The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-06
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WA wrrH EscLAsp.-Some Of the Lon-
don Journals suggest that Il would be well
Ear Amcricans to recollect that Eng lana ana
France can send their squadrons to the West
A veil % TO the East, and that the release OF
the Baltic feet from the blockade OF the Nus
sian ports, would afford . favorable opportu,
nifty for such IN operation.
Undoubtedly Ill this and more could Do
done. They could come over here and Durn
our seaport towns. andlandtroops almoas win
impuuity They could wreak upon On un-
psotecred coast and people. that vengeance
which they have been unable to visit npon
the granite fortresses of Cronstradt and Be-
vastopol. Bat wise governments do NOT put
forth their power wantonly. nor exercise it
simply because they possess Il. There sre
other considerations besides atemporary tri-
umph in arms. to govern their conduct. A
merchant, standing in his store door, with .
gun in his hand, might shoot down his best
customer a. he passed along the street, but
he would be great fool If he were to do 80.
And England might burn New York, Boston
and Charleston. and force the United States
into war; but, like the merchant, she would
be making an enemy of her best customer,
aad would be cutting off those supplies Of
cotton upon which her whole manufacturing
existence depends.
We say nothing of the military resistance
she would meet. Victorious at first, as sne
undoubtedly would be, the people OF the y
States would never make peace with her nh.
til their wounded honor and revenge hao
been fully satisfied In few years she
would make Of Americans such q race OF
soldiers and sailors ~ the world has never
seen. Republics have always produced the
most efficient soldiers 10 the world, and with
little practice, the United States could de-
fy all Europe in the field of asms.
SPEECH OF Mr.. DICKINSON ON NEBRASKA
AND THE SLAVERY QuEsrIoN.-Hon. D. s.
Dickinson, leader of the New York Hards,
delivered speech a few days ago in Delhi
New York, on the parties and politics of New
York, embracing his views Of the slavery
question in connection with the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise.
Mr.. Dickinson, in the language of the New
York Hereld, "maintains that the repeal of
the Missouri i1rterdict was the repeal of an
act !; and that by sponging
out the line, not the slightest conceivable
damage has been done to the cause of free
soil. On the contrary, ne contends that the
breaking down of the Missouri barrier opens
the country South to free labor, and to the
addition ultimately of another free State or
two to the Unien. The dire position Of Mr..
Dickinson in this business is non-interven
tion, which he holds to be expedient because
it is just, and constitutional, and right. He,
therefore, subscribes to the repeal. and
abides by the law, claiming for himself the
merit of this position, al taken in the United
States Senate, year in advance of the ia
NOUS Nicholson letter of Gen. Cass.
"In conclusion, taking these views of Mr..
Dickinson at Delhi, as the authorized inter
probation of the hard shell platform, the hards
sustain the Nebraska bill, because it promul-
gates the doctriHe of non-intervention and
popular sovereignty, repeats an unconstitu-
tional prohibition, and operates in favor of
free labor and free soil"
One sportion of Mr.. Dickinson's speech
was devoted to the relations subsisting be-
tween the hards on the one side, and the ad.
ministration and the softs on the other. Mr..
Dickinson, upon this point, is uncompromis-
ing: and declares that against the administra-
ton and thesofts of New York, he sis enlist
ed for the war, and is not to be driven off nor
bought Off"
RIcHMoED.-We extract the following
graphic sketch from the editorial correspon-
dence of the Williamsburg IN. ~ Daily
Press. The description is generally accu-
rate, except as to the tobacco factories.-
There are more than forty of those estab-
lishments here:
The section Of the city most preferred for private
residsnces 10 suiciently attractive at any time The
houses very generally exhibit some architectural
taste ia design, are large, and with ssrden around
front. BY l25 feet deep. These gardens usually
neatly laid out have growth Of shrubbery and fruit
trees which taken in connection with the pienti u
distrbution of fine large shade trees along the side
walks smbowsr the house in quite rural luxuri nee
of folisss The effect 10, that . walk through these
Streets OF city of 40 Or so thousand nhabtants il
a. pleasant one through the most charming of
country villages however famed for its beauty. This
10 one Of the greatest attractions which Richmond
possesses for stronger it doubtless il one of the
most unfsilns resources Of enjoyment for its resi-
dents. =
Richmond il perhaps the most extensve manufac-
turpe town south Of Philadelphia. The Ire iesar
Iron Works one Of the largest In the country, and
which has received the contract for the building of
one Of the engines for the ak United States war
steamers 10 bore, and gives employ ment to host Of
workmen. There are also five or SIX large fourins
mills, two of them Of capacity that enables them TO
turn out Q thousand barrels Of -four land Richmond
brands are famed for their excellence too per dsv
Seven eight immense tobscco factories large "a.
per mill besides number Of extensve cotton mills
and various manufacturing Embellishments sre to be
found here. -Four different lines of railroad diyerse
from the city North. South and West besides canal
the James River and Kanawha. which. when com.