The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-07-16
ssSpccuIationson the Faturc.-Our Allan.

. remarkable article under this head. 1t places
but little faith in the permanence of the Angie
French alliance, and looks forward to the time
when England, tbs only free country OF the old
world, will have to meet single handed, the com.
bined despotic powers Of the continent 1t then
turns to America, and sets down the United States
in spite Of its assian sympathies and the transient
Central American question, as among the 'natu-
raj allies of Great BritaiB The writer justly re-
marks concerning the position Of this country In
relation 70 the Eastern contest: That the United
States should have held back during the last war,
and sought only to turn 1t to their own account
need surprise none far that car sOGs in
of principles and Gagged only to maintain very
yics.y balance Of popcr 10Th achick america has
thing to do" But when 1t is seen In America, n
eventually it must be seen, that her own liberties
and interests are in danger from the combined ab-
soiutism of Europe, she will make common cause
with Great Britain, and the two will form naval
confederacy which will set at defiance the whole
despotic world. ~
We extract the following from the conclusion of
this mastery and eloquent article:
In truth, the time is coming when England
ought amply to reap the benefit of her colonies
of that vast system OF enterprise and emigration
which will be the most enduring monument Of her
gigantic sanyautree. dropping in every quarter Of
tue globe roots which In turn become trees like
herself, and forming part of herself, 80 that no
sterms will ever prevail to throw her down. II
we look merely at the marrow Britiah Tales along
side of the great States Of the Continent expand.
ing Ia population to greater extent than Is pos.
sible with us, and tending to unite themselves In
the still greater aggregations of Race our heart
might fall us for the meteor flag of England; but
when we lift our eyes beyond the seas, and see
New Eoglands rising, aud British blood and lam
guage dominating over third Of the inhabited
earth despondency must give way to noble
pride and confidence in her future. Already our
colonies ripe to take upon themselves the bur
den Of their own maintenance and defence IN
ordinary times; and in seasons of war the aid we
have 90 long extended to them will henceforth,
we doubt not, cease 10 be . sided obligation
while in the growing commerce subsisting among
them the Anglo Saxon States will find ample
scope for their industrial energies, though all the
( rest of the weird were closed against them
Peace will dawn on the world by.andby, though
wars will never entirely cease as long IS human
nature remains what IL is. But whether in peace
ar in war, no power yet formed in the world will
las.ingly extinguish the glory Of Britain. The
domini0ns of the will cease to be hers exclu-
sively, but only TO merge into the grander mari
timesupremacy of the United Anglo'Saxon fam.
~. Aud whatever may be the Coalitions and
Confederacies vi the futare. through the haze of
years is there the coming of one greater than
them all, IN . Congress of the Free Anglo-Saxon
Powers Of the Sea,-whose triumphs, sufficient in
war, will shine forth most conspicuously In the
better peaceful times coming helping on that
period when Christainized civilization shall co.
yer the earth "as the waters do the channels of
the sea-"