The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-05-14
.E nAuY DISPATCH.
= = -1~~> - o1.rnsrs, NIsysia. 1887.
E,sr,nd and amertca.


Euatapd and amertca.
..r ,be slishtes, difficulty occurs !" 'e
h.,veen Epgland and America Is
so''aao' >. ,ee the irritated and oeilieose TONE
amu oree caaracterizes the press OF cow
"0a Ths unexpected refusal oil the hnshsn
., .ccept the Senate's amendment 10
"os n.m.s c,,rendou treaty, and II very proper
". - ,,.r,r,,i,y adhered to by MT. buchansn
A''".us :. the Chinese question. have given
= r;ss 70 . regular newspaper war; "A~. : 80 vs..
civ var that Is likely 10 oce1' '"' s
,,n,, bs,ween England ana A"ef'e~' n 'A'.
.;u,. AGO the London Journals were speaking IN
~. r,os, honeyed terms OF their American Cousins
-. ve are all raseally Yankees. whenever
IN, pulI gets out of humor with Brother Jonathan
r. Inevitably calls him . slab-sided shad'beilied,
administering Yankee, term Unfortunately ap"
r,;sd 70 North and South. On the other hand, we
are no; slow in reciprocating the compliments ct
our amiable kinsmaa. We remind him OF his
East India flibustering, of the manner In which
the French took the shine out Of his red jacket 10
the Crimea and the ahject, ludicrous figure Nc
cuts waddling with his roast beef countenanee III.
ro.uud paunch at the coat tails of bis gauh' anu
imperial master, Napoleon Sd.
No other war will grow out of the oe'.i
American troubles than the war OF wofo9 Alu va
lingsgate Neither country can Ano" "
war with the other. England would sooner Ne'p
thu United States to take possession OF ouoH anu
nil Central America. than lose her COTTON anu ue'
custom Thu United States cannot anord 10 iose 'e
Ens,;sh cotton msrke:. We have seen powerful
letter nnb,sbed in the New York Herald ana
ascribed to high political parsonage setting
forth many benefits which would How to the
Trn;ted States from . war with England. Among
others. IL would strengthen the manufacturing In
terest and preserve the Union. We trust that this
letter does no. represent the opinions of any but
the writer The country is not prepared to plunge
into bloody and interminable strife for the pur-
pose of building up any interest. Nor is a foreign
war necessary to avert civil war.
That seems to be the idea of the writer, and
grand idea it is! Even if foreign war could
save us from disunion upon what principle of
ethics can such an expedient be justified p
A sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of innocent
lives and hundreds of millions of property, delib~
erately proposed upon the pretext of the conserva
tive influence of war upon our domestic relations
Besides, in all probability, we should become just
hostile to each other, within five years after the
war had terminated, IS we were before it began.
The war could not remove slavery or demagogues
from the country, and as long Us they remain, we
may look for q chronic internal inflammation,
which all the bls.ers of battle will never eradi.
cate. There issonly one sspec. in which we can
view foreign war with any degree of compla-
cency, or see any possible hope of its preserving
the harmony of the country. If the free soil
dem.gogues who s,raddle the slavery hobby to
ride into power, will enlist in the United States
army. and be at once organized into forlorn
hope for the purpose of storming Quebec, or some
other fortress of equal capabilities, the probability
Ia that the country will have period of repose,
At least for some time Will the Heralds great wrr
hawk of q correspondent be persuaded to mount
pair Of epauettes in the same cause, and lay
down his own valuable life for the sake of Manu'
features and the Unionl