The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-11-27

dan, would not that jury not sviDlaIhiI'
with me though had been savage in my
mode of killing the incendiary AND
wherein, pray, does the parallel fail? What
ever mass-mcetings may resolve, statesmen
know that Cuba belongs to Spain hers
by the sacred law Of nations until-not I'M
FASHIONED speakers, nor fiery editors, nor
boisterous assemblagcs, but--a government
with the awful majesty OF legal power shall
say she recognizes Cuba as independent. On
aw.abiding Virgiuians, has the power you
obey taken that necessary step! II not,
what right, under the law Of nations, have
filibusters 10 claim protection at your hands
That right have you. since you u,t claim
the flag as yours, to require that 1t snail pro-
tect enterprises against the law OF nations IN
general and the United States in particular
How can the flag legalize illeealtty, except
as It did when 1t waved over Mcneil, and
Sheridan, and that Old Capitol prison? If it
cannot, then you murder Spauiards to form
more perfect union" with the worst ene-
mics YOU ever had. What spectacle a
libation Of human blood to "dove-eyed
peace"
But Will our readiness to go to war con-
ciliute themp What are their feelings TO
us now: Pass by the rest of the south ana
consider only the case OF Virginia. 80 lar
as they were able to do 1t consistently with
their own forms they have attempted TO de.
grade us as no nation WIS ever degraded
before. Removing In succession ORD, Scbo-
field. stoneman-men who had too much
sense and too much good feeling TO
work their ends--tbey placed the Digot
Canhy in command, and 1t was bis duty aud
pleasure to see that we should adopt the
Underwood ConStitution-an instru-
meut which gave the negroes ten times
AS much power as England gave the
negroes in Jamaica, and placed the mas
tiers at the fee: of their newly-en1an-
cipated slaves. Under that the militia,
the ballot-box, the jury-box, the Judiciary,
the schools, we're all placed at the disposal
of negroes. 1t was so Intended to be, and
but one thing prevented. \ few gentlemen
who preferred the welfare Of the State to
their own popularity organized movement
that saved their felloI.ctizen5 almost in
spite of themselves, the mass Of Yankees
either asserting or being indifferent to this
threatened catastrophe. Nor have they done
better since. That Virginia occupies her
present vantage. ground is wholly due to our
own consumnlate prudence and ceaseless Ell.
forts and TO The numerical strength OF our
white population. Reading the future,
then, by the light of the past. see but one
sentence on every page: Plumber and de-
qrade the hated South.
What nation Is there q ask for informa-
tiou) which has strengthened itself by fight
ing for its conqueror before it bad obtained
guarantees for the future? My limited read.
ing suggests none. But, on the contrary, it
furnishes one conspicuous instance OF failure
where the service has been rendered before
the consideration was secured. We'll said
her patriot bard:
" When History's muse the memorial was keeping
OF all that tle dark hand Of destiny wcaVes,
Beside her the genius of f.ru stood weeping,
For hers was the story that blotted the leaves"
In spite of countless wrongs, Ireland has
steadily fought for the glory and power Of
England, aud in spite Of the luStre she has
lent TO English achievements in every de-
partment OF civilization she IS treated rs an
alien. Incorporated, like ourselves here, as
q minority in British representation, she Is
thereby the more securely suhjugated, and
weaker BY lust the amount of strength she
has expended for her mistress. The military
and The police easily reprcsS all her struggles
to be free. What guarantee has the South
against similar doom, or are We anxious
to become the Ireland, perhaps the Poland,
of North Amcricat
And when we slisl have thus played Ire
land to our conquerors will we have concllI.
ated them! Not at all. AS Master Shallow
saws, ave had no great love for one another
ut first, and it hath pleased God TO Increase
it upon further acquaintance" and both sides
know and feel it. We are two different peo-
pic In fundamental ideas, in principles, and
in traditions. For two hundred and fifty
years we have beon dycrgiug, and they are
as malignant, as intoleranl, as meddlesome,
as anatical, as seIf-righ!eous now MS when
they banished Roger Williams and Lucy
and enacted their sanctimo-
NOUS blue laws. similar institutions
cannot bomogenize Us, but only make
us like those curious lines In mathe-
MATES which approach constantly nearer to
some curve but will never touch though ex-
tended through ininitv. AS tho only way
to live at peace with Turk is to become
Mussulman and q renegade, so the only way
to corcilate Yankees is to abjure your past
and adopt their present, to assume their ma
ture and become 4 Beecher il religion, FISK
In morals, Il Gould in finance, al Ames IN the
lower House. q Cameron in the upper, O Stan.
ton in the Cubinet,a Sheridan III the field to
mako success the test Of merit, money the
standard ofrespectability and the pedestal OF
nositjon, and to love place and wealth with
oil vour heart and with all your soul and
with all YOUR mind. When this exalted type Of
national character-is it not theirs ?-has
been reached, it may tie hoped that they will
to take US in Oh fur tcrms-l. C.,
next below themselves-into the great rob-
her enterprise which is to liberate and civil
lie Cuba rs they have liberated and civil.
lied Louisiana; with Johnston next in COM
mand to sherman. and Early to Sheridan,
Fitz Lee to Avcril, and all the other
generals that wo love and boast OF, each
with flaming blue uniform in place of bis
old, castaway gray tatters, and each appro-
prlately ranged under some Yankee general
whom he had foled or defeated in the late
war, then to be forgotten III this
new dispeusation Of coucilation. Oh, how
the women of the South will waive their
handkerchiefs at this glorious procession
Two things only disturb the dream: Sup
pose this fratern5ation shall unite oil Span
iards-they profiting by our noble example
and we haYeu sure enough war. And then, il
we do whip, who will pay the expenses OF
the war; who, and from what section, will be
enriched by 1t; aud what will we DO with
Cuba when we have taken it2 Does this de.
serve pause.