The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-05-27
THE DAILY DISPATCH
Tsrsdnr Mernisk, MAY 81, 1856.
Accom- 10 Olive brunch.


Accept tho olive Branch.
The war spiri: seems to have pretty much d'ea :.
ON, IN ,his country since the publication OF LoI"
Clarendcns concihatory, and. on the whole, s.'.s'
factory dispatch The British government n~'
rendered us the Olive Branch gracefully ana 80
rously, and II we are wise, it will be pIo"p'. =.
cepted, and in the same courteous ana n~s -.
nous spirit Let Mr. Champion remain -. -. :,
nissaL Il ID true. would be cause OF "at' sa'
vould he Irritating. uacvil and unnecessary sasn
9. ma r,h,,. sentiment Of this country Al si'
.v.,.s - ~. snnth. which would suffer more
from . war with England than spy other section OF
the United States.
Nv. ..,not conceive that In the face OF such an
..,s-.. As the Crmean war has just furnished
,,a AMERICAN government win permit itseh 10 DC
go; r,o unnecessary collision with Great brs
-. We do not refer to the amazing exhibition
- military power which even Russia, three 'nou'
s.,a miles from her enemy and with the iarges'
standing army and the strongest forsresses IN 'n'
world. was unable TO resist; we DO ho' aii"ue W
,,s inexhanstible energies of that great empire
which. after the almost super capac"ies ae
welcomed In the Crimean contest, grew stronger ana
fro.hcr with the progress of The fight, UNTIL when
France and Russia both painted for peace, England
ssemed inst to have begun to be ready for war
We make no appeal to the prudence OF country,
,rbose rich merchant ships float unguarded on
every ocean and whose unprotected coasts are
omen at a hundred points to the ineursions of the
gr.stest naval power the world has ever seen -
we point simply to the impressive demonstration,
still fresh in every memory, which the Eastern
cortes. has furnished Tin addition to that presented
by our last struggle with Great Britain,) that
war often fails to settle the disputes for which
it was begun that after the most wastefui expen
diture of money and Of life, the solution of the
Questions which induced the combatants to draw
the sword ia Just as remote ever. 1t requires
no prophet to predict that if the United States and
England should 60 to war about the enlistment or
Central American question, they might fight for
twenty five years, without altering hairs
breadth the position of either party on either OF
those points. We may as well agree now, without
the bloodshed debt and taxation of war, to rea-
sonabe compromise, such as we win only be too
glad TO take, after protractsd combat.
Some of the free soil papers sneeringly aver that
the South has peculiar reasons for desiring peace
with England. Whether that be SO or not, the
South is certainly not disposed to be bound hand
and foot and thrust into the furnace Of war; for the
benefit of N. England manufacturers and Western
producers. The South, in all probability will have
TO bear the chief brunt of the contest, and march,
as she has ever done in the front of the battle,
whilst those who sheer at her discretion are burn.
ing blue lights in the rear. We have worse enc
mics than England at home, and prefer settling
vital dissensions in our own confederacy, be fore
drawing down-whilst we are almost ON the verge
of civil war-a foreign struggle upon our heads.