The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-09
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
svsd.,.dsy MORNING, january .. 1886
rrainud and the United states.

ENGLAND and the United states.
,rhe question OF war with England begins 70
..,.,e the public mind II caunot be doubted ina
The Central American subject presents some ai''''
cuties which It Will require much COCO emp.
d ainiarnat;e skin 10 unraveI, without detsiinsA
a.. ha bonor Of the two countries. The position :"
,ha limited States Is one from which neither ~
,enu.atton nor her interests win permit hei "
eede Great Britain on the contrary, mss nv my
rests at stake except such As must DC sam. y
war. Unless II Is the purpose OF she nii'.'a W.
eminent TO provoke war with the ohi'ea o'a'es'
NO matter at whatever cost TO Great britain, we
NAV anticipate that she win recede from the iaise
ros;,ion she has been made to assume. by cabinet
,ha. either does not understand or does not appre-
ciate her true honor and welfare
For onr own part, we cannot believe that there
,vaI he a war between Great Britain and the I III
.ed States on the Central American or any otaoi
ouestiou Not that we doubt the spirit or resources
of Great Britain, a country which we 'erny pc
lieve has pluck enough TO go to war WIN Use
whole universe If necessary; and resources ehousH
IN sustain a war with all the world e1ceTf AhaTec0
We make this exception in no vati-giorions spirit
Butit is a fact that England cannot dispense with
America, cotton: that she Is also dependent upon
the limited States at this time, in considerable de-
gree for bread and that the United States is.
moreover the best customer which that nation of
merchants and manufacturers possesses in the
world These are considerations which must bind
over England to keep the peace, unless her govern
ment is prepared to set public opinion at defiance
and 90 overheard itself in the storm of indigna
ton which war with America would arouse.
There are no advantages which Great Britain
could obtain from such war TO counterbalance
the losses and injuries it would bring in its train
The bomfardment of all our towns and cities
would be like the ripping open of the goose that
laid the golden egg. 1t would be cutting the
troats of her best customer and disabling him from
trading with her for a long time to come The two
nations are so united in Siamese bonds of mutual
interests that every blow which falls upon one
must be felt in every vein and artery of the other.
The commerce, like the manufactures of Great
Britain would incur almost irreparable injury by
such war American pIivateers would swarm
on every sea, and not single British mer-
chant ship would be able to show herself in safety
outside British port Such facts as these must
surely have their weight in the British mind and
prevent it from giving its sanction to with the
IT, s. ON account of the miserable pretensions set
up by its government in reference to Central Anne
RIGA
We have not taken into the account the album
dant occupation which Great Britain has already
ON her hands in the Eastern war the heavy debt
which that war has added to the enormous burthens
which have long weighed upon the pockets of her
taxpayers; nor the result of such war upon her
military, and especially her naval reputation. We
do not underrate her proves upon field and food
when we say that it is at least not superior to that
of the same race on this side of the Atlantic
Americans have shown in the past an aptitude aud
mower for naval encounters which should admonish
even the boosted mistress Of the deep that, when
the flag illustrated in its infancy by such deeds as
those of Hull, Perry, Decatur, McDonough Stew
art, and host of Others shall in the vigorous man
hood of the Republic, be given to the breeze, there
will ensue such struggle mastery as the sailors
of England have never yet encountered in any age
or cline Yet from such a neither party can
achieve any substantial good, which may not be
more honorably and as readily obtained by
peaceful negotiations. The only empire in the
world which would derive much practical benefit
from O war between Great Britain and the United
States would be that of Louis Napoleon who, if
he could induce England and America to weaken
and impoverish each other by long and exhaust
ing war would become the master of Europe, and
ba frat military desnot of the world