The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-05
RICHMOND, VA. FRIDAY. JULY 5, 1861.
American Cousi i.teney.

tnF LonHOn SHhe fi.f
Indignation is yexng the Americans OF the
North 10 an extraordinary degree. Their ex-
citement with regard to the Secessionists Is
cool efferyescence, like one OF their own asrated
drinks, IN comparison with the boiling wrath
which threatens 70 overwheim our own coun
try. Happily there are many vents for this
farmen tation, and we may hope that not only
will there be no explosion bat that public
opinion will be eventually cieassd and puri.
fed By the process.
The secret OF the disappointment of the
EortherEers and CT their strange display OF
temper is TO be found. we think. in that con-
staut disregard OF International courtesy
which mas cistins uished successive govern
neuts for many years. Elated by the rapid
growth of their wealth and population cy
their snccesetul attempts on the territory OF
their neighboTe, aUs by the kno Wedge that
England depended on them const tan tiy Tor cot
tor and periodically tor food, the roeriean pso
pie nave acQ u;red habit of pei lance, ;snd al
most Of insolence. In their dealings win
foreign powers, which now afTec is thair jCdg
mant-usually clesr and Sound--ia 4 questions
OF constitutional right. Il Is The oAd failing
of despOts, whether on 4 throne or in rrIrata
lfs that they ioos on those who disa, gree with
them questioning their Yeracity OF insult
ing their ch 1ractsr. SO with the Americans.
It seems 10 us, from all we can hear and read
that they really and truly be!isve that Leg
land Is committing most hostile act by re-
tusiDs 10 treat the Southern priyateers as
pirates, and that the Engiish press takes an
unwarran table liberty when Il discusses tne
possibility of an ultimate disruption, or evea
speak of Mr. Davis as president OF tbs Con
federatr States" II has peen repreeeB ted tha
tbs violence and captiousnes5 OF American di
p,olnacy during the last 20 years have bean tns
york of Southern politicians; Dut whoeyec
planted or watereC this bad SEED, IL has certain
ly grown up to full luxuriance in the North;
for tho opinions expressed Oh every SIDE, .inu
repor tsu to be held bv tue Cabinet q Washing
ton, are as unius tifia6le as any ever advanced
in the palfny days OF the Union. The Ameri-
, % :
and feelings the standard Of ter atiouIl law
to repudiate whatever was inconsistent with
their claims 70 universal dou1in inion in the New
World, to support at one time the claims
of authority at another the indefsasible rie IS
of existing maj lrities TO cite president or to
| defy them. as It suited the cause they favored,
are now, in all innocence and with full be-
lief in their own consis tenCy, hoiSing with L
| six months two opposite theories of their Go /
st4tution. ami expecting EnGiishmeu 10 change
| their views Just rs popular .eoiins ~ 'ht
States has changed.
The Gcvernment and people OF this couutr,
have retained for tbs most part the opIn. Gus
which the Americans themselves held aud
| taught US. up to the 18th OF April, the day BE-
! fore the New York rtremen changed them.
| selves 20 Zouayes, amt tbs Herald was forced
| 20 recon slider ia principles by the appeaEsncG
, OF MOP In front Of its Office II, beiore IA II
date, any English member If Pan lament, oI
eny English newspaper. had ysntuIed 10 sug.
! gesc that the new President should organize =
| large staudirg army, blockade , 900 IniIes oi
| coast, and inyace 2 fourishng region ~ the
| head of l50000 men, what an ourbuTsl cf in.
| dignatiop would have met ths Machiayeili3I
| counsel, UoW we should have been reminded
! that republic Tests OF the consent ot ths
| governed, not, like the Old Rriteii Empire or
| tyranny and taxes; that the SOU thern Sta-e
| were uots Hinoostan, to be re-cOnq UeVed il :
| tv-elSemonth; that the people CT New YCrA
and other seats o. commerce UeTs EQt iikely
| to make themselves ca tspa VS. 10 carry cut
| EngjauG's abolition schemes, by ipyn,,ing tnt
plan ting States ana encouraging lazy niggers
| to rebel against their masters Ia sACCt, il
| would have been triumphartly dem goonstraIe(
| that onr syEnpatay for the Federal Authority
| was only affec ted with the diaboICal purpos,
| OF er2broiliDg the two eecfions OF the Arler
can psOpls. Yet he'tus", from = spdden eX
cess OF patriotic feeling, the NOT rJhaya pOpu
| lattoEs ara organizing i descent on the South
We are expected to forget Gli EhG decsncy arc
prudence OF International Intercourse, aat
ioin in bounding on the inv-3erS Eurt Il,
| people OF tbs North should be unable 10 con
trcl their anger II Iinding hat an iIaspenasA
foTsign power does rot commit Itself TO ae
| mons .rations OF hostility against ten million
/. OF civilized men with u hom it has 10 quar-
rel, ana whose rights 70 independence, though
! now denied, were admitted by ths Ncrth Il
self q fsv weeks ago, shows 20 what i poin
! OF irti.abiity the Americans had been brOueh
by years CT prosperity and success.