The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-06
MONDAY MORNING. MARCH 6, 1865.

Lord .ohn Russell winds up his latest
speech on American affairs with the ex-
preston of his great satisfaction that
the war .ill put an end to the horrible
barbarity and sin Of slavery.
Now, hire is "a angel" regular an
gel, with the wings, as Mr.. Thackeray
would say, sprouting visibly from his
shoulders an immaculate, semi-bating
angel, too good for this world, and de-
serving to be prime minister in some bet
ter and brighter sphere than this fallen
planet. This unhappy war, most sad
for Earl Rusel to think of, and truly af-
flicting to Ill lovers of humanity; but
then, drying his eyes, there is this con-
ISOLATION, quo.h the angel, that the reign
of sin and Satan, in the shape of human
slavery, will thereby come to an end.
Is it no. possible, we ask with pro-
found reverence, we should abhor our
selves for indulging such a suspicion,
were it not sanctioned by high authority,
that Satan sometimes appears in the form
of an angel of light Is he ever so ex-
ecrable, is he ever so disgusting, as in
that particular form? When he walks
out in his proper uniform, with his sooty
countenance, his horns and tail, cloven
feet and pitchfork, he makes much less
revolving appearance in every way than
when he dresses himself in the "livery
of the Court of Heaven and under
takes to reprove sin. It is worthy of
observation, that whilst the Divine
Founder of our Faith never uttered a
word against slavery, but, on the con-
trary, cnjoined servants to be obedient to
their masters, the most fearful denuncia-
tions that ever fell from his lips were
directed against hypocrisy. What a
dreadful suspicion it is that Lord John
Russell may be the greatest hypocrite
on the face Of the earth!
II slavery be the sum of all wicked
ness and crime, whose approaching over
throw fills his benevolent soul with such
seraphic satisfaction, why has he ad-
vised his countrymen that they may sell
muskets, shells, gunpowder and cannon
to the party that perpetrates, equally
with the party that opposes, that most
horrible crime that they may sell ships
like the Alabama to those outrageous
criminals, to worry and devour and drive
from the ocean the nation which is la
boring to overthrow the great sin against
humanity? Is it possible that the sin
and iniquity and total depravity of the
United States having ships and COM
mcrce is an even more hideous and ap.
palling crime in the British code of mo-
rality than human slavery?
The ingenious. angel admits that sit
was the crime of Englishmen to intro>
duce slavery to America"-a fact which
is too evident for even Exeter Hall to
deny. Yes it was their act, against
which America in vain demonstrated !;
and, being so, why do they make us re-
sponsible for their crime? We did not
bring the negroes here. They might
have lived in Africa to this day for any
agency that We ever had in removing
them from their native land. If there
was crime in bringing them, English
men were the criminals. But here they
are, brought by those Englishmen, as
Russell himself admits; here English
men planted the tree, and watered and
nourished it until generation has snc~
cceded generation, and the institution
has become so interviewer with the whole
framework of society that to pulli down
is TO overturn the whole social structure.
We have done the best we could with
the people forced upon US by the British
Government; We have transformed them
from naked heathcns and cannibals to
worshippers Of the true God we have
fed and treated them well, as their rapid
multiplication proves. II the act of Rus.