The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-10-30
NnR Books.
Bill Arms Peace Papers. With lllrstra'
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Bill AR IS one of theahalf-dozen l'u,
anorists TINT acquireda, national fame just
after the war. He now presents himself IN 10
a book, with illustrations1rare and gso'e'quc
enough for any 4purpose,by gentleman
well known in this city.
For sale by J. 7. ELLYsoS. 49,, ~
.Tesso,uinc. A Novel. By MARION HAs :,
."-1Asp. author of !" Alone" Hidden Patn,@
&c. New York: G. W. CARLTON q 20.
The author Of this book Is well known 10
the noye.reading public. She is a native Oh
Virginia, IL not OF Richmond, and enjoyed
great popularity in this State for her her early
| productions. Her stories are chaste, ana are
gracefully told. Nothing that has pro-
ceeded from her pen could excite the slight
est flush upon the cheek of modesty.
For sale by J. T. ELLYsoS. ,a
| The Life Of Emma Willard. BY JonS
LORD. LII. D., author of =" The Old Roman
World" Ancient States and Empires.
&c. New York: d. APPLETON Il Co. 80
This is the life: of a very eminent ana
very excellent lady, who was chiefly famous
for her zeal in the cause of female education.
Perhaps the most remarkable action OF Ter
life was her extraordinary efforts, at the age
of seventy-three, to avert the late CIVIL war;
Dr. LoRD's book, very full with reference 10
her whole life, i, particularly clear and de-
tailed with regard to her Jealous cXer'
tions to moderate the temper of both sides
in the war of words which preceded the war
of blood. and her appeals by petition, letter,
and conversation were unrem'tted, anu,
when we remember her age, really wonder
fuI. Mrs. SrGouRSEY earnestly assisted her,
and when the war came it carried no deeper
distress to any other heart than thaI OF 'ne
venerable Mrs. WILLARD.
She died in 1870, at the advanced age oil
ciglty-thrcc. after life of almost unparal'
lrlcd usefulness. She is said to have edUca-
ted some six thousand young ladies. She
WAS much patronised by the South, purely
upon the ground Of her worth and rare
skill in teaching the female sex. She was
decidedly opposed to slavery, but was en-
tirely lust in her view of the history OF
slavery. the responsibilities of the South on
account of it. and the cmbarraSSmcnts under
which masters were placed.
We cannot resist the desire to make an cX-
tract from an article written by this remark
able lady for the press, entitled d" The Wa
! Media. on which the North and South might
meet in 4 permanent and happy settlement"
We quote from this essay (written in Deem,
Der. 1864:
"Said the eloquent Henry Ward Beechcr
(Who has recently modified bis views re-
Specting the ncgroeS). II had been God,
| would rot have made them at all but
since He who is wiser than all of us put to.
gctller has seen lit to make them and bring
! them here, what are you going to 10 with
thcm?' Batting a touch Of profanity, we
would thank Mr.. Beechcr for this candid
statement of the case, indicating Is 1t docs
the Great error of ianaticiSm. Doubtless
/ God made the negro, and lie made him is
He made the white mnn,-after His own per-
feet ,uttern-and fitted him to his own pc
cuiar place and duties; and the reason Of
mems embarrassmcntS respecting him Is that,
overlooking the indications of Gods will
concerning him, they have jumped to coll
illusions from their own conceits. That this
is trlc is evident from the tact that they lind
the negro made amisS. Said the late Gov
ernor Slade-and he sighed deeply rs he
! spoke--sAftcr all that we can do for the nc-
groeS they must be black
"Among the philosophers who have
thought the creation might have been III
proved had the Almighty taken them into
their counsels we may now reckon Mr.
Beechcr in addition to King Alphonso of
Portugal-thc last respecting the stars of the
heavens. and the first respecting the negroes
of the earth. And be it remembered, they
were both in advance of those who re-
manned satisfied with the false systems
received around them.
."Ot those false systems none are more
pernicious, none fraught with more fatal
consequences to our social system, as regards
both our race and the African, than that
which sets up for the political equality of the
negro race, and holds them entitled in this
country to all the political privileges of the
whites. l particularly take exception to
this rs woman.
"Reckoning, for the sake of arg ument,
that the people of this nation exist in four
parts-one, the white man: two, the White
woman; three, the negroes; and four, the
Indians-there is but one part OF the four,
the white men, to whom political power
appertains; and it should only be the cdu-
Gated among them. Others having nothing
to do either with making constitutional laws
or legislative enactmeDts, or any share in
administering them after they arc made;
and so we hold it right that it should be.
| We sit down contentedly in class which
has not this power, believing that in the
present state of the world our political
rights and those of our children are safest in
the hands OF tue educated men of our race
and that to take care of them is their high
and sacred duty-a duty which is not trans
| ferrable, and which they cannot impart to the
men OF subordinate race without keenly-
| felt indignity and wrong inflicted upon U.s."
Thus spake one of the very wisest of her
sex who came down to us from the rerolu-
tionary era Of '7G. She uttered the voice OF
the women of America.
The plan Of rednion proposed by Mrs.
WILLARD was the liberation of the negro
and the taking of him under protection ana
pupilage by the white man, and so continued
in the guardianship of their old masters, who
should extend over them !" a parental gov
eminent" After time they could be able
to 90 to Liberia or elsewhere to establish
their own political government. The States
were to return to their former relations, and
no political privileges to be accorded to the
negro above the right of freedom and securi-
ty in person and property.
A letter appears in the book from General
McCLE1LAS highly approving the plan. This