The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-06

South.
20. ys that love msnkind. ye that dare oppose
Every $40, o ths old worid sn HS an
preston. Freedom hath been hunted round the
globe. Asia aud Afriea have long expelled her.
Europe regards her u = stranger, and England
hath given her EARNING 70 depart. o, America,
receive -, the iaEiaiy and prepare n time an a'y
The illus trious fugitive has no longer home
| in the Northern States of America. Consti.
tntional liberty has departed from that inhos-
pi'abie region, and seeks her last resting place
upon the generous soil of the South. She
comes as fugitive. 1t is here alone that she
iinds home and country, with the child
rem OF WAsHISGToN and JEFFERSON, the so,ie
Of MARION and SuxTgR and GREENE.
She has been expelled from the North
She could no longer dwell where the Higher
Law prescribed the Cons titution, the Bible.
and God himself; where public virtue had
sickened, langnished and died where honor.
truth, faith, those plants of tender grow tn, had
been eradicated from an ungenerous soil
where disil terestedness of aim and motive had
become sentiment unknown where all edu-
cation and language was cant, and indirection
was the universal principle of conduct; where
honesty for honesty's sake was a stranger in
all public and In all private affairs; where the
upNciuiHeHL ndu utRtueEdItu III W JOD, Tue
people in to a mob. the ballot-box into Jug
gle. Constitu tional liberty can have no exist
ence where the popular mind is perverted
from truth and justice, tho popular heart set
upon folly and vice, and all the forms of mo-
rality, religion and government turned to pur-
poses of secret peculation and outward ia
natcism and prescription.
It is with the South alone that the hopes of
fra l I 10 barn alo.,a I,
lican liberty can be administered il purity
and with success, secure alike from the strong
arm of usurpation and the H. surgsnt mad.
ness of the mob. The war may continue as
long as the Revolution armies, numerous "a
the French armies OF NAPOLEON. NAV ba
raised and kept in the field for long periods
relationships may be declared, and NAV exist
for years together; but the end of the war
viii witness, at the Sou tn, the same exbibi.
ton with which WAsaXGToS astonished the
world, put all history to shame and en- hroned
his name supreme in the realms of fame
There is no man in the South capable of ot
tanning to elevated command, who has not
the heart of WAsHISdToS in his bosom. and
who, at the conclusion of peace, will not glad
ly, Of his own free will and choice. In the
same lofty spirit of disin eeres tedness, and
ism, render back his sword to the authorities
VINO gave 1t. True, there may be ARSoLDs in |
the South, as there has been born a Scorr
but the sentiment of honor and Independence
our very atmosphere, is such, that men of
this nature, by moral necessity, inevitably |
sink TO low positions, or go off aItoge Their, in |
times OF great exigency. From the very Or |
ganizaton of Southern society; from the |
training OF the Southern mind from the so |
cial and political sentiments ever dominant In |
the Southern character, usurpation by any OF
her own sons is the most impossible of ali |
sources Of danger to her liberties.
There is even less danger from the other d.
rection. With US a mob is an anomaly We
cannot run upon the evils Of pure democra-
CIV. We can have no pure democracy. So
ciety cannot be turned bottom up by the
upheaving of the masses. The slaves have |
no voice at the ballot-box. The very presence
Of the negro makes a gentleman of the white
inspires him with selfrespect infuses him
with a sense of his political Importance and
his responsibility as citizen.
The oppressed of mankind need not despair.
The experiment of free institu tons is not a
failure. Mans capacity for self government
will yet be indicated. We shall fight the
good tight. We shall conquer peace. We
SHAH establish constitutional liberty Ia purer |
'orms and administer her rites in fairer tenn
pies than she has yet known. 1t is for her
'ake that we have come out from the cid |
Union. 1t is for her sake that we have Sc |
iered our connection with those who dishou-
'red and repuGiated her