The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-05-18
SIP EECJ7 OF
IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND,
May 18th, 1857,
GA~ REVISED BY HIMSELF .

I u SVF'IT.
! am travelling South, not to make speeches,
but 10 improve my health. Nevertheless,
| could say few words which wonld tend in
however slight degree 10 bring my country
men into truer and an afiectiOnate union with
| each other, gladly would say them.
| History tells rs that the beloved disciple,
when 20 aged and iniirm as no longer To be able
| TO walk, was carried through the religious as
sembltcs. 1t further tells us that all he did as
| he was thus carried was 10 repeat, " Little
| children, love one another - Little chill
dren, love one another have sometimes
| thought, when looking upon the unhappy dl-
visions in my beloved country, That We're l
| good man, and worthy 10 inculcate love, |
| should be well employed III going over 1t ana
| bidding the people to love one another-the
North 10 love the South, and the South TO love
| the North-thc whites 10 love the blacks, and
the blacks 10 love the whites. But II Is easy
| 10 forcsce what, should | ever be thus en-
| poyed, would be said of me. IL would be said
| that am 4 ySionary-nay, that | am a fool.
| II would be said that the great and bitter dis
agreements III our country cannot he quoted
| by mere sentImentalism, but only BY sound
craftsmanship. Nevertheless, | must still
believe that all sound craftsmanship -
warmed and NitaliZcd by love, and that the
| craftsmanship Of which love is not the soul i
exceedingly pcrnlcous, rs well as utterly
| spurious.
/ must still believe that love will every
where. and even in the province of statesman
ship, prove itself 10 be d" the fuIfillng OF IN"
law" twill yet bc the acknowledged law OF
prevail over the whole earth; and this rei
glou is love. The whole earth will Yet re-
| fleet the image of God and - God is love.
| Now, in the first place, "" want TO see the
North and the South bound together in mu.
| tual love. The war between them i ended
but peace has not yet come. We have only
| truce, and hardly that. Ill feeling is smo-
| ;her"d, and hardly that. 1t j. not eNtln-
| gulshcd. But how can there be this love be
tween those who have recently hated each
| other win all the hatred which comes Of such
| 4 horrid war II can be If each party viii
| earnestly begin and earnestly continue 10 do
| its duty. Aud tirst-what must the South do
| She must. III the phrase OF lhe day, accept
| The situation" She must admit that she j.
| cuuqucrcd aud is III the hands of the con-
| querur. Such admission i surely no disgrace
| 10 her who fought 50 braycly and so persist
| inglv. aad whom it was SO hard and weary
| task for her enemy. although so far her superior
| in numbers and resources, TO overcome. Her
| .0uuucror has prescribed the terms OF peace.
| In these She should acQniesc": If not with eu-
| tire chrcrtuIurSs nevertheless with all posi-
| bic thpcrtliuc>S. These terms, though, Tor
| one | would have had them somewhat mldcr,
have nevertheless not been prescribed III the
| spirit Of injustice and yindIctiycue,S. II"
| .uuuuerur~ would have shown more lrnliN.
Hence j. strikes me - unreasonable, not 10 say
| uugratrtul also. for The south. or portions ol
| IT, TO run 10 the supreme Court. III order 10 get
| away from the terms imposed by III" con
| gucrpr. By the way, how strange II Is that
| they. who thus run To that court, VIII be 50
| foolish and - suicidal aS 10 consent 10 take
| the position before II which they do The po-
| >ltIun that the seeding states aT" sun, ana
| have been throughout III" war, under the Con
| StitutIou and in the Union 1t j. very True
| tnat, whilst the strife was yet III its Inc!plenl
| STAGES OF an luSurrcctlon or rebellion, these
| STATES were StIll under the Constitution and IN
| the Mon. Bat il i no less true that, when
| the strife had attained 10 the dimensions and
| dignity of civil war, and especially when
| each party was nation re fuct", that slrlic
! was 40 longer under the law Of the Cons lItu-
| ton. but under the law of war and those
| States were consequently no longer III the
| Union. To this conclusion DO the pre-cminent
| puhlicists bring us. TO this conclusion does
| the Difference due 10 numbers bring us-a de
| ference, by the way, which Il Democratic pco-
| pie should ever be foremost TO sanction. 10
| This conclusion are we urged by the LiberallSt>
| OF Europe. who would not leave II in 1e
| power OF dies pots to WELD an American pre-
| cedent in behalf Of charging with treason
| the conquered III Il civil war. To this conclu-
| sion are we brought by the growing demands
| Of a higher civilization 10 exempt wars from
| the rlgor Of municipal law, and 10 mitigate
| them with the humanit"s OF the law OF war.
| And his by the way, had been the unanimous
| conclusion Of this very court which II now
| called on 10 reverse that conclusion.
| This position, that i State can, by no posi-
| bility, get away from the Constitution ana
| the Union. was, 10 serve their part! Inte-
| rests taken by our northern Democrats, and
| 80 were not Il small share OF our northern Re
publicans tempted 10 take II. The south should
| nave scoruod 10 take il. | am amazed that She
should consent 10 be guilty OF the sell degrao;i-
| tIOu and self condemnation of taking IL. In the
first place, She knew that, all theories 10 the
| contrary Notwithstanding, she had thrown
| the Constitution 30 the winds, and broken out
| of the Union. In the second place, she cohld
| not be 50 blind ~ not to SEE that her ad-
| mission that she is still in the Union l. her
| virtual admission that she is still guilty of
| treason and i still exposed 10 III" constitu-
| tlonal pains and penalties OF that crime.
| How absurd this doctrine that State can
| not release, herself or be released from the
| Constitution and the Union What II Nlrgi-
| MIA shall, at some future day, 20 Tor lndepeh-
deucr. and because the heart IN her every DO
| som shall prove 10 be 4 heart Of oak, and the
sinrws in her every arm shall prove 10 be -
news Of steel, she shall b" found by all the
other forces of the nation 10 be irresistible -
| must the nation, from the necessity OF Keep
ing her under the Constitution and III the
| Union, 90 on fighting her forever Must
- the sword devour forever - Must blood
never cease 10 flow? Nopaper can Great" >uch
| 4 necessity. The parties, If both agree 10 the
dissolution viii be ut liberty TO dissolve their
relation to each other. The nation may say
that rather than continue this hopeless strug-
gle, she Will let Virginia 20.
| have said what the South should do: that
She should " accept the situaton,' and let the
| North dictate the terms of peace. now pro-
cerd To say what the North should DO.
The North should deal very Justly and very
| generously with the South. Therefore, in the
first place, she should honestly admit that she
is, III common with the South, guilty OF TINS
| war. Thus guilty IL she II the war splthS, lie
| some say ii uid, from the doctrine OF Slhte
| sovereignty, FOR this doctrine was held NJ the
| North as well as At the South. Jefferson and
| Madison. who both held II, were hlgh au-
thority ut the North a. well as at the South
| And here let me say that If they saw this doc
| triue in the Constitution 1t - quite certain,
not that the doctrine Is there, but that II Is not
| with sufficient plainnesS smut out from lhe
| Constitution. But the Cons tltution was Inc
| work OF the North as well rs OF the >outii.
| The war, however, did not spring, unless IL nt
| in q very slight degree, from this dactrine. III
| .rraur from slavery and the North was qulte
! .. respous Iblr as the South for slavery. FOR,
| remember, as ! have already sad, that the
| Constitution was the loInt work OF the Nor'h
and the South and remember, too, that' Win
| The exception of few persons WIN extreme
| views. All have held that the Constitution
| vas made in the interes or slavery. confess
| that | am amongst these fe" persons. TOT
| | hold not only that slavery was not II the
| constitution, but that 1t could not, by any
| ,,.Drds nr any means whatever, he got into II.
| piracy cannot be law. But slavery Is the su-
| nerlaiiye piracy. Murder cannot be law. but
| tyh,t right minded parent would not rathel
| ,b,t his child were in the grave OF tile lhur
| aaras han under the yoke of slavery ltfol-
lows from the responsibility of the North Tor
| IN. Constitution, that she ls also rcspohsioi'
for the statutes of Congress, ana VI stale ~
gislaturrs, and decisions OF federai anu Stat @ 70
Judges, which the alleged pro-sIa'e IN sna, .'
ter OF the Constitution called lot. me siei'
majority of the colleges, theological seihlh''
rles and churches of the North were laihteu
with slavery, and eXerted an lhhueneo W ~
hold 1t. The great mercan Vie anu i'i.',, ', -.
| turing interests Of the North were, WIN 'N
executions in the interest OF slavery. Com
mrrcially The North benefited by slavery IL
more than did the South The South held the
COW, but the North MIXED her.
In the next place, the North shonIu iee'
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