The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-07
Rirhmono Dispattb.
SATURDAY MORNING =. SEPT. :. 1856,
This Conservatives.

This Conservatives.
The present generation will not be likely to
forget tie lesson in human nature which they
have learned from the course of the Northern
Conservatives. The rupture with the South
has lifted the veil from many hypocrite who
would otherwise have gene down to posterity
as prophet of truth and virtue. Never since
the Divine Founder of Christianity appeared
upon earth has there been such revelation of
whited sepulchres. The Scribes and Pharisees
of that day were told that the pabIicans and
harlots should eGter the kingdom of Heaven
| before them, and we have little doubt that the
Conservatives of the North are as far behind
| the same classes as their predecessors in Jeru-
salem. Such Scrbes and Pharisees as Eve
| RETT, CUSHING, FILLMORE, DICKINSON & Co.,
are neither as honest, yirtuous nor manly as
the rabble Of New York and Boston, who, in
their ignorance, believe that the cause in which
they are engaged is the cause of patriotism
and freely expose their lives in its behalf. We
have infinitely mora respect for the poor devils
who compose the rank and file of tho Union
children to suffer the pangs Of poverty, and
come themselves TO bear the brure Of battle.
than we have for tho rich, soriid, cowardly
Conservatives, who have cften declared that
the South would be perfectly right in resisting
the dominion Of q sectional candidate like
LIHeoLS, and that the North in like circum-
stances, would aud ought to do the same, and
yst, tho very moment LINCOLN issued his De-
cree of Sufjugat alton, rallied in solid mass to
his banner and We'd with the blacklist of
Black Republicans in giving every encourage
ment ard assistance to his cause, except such
as would compromise their personal safety.
Up to tho period that the war lifted the
veil from these conservatives, Americans in
their devotion to the almighty dollar, had
generally como to the conclusion that the
"solid men Of the land in purse and position
were the "solid men" also in integrity and
patriotism. They are now beginning to awake
from tho delusi0n. Extreme wealth and ex-
tremc poverty are alike inimcal to virtue and
honesty. Trus conservatism commands the
respect Of every one; conservatism which
guards with sitepless care the Institutions,
rights and prerogatives of free people; which
conseryes justice, good faith, the constitution
and laws. Bat as for the spurious thing which,
under the guise Of patriotism, means nothing
more nor less than conservatism of cash, al
homes. men spit up7n and abhor il. 1t is more
base and contemplate than agrarisnism, rad
icalsm, and the rankest abolitionism.
Let every man read the speech of EVERETT
upon the JoHN BROWN raid: the speech of
FILLMORE ct Buffalo declarigF. tha. the South
ought to resist the election of a Black Repub-
fcan President; tho speeches of Cushing,
DICKINSON, BUTLER and Others, before the
election, substantially to the Same effect, and
then ask-What are We to think of these men
personally, Individually and morally, in the
light shed upon their characters by their pro-
sent course? Who can believe that one of
them differs in any way from BILLY WILSON'S
robbers and ravisbers, exce2. as a fear CT the
peDitontiary and public odiuul makes him DIFF
fer? VINO does not see that, under their moro
decent APPAREL cleaner shefs, and better
washed faces, arc natures just as false, selfish
and sensual as any in BILLY WILSON'S gang?
Many publican and sinner, at the Five
Points, will enter the kingdom of Heaven
before these Scribes and PharisseS.
If there Is one feature Of this conservatism.
which is rs disgusting in its hypocrisy, it is its
unparalleled cOwardice. Not one conservative
Of them all has ever dared to show his con-
servatism in any way but tho preservation of
his own precious carcass ard fortune. On
peaceful anniversary days, aud in Washington
oraions, they could never say enough of the
principles, and rights, and liberties, achieved
in the American Revelation, but the moment
these are assailsd by the vulgar usurper at
Washington, they all deserted them to a man
a8d, even now, when the freedom of tho press
in their own cities is tramped under foot,
whs1e ii is treason to think peace better than
war, and tho dismal shadows Of large mill
tary despotism threatens republican institu-
tons in their own States with total eclipse,
they dare not say one word. Aud those are
the msen on whom the deuded South once re-
lied f1r cooperation They told her to the
last tE.2t they would rally to her defence, and,
i she would only be patient, would, in the end,
put down her enemies in tie North, and COM
pei them to do her portion! Well is it for the
South that she did not long continue to lean
upon that false and feeble, and rotten reed