The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-06
Being Righteous OyeriuHCh.

In the article which we copied n few days
since from the DuLlin Nation, to which we
have before referred, that paper. quoting the
infamous and demoniac threats Of the North
ern journals against the South, and especially
the New York Tribune, which declares that The
rebels must not only be subjugated, but "not
permitted to return to peaceful homes they
must find poverty at their iiresides, and see
privation in the anxious eyes OF mothers and
the rags of children" exelaims with empha-
sis" Was ever more hellish sentiments utter
ed? Where, in the annals of dcspotism, Or the
records Of its butcherics, shall we seek for pa
rallel to this? Where, even against rebels who
had not particle of justification If the sub
jeots Of the most legitimate sovereign that ever
held a sceptre had acted as the Southern States
have done, would these sentiments not be infa
NOUS il uttered Oh his part? Yet, infamy Of
infanies are they when uttered by Republi-
cans again st brother Republicans uttered by
the descendants of the rebels of rs against men
who, with far greater unaoimity, now demand
the self same right those rebels clamed-seI-
Government
demoniac sentiments akin to those Of the Tn
June, which have been uttered by the APPROX
ed organs of Northern public sentiment from
the beginning of this war. We should be per
fectly willing to collect and bind up in the
same volume the strongest uaerances of the
Southern press, although the South, being the
invaded and mensced section, has an apology
which the North cannot pretend for bitterness
of feeling and emphasis of expression. II
would be found upon comparison, that the
South has uttered no such infamous sentiments
n those Of the North that it has never
threatened any act not in accordance with the
rules Of civilized warfare; that it has never
held up to its soldiers the appropriation OF
Northern farms and the desolatiou of North
ern firesides; no such inconceiyaSly villainous
motto as "Beauty and Booty" ever de,iled
Southern lips. On the contrary, the South
has only asked to be let alone, and, in the
midst of the enormous provocations which she
has received, has leaned to the side Of for
bearance and mercy, treating prisoners with
kindness, and releasing, without parole, officers
who had been engaged in the most barbarous !
acts. and Who at once ayailed themselves OF
undeserved indulgence to infict fresh injury |
and additional wrongs upon their benefactors' |
1t is as important for the moral as the poit- |
ical leaders Of society, to observe and trace 80 /
its causes, this extraordinary development in |
the North Of degree of cruelty, vindictiveness |
and brutality, which, as the Dublin Nation
IN has ii.l
despotisms Of Europe. The Internal senti-
ments Of their press, which have made the
whole civilized world stand aghast with amaze
ment and horror, are also the sentiments Of
their people. Their pulpit has even ira nscend-
ed the wickedness Of their press and their Chris
tian Associations have We'd with each other in
the exhibition of the most uuchristan aud ever
devilsh spirit. Now, bear in mind that this
is the same section which has always claimed
to be the most enlightened and the most hu-
name of mankind; that ii has looked down
with sublime complacency upon the barbarism
and godlessness OF "benighted Europo;" that
it has monopolized to itself ali the vital pie
ty" Of the world, protesting that its religion
was a,"religion Of the heart" and all other |
peoples religion only religion OF tho sur
face that this il the section which exultfd in |
its American Bible, Tract Missionary, Tenn |
peranee, Peace, aud hundred other pioas and |
benevolent societies that this is the section 1
where, when trade became bad and there Was |
nezLieg to do, people betook themselves to
Fui,us Street Prayer Meetings. and stood |
praying every day at the corners Of the streets |
and ia the eolsaaa rs Of the N. Y. Herald, and |
hox shall we accosGl tor the transformation Of |
this salt OF the earth ia as.acic and strych- |
ssins, If thess saints and angels int. ;ncarnate |
tiea.i,s
We subnit THU qaeslioa to the moral philo- |
Sphws but. FIR ourselves, ~ believe there |
has Leea No change Of nature hGt oaly an |
exposure II tks ssSi character. II We aTs 1
told that allowances ssY4 be made for the |
Affects of the war sp'rit, We beg to ask which |
kss had the most proyocAtion ~ sioiegt pas-
si.ss xrd ferocious threats, the North OF
Eouti. What has the SsGth done to the |
n orb thst - old raa il mad ia this fashion |
Ga thu other t.El, what hGs not the South
AduTsd from The Essth. the wrongs, robbs-
,es spd insults Of thirty years. winding up
Nth iii. wicked and inbuman igvs.ioD ?
y.t the sDn.b has Eot lost its balance liz
nave MT disxfAesd sheir.name its
'isrxy haze only tsayht lessons of humanity