The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-06-17
THE Great Fisk In Trouble.

hidden from public gaze ana puo,1 W.
ment, we caunot imagine wna' l. i''
ara Of oninion that JAMES is great scamp
hut IL Is apparent that the "ors' o' u',n 10
-, Ue has hardly anything to lear
from further exposure. lie mas peci' '0
aa,.,roIv and universally censured That we
c,,,, convinced that there arc amongst ms
,o,,sors some people worse than himsel.
uc has certainly the virtue of frankness, !
and il not dead 50 poetic sentiment, as Is
shown by his happy solution of the loss oil
a great sum of money, which he suggested
had "sone where the woodbinc twmeth."
But dcpravcd as FISK is said to be, he
he has vet virtue left--which Is love OF ap-
probation. That is q great one. AS long
IA n man has that there is hope of him.
With him it goes SO far that he is willing 10
pay for its manifestation, rs appears from
hisscorrespondence with the Bostonlans,
who higgled about standing up to the COST
of public honors to his regiment, which he
proposed to display in the Athens OF Amerl-
ca. He replied that the expense OF such
public matter was to him nothing he would
stand that Does not this present FISK in
All enyiuble light? He values money as
dross in the scale against the honors OF his
countrymen
FISK desired not only public honor to his
well-drilled regiment and himself, but he
desired publicly to acknowledge the Chris
tian religion and to worship before oil men
ut the altar. So he begged to appear IN
Boston streets and to appear i'll the public
1 S,ln l.
tication of this elevated sentiment.
What are we to think Of the Puritans
when, in reply to tue devotional epi>lle OF
FISK, they infolm him that this sort OF
thing cannot be done that they don't want
drums, and flies, and uniforms in their
streets of Sundays in time Of peace, &C.! 1t
would be 4 scandal. FISK endearored to
flank the Dostonians by piously INDUCING
his deyotions in public in Charlestown, the
satellite of Boston but even there the hum
/ Die aspirations of the siock-waterer and
gold strategist are squclched by an illlberal
sentiment. He is informed that Bunker
,, Hui is in charge of 4 society, and that VIM
throp Square, another place in the city, is
now unit for parade, rs it is in course Of
preparation for the soldiers monument.
Thus things stood at last accou nts. Now,
is it not = hard case that Colonel FISK
, finds not only the doors Of Boston and
Charlestowu shut against him, but that he
is denied even the opportunity OF ollerlnS
. up prayers in the public spaces and COM
mons of the two cities? Here is u man
f who is actuated by love Of public appro-
, b,tion-has taste for arts patriotic to 1
, degree that has led him to equip rcSi-
ment and maintain it at his own expense -
' who loves poetry-who, like APoLLos,
2 waters that there may be increase, ana
= who adds 10 these motives and ambitions
= the desire publicly to bow down with his
whole regiment, with their brilliant uni
y forms, in the moral city of Boston, in ac-
I acknowledgement OF his and their depend
ence upon the Supreme Power. and yet he
y is not to be allowed to do SO! 1t IS the
) hardest case Of the day.
fl We know that the BoStonians Think quite
' we'll Of themselves, and doubt other peo-
, Piles religious orthodoxy; hutwe had sup
posed that they had enough OF cunning
e with their picty to induce them to allow
' even the devil to be piou>, or to do good
thing il be offered TO do so. Thus they
5 might indeed cntrap him. But no. They
2 don't like the drum, and abhor the
e scrceching 1Ge," nor have the glittering
e uniforms any charm for their eyes. So they
= will have nothing TO do with FISK.
4 We doubt not FISK is much better than
r many OF those in Boston who make long
: faces and utter long prayers, and turn with
: horror from his gay and festive toliies;
: bat that don't help him OF in his darling
scheme Oft grand parade in Boston and in
: the public exhibition of his piety. If he
would go up into 4 high mountain with all
his men, and there larry for forty days,
, it would enable him to get the better OF his
} Boston tempters. The Adirondack hills
would suit him admirably.
We shall see what FISK shall do. At
present he is pretty well bluifed by Boston
pu.itaniom, and an injunction won't save
him. His ingenuity never was So soreiy
tried.