The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-02-11

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The Unisn oa4 AAeaiaaea.
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fUasussUo Of lesls ~ eoWa @ 1 proposttIol
which cannot - elspA1e1, shas thes~ are -,
glasses VI pefsoe attiu1S iaeeesssibaSso ~
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scots. 81 al knvwirdee Of or parttcipstiOn II
The plot agalnst the life Of her husband Dam
LIZ, and the other such. - still maintaiu, n
spite Of all the evidencs 10 the contrary, TIKI
completely Of CnAaL8s I. In the ruassacre 81.
luded -. Without examining the groundl
1 upon which the historian arrives - thsss eva.
clusions, We feel disposed 70 add to his cate
CORY Of incorrigibles TWO other classes. They
asssuch - beitsvs tina. the Union can b dis
solved. and such - think that slavery can b
abolished In the South. We own that bat q
short time since, We were VI very different
way OF thinking with regard 70 the Arst OF
these propositions. Our fears led us to believe
| that the crisis, Of which we have been hearing
! ever sincs we can remember, was actually i'm
| pending, and that the storm would burnt before
| the winter was over. We have learned from
the course which events have taken to draw
very different differences from the premises
upon which our opinion was based. We now
regard the Union rs Observation-Disclosures a.
much 70 ~ matter Ia the universe, or as the
soul which animates the breathing clay Of
which mankind are composed. We feel as
sured that 1t has stood u test as trying a. iscan
ever b again exposed to, and having stood
this test, the argument in favor Of its strength
has been rendered stronger than it ever could
a thnr uviso havo haoo ivsa
engine Is strengthened when we see It come
out unharmed from the severest strain, that
can be put upon it. 1t is probable enough
that at some future day-long, we hope, after
we shall have been laid beneath the clods of the
yalley-there will be civil wars, and civil wars
of bitter and desolating description. It is in
me nature OF man so evidently that this
should be so, that we may almost look upon it
as special decree Of Providence. But these
civil wars will be civil wars merely. They
will BE- waged all over the country, as civil
wars have heretofore been waged in England,
in France, in Germany, arming brother against
brother, and neighbor against neighbor; but
they will never destroy the unity of the nation
AS it is seen from abroad, or split US into two
great communities, divided by lines of lati-
tnde, and possessing different governments
and different laws.
Just as improbable, not to say impossible, is
the abolition Of slavery in the Southern por-
ton of the United States, by any power short
Of the Divine. How is it to be donel Are
the slaves to be freed first, and afterwards re-
moved The question, then, Is. where are they
to be carried, and who is to carry them p
Where is the Promised Land to which these
successors to the Israelites, already outnum-
bering their predecessors by a million and a
half, are to be conducted! Wherei is the Mo-
sEs that is to superintend and direct this new
Exodus Ttey cannot remain here. We, the
whites of the South, will never allow our
country to be Jamaicaised. Sooner than
permit it to be thus treated, we will slaughter
every man South of MAsoN's and DlxoN's
line who has oven SO much as the hundredth
part of drop of negro blood in his veins
they cannot 90 beyond the Ohio, or North OF
Maryland. They would be met by Gordon
of bayonets. extending from the Attain
tic to the Rocky Mountains, and forced |
back to the region whence they came. |
They cannot 60 to Mexico The greedy |
eye of Yankee enterprise has already been |
fastened upon That country, and it is well |
known that of all enemies to the negro, |
the genuine Yankee is the bitterest, the mos |
ruthless, and the least mercifui. The idea Il
liberating the negroes on any terms that We |
can think of-either on those of remaining |
here, or going away-is too absurd to stand the |
test of al examination even moderately criti- |
cal That attacks will be made upon the pro-
perty which we hold in them, from time to time
s absolutely certain. This is an evil which We /
must guard against as we would against the
Iorays of a horse-thief or cattle. stealer. At
tempts, 200, will be made to excite insurrec-
lion. Our remedy is to catch the scoupdrels
who make them, and hang them, as we dld
JOHN Brown and his associates. Above all,
Inc Southern people must depend on them
selves for the protection Of their property and
heir rights. Such formerly was the feeling
throughout the entire South. A Southern
nan seorned to hear of his rights being pro- |
ected by conservative Northern men, or any
,ther class of Northern men whatever OF
hese, all they asked was to be let alone-and |
his they not only asked but demanded. They
Invariably, in Congress and elsewhere, repealed
III language insinuating dependence Of the
south upon the North for protection, as an
insult. They felt able to protect themselves
n the Union, as we'll as out Of it, and SO they
ught to feel now.
The worst that we have to fear at present is
be incnrsion of marauders along our FROM
iers. Would we be any better off if we were
eparated! Let the histories Of England and
cotland decide that question. Let the long
order warfare between those two countries $
ever ending even while the crowns and the
ody of the people were in a state Of profound q
their entire cessation within
,mparatively short period after the union ,
Eder Queen AIMS reign, be carefully studied =
nd its Significance noted. We feel assured c
lat the conclusion will be certain that such 9
atrages can be more easily suppressed in the !.
MON than out Of it.
Private~rins.
The New York Chamber of Commerce, Mt
tie sitting. adopted a report in favor Of the :
,oliticn of the privateer system, and of the :,