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

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Ctlna.
We 80 II stated ,oae At . meeting Of tn,
Boston Board Of Trade, abort time since
ssss0essa0ns were passed reqaesting the New
Yurk CHAMBER Of Commerce and the Phila.
sdelphta Board Of Trade 70 unite with them in
q petition 70 the Government to offer its me.
11At3ou between tho Allies aad China. As
there seems to have been no response on the
part Of either New York or Philadelphia, we
presume the proposition has fallen to the
aroupd. We are at loss 70 understand the
propriety OF such an application to the Presi.
dent unless some one Of the belligerent par
ties has already made a suggestion to that eff
feet. The part Of mediator In such matters
II always delicate In the extreme, and ought
not, We should think, 70 be assumed unless
there Be At least . hope Of success. In the
aprssent case we can zee none whatever. The
Aiiies-the English especially-are smartins
with the wounds inflicted last summer upon
the Pei-ho and not yet avenged. The spirit OF
roused There 10 no hope that reconcilia-
tion can Be effected, until ample vengeance
shall have been taken for that injury. Such
IL not exactly Christian philosophy, but it IL
the philosophy of Christian nations. The
philanthropists Of Boston, therefore, who
think SO much of suffering when IL is afar of
and 20 little when it is close at home--whose
asympathies are 90 severely exercised for tn.
Chinaman at the other end Of the world. or
the negro at the other end of the Union, and
ere perfectly dormant when the question is
only Of the slaughter OF few hundreds of
their fellow-creatures Just around them. by
the falling in Of buildings built to make
money In. and not for safety-are in a fair
way to miss their aim on the present interest
s1ng occasion. We know nothing about any
policy the Government may have in contem-
plation relative to the Chinese i'm broglio; bu'
we do know that there are subjects quite a.
interesting and quite as important, and much
nearer home, to which the Boston institution
might turn Its attention.
For instance, the prosperity Of New Eng
land, more than any other portion Of the
whole country, IL absolutely dependent on the
South. The man ufactnres which the South
takes from them every year bring into their
Golfers enormous sums Of money. They could
MOI exist as they now are, without the aid OF
the cotton manufacture. This is to them the
very stair of life. Without the existence OF
slavery in the South this material of wealth
they could not have. Yet we find the politi-
cal power Of New England entirely in the
hands Of those who are bent upon waging a
deadly and interminable w1r, not only upon
slavery, but upon those States in which it
axists. When an attempt, ending In a mum.
Der Of murders, IL made TO excite insurrection
In Southern State-an attempt which, had |
1t succeeded to the extent hoped for by those |
who made it. must have resulted in the total
dastruction of the cotton eulture-we find the |
governing class Of New England uttering yells |
of despair over the failute, and members OF |
the Massachusetts Legislature proposing to |
adjourn, in token Of sympathy with the out. |
law who was the perpetrator. at the hour he |
was to be executed. We ind thousands upon |
the1sands fiocking to hear lectures in which |
this malefactor is exalted above our Saviour, |
and the gailOws ON which he swung declared |
to be more precious than the wood Of the |
Eenuine cross. The very operative who lives |
BY manufacturing the cotton which the |
Southern slave produces, 10 the loudeet in his |
demonstrations against the men who furnish
him with his materials, At the same time that
he must know that the failure of a single
crop would bring him to the very verge of
absolute starvation. II the Boston CONNER.
cial Affair would turn it, attention to these
znatters, perhaps IL might be able to do some
thing worthy Of being remembered. At pres.
ent its members seem to MS very much to re-
ssmble certain characters, common enough in
al countries, who have so much to do in At
tending 70 the business Of their neighbors
that they have no time to attend to their own |
The Frankins Privilege.
In the Senate. on Wednesday, an amendment
TO the Post.Onics deficiency bill, which had
the effect Of abolishing the franking privilege
entil ely, was lost by tie vote. Next day. |
however, an amendment 10 the same effect ,
mas carried, and we hope it will finally pass I
into . law.
We think 1t probable that no law which ever .
Itsod upon the statute books was ever 80
grossly abused, a. this comforting the franking
privilege has been. 1t was passed in high
party times-times of all others, least adapted
o secure that calm impartiality which is essen
ial to the paasihg Of good laws. It was passed,
ndesd, for the express purpose to which it has
KEN since 90 profusely devoted BY all parties
hat have existed from that day to this. It
vas used a. an electioneering expedient, and
was designed 70 Be 20 used when it was first
nacted. For thirty years the people Of the
United States have been made 70 nav the fl.