The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-06-12
Cs.sius N. Clay In Enrspe.

class. He haunts il in tho face Of the publ
as if to say-"See what fine thing ha,
| upon my handsome person: am CAssirs n
CLAY. Of Kentncky--a slave State; but l al
al Abolitionut--the prince of Abolitionists-i
chevalicr Bsyard in the Abolition lists
may be the pride she feels in her promisin.
sou CAssrUs that keeps Kentucky in the Ian
kee Union. CAssius figured in Washingtoi
city awhile as an aid Of LINCOLN; AS organic
of banditti bands as colleague of JIM LAM
IN that business. He has received his reward
aud has gone abroad rs Minister TO st. Peters
| burg. Late adviccs announce his arrival u
London en- route. CAssIus fastened, Z"
| curse, to let Europe know Of his ARRIVAL. II
| rashed Immediately into print; and the 7'me
| newspaper is bored with column letto'
| from CAssrs NJ. CLAY. on American polite;
aad the American war.
| The Times takes the measure of CAssIu
| 4 once. In half the space allotted to his lei
| ar il strips the feathers of Of LIScoLN's Min
| ,,ter and a good deal Of the sSin, in the mDs;
| artistic manner. The letter and the reply
| make one of the happiest little episodes of th
| American controversy.
CASsirs appeals to the monarchical senti
| meut of Europe in favor of prer0gative an
| u sainst revolution. lie makes the same az
| peal to this same sentiment that was made b.
| GEORGE Third and his ministers nearly centu
y ago CAssIUs CLAY, the advocate of UNI
ersal freedom, the radical Democrat, the Rec
ID L. Tn
psan soil by all appeal to the conservatism c.
.aonarchs in favor of proscriptive establish
.,ents, and against the disruption of re
yolted nationalltios. "What are ace Jfghtin
f,r ," asks CAssIUs in the Tine, and he ar
syers-"The Secession States propose to sew.
mr. nation into separate independences. W
the Union oppose this attempt; we fgL
s,r nationality and" he il bound as al
american to add, "for liberty" The Times, witt
he merciless celebrity of hawk, pounces upon
his last assertion and murders CAssIus. Lib
srty, indeed. We cannot understand, say,
he Times, show people, lighting to put dow
rebellion, to force their fellow citizens to re
main in Confederacy which they detest, anu
+,
IAN be called the champions of liberty"
CAssIUs undertakes to prove that the NortL
will certainly subdue the revolted States. ii,
uses the aryumentum ad hominem with exult
ant satisfaction. Nothing can be palmer 1t is b
simple problem Of arithmetic. The State of New
York alone has more whites 1881 $3.50 thai.
all seven of the original Secession States, z,
l73,000.) II all the slave States were to max
common cause, they have only S,907, 1874 whites,
while the Union" has 90, 900 900. CAssIUs
thinks the demonstration complete here, with
out another word. The South will be crushed
in year if Europe-if the ruling Powers OF
Europe, SO deeply interested in preserving the
existing order Of things-will only play hand
off. Though quasi-religious parsonage, CAs-
sIUs forgets the warning vouchsafed by Scrip
ture to all GEORGE Thirds and WILLIAM SEW
ARps-"The race is not to the swift, nor the
battle to the strong
CAssIUs then proceeds to inform t,ninquiring
England where her own honor lies in this
contest. England has abolished slavery in
the West Indies the Confederate States Of
the South refuse to abolish it on their cotton
plantations. If these cotton States are right,
then England is wrong; if slavery must be
extended in America, then England must
restore it in Jamaica Having ended the ar
gument with these tremendous and clinchine
non sssequiturs, the American minister close,
that branch of the subject with few depre-
catory sophomorisms- then must England
blot out the most glorious page of her history,
and call back her freed men into chains Let
her say to the martyrs of freedom from all
the nations who have sought refuge and mag
unanimous defence on her shores Return 10
your scsffo'ds and your prison -houses-Eng-
land is no more England~ To all which the
Times quietly replies "If any one doubts the
force of this demonstration we are sorry for
It, for Mr.. CLAY has no other to Offer"
Having exhausted statistics and cajolery.
our newly fedged diplomatist next EMPLOYS a
little admonition. He entreats Europe to
take heed of the growing power of the Union,
soon TO number hundred millions of people
and to own four thousand miles of railway
1t would be a dangerous experiment to offend
her; it will be profitable not to do so. Speak
ing as if the South would certainly still re-
main part of the Union, he urges that the
Union is a nation of producers and manufac
turers, having much money to spend, and
therefore destined to remain England's best
customer. The foolish man does not see that
his argument is only true of that portion of
the Union constituted of the revoltsd States.
and that his advice to England not to quarrel
with her future customers cuts the throat of
his own proposition. If England consults her
interests alone. and has an eye single to future
custom, she must take sides with the South in
this quarrel and set herself might and main
against the North. Without bringing out thi
plain view of the case, the Times contents
itself with asking If Mr.. CLAY ais quite sure
that his hundred millions will be members of
the same Confederacy."
Mr.. CLAY is too highly delighted with him
self not to be proud of his own letter. but W.
doubt if the shrewder head of Mr.. SEWARD
did not shake little on seeing his new Rus
sian Minister in print.
Hon. Jshn Bell.
This stern old patriot of Tennessee made a
succession of stirring speeches on the eve of