The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-09

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DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION.
Ths London Advertiser states that Of the |
,ub;ects to be discussed 1t the approaching
Anti. slavery Conventional Manchester, Eng
and. "there is none Of such vital importance
"A that proposing the discu ssion Of the feast
bility Of dissolving the great Union Of States.
which il has too often been said is governed
by the hearts of free people, and which
now stands, in its greatness, an example to
the world" We should be duly thankful to
the abolitionists Of Great Britain for taking
up this subject II has entered largely into
the purposes and discussions of our aboii'
tionists at home. but they have not yet been
able to settle it to the satisfaction OF the
country. Perhaps the mad-caps OF England
may be more successful As soon as they
have communicated their deliberations, they
should let the United States know its fate'
with all possible dispatch. We are ANXIOUS
to learn where they propose to run the divid-
ingiine We would also be grateful for pre-
else information as to whether it is intended
that the discovered States shall preserve a
Republican form of Government, or ex-
change the Republican for the Monarchicai.
In the latter case, shall we be allowed to Sc
lect our own ruler, or will we be kindly pro-
vided with one by Great Britain? Possibly
she could spare one of the prolific royal ia
mily without much incumbrance to her de-
pleted exchequer.
Its pleasant and philanthropic thing TO
have the affairs of one nation thus gratui-
tously cared for by the government and peo-
pie of another nation. What is more COM
mon and convenient in private life than for
one member of society, without emolument
or reward, to attend to the concerns OF an
other, while his own affairs are in like man
ner generously supervised by some friendly
neighbor of his own? Without these reclp-
rocal social attentions, the world would come
to stand still. The intercourse OF men anu
women would lose all the spice and cayenne
of back. biting and mischief making, and that
sweet satisfaction which arises from the con
temptation of the faults and misfortunes OF
Others would never again pervads a hui
man breast. Hence the gossips OF Man
chester act in accordance with the ap-
proved principles of human nature, when
they propose to sit in solemn conclave upon
the question of dividing the United States
of America Generous souls, who, without
requiring the eight dollars per diem, which
we allow our Congressman, are willing to
settle our business for us, "free gratis, for
nothing!' We are almost sorry to see Great
Britain take such pains and expense in what
we cannot but think thankless labor. Mil
lions upon millions has she exhausted in re-
peated efforts to cut this country in pieces
with the sword, and now, in no wise discour-
aged by the ungrateful manner in which we
rejected her advances, she is taking the Re-
public into the keeping of her Manchester
lords of the loom, and will presently testify
her love for us by changing the seamless ia
brio of our Union into coat with as many
colors as that of Joseph.
1t is an ungrateful world, however, and the
most uncharitahbe construction will be put
upon the plans of this Manchester Conven-
ion. 1t will be said that, Notwithstanding the
near and dear relationship between John
Bull and Brother Jonathan; Notwithstanding
they both talk the same unexceptionable
English, and claim as their common proper
ty, Blackstone and Jeffrey, Shakespeare and
Amos Cottle, Charles the First and Oliver
Cromwell, Lord Nelson and Capt. Kidd, John
Bunyan and Jonathan Wild;-notwithstand
ing they have the same laws and the same re-
ligion, or rather the same want of it; notwith-
standing their bowels of mutual kindness and
love are moved to their lowest depths after
good dinner in spite of all these cohesiveinfu-
ences, it is our most uncharitable conviction
that the strongest desire of Bulls heart is to
gore Jonathan, to rend him into very small
pieces, to trample i'm into the earth, till not
so much as grease spot of Yankeeism is left
to spoil the fair face of creation. If this is
not the policy of Great Britain, then the
signs of the times are all at fault, and our
venerable ancestor has become in his old
age, model of disinterested virtue.
If nations, like men, are governed by their
interests; if in fact their interests arethe only
principles practically recognised in their con
duct then it is clear that the disunion of the
United States must be favorite object of
British policy. At one blow that disunion
would strike down commercial rival, and
great Republic whose influence is fatal to the
permanency of her own oligarchy and the
preservation Of her aristocratic institutions.
Hence Great Britain has fed and nursed the
fame of abolition in this country; contributed
funds; sent over emissaries; feasted runaway
negroes, and their white followers, who have
visited England; and has finally disclosed her
rsal purpose in the project boldly avowed bv
the leaders of the movement at Manche.,er
Its not the abolition of slavery that Enp,.na
seeks, for that result would soon MAKE M..
chester, and every manufacturing town in
Great Britain, desert But it ia pIsux,o,
of the United States which the statesmen os
Great Britain, as well as ofthis country. know
must be the first, the inevitable and the on,v
practical result of the triumph of abolition.
ism in the councils of this country !, !.
also clear that Disunion willnot stop with ona
division. but that once introduced il viii ~.
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