The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-12-28

plo Of this country Tor sympathy With 0reas
nritain IN her presenit con6ict, strikes ~ O.
vomewhat unreasonable. When We recoilecs
that Great Britain Is the only nation IN the
World which has ever sent abolition emissA-
siss 10 IN country; that In the wars IN wnicn
shs has been engaged with ~. she sought %
.se Aoeh the Indian scalping knife and negro
Inenrsctiop; that she made Booty and Beau
~, ~ vatchword ct New Orleans, and that
whether II Hampton, Badaicz or Bomersund,
her soldiery have always made unprotected
women their especial prey.--when We re-
member these things, and bear 10 mind that
Russia has always been friendly power TO
this country, that she has never meddled with
our institutions nor inflicted the slightest
wrong OF indignity upon our government or
people, we may weIl be pardoned for hesita-
ting to sympathize with m enemy and taking
sides against friend. No principle is In
VOWED in this Eastern contest, unless the
iaterests OF the combatants, las we believe.)
are their principles, and in such contest, we
feel no necessity for sympathy with any but
the party which has been most friendly to rs.
The South, especially cannot forgett the un-
oeasing efforts in England to foment slavery
agitation in this country. It cannot forget
that insults and indiguities beyond endu-
rance, have been heaped upon Southern
shareholders in the Metropolis of the British
empire. 1t cannot forget that. at the Crystal
Palace. British aristocrats took pains to prom
enads in company with African fugitives for
the purpose of showing their hatred and con-
tempt Of Southern gentlemen who were pre-
sent at that exhibition. It cannot forget the
extraordinary honors which everywhere in
England, and by all classes of society, were
heaped upon Mrs. Stowe. because she had
written base libel upon Southern institu-
tons and Southern people. and that the most
eminent Southerners, including Henry Clay,
have been sighted in England, simply on ac-
count of their connection with slavery. 1t
cannot forget that all classes of the British
community, all professions, all ranks, are, at
this very moment. as they always have been,
denouncing slavery as monstrous crime,
and shareholders as cruel, licentious and de-
PRAYED monsters. Surely, with such memo
ries fresh in its mind, the South can scarcely
be expected to exult in British victories over
power which we have never known for one
moment, but as q kind and faithful friend and
ally.
Russis may be defeated in this contest; she
may not be match for all Europe in arms,
though there are no dangers which now men,
ace her as formidable as those with which she
was environed by Napoleon, and from which
she emerged successfully, and more elastic
and vigorous than ever; but if she fall, q
power will fall, from which the United States
have never received aught but kind, courte-
GUS, and honorable treatment while greater,
mightier, more aggressive, more overbesring,
ten thousand times than ever before, Pow
er will rise which on field and food, in war
and peace, from the first breath of our infant
liberty to the present hour, has been our most
Jealous, and most nn-----r-'yr-~ "nu
.roup or cnvertly, our most active, deter
mined, formidable and implacable foe.
vSome one in Graham's Magazine has
been stacking the venerable town of Port
Republic, in Rockingham county, Virginia.
How any could have the heart to do such an
act, we cannot imagine! The writer speaks
Of Port Republic as dilapidated little vii
lsge, and only noteworthy on account of its
neighborhood to Meyers Cave! We are
astounded at such statement If our sym
pathies can alleviate the natural evaporation
of the citizens Of Port Republic at such an
assault. they are fully at their service.
Port Republic is certainly not New York,
neither can it be strictly called London, but
why Graham's Magazine should be going out
Of its way to poke fun at this innocent and
unoHending little town, we are at a loss
toimagine. Port Republic has no lordly
halls and palaces, but the moss covered roofs
of its unpretending habitations appeal more
strongly to republican heart. Port Repub-
lie has no commerce, unless the feet of -four
boats which periodically sails down the She
nsndoah, under the command of Commodore
Zachariah Raines, can come under that head;
but bread is the staff of life, and people who
can load -four boats in these times are likely
to be held in as high esteem as those who
load periodicals. For our own part we
WSafu muCA IhtuCE uaN0 n magazine Oh QOur
thal a magazine Of Graham. Port Repub.
lie an appendage to Weyer's Cave! We
shall next hear that Paris derives its conse.
quence from the river Seine.
TURKEY.-This Empire, about which Eu
rope has gone to war, seems to have entirely
disappeared from public attention. We
hardly ever hear of Turkey nova days.
The sick man is altogether forgotten in thu
difputations of bis doctors. In the ..nois.
AID confusion' they are keeping up, we ca,
scarcely hear the deathrattle in the sic,v
msn's throat. But it is there, nevertheless,
AMI whatever be the fate of the present va,,
Europe viii probably be delivered from !
nation of savages. If the allies are success
full, they will divide among them the deaf
mans effects, to pay for the expenses Of thu
war, and promote the selfish purposes whicl,
led them int ii. If Russia should prove
the victor, Turkey win have the consolation
Of seeing Constantinople become the capita,
Of mighty Empire.