The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-10-28

dence is Of a character that should make
every southern mans blood BOIL AS a re-
sult Of the Ohio election the bloody-shirt
sbr,ekers have again advanced their stand
ard and commenced crusade, not only
against the living OF the South but against
her dead. Being no longer able to ire
the northern heart with perdition-
batehed stories OF southern outrages
upon the negroes, they have again raised
the cry, MAKE treason odious," and,
phoul-like, are tearing open the graves OF
Confederate heroes to asrerse their memo
ries and impugn their motives in language
that puts TO blush the most malignant and
unscrupulous assaults made upon us in the
darkest days OF reconstruction. After
nearly twenty years Of so-caled peace, Is
Is sought to make the name Of our heroic
dead by-word aud Kissing through
which 10 reawaken the passions oil war
and bring the South as well as the North
under the bondage OF Radcalism.
As as evidence Of the truth OF what we
assert we have only to present few specl-
men extracts from the Stalwart papers.
Taking It's cue from the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, which recently entered into an
extensive gloridcaton OF JOHN Brown, the
Philadelphia North american, "the Oldest
newspaper in America" proceeds to instr
tute comparison between the character OF
that cut-throat and the character OF STONE
WALL JACKSON. After venomous sheer at
the southern people for their veneration OF
the memory OF JACKSON, that organ OF CIV
ilization. published in the City OF Brotherly
Love. says;
"It Is the fashion OF peoples to apotheo-
size and canoniZe their dead heroes. But
II must still be said that the number OF
men and women III the civilized world who
regard the spirit shown by John Brown as
essentially heroic is many times greater
than the number who look upon any Con-
federate leader as patriot. IL John Brown
invaded the peace OF Virginia, be did
II believing that he was about to
make men free, the owners OF them
selves. the shapers OF their own
destinies. But il cannot be said or
stonewall jackson that he attempted
10 free any being in thrall, or one who
was in any way oppressed. He did not
invade a State: he did more and worse.
He struck a blow at the life Of the nation
which educated him and to which he owed
utmost allegiance. II John Brown was
guilty OF treason, much more was stone
wall jackson guilty OF that despicable
crime. III John Brown deserved his pun
lshment, much more did, and does, every
Confederate leader deserve the rope. We
do rot affect to be ignorant OF the casuistry
which canonizes the latter while II heaps
ipiamy upon the other. But ii is the bald
est casuistry and the sublimest. trash.
"Stone wall Jackson was q brave man
and clever soldier. But man cannot be
hero, a saint, and false traitor at one
and the same time. He was an average
southern fanatic. That he was sane no
great number OF rejecting persons be-
| lieye. His acts were the acts OF man
possessed by MANIA" .
"Whether this generation will be able
20 distinguish the hero from the migrate
and traitor we do not know. But be sure
that in the age to come the motive OF John
Brown will shine with cver-increasing lus-
tire. while that of the rebellion will be uni
versally detested. 1t needs no prophetic
ken to discern so much. Beyond, the mo-
tives of Brown and Jackson have been
weighed aud valued, and we have no
doubts about the weight and valuation"
When IL is remembered that some OF
JOHN Browns followers who were cap
tured at Harper's Ferry confessed that
90 the white husbands and fathers were to
be killed and their families were to be
given to the negro slaves, with the land"
the English language fails Of words to
characterize properly the insult conveyed
in such comparison. Truly from the
heart that dictated it has been wrung
| "The black blood In its klscsest spring"
| Yet in one thing we agree with the Norh
| American. JOHN Brown and his whole
murderous crew should have been canon
lized-as the English cannonized the Sc
poys
But this Is not the only despicable arc
infamous measure being resorted TO by thu
Stalwarts to fan the fame Of northern
Radical hatred Of the South and arouse
dead and buried passions. The Chicago
Inter Ocean rakes up the ashes Of Ander
sonville, and commenting on the statemen
OF General BEAUREGARD, that the Fedora
prisoners could not have received bettel
, treatment than they did, says:
: "The treatment of the Union prisoners
/ not only at Andersonville but whereye
the Confederate flag iloated, WAS not only
, disgrace to the South but TO civilization ant
humanity. Ii was worthy OF an armet
despotism battling TO maintain humal
slavery. II was what might have been eX
e pected of Moors, Turks. or Asiatics, bu
not OF any race Of European descent, or @
one making any pretence to civilization
: 1t was cruel, pitiless, mhuman. The dc
I tails, so terribly revolving, have been suff
3 GENTLY made known 10 the world, and forr
i the blacklist page Of American history
o The time has not yet come to deny or b'
o little them"
GAS long as the English language
&c spoken on this continent the horrors {
n Apdersonville will cause men to shuddt
v and to execrate the political and miltal
10 power that sought to perpetuate itself |
such Undesirable atrocities"
IN Every southern man knows, and by tn
Al time every northern man should know, th
the lie has been given this calumny tin
IN and again. The Federal prisoners Jared
,h well MS the Confederate soldiers, and it h
-. been proved that il was due to the inh
or manity OF the northern authorities that tn,
It were not exchanged and supplies were n
rs permitted to come through our lines to {
In leviste their condition. Regarded, ther
ch fore, as an assertion, the Inter- Ocean stat
ed nent is hardly worthy of notice, but i