The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-06-10
Freedom at the North

If the profound degradation, both social and
political, the total wan. of individual man.
hood or national selfrepect, which will make
ofths Yankee peoplean enigma for future his
torians, were not patent to the whole civilized
world; iftheir ludicrous insolence, their porten.
lous vanity, and their unpaI alleled mendacity,
had not made them the laughing stock of the age;
if the robberies, the murdere, the rspes, the
atrocities of every description, by which they
have achieved in this war an Immortality of
infamy, had not already branded them, for the
present and for all future time, as nation of
thieves and cut-throAts, whom to compare to
the plundering hordes Of Attila and Genseric
would be gross injustice to those relatively
civilized hesthens-the criuging AFFECTION, the
trembling servility with whi,h they now sub
mi. TO the despotism Of Lincoln and his mill.
tary satraps would demonstrate to the most
ineredulous that they are totally incapable Of
self government, and that there is no stretch
Of power which their present masters may
not venture upon with the most perfect impu-
nifty no invasion of all the rights dear to free
men 10 which they will not meanly submit /;
no ithiction of the lash before which they will
not atjectly bend the back.
The arbitrary arrest and banishment of one
Of their most eminent etatesmen-of one of
the very few men of nerve, independence,
aud civic courage Of whom they could boas.-
is an outrage which has no parallel in the
darkest annals Of kingly despotism or military
usurpation. Il is al act the very conception
of which would never have entered the mind
of Southern statesman the bare attempt
to carry it ou. in Great B'itain would shake
society to its very foundations, and would raise
hurricane before which Queen, Lords and
Commons would 10 swept away like chat
before the wind and yet this unexampled out
rage on personal liberty and the freedom OF
speech, psrpstratsd on Q man Of high position
and character, the acknowledged leader OF
party which claims, and perhaps with truth, to
embrace u msjority Of the Northern people, ID
aequiesced in wiihou. opposition and with
hardly q protest, save the empty vaporipgs Of
few public meetings, in which all the promi
nsnt men of that party are Sfraid to partici
pate, and where the presence Of IN armed
force to overaws the speakers and disperse the
asssmblsge excitss no emotion beyond that ol
mute and passive indignation Well may ona
Of the few independent journals which th'
Abolition bsyonsts have not yet suppressed
commenting On this, sxclaiw, "ths presence
among them lths people Of the South Of
martyr to free spsoeh and victim Of Govern
l0snt oppression, bsnishsd from his own Stat!
70 hnd refuge and hospitality 10 the South, vii
operate on the Southern mind - living ar
sa@snt against renewing their allegiance TO
0ovsrnmsnt which has dsgsnsTassd into ,
dsspotsm." The Southern mind had n
heed Of this fresh specimen Of Northern Tres
don " arrive at that conclusiop. The sssoiv
never again 70 renew our connsxion VAL
tAs vilssG 0ovssnmspt and the neapeee peopi
"ahs world ever cav" vas iormsd lon
ons ego. Ocsans Of bIeod now part - VI
svss, esA - sasshiy pewes - ever bring =
sfnia teosahss.