The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-12-24
The English Press on the American Elk.


The London press is running over with gall
and bitterness against the Southern States
In this good work the Times leads the way.
1t gives the South fair warning that, In the
event of disunion, ii need not look to English
friendship or cooperation. In spite OF all
this fine talk we have little doubt that
the failure OF one years cotton crop
would bring Great Britain 10 herlmsrrow
bones. Whilst an alliance with England,
ia lie event of disunicn, is, just at pres-
snt IA impracticabie as undesirable, We .are
at a loss to understand the persistent ha-
tired manifested towards the Southern pee
pie Their peculiar institutions are OF Engiish
origin; their peculiar productions are the great
support of English manufactures ana COM
nerce; their peculiar Conservatism ought TO
be agreeable TO English sympathses, aud their
political inliu ense has always been exerted IN
bshalfof .rIendly relations with Great Britain
and has on more than one occasion, success
fully resisted the efforts Of Western and
Northern politicians To involve the United
State. In q war with England. Nevertheless,
for the last thirty years, An English crusade
has been carried on against Southern institu-
tions: the whole power Of the press has been
brought to bear upon slavery and slayehold-
er~ IN they are execrated throughout Great
Briiair. til Southeruers are Stunned socially,
as we'll as prescribed politically, and made to
assume the same hidsous guise in European
lamentations that "BoMBA" and FRAECis
JOSEPH are in those of our countrymen, ny
the malignant falsehoods of the same prosti-
tuted journals. Unless the object OF all this
has been. and is, the dissolution Q! the Union,
involving the overthrow OF the only CONNER
cial and manufacturing rival that Great Bri,
tain has to fear it is perfectly ipeXplicahle.-
We trust that she Will be disappointed. If
disurlou cannot be ayerted, the South can
stand alone; or, If she desires allies, she will
far sooner fird them among our gallant North
ern friends in the lslard of Manhattan than
In the islands Of Great Britain.
Since The above WAS in type, we perceive
that the London Times is coming to its senses
Il finds that it cannot rey on the statements
Of the Black Republican papers-it even
makes war upon the blessed BERCHER family
il declares that Ltrstpaol. Manchester, LON
DON, i. as much iuteres ed in slavery as Ne'e
York This looks like much earlier adhesion
than we had anticipated 20 the authority Of
EIra COTTON. We think the game OF Eng
land in this whole thing is paipabie. But 10
not the Times showing its hand too soon -
Ought ii not to have kept oA aenouncjng the
South till the Republicans, einbOlCened by the
...urrpce of British cooperation. had forced
thu Southern States TO cross the kUbicon -
Now. only one has gone, and IL is possible that,
scared by the new position OF the " / hun
derer." the naughty and Incorporating
fanatics viii back down. and the SpIi"g-
field oracle break its significant SILENCE
Dumb amid the UeepiLgs and WaLIingS OF a
distracted country; having no lips 10 speak
one word o. cheer aud hope amid this aWiuI
gloom; silent ~ the grave while multi
,udes of workirg men and working women
are out OF employment and in danger Of
uefishipg By famine, and revealing on the
thought OF cQercIag ih5 seeding States with
fire and sword, II may be that this long
shadow OF coming even ., from The other side OF
the Atlantic, will unsonl even LINCoLN's lips,
IN bend his obstinate purpose relax his Puritan
rigidity. and cause him 10 cry aloud and spare
not. II is TOO late for South Carolina; che has
gone, and, we fear, irrecoverahiy, but, If LIN
CoLS would save the remainder, il he would
not see The Union split forever ia twain, aad
Great Britain accomplish by her profound
policy what a seven years war failed TO
achieve, he and they who are with him must
speak, and not only speak, but ACT, and not
only act, but give the most complete and sat-
istactory guarantees that they will obsrrve
the national compact hereafter IN good faith,
and in the letter and in the spirit.