The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-31
The DAILY DISPATCH
MORNING, JANUARY 81 1855

The ALLIES AND THE WEsr.-At the con-
clusion of column of comment upon the
tslleged) Dominican Treaty with the United
States the slsyeholding interest and annex
ation," teeming with injustice to the South.
ern States, the London News says
This destiny 10 becoming 50 extremely msntfeas
she French and we are carefully placing our val
ships In the rosdstesd Of Sc Domingo, and We M
ss 5ss. Il, our w hitch ss over
Neantius there are features OF Amefiean eer
tiny which Il would Be well Tor oil the genuine r.
nScs 70 attead TO before it 10 too late The des-
tiuy OF eli tools OF the Russian Crats the sane
they become sl.ves politically and morally WniIe
there 10 negro slavery in tbs unssso ~ a,,,r. -.
shre which 10 betrayed Into bis hands by the snobe
and rnep-ewners OF the republic. And who cannot
convenience that there shall be no democratic r..
public on the shores opposite hts own eastern boor-
dar.i If he can erosroii the REPUBLIC, 1t 10 TN
to be taxing heed that he does not break II up whtn
the convenient moment comes.
Is the schoolmaster abroad in Great bri'
tain? We are taught, on this side OF the wa
ter, to regard the intelligence and virtue OF
the leading public men and editors OF Eng
land, as incomparably superior to anything
and everything on this side of the water
Well, how, in the name of common senses
are we to reconcile such a paragraph as the
above, with this universally received idea!-
Whit are we outside barbarians to make OF
this grave declaration by q leading London
paper, that the Russian Car has the power
to NEEDLE with American politics, and that
he ia even now embroiling the Republic! Is
the man an idiot or knave! The grossest
ignorance or the most reckless malice can
alone account for such an assertion.
: Its audacity is equal to its falsehood Inc
Gar of Russia embroiling the Repuohc
Why, every child in the United States Knows
that, If the Republic is not as harmonious
as II might be, its internal discord oegan
long before the Russian war, and was lar
greater then than since that war commenced
And what and who brought about our inter
nal discord? We answer, ABOLITION, exclted
and fermented from first to last by EnStasA
hands; and which even now ills with gan
and bitterness the very article Oh the hoH'
don News upon which we are comment
mo IF there is one nation on the face of
the earth which, more than any oiner' mas
Let America alone on the slavery ques-
ton, and on every other question: IL
Russia if there is one which, more IMAM
any other, has insulted, prosecuted, abused
and sought to embroil and divide us ON that
question, it is England. She is the Only ma
tion in the world which has ever sent ennis
saries to inAame and distract our people upon
that agitating topic; her press, her pohu-
clans, her paid agents, her nobility and her
commoners, have all united In endeaVorlng
n strike home the abolition wedge; and II
the Union ever does fall, it will fall by the
influence of England, whose arts will then
accomplish what her arms failed to achieve
In the midst of this perseyering and notori
ous interference with our concerns-nay, il
its very article, marked throughout by ar
imnertinent and malignant discrimin atioI
between the Northern and Southern States
the London News has the sublime audacit.
IN sneak of the Gar embroiling the Re
public!
The policy of the British government i
we'll understood in this country. She doe
not desire war with US she cannot lose he
best customer But, by all sorts OF under
handed and sneaking means, she is seekin
to embrcil us with each other, and make u
bring about by disunion our own overthrow
This accomplished, her great commercial
val will be disposed of, without the expend
ture of either blood or treasure on her par
and without mourning for herself the hostilit
of either of the divided sections. The South
amid the ruins Of disruption, is expected Il
console herself with the death blow which
that disruption will bring to Northern com
merce and manufactures, which she will no
regret to see transferred from the abolition
North even to England whilst the Nortl
will derive great comfort from the fact tina
it is at last relieved, and in great measur
by British cooperation, from the clog of til
Southern States upon Northern enterprise
from the dictation of Southern masters, an
from the sin and curse of Southern slavery
In the mean time, by way, we suppose, 0
enforcing the claims of Great Britain to GU
love and loyalty. and increasing our detesta
ton Manufacturing Gear, the News inform
us that, in the midst of the difficulties of tn,
L8SI6Fu war, Tie cKcuCu GISlcu ldN
found time carefully to place their ships o
war in the roadstead of ST. Domingo, and tina
they will not relax their watch over Cuba, O
any other land within the boundary of on
manifest destiny. Of course. after this, w
ought to sympathize profoundly with the al
lies, and most earnestly hope that they ma.
soon be in condition to direct their unem
barrassed attention to Western affairs. Yet
we confess it is calculated to make the bloc,
Of an American boil, to see the two creates
land robbing empires of the earth, -steepe
to the very syelids in the sin, shame bloc
and tears Of centuries of wars of conquest an
misunderstanding squadrons here to resis
and prevent any acquisition of new territor,
by this country, even by honest and peaceful
means. Every American must blush witt
humiliation. that, in consequence of the alb
ssrd and suicidal policy of our own govern
ment, we have no navy, of numbers sufficien
to take the seas, and. ship to ship, and gun t
run, with the fleets of England and Franc,
decide all questions connected with our mar