The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-01


tains most f.rocious editorial onslaught upon
England. The wrath and indignation of the
whole North finds free vent in this furious IL
rade, and Its capacity for brag is especially
illustrated. The North. according to the Her.
old, can whip England and put down "the
rebellion" too. What an amazing people,
We have no doubt, when the Herald reaches
England the Premier will shake in his boots,
and all the military and naval officers resign
their commissions.
Upon what meat doth this our CESAR feed,
that he hath grown so great When did the
North, a. such, ever show that she was a more
military people than the English? II we
achieved our independence after q seven years
war in the Revolution, it was because
WASHINGTON led our armies. In the late
war, the most signal victories gained on land
were achieved by Southern commar ders, and
it is no moro than fair to admit that England
about that period, was fighting the whole
world. The case would be very different were
she now to bring her naval and military
strength to bear upon the Northern fragment
of a discovered Union. Between the .Soutl 1,
on one side, and Canada on the other, the
Northern States would be crushed between an
upper and neither milestone. Upon the sea,
tho destruction Of Northern ships would be
universal. 1t is notorious that the Unitod
States, except in the single item Of gunnery
has not kept pace with European naval i'm
provemcnts, and that the naval power Of Grea.
49, of
A single British squadron would sweep every
yestige Of Northern Navy from the face of
the sea, and destroy its commerce in every
quarter of the globe. Having merely relin-
auishcd the right of privateering for the pur-
pose Of disarming its Southern adversary, it
would be left entirely helpless and without
any possible chance of retaliation. The North
could not injure England now, commercially
or any other way. The North has nothing
that England needs or desires; the cotton, to
baoco, naval stores, &C., which have hitherto
ensured the peace between the two countries, are
nil in the friendly Southern Confcderacy,
where England can obtain them all the more
readily by falling out with the Northern
States. The time has gone by when England
could be tainted and defied with impunity by
the North. She can strike the North now
everywhere, and the North can find no vital
point to wound in return. She can iuvs her
from Canada she can cover the lakes i,h her
armed steamers she can lombard and burn
down Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland, Detroit, Chi
cage, Milwaukee and upon the Atlantic Dor
Il he 10 hor
and reduce Boston, New York and Philade,-
pha to ashes in three months after the be-
ginning Of hostilities, and they can neither
prevent nor avenge it. How absurd, then, in
the New York Herald and other journals of
that city pretending to defy the power of
Great Britain.
And what is all this rage for? What provo
cation has unhappy England given for these
indignant reproaches and appalling threats -
None, whatever, except that she refuses to de-
part from her neutrality. 1t is not enough
that the North has eighteen millions to twelve.
but it is unsatished even with that odds it
is ipconsolahle because the whole world viii
not help it to put down the Southern rebel
lion. What heroism! What chivalry, The
neutrality of England would seem to furnish
beNi to the magma nmous North. We
can well understand the keenness of its disap-
pointment, that it has not been cheered on to
Its work by the whole Parliament and press of
Great Britain: but it should not have been alb
surd enough to indulge such expectations, and
the disappointment is a righteous retribution
for the perfdious and wicked course which has
been adopted, to prejudice the whole civilized
world against the Southern States We have
only been known abroad through the medium
Of Northern newspapers and then, habitual
calumnies have been circulated through every
press of Europe. Northern travellers have
sown tho same faisehoods broadcast over the
whole face Of the earth. Mrs. Stowe
has held US up to tho horror of man
kind, in a book that has found its way into
every castle and cabin in the whole world
BEECHER and his Puritanical crew have
libelled US every Sunday from their pulpits,
and the SUMMERS and Stewards have gone
abroad and sought industriously to dissent
nate the poison through the most influential
circles. When the Prince Of Wales visited
this country, he was monopolized by the Re-
publican courtiers, and did not visit a single
town in the South except Richmond, and
hence q Republican correspondent propagated
the monstrous falsehood that he was insulted,
and before the truth could overtake it, the
miserable fabrication had travelled all through
Christendom. In short, no miser ever con-
cealcd from other eyes the place of bis choicest
treasure, no California gold hunter was ever
more anxious to represent yellow spot which
he wished to monopolze as repulsive, dan
gerous, snake-infested location, than the Yam
KEGS to make the South stink in the nostrils of
all mankind to be looked upon as degraded
barbarcus, and especially impocerished,-that
very South which they now acknowledge II
would be worth FIVE hundred millions wear
to keep in the Union.
But England is an old empire, and has seen
a good deal of mankind q good many hun
dred years before Brother Jonathan was born.
She is an old merchant, an old manufactures.
an old miner, an old diplomatist, very old
indeed in the ways of this wicked world. She
IL so old and self reliant that she can permit
smart, coneeited young aspirant like Jona-
than to spin her tie most marve llous yarns.
and she will never by word, look or pretence.
disturb his complacent convict that he is
pulling wool over her eyes. But her instinct
OF seit-preservation is not often found nap
ping. and the amount Of intelligence she has
suddenly displayed upon the true points at issue,
between North and South, may we'll take the
North by surprise. We can fully annreciata