance Of such persistent
and stubborn self-deception a. that which a
portion Of the people Of the border States
have practieed upon themselves In regard to
the existence OF conservative sentiment at
the North. That there 10 conservative cen.
timent In that section, 10 not to be denied
there were few just men in Sodom there
was DANIEL In Babylon left by JKHovAH to
pronounce the Meme, Meme, Tskel, Upharsin
upon BHLsnAxzKR the King but while every
mornings dispatches bring tidings CT growing
and increased hostility in that section, the
counter evidences of conservative reaction
are like angels yisits-few and far between.
1t was the pithy remark of JONI BRowS. in
his marginal notes upon WARD BKRcHEs's ser
mon, wherein that truculent divine was say
ing what ought 10 be done with shareholders,
"srhy dent he cone and do itf' II we were
asked TO define in few words the temper OF
the entire masses Of the Northern people to-
wards the South, we should say, that they
have the hatred of BRowS with the cowartiice
o. BsscHgR. II poll were now taken in
that section between those who approve and
those who disapprove the ton of Brown
and the sentiments of BEEcugR, the majority
Of the former would double that which was
given In favor Of ALBANIAN LINCOLN, in No
vember. That they have not, long ago, de-
monstrated, In active form, and in the trucu-
lent manner Of their one brave man who as
sailed Harper's Ferry, the same spirit of ha-
tired and the same thirst for blood, Is due
alone to the prudent considerations which
have withheld the reverend BsgcEER.
They have sundered the holy bonds that
bind together in church membership, Chris
tians Of 3 common faith and common Com
munion. The hatred which actuates them is
not merely the hatred OF one people and race
against those of q different nativity, such as
that which kept the Scotch and English cut
ting each others threats fog so many centu-
riee, such rs that which fires the Irishman
with unspeakable and undying vengeance
against his English fellow subject but it
par takes of religious antipathy. and brea thes
forth the same spirit of fire and slaughter
which burned in SAUL on his way from Jeru-
salem to Damascus which produced the night
England in those long and bloody wars of the
Cavaliers and the Roundheads. For forty
years they have taught the hatred OF slavery
In the Northern schools rs an elementary
branch of common school education; and
there is not now one man in five, OF Northern
schooling, In that whole section, that Goes not
believe in his heart, whatever he may profess
with his lips, that slavery is what ne used to
VII in ic So
lainies-a league with death and a covenant
with hell.
Accordingly, every appeal to Northern senti.
ment on this subject only brings out renewed
and still more energetic suffrages against any
compromise with the South. Like ink in
large inkstands, Black Republicanism becomes
blacker the deeper You probe in ito the Northern
heart and every incident that occurs to stir
deeper the fountains Of Northern feeling,
serves to reveal but a blacker state of affairs
OF what avail would the adoption of COM
promises be in a case like this, even if they
could be secured? 1t would be like treating
with external palliations and lotions a dis
ease which rankles at the hearts core. 1t is
like applying the wretched salves and slops
of quack to s broken bone. When Virginia
requested the other States to meet in Peace
Conference, it meant no more, and in the ma
ture Of things could mean no more, than if
she had exhorte them to try bottle Of RAD
WAYS Ready Relief" The CRIrTBSDES Com
promise, conceived, presented, and urged by
its aged au thor in so motherly spirit, hope
less of adoption as it was, and as it is could
have done no more good in healing the Union
than a vial of "SPALDINds Clue
While the South has been SO prolific of CON-
promises, so pregnant and fruitful in schemes
of adjustm what has been the course Of
the Northf Not a single proposition of con-
Citation has yet come from the dominant par
ty In that section, which has not only sullenly
refused TO propose any terms whatever, but
has doggedly voted down every prefer of
compromise that has come from the petition
ing South. How long is this elfdelusion re-
specting Northern sentiment to continue on
the part of Virginia When will she open
her eyes to the wretched empiricism of the
treatment which she is bestowing upon the
mortal disease of sectionalism that afflicts the
old Union Even while she is still imploring
for peace, the imperious abolitionist at whose
Presidential feet she lays her petitions, is
hurting the thunderbolts of war against the
South. Is her Convention too busy with its
schemes for acquiring a contemplate party
ascendancy in the State, not to hear the NUT
terings of impending war; and the approach
ing tread of the mercenary soldier ? Since
the degenerate Senators ef Rome still disputed
for the leadership while ALARIc, with his bar
barian hordes, was laundering at the city
exhibition of faulty.