The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-13
Nittmon1 qispattb.
TUESDAY AUG. ls 1881



Tho reported determination Of the Eoglish
Admiral of the American coast to break the
blockade is giving special uneasiness, as we'll
it may, In those Northern oi les which have
sought to take away our liberties for the hene
ft Of their commerce.. That such an inter-
position By Eogland will take place, soou-
or or later, is what they feal to their
hearts core. The extraordinary ex desperation
manifested towards Great Britain by the
Northern press finds its solution, not in any
thing she has done, be. in what, with good
reason, they appEehend she will do. Ia de-
claripg her perfect neutrality between the two
sections, aud even in acknowledging the South
as helligereut, whilst, as yet, she has accorded
US ia relation to prizes taken by our privateers,
none of the rights Of 8 belligerent nation, she
has given no just cause fer that ou,hurat Of in
dignation which has issued from the whole
Northern press.
The real motive Of all this outcry is that the
shrewd, commercial mind of the North not
only recognizes in Europe its real rival. bat Is
aware that her manufacturing and commercial
necessities render it indispensa bic that her sup
ply Of cotton should not be interrupted. She
now has on hand, we believe, enough for three
months only, and it ia not likely she will
val. till that short period has expired before
she provides for the future. Cotton she must
hsve-that the North understands aa vel, a.
the South. Hitherto the Nurtn has endss vored
to oelude England With the idea that cotton
would be forwarded from the South by rail-
road to the Northern ports, and then, when
this game was blocked by the determination of
the people and the law Of Congress not to per-
nit q bale to leave the country in that man
ner, they swore they would come and take 1t
But that was an cath more easily taken than
fulfilled They hsve not yet got to the TO-
bacco country, and the cotton region is more
distant still. Even If thsy could seize the
Southern ssapcrts and centres Of the cotton
trade, the coveted prey woul not be there, for
the cotton factors have requested the planters
not tc send it from their plantations, the un-
cerwriters refuse to insure it in transitu, and
the planters themselves are keeping i al home,
and will rather burn it than permit it to fall
into the eneny's hands. These facts cannot
be without their influence abroad, and it is
thorough conviction Of their truth that makes
the Northern press so irritable, and even belIi
gerent, towards England.
TIE influence Of the great battle Of Maras
sas, in this point Of view, cannot be overssti-
matea. Il was s'l important to the North, in
uaose respects than one, that the war should
be "short and chap" Rchno ond and Mem
phis in their hauds by The 20 of July, and
England would have assurance that the rebel
lion would be put down, and that she would
get ner cotton supply in time. For that pur-
pose the greatest army that this continent has
ever seen, the most formidable in numbers, the
best equipped and provided, WAS hurled upon
t'e Southern forces on the 2ist Of JUly, and
hurled there only to De dashed back In the
most ignominioas rout and ruin tha. history
records. Let tIe Northern journalists give
what false explanation Of it they please, they
cannot explain away the fact. Lat them talk
Of masked batteries aud Ct supsrier numbers
and Of ca15eless panic which made 1.-The
grand army" take to its heels like herd of
frightened deer, Eogland will observe that the
masked batteries and the superior numbers,
and the possibility OF another panic, are as
much in this way Of future operations as of
past. She has been led to wait till the North
could get her toe cotton, and Manassas will
lead her to conclude that she canaoe wait much
longer. We doubt whether she will be dis
posed to wait till MCCLELLAN can get up an
other army, better than the last. Most de-
voutlv do we hope that the North will DO m nade
to feel her heavy ar,a. Not that we desire
English interposition for the sake Of Southern
independence, for We have already sheun our
ability 10 maintain that with our own arms.
but for the sake Of vengeance Oh The wretches
who have n ade war OF ayoued pluudsr and
rapine upon an unofending people, and are
conducted that waE with atrocities unknown,
except among the sepoys and Druses. A just
Heaven will yet visit them 10 their own homes
for their horrible crimes.