The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-08-20

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sMau,ss.t Destiny" OF the American
Unton,...westmins Review
C.n,s. nj Letters OF John Mitchell
TO John Martin, Esq.
The Westminster Review, an organ Of that part,
In England which is most radical in religion ane
politics, has undertaken, In the July number t.
interpret the Nantes, Destiny Of the United States
in an article which shows more fanaticism thai
Exeter Hall. and more ignorance than st. Giles. II
begins by an effort to institute comparison De
tween tho incidents belonging to the American Ike
voiution and those which II has the s"gaci'y
discover. indicate a second revolution; which Sc
cond revolution, il contends, Is setnAhy ,a' -
ed. notwithstanding the occasional luii' "h'oh
,,.. ~. a.c.i,f,l nsnses in the Storm during tn
fifteen wears preceding the separation OF the amer
-, o,io,iss induce superficial observers 10 CRY
.p...o, psscel when there is no Peace AS I"
.-.o,,,.S ~ the amount Of knowledge which tht
,srnna R.v,ew possesses Of the grave subject which
., d,..r..es with such eisborateness and formality
-. o,,. the following statements: "To the aboli.
Zionist. proper belongs the honor Of all the ameio
ration in the condition OF the slaves Of the South
and Of the free blacks Of the North, for the las
quarter of century" "The mean white popu
,ation ofsthe South--the non-slaveholding whites
constitute no less than seven-tenths of the wholt
FREQ population of the slave States" There is n
truth In the Southern accusations that the aboi
tionists tamper with the slaves, or countenanc'
violence In any form, or under any pretence." TIL
assault Of Brooks upon Sumner proved that TIL
South ia a harbarous community, and Emerson l.
spplauded for saying upon the occasion, ~ do moi
see how q barbarous community and n civilized
community csn constitute one State" "Tbat," ex
claims the Review, sis the question in which tn
continuance of the Union Is involved" South
srn member of Congress from California; shot al
Irish waiter In Washington hotel. The catastro
phe at the National Hotel is ascrbed to the ven
geapce of the African race No man in Washing
ton can safely speak his mind "Eyen the clergy
cannot freely preach the gospel" by gospel tn
Westmin.ter Review rleans abolition as il believe,
in no o.her) 1.-The President tells the world IL
his public addresses that all IS calm, while
that treason reigus in the courts, violence in th'
l~pislatiye chambers. assassination in the street,
and public vehicles and most potent spirit of ven
reance in the kitchen; while lie is himself feebl
and suffering from an accident which he can per
haps better account for than we can" If the Re
view nds such pleasure in gloatng over the lima
giuary retaliation Of a subject race he will find a
much more abundant and real repast in the scenes
of India
There is one portion of the Review which treat
of Virginia and which abounds with errors ST.
lauvhabIy absurd, that We cannot withhold it from
our readers
.syirgipia once contained more wealth and a lar
ger population than any other state OF tn
Union; whereas 1t was in 1897 the min III
point Of wealth, and the fourth in population
The city of New York then contained more fire,
persons than the whole of Virginia east of tn,
Alleghanies and of this population, it was compu
ted. that no less than 10000 young persons, be-
tween seven and sixteen years OF age. were brOngi
up in total ignorance. These are mean whites
an element which we have shown TO be al-mpor
tant in considering the political prospects Of any
State where they exist. There is better chanc,
for them in Virginia than in any other Southern
STATE because there is less slave labor the land has
lapsed into barrenness, through the failure o.
capital and the high cost of labor; and the rev
enue of the slave holders is mainly derived from the
slave-breeding. Not one-fourth Of the cultivablt
area is under tilage; and two-thirds Of what wa
once highly productive s now mere waste Farm
are offered for sale by thousands, the Journal,
say; but nobody will buy. Even the wolves hav,
reappeared in Eastern Virginia; and the news
papers declare that they are as numerous and in
habit lands Wild rs in the days OF captain Smith
and Pocahontas.
THE soil lies open for tllage; yet the poor whites
are So destitute and discontented. that there is
growing dread of rebellion on their part. by
means of vigorous use OF the suffrage, whlct
would presently place the legislation of the Stat,
in their hands In the midst of the vigilance
by this apprehension, Governor Wise yentureC
upon the most extraordinary indictments to reyo
luton in case of the election Of any President
ceptable to the Northern States, which lie describec
as peopled by greasy mechanics, who live among
foul circumstances and foul thoughts, and bring
down all the gentry to their own level. lie war
prepared for dissolution of the Union. and de
clared the state to be too, III preference TO y
t,r. rtt1.a
tion than he proposed is going forward under
Buchanan. SO many slaves have escaped, and tn,
sbasement OF agriculture is so complete that tn,
party of west-cOuntry farmers, long DESTROYS {,
abolish slavery, is receiving accessiOns of fore,
which seem likely to render it dominant. Fo
some time past, land has been offered to settlers
from the North and from Europe cheap, as t.
intercept some OF the migration to the West. Tn,
land offered is chiefly apsed estates, which. ono,
exhausted and left wild, have returned to thei
original condition, and await the process of clear
ing. they did two or three centuries ago. s.,
good is the prospect, that the Hon Lii Thayer. OF
Massachusets has set ON foot project for settling
Virginia lands from New York by means of a com
pany. just AS Kansas is dealt with by the Emigran,
Aid Societies. The proposal has been like a bomb
shell cast into the midst of the State of Virginia
Some leading newspapers go all lengths in denoun
cling such an interference with the staple business
OF slaFebreedlng while other Journals hope that
it may regenerate the State, by introducing gooo
quality OF labor, which must bring after it tn,
capital which is SO much needed. The scheme IL
not sound one for no citizens Of any free country
American or European, could endure to live under
the laws OF Virginia they now are; and there call
be no reason why emigrants should sit down in
region where industry is disgrace. But there Is N,
doubt OF u radical change being in progress, winch
cannot 10 on long without bringing Virginia oyei
into the Northern Section in virtue OF Its free la
Dor The black population is carried out of tn,
State in such numbers, that the newspapers pro
pose term of ten or twenty years Tor clearing
Virginia completely of that part OF her population
~ hat the hatred is like which tue virgins
sIaye broader entertaius towards his fel0w-repub-
lcaus of the free states is shown In some degree
by a very recent fact. When the capital OF ths
State was ravaged by pestience in 1855, physici'
aud surgeons we're summoned from a distance,
want Voluntarily to Norfolk, to render aid q,
these devoted men, fourteen died and were buried
ON the spot Newspapers of later date, and tn
Norfolk Argus for one. inform that the State ui
Southern feeling toward the free North requires tn
of the bodies Of these benefactors of the
citv Such a thing seems incredible but the di-
of the bodies for removal to Phiadel.
phis 10 announced as actually dncreed Ifthis de
gree of sector al hatred is insanity it is also revo
luton.
These some specimens of the facts of this
credible and veracions journal. The conclusion al
which 1t arrives is that If radical reconstruction
OF the American Constitution is not immediately
agreed upon, there must be dissolution of tn.
Union.
Somueh for Engiishinformaton and temper upon
a subject which is Of equal Importance to Great
Britain as to the United States. For with the tri.
umph of the abolition cause, the culture Of Gotten
would cease, and the manufacturing prosperity of
England be blotted from the face of the earth.
We turn with pride and pleasure from the igno
rance and malIgnity of the Westminster Review to
two letters which John Mitchell has lately written
upon the South, and which as far surpass the West
minister In originality, piquancy and vgor Of STYLE,
M in truth Of statement, soldty of argument
and liberality Of spirit Mr.. Mitchell, who. willis;
citizen Of the North, incurred tho ispleasure Of
abolitionism BY expressing wish for plantation
Of negroes In the State of Alabama says. now tina,
he has seen much Of the ,Juth, and has lived IN i,
sight-aDdtwenty months, he wishes for two MAN.
tstions In that respectable State.
"The South and her Institutions saws this i,,.,