The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-03

iuGly displayed. The prestige Of the good
cause.-the cause Of truth, justice, popular
rights, national safety and individual securi-
~ and happiness-the cause Of law and order
against anarchy and despotsIn, North and
South, will explain this in vincihle heroism OF
our soldiers. Every man Of them Is inspired
with the full weight Of the great respon.ibiil-
ty with which he is charged as n soldier light
ing for the Union, and thus inspired every
man of them becomes hero.
"Our soldiers, too, have the highest faith In
the strengt tn of our Government, anu In vi"
Hiekory's declaration that the Union mus
and shall he preserved Our loyal native.
born citiz.ns, from our attachment TO the Old
Nag, which is full Of entkus1asm, and our
adopted citizens, from fidelity which Ia full OF
gratitude vie With safn oner n mar ar nd IN s sne
throUs hout the length and breadth OF the
land. They all know that they are fighting
for the best system Of government tnat man
kind has ever enjoyed; they all feel that such
Government cannot be destroyed without
destroying the hopes of mankind, In arresting
the progressive development OF popular
rights; while the Government ,tseif thus aus
tanned in the hearts OF twenty odd millions or
our peoy,,s r. in sincible in all the materials,
means and sinews OF war.
1.-THE moral effect of this late i'm portant
vic tory in cas- tern Virginia, will in the cause
of the Union be worth more, we nope, than
would be an addition TO our armies OF TWO
hundred thousand men. We know 1t Will give
a powerful impulse in every variety OF
manifestation 10 the Union eau W al o
sure it deals a damaging blow TO JeH JAWS
and his confederates, from Virginia 10 Texas.
In the remarkable speech which we Pnoilsh'
ed yesterday, of Alexander II. Stephens. Fro
yisjoDal Vice President of the~ Confederate
Sta ties. our readefs will have deteC ted from
the beginning to the end a vIrtual COMES
sion of the hopelessness OF the bad and weak
cafite of this rebellion against the power, the
prestige, the forces and the resources OF the
Government OF the United States on the
land and the eea. We understand from this
melancholy speech Of Stephens, that his mock
cry OF q Government is without money and
without credit at home and abroad that its
armies in numbers are completely oversha-
dowed by the swarming legions OF the Union,
and that the managers OF this rebellion can
only hope to succeed through the absolu te ex-
haustion of the men and the means OF the re-
vol ted States.
"Let us tell this mock heroic Provisional
Vice President Stephens and his superior
provisional confederate jefferson Davis that
there is another, II shorter and n better way,
whereby the retolted States may ne released
from their Oppressive burthens OF debts, tax
ations, ConscrIptions and forced contribu-
lions, present ami prospective. and whereby
they may secure Again the blessings Of a good
and cheap Government, which they have
thrown away. They may DO it in the simple
act OF laying down their arms of rebellion
and in lifting up again ,as the sym Dol of their
allegiance and protection, the flag OF the MON;
and the sooner they do this the better. Now
Is the acceptable tlme-now, while the Con
gress of the United States is in session in
n us hing ton and wi lille the Confederate Con
gress is III session at Richmond. Under these
ad van tageous circums tlnCes tor II treaty OF
peace and rel union, il is to be hoped that JEFF
Ierson DAVIS and his COnfederates may make a
virtue of necessity, and offer at once 10 the
President of the United States, in an aCCepta-
BILE form, the submission of the Confederate
> tates to the Union.
"If the march of the armies of the United
States in this war for The Union can thus be-
arrested at Manassas Junction, the safety and
integrity of The peculiar institution OF the
South may be secured; but II our troops are
required TO pass beyon the boundaries OF
Virginia, the South may suffer from the de-
morallZation OF her slaves the most fearful
calamities. This war tor the Union is Il war
to save the South from the suicidal folly OF
this rebellion. Let the sensible Union men
OF the South demand accordingly of the Con-
mission to the Union without further delay,
and the South can be saved.
1.-THE Message of jefferson Davis to the
Confederate Congress does not touch upon
the actual necessities OF this position. They
not the necessities of war, but OF peace
but as this Message Was delivered on Satur
day, and as this telling conflict with Beaurs-
gard did not occur until Sunday, it may be
possible that Davis may recognize the I'M
pOrtance OF other recommends lions, better
ada pied to his desperate situa ton, than the
ruinous chances OF continued war. Let
hope that he may be speedily persuaded TO
in tercede for the South through the submits
sion OF the revolted States to the Union
1t IS their only way OF delivcrance and
safety"