The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-06-04
Additional Foreign News by the America.

BY the arrival of the steamship America, at
Boston, we have the following foreign items,
In addition to what has already been pub
lished
The America, from Liverpool, reports the
arrival out of the Bavaria, from New YORK.
ton. The steamship Columbia, OF the Galway
line, had arrived at Liverpool to repair dam
ages received from ice.
During debate in the French Senate, on
the petition TO extend the French occupation
OF Syria, Mons. Bilant explained that France
would evacuate Syria on the 5th of June, and
if evil result eusnsd, the responsibility will
rest on those who demand the withd rawai.
France viii leave six vessels to cruise off
Beyrout, ard English and Russian ships will
act in concert with them.
kcssnth had arrived at Turin.
klapka had gone to seey yfaribaldi and re-
turns TO meet koss uth.
Rio de Janeiro date<~ TO the 2Jth have been
received. Coffee is quoted as folio MS Good
hrsts ols0oati65o- The shipments since last
steamer were 81, 600 bags; the eiock in port
l44 ,e20 bags.
tFrom the London Chrouicle, May4l
Sympath1zing heartily, as We do. with the
North-with its free press, free speech, free
soil, free men--and alieuated as we must be
from the South, stained with slavery we can
not but censure the North tor an almost Aas-
trian stupidity ia craftsmanship. The United
States is not military government; it is not
con struc ted for the coercion of any large mass
of is own people and, though the South was
wrong, according to the letter OF the law, yet
the spirit OF American institutions sanctioned
the successive secessions. Were it a,l prac
tlcaDle, PRESIDENT Lincoln might, according 10
the literal theory of the Constitution, sup
press with high hand all rebeliions and
hang all trai tors but this course was out OF
the question. He might, on the other hand,
even without any formal acknowledgment
OF secession, have said, There are certain
forts in the South possessed by the General
Government for the protection of the States
| from foreign invasion ; they were never built
for the coercion OF the people; and ut present
| there is some danger of 4 riotous attack on
| them, will withdraw all troops from them. -
| By this means he would take from the cause
of secession all the charms of daring; he
| would remove that aspect of heroism which
! arises when hot Southrons defy Northern az
| gression. BY saying, 6 have no idea of send
ing single soldier into the South, though
| still consider the States not seeded thu
| people in the Confederate States would say
| Now that all apprehension OF force is gone
| have we gained by secession ~ Levies woulC
| have been dsbanded, the war fever wouiC
| have subsided, and the border States woul,
| have remained in the Union. But by taiking
| of coercion, Mr.. Lincoln kept up q continua
fever III the South, enabled the MoutgomerJ
| Government 10 exercise a despotism and Il
| concen trate its energies on military prepare
| tion, and forced the border States in to hos
| tiity to the Union. Were coercion actual,
| practicable this course might have been de
| fenSiDle, but strong words do not take for IS
! and Mr.. Lincoln is further now from success
| against the South than he was when he start
| ed from Chicago.
As regards Fort Sumter itself, he did the
| worst thing he could do. He in ntended Il
| evacuate it III Il few days; but sooner thai
| consent to acknowledge that Sonth Carolini
| was rebeilio9s, he expressed his intention u
send in provisions by force, if necessary. III
| thus gave the South the provocation and al
opportunity OF brilliant victory, and had Il
submit to Il mortifying defeat. The conduC
OF the Southern Government, on the con
trary, has been marked by moderation an'
good SENSE. They cluug to no fictions. an
were hampered by no legal ignorance OF plai
facts. They wanted TO leave the Union an'
| they left it. They wanted to take Fort SUN
ter and they took 1t. They wished the l'or
der States to join them, and by preciptatin
q collision they seem to have got them--un
| less, indeed, some unexpected good n
| hour.