The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-03

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WITH THx SoarH, 1T - AQrKsriaS oF
ExfsTEScE.--Tbe asrooions conduct OF the
LINCOLN Goveramen, in .ilencing the press
In suppresssng liberty af speech, and in bring
ing the Bias tile into Wholesale reauisuion; ana
the ablec, submission OF the Northern penpl,
10 this derle'ie policy, nay, their arprov; !
and laadsi'on of it, snh,ects of constau
surprise to tue Southern public, and the con.
jectarai explanations given for them are mos
various and contradictory. Considering ,ha.
the North IL the aggvessos in this contest, th;
its measures against the South are Of It's owl.
Origina;ioa. and may he terminated a, lis OWE
option; considering that nobody's Interests a.
the North are threatened from the South thai
there is no conspiracy whatever against the
Northern Government, aud no assault threat.
ened upon Northern society, these arbitrary
measures agains; the liberty OF the press OF
opinion ANA discussion. and of the person /,
seem wholly uneslled for and gra,uitous.--
There might be come ext~se for the inaucur,,-
ton Of "a dictatorship at the South, where
ssrvile instruction is plotted. wherc the hand
in invaded, where the authorities are iT.
peachcd ~ rebels, and where not only Gov.
eminent il assaulted hu; society itself attempted
10 be undermined. Yet ii is al the North that
a cowardly and strocious petty tyranny ana
terrorism are pgsscticed, while these tiinga are
wholly unknown and unthoughi of at the
South. She contras; thus presented il the
most remarkable in all liz cireu,n stances that
can be found in tho history Of human affairs.
We need not spend any words in account
ing for the absence al . dictatorship al the
South. Oar people would ~. snhmit to il,
except under an over1 helminy sense OF pub
lie danger. and they are strangers, notwith-
standing the threats and formidable demon.
STATIONS of the North, To any sense of such
danger from that quarter.
But tho practice Of these tyrannical meas
nres At the North. and the tame submission OF
that people 10 them, are subjects of universal
surprise, and puzzled conjecture. II il reason
abba to suppose that the Northern people have
moi become indifferent 10 civil liberty. and
would not allow il 10 he oyrrthrown except
from some great eotitroiling public conviction
Of the necessity of submission to the alserna-
tive What il that sentiment, and what the
facts In which it orig mates
We find the best Ineu of the Norti.-ihose
at least whom We have been in the habit Of
regarding as their beet Notwithstanding i'll a
common purpose with the worst. of uphoIding
LIScoLSs Government in all its measures
right, or wrong. buchanan, Dallas, Cuss
Dickinson, Gushing, Richardson Douglas. and
Cadwallader vie with the Blairs, Seward Gree.
lev, Sherman, Weed. Grow. Sumner, and Hale.
in giving their active support To the war, and
in earnest exhortatiour Tor lis yigol GUS prose.
cution on the most Formidable scale. Indeed
the rank and file of their armies, so far "a
composed of native citizens. are composed
three TO one OF the men who belonged before
the war 10 the Democratic party. the party
which took sides with the South in resisting.
at the inception. the very measures which are
now having their legitimate contamination
What, then. can he the meaning and the ey-
PLANTATION of this remarkable state OF things Al
the North There can lie but one explana
ton and that is Il eommon sense that public
ruin mus, be the result OF tie success of
cession The Northern people are Thoroughly
imbned with the conviction. that the loss %
the South 10 the Union will destroy their pros
rerity, reduce them to poverty, overtu,n
Government, ard dissolve society itself Their
conviction is VIII founded. Losing the South,
what is there to hold The Northwest in longer
union with the Eastern and Middle States
The geographical shape of their territory il
itself sufficient 10 insure its separation: TO say
nothing of the stronger interests which would
attract the Northwest to the South and the
certain loss of the Pacific slope To the Puritan
Cenfederacy of New England and New York,
with which it can have no congeniality. There
is, moreover, a. little sympathy between New
England and the Middle States as between
New York and Philadelphia. or as between
Hartford and San Francisco. The separation
of the South will bethe signal for the thorough
disintegr;,.ion of what Will remain of the
Union for the part remaining will be the
least homogeneous aggregation of communi
ties on the face of the globe.
The North still cling 70 the delusion that
the South will ultimately come back and a.
sent to reconstruction. In that deusion they
dac oOAt hf'ti 'iHnitiS out iHt scutIiitHt W
the South hostile 10 such an arrangement
They will not believe or realize the fact tlat
public opinion here OH tia: subject is long ago
concludcdand isrevccahle. They are figlITing
as with that dclnsion. sud with the settled
conviction that secession AUST overthrow
their political systen at holne. and prastra,e
forever the wealth and prosperity of tie
North. We have expos.d ,he certainty of
their finsnciai and industrial ruin, from secct-
sion, on too IEany oesaaions for il 10 be peees-
sary to point out again the groundr OF their
own fixed conviction of iuai I,.c,. I; il upon
this conviction that they are acting They
themselves are telling US that this conviction
is tie motive npou which they are prosecu-
ting the war with 40 much determination
The Language of Mr. DAitAs at Philadelphia
expresses the sentiment of the whole North
On lhis subject. Defeat secession. or the
North 10 undone. Rule or ruin L. tue aiter1ls
tive presented by the contest
fASKFE RssoI acEs.-iu a late number Vi
the London 4lnes Is IA eoillaent npo;, a eirc,,-
lar put forth by Aew York merchant, herein
it 10 stated tfast tho Xankees will be able 10
raise f40. Gao. 600 startling per annnm by n,e4,ns
Of taxation, to carry on their Government
The Times comedies that the Yankees are