The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-02-16

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e Uoeowtex AsD Pen1snosyu AssHO1s-
2egsoNe nsa1ri1g - saosefiees - - Dr.
knTui elsAss o. MoR1blk or RorsmeatA,
oaA - uuppltsd ~ lssving thstf orders With
TiemAe .. WnA Periodical and Mevs Agsnt,
Ce4aen A. sAs .Ntegee'' In ~ British Rnr.
- no0eot.
Ia ~ Houeo of Ler1s, - ~ 1ssh Of Janu.
ary. Lord D1OU0aAA nave nos1oo that h
SHOULD q a carly dAy move Sor souns rstsrns
1sppeeusg slaysey, anA weaA hsiae ~ whole
Question bs5oEs H. HOUSE. He would also
sa6vU TOR ths fetusns Of tAe cotton Imported
iHto 0rsAt DsitAin from America. On The fol-
lQWtee esening - aaAAe IL pr0missd nnotios,
and was answered by sAs Duks u Newcastle.
VAo said tAs rsturns should b forthcoming,
and that The 0overnment would doall itcould
AoeuppGese TIE slave trade. what can b the
oejeotof Lord BRoconAx In making this mo-
ton, ~ are not exactly able 70 unders.and.-
He hardly designs. We shoald suppose. to EN-
Aar, the Brittsh Government aad people In
a atued crusade against Americas slavery,
and II he merely intends 70 keep mp the a&ita-
fios alrsaAy existing hers. By schoisg NE voice
Of aholitiontsm that comes from the United
states. We should think his time might b
moro probably speAt. There IL NO surer way
Of uniting the whole American people against
snv project In which America 10 interested,
than By showing that Great Britain 10 ready
70 put her finger In the pie. A memorable ex.
ample Of tits occurred 20 short . time ago,
that we wonder Lord BRoCoHAx has 20 soon
Sbreottea It, We allude to the searching of
American vessels In the Gulf Of Mexico In the
spring OF the year 1858. This violation Of ma
ttoual rights was met BY such shout Of de-
nance from Maine TO Texas, a. TO convince
everybody not deaf to conviction that, how
much soevsr the American people were divided
among themselves upon questions Of internal
policy, when tho nation was attacked from
abroad there was no division among them. IT,
then, Lord BRoC0HAM BE- DESTROYS that the
abolition agitation should continue to rage, he
shonid Jake warning from the events of 1883,
and exert all his powers Of persuasion to keep
0geat Britain from interfering in our domes-
tic affairs.
We have no doubt that the Stats tics called
for by Lord BRouaHAx, will produce an ef-
Jsct very diaerent from any he either expects
or designs. The English people, in large
masses. have been taught like large proper
ton Of the Northern population of our own
country, to believe that shareholders are
monsters whom it is . virtue to exterminate.
and that to deal with them Is to touch, taste,
and handle the accursed thing Let them see
to what an enormous extent their own coun-
try-nay, they themselves-are implicated In
the imaginary crime Of slavery, and they will
open their eyes to the folly and wickedness of
those who denounce 1t yet give every encour-
agement to it by becoming the best customers
of the STAKEHOLDER. Let them know that four
millions of bales Of cotton are annually pro-
duced by the slaves Of this country, and that
hut fifth Of it is manufactured here, while
England takes much the larger portion of
the rest, and they will soon begin to ask
WHO is the greater monster: the man who
cOmpels the slave to make the cotton, or the
man who encourages the compulsion by
buying it after 1t has been madel There
can be no means SO certain Of exposing
the Pharisses who put up long prayers for
the emancipation Of the negro, and make large
fortunes out Of the proceeds Of his labor. As
for dispensing with American cotton, that il
altogether out of the question. II Parliament
make mp their minds to that Issue, they might
just as well make them mp to another
They will have to dispense with the present
Government also, for revolution would most
assurediy follow in forty EIGHT hours. The
number of operatives actually engaged in the
manufacture Of cotton cannot be, we take it,
short OF one million. Every one OF these, it is
to be presumed, has connections of some sort
or other, more or less extended 80 that If we
were to put down the number of those whose
very existence depends directly upon it at five
millions, we should not be far out of the
mark. But 1t Is not those who are diyeetly in.
terosted that would alone feel the blow The
whole laboring population are dependent upon
it for clothing cheap enough to come within
the limits Of their means. Capital TO an enor.
NOUS amount 10 invested In it, The refusal
70 take American cotton would shut every
mandatory in England, OF every description
throw millions Of men out Of employment
produce such q commercial convulsion as the
world never beheld-and drive the furious
multitude into civil war. Nobody knows
this better than Lord BRouGHAM, but we want
the people Of Great Britain to know it, We
want them to see what would be the result of
that policy, which the Exeter Hall crew de.
sire to see inangurated in this country, upon
the prosperity Of Great Britain herself
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ComPensatlen Of the Adjutant General.
We concur heartily with the sentiment of
the Petersburg Press, that the paltry sum paid
Adjutant General RICHARDSON for his ser
vices ($loO psr annum) 10 disgraceful to the
State. When the late General PEYToN became
Postmaster Of Richmond, we believe he had to
resign his ONCE Of Adjutant General Of the
State. Gen. RICHARDSON was then Secretary
Of the Commonwealth and Librarian. At his
apgsestion the Office Of Adjatant General was
conferred upon him, with the addition to his
salary. perhaps. Of this one hundred dollars
thus saving to the State nearly the whole sal
airy previously paid this officer. The idea was,
that considerable portion Of the bnsiuess of
the Adjutant Generals ONCE had to pass
through the ONCE he (6en. R.) held, and that
he could attend - il without mach additional
laber. At that time. too, the military spirit Of
the State was declining. and the laws were
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