The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-01

"A IOIHIcI NOVcEuOE VI L EcuDSy wanna,
afterwards Minister at Foreign Court,
told story of an Indian boy who had
been adopted into his fathers family,
and educated, dressed and trained in all
respects like himself The two boys
separated, and some years after, this
Governor, travelling through the Western
wilds, encountered his old foster>bro-
ther, nearly as naked as the day he was
born, an out and out savage. The Indian
told him that, in the mindst of his civil
lied pursuits, sudden impulse came
upon him for wild life, and he could
not resist it. Away went books and
broadcloth, and, with bound and
whoop, the original savage plunged into
his native wilderness. We, who have
been so long dressed in the outside
clothing of what we call civilization,
forget that we are all savages by nature
and when an impulse strong enough
comes upon us, off come the clothes,
out goes the gas, up come the railroads,
and down 60 the ships that constitute
what We call civilization. With mighty
leap and defiant yell the tiger in human
nature springs from its covert and leaps
upon its prey.
1t is but a few years ago that the peo-
pie of New England, claimed to be the
most civilized of human beings, invented
all kinds of machinery for the reforma-
ton of mankind and the fabrication of
cotton goods, organized Peace Socie-
ties, insisted that the millennium was at
hand. and manifested such extreme aver.
sion to the taking Of human life that
they were in favor of abolishing capital
punishment for the greatest crimes. The
Mexican war was an abomination in their
nostrils. Their. papers recorded with
horror all the atrocities, real and imagi
nary, committed by American soldiers
in Mexico. Their bards waxed witty and
satirical over the cruel nonsense of war.
What a run the following doggerel of .
Yankee poet had in New England il
those days:
"The war candidate . dreadful smart man,
He's been on all sides that gives place or pclf,
But consistency still was part OF his plan,
He's been true to one party, and that IL him
| self.
"This old fellow he goes for the war,
| He don't yally principle more N an old cud;
What did God make US rational creeters for
| But glory and sunpowder, plumber and blood?
1--WE were gittin' on nicely up here to our village
With old-f,shioned ideas Of what's right ont
| what amt;
We thought that the Gospel went asin' war an
| And that epaulettos want the best mark Of
stint.
The side Of our country must alters be took,
And the war man, you know. he is our country
And the angel who writes all our sins in book
Puts the debit to him, and to us the per eo""y
"Parson Wilbur he calls all these arguments lies
Says they're nothing on airth but just iee-'a"
And that I'LL this big talk of our destinies
| Is half on it ignorance and tother hall rum
"Parson Wilbur says he never heard in his ii'e 4.
. That the Apostles rugged up IN swa1'er-'"'
! coats a..
And marched round in front Of drum ana q me <
To xit some on 'em Office and some on en- Vose'
"Well, it's mercy we've got folks to tell US
The rights and the wrongs Of these ma''eFs'
| vow; ,,
That we've got country lawyers ana other '1n'''
L fellers, "A l.;
TO drive the worlds team when " ee'. !"
Il slough."
, Now. who on "sirth +" would hav
dreamed, after that, that "Parson WI
bur" would have "risged himself up !
= svsllaw-tall eoss md wSrohtd scuad !