The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-26

OF Rev. Dr. LORDS excellent letter to M.
CoHRAD In which he declares that dissolu.
ton Of the Union will not b mere separa-
ton Of the North from the Southern States
but separation Of Northern Communities, in
which the conservatives will - arrayed on
one side. and the abolitionists and disorgani-
zefs on the other, and the battle be fought In
their own streets, a. well az on MASON and
Dixou's line. It 10 the idea that they are safe
from the horrors OF the civil commissions
which they are doing their beat to bring about,
that gives boldness aud ferocity to the abo-
htion orators and newspapers. They do not
expect u hear one gun Of that fearful Combat
bred, to zee one drop OF blood, Oh one dweiiin &
wrapped IA flames. They prspose to entertain
/ themselves with exciting telegraphic dis
patches from the seat Ut war in the Southern
States, with the reports Of the military COM
manders of the armies Of mercenaries whom
they II pect to send hi,her, aud with spicy de-
tails by eyewitness OF the carnage, crime
aad cruelty which will be perpeir rated upon
the men; women and children OF distant COM
munitles. This 1t il which SO iniiames their
phiixn thropic zeal and which warns up their
vaior 10 the highest pitch. But let them once
unders tand that the seat OF war is not ~ be
aloue the remote South, that the deadly death
grapple IL 70 be NJ their threats, the shells
and shot falling upon their own roofs, and the
hrebrand applied to their own dwellings, and
they will soon cultivate that 'be ter part Of
vni0r which is discretion" Even The beiii-
cose 0R KEY, whose personal fear is rs
prominent part OF his organization as his
oney-making phiianlhropy, would alter his
abolitionisin as mildly as a dove, il he thought
the Tribune Office or his own precious carcase
would be endangered by his revolutionary
doctrines.
The conservatives of the North have plain
course before them if they expect to bring
these incendiaries to reason. Certainly, these
conservatives have as much to lose by the
triumph of aboiitionism as the people of the
slaveholdinE States. The firebrand applied to
Southern dwellings would not cause a. wide
spread rain, nor the insurrect ionary days of
war as vast a havoc in the Southern AZ in the
Northern States. The burnt house of the
Southern planter can be rebuilt, and the knife
OF the insurrecti0nist be met by such prompt
and vigorous application of the sword and the
rope that it will be crushed at once and for
ever. The civilization of the world, which
depends upon Southern products, would rally
to the defence of the South against those who
would lay waste its fields and destroy the Gull
tivation Of the staple on which the industry
and comforts of 50 large portion Of the human
family are dependent. The South would come
forth from the struggle stronger than ever,
and her labor be placed on permanent and
immovable foundation. But how would it he
with the North {! The fountain of its wealth
would be cut Off its manu- factories desolated,
and its shipping rot at the wharves. Property
of every kind would be deprecated, cities
dwindle into villages, and villages vanish into
the wilderness.
Can the conservatives Of the North tamely
give up such vast interests without a strug-
gle! We should think not. But unless they
are prepared thus to give them up, they must
make up their minds to assume the aggressive
and fight the battles Of the Union, and of the
rights aud interest of all its parts at their own
doors. There is no one here for them to fight.
The South is not making war upon the North;
the South is not preparing to carry slavery
into the free States. nor modest the rights
nor tarnish the honor, nor take the lives of the
people Of any other section. The cause of the
South is pre-eminently their own cause the
interests of the South are their swn interests;
the security of Southern labor the only guar
antee of their own prosperity. The enemies
Of the South are their own enemies, and, I'M
less they put them down, they will not only
lose all the advantages of the Union, bur, in
any new government which may be framed,
will be 1T the mercy of men VINO are enemies
OF all society, who will be radicals, agrarians,
and disorganiZers in the new order OF things
as well as in the old. The same fanaticism
and law lessness which have made slavery the
pretext for the qualification of its spirit of
anarchy and rapine, will make war upon law,
order, and property, in a Northern AS well
a Southern confederacy. The large CONNER
cal and manufacturing cities of the North
and the tendency OF the population to city life
would increase the periis with which agra
rianism already threatens the whole fabric OF
society, and compel the establishment of
strong government, ifnot military despotism.
The war Of American Independence has 10 be-
fought over again by the conservatives of the
North, for all and more than that Revolution
achieved is put al stake by the spirit of law
iessness which now menacss the peace, pros
perily, liberty and Union OF the country. The
war Of rs delivered the country from the ty-
ranny Of KING, but another war has 10 b.
fought 10 Rescue 1t from the worse tyranny OF
Ii mob. GEORGE ILL.,, if successful, never could
aud never would have visited upon this coun-
try such wrongs rs the Sonth has already sui
tered from abolition aggressions, and as the
Nor Ii will suffer in the vent of disuniou OF
the Confederacy. II considerations like these
do no, bring about a civil war in the Northern
States it will be because the abolitionisls
ground their arms, or because the conserSa-
tiyes OF the North have become iEsensible 10
their own interests, their honor, and all that
makes life valuable.