The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-03-22
A Word for the Northern People.
senbly.

Our Washington correspondent tel, L: ii
his letter which we published yesterday that
Treasurer SclsSEa mates 'eJcl. There arc
many thousands or such men living iQ The
North, even amongst thr=c who ought to
have horizons wide enough to enable them
to see over the top OF their yard fence. 70
all such we commend the following, which
is another one OF the many good things said
in The Sludy Of Sociology by cne OF the
greatest of living writers:
Feelings and deeds we Iaud as yi;!uouS
when they arc not in auta-onism with ouT
own interests and power, we think vicious
feelings and deeds when our own interests
and power arc endangered by them. Equally
in the mvthca! story OF Tell and in any &C.
count not mythical, we read with glowing
admiration Of the successful rising OF al
oppressed race; but admiration Is changed
into indignation if the race is one held down
by ourselves. We zinc English pcopie] can
sec nothing save crime in the cndcarors OF
the Hindoos to throw oil our yoke; and we
recognize no excuse for the efforts Of the
Irish to establish their independent nation
altv. We actively ignore the fact that the
motives are, in Ill such cases, the same, and,
in the abstract, ire to be Judged apart from
results"
These remarks are true, we presume. OF
every people. The northern man "can see
nothing save crime in the cndcayors of the"
southern people "to throw of the yoke y
Of the United States, whilst he sees nothing
but patriotism In the ctIolts OF the irish to
throw of that OF England. He passes reso-
buttons of sympathy with the rebels in Cuba,
whist he consigns the rebel who lives il bis
own country TO the worst OF fites. lie con.
graduates the people Of Spain upon having
set up republican form o.; government, anti
exuIts ovcrthc destruction Of mitch better
one which WAS attempted to be set up by
his own comrtriots. He declares that lie
desires to see the people Of every country
free to govern themselves in their own way,
whilst he con>igns to the Tortugas, TO prison,
to wounds, to death, to everlasting iniamy as
far us lie can influence the verdict Of history
the people Of the southern States who de
sired and tried to establish such govern
ment for their own benefit. The eNplana
ton is given above: "Admiiatiol is changed
"into indignation if the people arc het
"down by ourselves
But the verdict of history will not be rcn
dered by" ourselves" 1t will be rendered
by people who, separated by time from those
of the present day, will give verdict Us in
partial as the one which bias already Gccl
given by people now living who are sepa
rated from us by space. Find out what th'
most intelligent Englishmen OF today ,hini
of the late struggle between the Cnitct
States and the Confederate States, and 20,
will know what the histories of the yea
1913 will probably say upon the same sub
ject. Mr. SPINNER, and all other men of coz
tracted vision, may prof. by the reelection
When they shall have been consigned to OBJ
liyion, the heroes who upheld the cause Of
the South in that struggle will shine in his
tory. They are TO be judged, Heaven h1
praised, "apatt from results"