The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-13
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Media ion.
Taere ara insupcrablc din ,ulties ia The way
os foreign mediation between Nor:h and s1ut'.
If the Pine. N,rotEoS has ecme on such
!. m;ssIou. he viii SOON discover il 10 be quite
impractcable.
lie question between the south and North
Ices not admit o: compromise. With tie
south it is 4 resIlU'e AID una!terabie determi
natioI. to 30 10 longer associated with surh
,.oople as the Northern. With the North it is
an arrogant Determination to prevent the sep
sratiop Of he Scuth. There is bug ore mtds
Of settling the controversy. The South canuot
r.oede or comprOtnise. She will have inde
pender &C. not ouiy because Il Is 4oI right ard
her Interest t. possess H. out because n STATE
of dependence wuaiu be intoie4 able, and longer
u..i1n with the Nsrth would lie Interpreted
into, snd would in fact be, nothing but lie
peudence. Besides, the ccIth IS ahle to achieve
her inGependeu %, AID make good hi case III
this war The North cannot succeed III &C
c,mplishirg it, purposes; and the eouth, by
con seutiug to any mt jlalion or compromise
sha, i ,cs rot grant absolte separation, would
voluntarily relirq,'ish d result which she has
perfectly within her command.
True, it il for the interest Of both parties
that tbs wal should ccsae but it is not for
the interest Of the south that The intercourse
and amer ,ies Of friendly Betions should be
Instituted between tie lWo sections. II there
were a great gnif Gxsd between the two PEG
lies. iDpa sseble a. thai which separated Dives
from I.ata.us, lie South would soon become
tie mos prosper ,u- and one Of the most pow
evful nations on the earth. The cOntiguity Of
The North will ever exert Il banetul influence
upon all h.e interests social, political, com
,percial a,d nora If TO this should lie addep
Tree friendly Intercourse, TIE uni, crsal ma
ton" would come down upon her ike the To-
Gusts of Egypt, eating up every green thing.
They would profess such extreme Southern
opinions taat i, would be impossible to deny
to their Importantly al unrestricted eligibility
10 All our ofiices OF trus, aud eDoluncnt, es-
uecially the latter. They wonld infest our
high p,ares and low. and he ever ready to be
ray ard batter away our interests III peace,
md car cause in war. If the present contFo-
,efsv between the two sections should be set
tied BY mediation the South demanding abso
, ,ta separation aud distinct political existence
:, her siae qua aos:, some compensation won
have 20 he conceded the North, which COZ III
AL, consist If CONNER ,ia concessions ruin
.o,s l., OUT interests. and the granting OF social
aud political priv ieges demorai1ing to cur
social and political integrity.
The experiment of Republican institute is
Is loei at the North, and il can only be saved
q, the south by maintaining a. strict non
Intercourse with The moral Seldom ana politi-
oal Pandemonium Oh our borders, as the ma
lure OF the case will permit. We are willing
10 agree I" the cessation Of hJsolitles; but if
any foreign mediation shall exact concessions
,f Intercourse, and Commercial and political
i.ilese, c. bargain and stipulation, it will
yaet what cannot be granted without dcstruc
non to our social, political, and commercial
Integrity.
The case, therefore, is hot one for arbitra-
ton The South cannot refer so grave a ques-
tim az that OF her independence TO any arbi
tratiou. much less to that Of a foreign poten-
late. Did ever two itigants refer IL arbitra
ton the question Of either ones slavery -
Independence IL question that cannot he re-
ierred by the south aud that is, in fact the
only question really involved ia the present
contest. The Yankee may become sick of the
war and is capable Of descending from de-
,land Of our service aai fealty. to begging the
privilege OF peddlng his wooden nutinegs aud
bark clocks through our country but neither
# these demands is proper Tor mediation. and
we should lie very wary OF granting treaty
privileges of trade. Despa;ring OF conquer
Ing the South by open hogtilities. they will try
the ar.ifce CT the drseks before Troy, aid at
tempt to introduce, by means of trade priVi-
lsses, the wooden horse into our midst 1t is
only eome purpose OF this sort that mediation
IAN accomplish and We should distrust and
eschew such schemes, the Trojaus learned
10 distrust their enemies, even when bearing
pretended gitte.
Tiers is also an insuperable difficulty, on
Tue EiHS ga ING ~N"i us III luo way u OSotdtioh.
The real governing power 10 that section is
tie power behind the throne, greater than the
throne itself l.Ia,oLN may plant aud SEWARD
may water, but il is the ignoran, and easily
,nislsd Northern populace that must give their
sanction before fruit can come Of The labor
Sever WAS there on earth before Il ,vern nsnt
possessing 80 little Of the authority Of power
49, the wretched concern at Washing ton
doubtless. LiNcoLs aud SEWARD would be glad
80 mediate but what do their wishe: avail in
opposition to the fanasicism Of the Northern
pspuiaee, led by the lying Blairs and the san
culinary .TiIaae' The ignorant and tickle
popuIece must consent to mediate, or else the
consent Of the LlSCoLS u oyernment is nothing
/ aus, te'ween the difficulty Of obtsining an
impiae:icable consent at the North, and the in
-armountable objection cf The South to a
measure so inpolitic, there seems very little
ch 1nce f'r me diailop.
NSb,y Done
tbe Christian Association Of Chsrlsst.r I'm.
,nediateiy upon receiving news of tie battle of
Nanassss, called IN the assistance Of the ia