The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-30

n,a.rt If the N, York Herald, speaking o'
the grand ball given by the Amef,oa's
p,ris in honor Of Washingtons oir'haAy'
We .Nero added while Rome was purh
;og. and the Americans laugh ana Games ana
n,sv and sing in celebration oil the author vi
their own young, budding, vigorous me-
while the old spirit of feudaiism' emaclated,
.,,euua,ed and angry. in the midst of blood
aud FIRE and smoke, totters to its grave In
.ha shock and clash of contrary currents
rnc,apd may go down and France spring up
with meteoric brilliancy, but such throes and
flashes will probably be only augmented
symptoms of an energy that struggles as IL
dies and the page of history in which Napo-
leon the Third is 10 be immortalized, may
prove only the tabled notes OF the song
which the swan utters as it yields its last
breath. All political philosophers seem to
think that in the coming crash OF nations
there is only one which will rise from it all
with increased dignity and honor, and that's
America, if she but wisely bide her time
The future of this country presents two
possibilities one grand and beautiful beyond
conception; the other the most melancholy
and Notifying in all the pages of earthly dis
appointment. The first presents picture
like that referred to by the correspondent
from whom we have quoted a nation. enjoy
ing and appreciating true liberty possessing
within itself all the elements of power, pros
perity and independence, and rising with
Increased dignity and honor" from the com
ing crash of nations. What may not this
country be,-what must she not be, century
hence, If the Union remain az it is, and II our
rulers keep the government aloof from lie
miserable broil5 Of Europe. Why' alreauy'
within the life time of a man, the hepuDiic
has attained the greatness OF nations Which
have lived a thousand years and century
more will make her such u country as Inc
g world has never seen; nay, never dreamed or
Two hundred millions ofpeople, speaking the
same tongue and worshipping the same God,
will live in peace, harmony and freedom,
under the same government! The forests,
will have disappeared from the continent;
the immense wilderness Of the West popula-
ted and in the highest state OF CIVILIZATIONS
ica, become the abode of Anglo-Saxon civil
ization and liberty We shall become the
manufacturers for ourselves and for the
world We shall feed and clothe ourselve s
and all mankind. Our foreign commerce
will be twenty fold greater than that of Eng
land at the present momeht. America would
be the greatest power of the whole earth, re-
spected everywhere and not only respected,
but beloved for the influence of her republi-
can principles, backed and sustained by such
unexampled power, would, long ere centu-
ry has closed, efface the last vestige OF mo
narchical institutions from Europe. Oppfes-
sion and despotism would cease, and the old
world be covered with free, happy, and pros
porous Republics, inhabited by people capa-
BILE of approaching and preserving free insti-
tutions. Such is the Future which this cpun-
try may attain if patriotism and wisdom in
spire the minds of her citizens. But there
is another Future possible, and, we fear, more
probable than the one we have described.
As our country is growing great and power
full, it is becoming too large for the selfish
hopes and aims of the crowd of petty dema.
gogues whose motto is rule or ruin The am
bitiOn which would rather be the head of a
dog than the tail of lion, is at work among
petty asprants in all sections of our country
Seeing no hopes of their personal elevation
under the present order OF things, these po
litical pigmies are laboring to undermine and
overthrow the grand structure of our govern
ment, that each of them may find pedestal
among the fragments on which to raise him
self from his original obseurity
The subject of slavery forms convenient
instrument for these reasonable purposes,
and no effort is left untried to make it the
means of infaming the people of North and
South against each other, until all union of
affection and respect is destroyed, and both
long for the time when their nominal as we'll
as real unity shall cease to exist. Then will
come dissolution; then civil war, war in
which the most aggravated horrors may be |
expected, for it saay involve servile war in
one section, ana retaliation upon the other |
ofthe extreme severity and vengeance which |
such state of things will demand. At last |
We shall have peace two Republics, North |
ern and Southern Republic the world dis
appointed, the friends of liberty depressed, |
the despots exulting-but ambitious dema. |
gogues gratified. And how long will these
two Republics remain entire? When schism
has accomplished one grand triumph, how
long before it will accomplish several subor
dinate ones? If it can prevail in such
Union as this; if it can prove superior to all
the glorious traditions of this great Republic;
if it can prevail over the sublime influence
and teachings of such men as George Wash
ington and the other venerable apostles of
American Liberty; if it can induce Ameri
cans to give up the splendid hopes of such
Future as this country may attain, what can
il not accomplish against the government of
assertion, with no traditions; no great nalnes
no Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Mar,
shall no prestige among the powers of the
earth, and no future to compare with that of
a united country Z Why, it is obvious that
the same causes which produce the first d.
vision could much more easily produce sub.
IL H.