The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-29

ina conclusion of the South western
sketches Miscellaneous matter. anu 'oo
weekly report Of the Markets carefully COZ
rected. -.
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RETALIATION OF THE SOUTH"
Stewards organ in New York. the Times
spsaks with affected contempt OF the various
measures suggested in the South to retaiiate
for Massachusetts, notification. 1t says the
South has always been in favor Of retalistory
measures against the North. but cannot en-
force them without rebound upon its own
head of redoubled force. The South, it de-
c.ares, cannot do without Northern ships
and even it it could, cannot find . market
where the laws are more favorable to South.
srn institutions than the Free States. The
laws of England and France. and the public
sentiment there, it remarks, are even more
adverse to slavery than those Of the
North. II goes on to say that, In case OF the
disruption Of commercial relations between
the two sections, Southern merchants could
MT obtain credit at the North, planters would
be unable to purchase bagging for their cot
ton, dresses for themselves, and the necesea.
~ articles for their slaves All their agri.
cultural Implements, qaoth the Times, are
made at the North, and the innumerabls little
knick knackeries needed for their daily COM
tort are imported from the Free States and
the South is not going to curtail its own en-
jeyments for the sake Of retaliation.
We think the Times has mistaken the spirit
of the Southern people. If they have indeed
been reduced to such a state of dependence
upon the North that they look to it for every
article, from the most valuable agricultural
implements to the smallest of little knick-
knackeries," lsuch as Harper's Magazine,
edited by the abolition editor Of the n. T..
Times,) and if they are content still to re
main in that servile condition, after being
robbed of their property and taunted with
their weakness, why there is no help for
them, and they deserve their fate. The ques-
ton resolves itself into this-Has the South
thu se;f-denial to curtail its own enjoyments.
for the vindication of its rights and honor p?
We believe it has, and that the Times will
have its eyes opened when the legislatures
Of the various Southern States are assem-
bled. 1t will be seen whether the South can.
not build up manufactures and commerce of
Its own, and whether it will not prefer tenn
porary privations rather than the continual
wrongs and contumely which are now heap
ed upon its head.
The Times, in its vain glorious boasting,
has indiscreetly shown what tremendous
blow the South can strike at Northern inter
este, if she has the fortitude ''to curtail her
own enjoyments'' for that purpose. North
ern shipping and Northern industry of every
kind are at her mercy. Ifshe will but strike,
she can shatter at single effort tho whole
fabric of Northern prosperity. Perhaps, af-
ter being so long robbed, goaded and derided,
she can give up Northern productions, and
strike blow like that, without "curtailing"
much her "enjoyments." We shall see. As
to not finding market where the laws are
more favorable to slavery than Massachu-
sets, the South has the means of supplying
all her own wants. If she must purchase
abroad, she will prefer to purchase in Eng.
land and France, because, if enemies of her
Institutions, they are open enemies, and are
not guilty of any breach of faith or violation
OF compact in their anti-slavery course. The
TINES says:
"rhe South has Ito constitutional rights; and D.
long is content to abide By them, its tranquility
"a property would be updisturbsd by the North but
when 1t demands more, and attempts to drive tn
North into concessions to is demands by threats of
disruptng the commercial and social relation which
txisr the two sections of the Union, 1t
he pre- pared for ressrance such hes before
bsen exhibited By the North TO any of s exactions
The atrocious unfairness and malignity of
this paragraph are evident at glance. Mas
sachusetts nulIi6es the laws of the U. States,
and deprives Southern men of their acknow
lodged rights under the law and tbs Consti
tuition. Because the South insists upon the
repeal of this law, it is said to require more
than Its Constitutional rights" and for any
retsliatory measures it may take, it is threat
ened with civil war. $50 long as it is con-
tent to abide by its constitutional rights, its
tranquility and property would be undisturb
cd by the North, that is, so long as it per-
mits the robbery of hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of its property every year, the
sowing broadcast of discomfort and rebellion
among its servils population, the notification
by Northern Legislature of the sacred com.
pact which secures its property to the South,
so long as it submits to all this and refra;ps
from uttering word or raising a finger in
retaliation, SO long it will be saved from ga
resistance such as has never before been ex.
hibited by the North to any of its exsctions ;"
In brief, the demand of the Times is the
demand of the highwayman,-"Your mo.
ney or your life." The response to such a
challenge will not be in words.
u A letter received in this city from an
officer of the q. 8. military commission sen,
to visit Sebastopol, confirms the report that
the French government refused to grant per
mission to the American officers to visit the
French lines, except upon condition tina.
they should not afterwards visit the Russian
Notifications. The permission, with this con.
dition, the officers did not see fit to accept