The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-07-02
SATURDAY MORNING



The great national festival of The United
states will be celebrated tlis year With nm
common spirit. On the last anniversary
Grant occupied Vicksbarg; this Fourth,
crowning glory of all, he il 10 take Rich
mond. With the capture OF Richmond, the
war ID TO end, the principal rebels he execu
ted, the plantations and negroes Of the
South pass 30 Northern proprietors, IFS
mighty States dwindie into euhlugated ter
ritories, and the Republic move on with a
momentum and majesty which will astonish
and overawe the world. The American
eagls, with one wing overshadowing the
Atlantic and the other the Pacific, and with
the Southern Confederacy struggling help
lessly In his ta!ons, will scar aloft, giving a
scream that win scare the British Lion out
of his vita, and make the Gallo cock "ske
daddle" like a Shanghai. on, paissant and
Irresistible Ulysses Oh, memorable and
immortal ath of July, 1854
We consider |: au unfortunate thing that
the 4th of July docs not occur In December.
The Thermometer ought TO Indicate the
freezing poiut when q man reads the Decla
u
ence at such time as this. He must be
cool man naturally, and ought to have a re-
frigerator for q rosirum, who has the face to
60 through that docu neut before public
assembly, from the clause which asserts
that ''GA governments der''ye their Just p01eer
from tie cons ut Of the goperncd," down to
the fnal article in the hong list ofroyal ont
sages-"hs has tre ted dp,iedic insurrect;on
among aas." There is not q wrong alleged
nor grievance enumerated in that mstru-
ment which Lincoln has not perpetrated
and surpassed. TO denouuce defnnct king
of England for deeds which an American
President Is eulogiZed for performing, is an
enterprise which no ordinary m ortal wopld
undertake 10 this weather.
These are the circumstances which must
add to the difficulty of such performance.
Such for example as the fact the "the day
they celebrate" dawned from the sky of
thai Virginia which they are now seeking to
rend and dcvour that II was Richard Henry
Lee, delegate from Virginia, who, by in
etructions from his constituents, rose in that |
dreadful hour, and moved the resolution OF |
Independence That It was Thomas Jefferson |
of Virginia who drafted the Declaration |
whose anniversary they celebrate; that it |
was George Washington, of Virginia, whose |
mighty craftsmanship made that Declaration |
good. To add new glories % the +th Of |
July by crushing Virginia forever to the dust, |
is conception which could enter none but |
the brains of q peculiar people" To carry |
among their trophies on the 4th, shattered |
lamp, whose golden light iilumined the mid |
night that blackened between Bunker Hill |
and Yorktown, a triumph that no hearts but |
theirs could glory in.
Happily for us, they can enjoy that feast |
only in Imagination. Their demigod Ulysses |
has failed to furnish their popuiace the |
promised entertainment. The capture Of |
Richmond on The 4th OF July has not come |
OF according to the programme. Never
theless, LET the Northern patriots he content |
II they have not taken the capital, they have |
burned the iarm-houses, devastated the |
fields, and plnudered the defenceless popu-
laiion of State which gave them the Aaron,
Their freedom, and the Moses whose vaIor |
led them through the desert
The only doctrine OF the whole Declara-
lion which the North can consistently ra-
ioIce in, is that which asserta the equaiitp
M man, and which ia the solitary biuuderj
in that great document. That all men are
created equal; that they are equal politi-
cailY, morally or socially; that they are
equals in any other than religious sense, is
too evident an absurdiiy gravely to discuss
But this single falsity has swallowed up in
the Northern mind all the great truths and
principles of constitutional liberty 1t is
1is, as applied specially to the ignorant aud
1ehased Africans, which is the IA ,inspring Of
the most Internal war known in modern ,
lines. 1t is this which blinds the North to | {
the supreme folly Of celebrating their own !
freedom by endeavoring to enslave others
Of degrading Themselves TO the level of the
black and endeavoring to pro duce by lnisce.
9enatlon that uniformity which the God of
Nature had forbidden, and OF glorying in |
heir shame. IL