The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-17

When the South is q land Of free blacks,
and the white population are slumbcring
peacefully in their graves, what will re-
main here to tempt the palate of excited
imaginations and vindictive hate!
These questions are not without in-
terest to those conservative classes in
the North who have been beguiled by
their idolatry of the Union into war of
New England fanaticism. They vainly
imagined that by enlisting in the crusade
of coercion they were subscribing the
interests Of stability, order and perma-
nent peace and security. But these car
diDal objects Of good government are
not to be gained by placing power in
the hands Of fanatics, who have dethssasd
reason, who take counsel only of their
passions and imaginations, and whose
whole history, from the origin of the
Puritan sect in England, proves that they
are as restless and insubordinate when
not themselves the rulers as they are ty
rannical and remorseless when they hold
the reins; that they are chronic enemies
of all authority except their own; social
disorganizers, who will either rule or
ruin; monomaniacs, whose brains are
incapable Of holding more than one idea
at time, and who, as fast as the idea is
exploded, supply its place with another,
equally lunatic and impracticable. At
one time it is prelacy at another, Roman
ism; at another, royalty; at another,
witchcraft; at another, teetotalism; and
at another, slavery. This is. the most
modern and the latest of their hobbies
for the Puri.ans were once the most en-
terprising of slave traders and the most
tyrannical of masters. When they have
rode that hobby to death, will they con-
sent to go.afoot? If they do, it will be
the first time in their lives. Their vital
breath is agitation; innovation is thelaw
of their existence; progress-the progress
of madmen-the first article of their
creed. The sworn enemies of kings, they
are the most despotic of tyrahts; the
professed haters of Church and State,
they are eternally aiming to unite the
two in their own hands; hooting at the
altar. at the throne, they would cease
to exist if they could not have victim
and sacrifice. 1t is slavery and the
South which is now to expiate their sins.
i is more matter of interest to Northern
conservatives than to us whose brows
the sacrificial garlands will next adorn,
and over whose heads the knife will next
be brandished.
But if we had put sword in mad
mans hands, to set him upon an enemy,
we should not be without Some misgiv-
ings as to what he might next attempt
when that little job was finished. Those
rcligionists at the North who were once
the select objects Of Puritan n,alevolence,
but who have combined with them in a
war of sheer fanaticism, may be sure
that the knell of Southern slavery will
sound the tocsin for an assault upon
their own liberty of conscience; those
property>holders who have backed up
with their Influence and money crusade
upon property of all kinds in the South
may discover that their own property is
not safe from the hands OF men who
have been schooled to plunder of every
kind in four years war. It is only
upon the immutable foundations of JUS
tice and reason that the structure Of free
government and personal rights and se-
curity can be so built as to fall not when
the rains descend and the winds blow
A government based upon rapacity,
wrong, and the ductua4isg caprices Of
fanaticism, is built upon the sand and
when the storm comes it will fall: and
great will be the fall Of it.
If we of the Confederacy perish, we
shall neither perish alone nor unavenged.
The fair plantations Of the South, once
the abodes Of cultivated and happy peo-
ple. may gladden the eve Of fauAticism