The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-11-30
brushing" and stamping Out" Re.
beuion.

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The language Of the London press rcla-
tive to the Irish "rebellion" Is so like that
Of the northern journals towards our OVID
people that Il would seem that the London
editors had employed these American
Journalists to write for them. Tne LONDON
Times leads of with the very stereotype OF
the most enterprisips and puoiie-'psr,ted Of
American Journals. Indeed, the Tunes Is
suner.excei,en. in the vein Of Its we'll
known models. That paper Is not content
NTH the phrases stamped out" and
acru.hcd out" which mean the same
thing, and were the climax ofthe northern
editors plan Of DISCRIMINATING southern re-
bells; but the Times adds with especial
energy, though not altogether propriety, of
illustration, that this stamping out must be
done Just as England stamped out the
cattle plagued" The poor Fenians could
not DO placed by comparison in Q more
opprobrious relation. They are as a
plague, and to be " stamped out I" just as q
plague was " stamped out" and just as a
plague should be. How plague is to be
"stamped out" IL matter not so clear
to most men; but the Tines would no
doubt explain it to mean the slaughter.
ing Of diseased cattle 1" So that, however
awkward may DO the mode of illustrating
the process of "stamping out" a Fenian who
should be hung, or beheaded, or run
through the body for his disease" Of Fe-
nianism, would want no more in the way
of definition.
The Ners would put down Fenianism
with relentless hand-that same unre-
lenting hand that has been invoked SO
often by those who fashion public opinion
at the North to put down and annihilate
southern rebels. The Telegraph, more di-
rect and less pretentious in its attempt at
illustration, yet employs the destructive
phrase copied by the Times from American
journals. The Telegraph says such mea-
sures must be taken as to render it certain
that the very first symptoms of revolt in
Ireland "shall be stamped out with an
iron heel" This is in better style than
the Times; but then, to the peculiarly vim
dictive and revengefu' the proposition to
terminate Fenianism as was terminated
the seattle plague" is very delightful.
Though "stamp out" and slaughter rare
not convertible terms, they end alike
in destruction and humiliation. But
that the thing shall be done after
the manner of ending the plague makes it
such a short, sharp, and decisive" termi-
nation ola thing SO abhorrent that it should
be grateful to all mankind. We wonder
that the northern editors had not thought
of this "plague." They beat all creation
in invention-especially in the line Of
bitter phraseology and graphic COMPARE
son-when venting their prejudices and ma
lignities. That they should have left this
strong illustration to be produced first by
the Times is surprising. To have said to
US poor, dispossessed, and excluded rebels
that we should be stamped out like the
Seattle plague" would have been so
happy! 1t would probably have elected
the person who first used it to Congress.
Notwithstanding, however, that the Lon
don journals are copying the very bad ex-
ample of the press of the North in the Ian
guage of its bitter and vindictive hostility
to the South, we shall not be surprised to
see the northern editors inyeighing in the
strongest terms against the heartlessness
and inhumanity Of their London copyists.
In all the civilized world no press has been
so ready to sympsthize with revolutions
and heap anathemas upon tyrants and op-
pressors as the American press Of the
North. We may expect to sec them GEN.
surfing severely the London press for en-
ploying the very words which they have
for the last Ave years used towards the
South, until they have become trite and
unregarded. They will be Mortified at the
barbarity of the London editors. These
amiable and philanthropic American edi-
tors might, indeed, want to "crush out" the
South but to stamp out these Fenians
like diseased cattle,-that is thing by no
means to be endured, and the world must
forbid it!
Alas! The world seems to learn moth
ing from experience. This "stamping !"
out process is not new TO England. 1t is
the process which has famed the flame of
liberty In Ireland, and made the rule of
England one merely of force over reluct-
ant people. The more the people were
" stamped out "-the more their hearts
were crushed beneath the iron help
the more they have determined not to be
satisfied with that mode of pacifcation, and
to rise and resist whenever the opportunity
offered.
So with the people here. The more that
the blind and despotic majority of the
North essayed to "crush out rebellion
and destroy every vestige Of southern
sentiment and manhood, the more deter
mined has been the spirit Of the South,
and the less inclined have been the people
to hearty and cordial restoration Of the
Federal Union. That which might have
been accomplished by kindness and con-
cession Is not accomplished at all, and is
farther off now than ever.
ca much for 0stampin0 Outn And