The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-07-27

e,rcst aud dearest r. laohs were slain IN hatl'e
, nd he lives but to mourn and hate"
where a lost cause makes vengeance nope
ees. it naturally falls TO hate ana eAtFeme
.neecb. Taking the opposite circumstances
,nfo account, are General Preston's eHpTes-
.;ous more yindictive than the North nas
,eard against the southern people iro,n
haraneuers such as Wendell Philips, Geoela.
C.rv and others, who had lost nothing oy
fba warp Does be show uore VlnoN''ye
,nirt than that exhibited In the corresponu
ence between Halleck aud Sherman aoou s
wreakiue special vengeance on oa'auAA"'
Columbia, and all South Caroitna1 so,o-;r-
'Asto General Preston's tancitu. uee NJ
,ton of the character and motives OF lue ~ 1t
England Puri,aus, we can let that 90 Mltn
| The Offset the descendants OF tue ! u.i ,~..
ore wont to make by describing tne sme :
tion TO the southern colonies % lna hie
ch,ffiy of the worthless ana ois'spu." a.
classes and of convicts. Ano we Ms .o
member that so great stalesnlan 90 the
Jefferson. who had no cause .,st nearl1 all
people of New England save Soa. neI, r,,tv 90
VI o,-o u nf the New England people tnat
$50 ore marked like the Jews, WITH sucn q
| arversity of character as 10 constitute lroul
.pna, circumstance the natural division OF OUT
. ar,;ss ,, And he reasoned further tbas tney
~. N c,rcumscribed territorially that tney
''.o,,ld always be in the minority, and there
fora il would be possible for the southern
,aonIa to live in political union with tnen
Jefferson thought a political union WHO
rho New England people tolerable only on
the condition that they were ever TO De u
the minority. General Preston thinks IL in'
toJerable because they and the people OF Tue
same shirt in the North are the strongest
Iofrars,n had no provocation save that luz
Saw England people disliked him. gene
raI Preston has seen the S1utn suooueu a.
The end of desperate and exhaustive war
I;s own State oyerrua by devastating
army his own town aud home burned, abo
his Iindred sacrificed 10 vain war. lah'ns
the circumstances Of the two INTO ascoun'
which one shows the most vindlctive Spirit :
II ia easy for those who have not SUFFERED
nv the war to say that with the emu OF lux
war its pass 'ons should subside; but IT is no,
SO easy to those for whom war has destroyed
all that v as worth living for.
At any time in the war the superiority o.
our resources should have been TO US al as
surance of final triumph; yet thcn, ana al>o
when the triumph was assured, we nau oau Nv.
few bowling haranguers straInlng Iangu,g'
IN VfnQtCtlNe eApiesshon' =. :u,ho
ern people. There were ie" sasase ,ln th.
Giles who c,pped the climax by declaring tne
: Southern rebellion the greatest crime since
the crucitixion. Ia the passions oil the war
when many thousands of our young mel
were slain every month, these expression:
did not greatly jar our sensibili:ies. But &c
General Preston the passions OF the war nave
not subsidized. They have left him bis rela
tiyes slain, bis estate destroyed, his home E.,
burned. bis section conquered, and bis STATE
degraded and made alien to him by negro
rule, Abundant ceusure is being pro
uounced on him in the South, because MI
address will be quoted in the North as soutn
ern sentiment. And so it Is published. bu
we take it as the expression OF Genera
Preston's feelings, and we can think no
others would feel if they could put Them
selves in his place.