The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-25
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FRIDAY MORNING NG......oUT. %. 1851


fighting men which the North can bring into
the field, of the native race, are the hardy and
adventurous men of the Northwestern Stat ca
1t is only the soldiers drawn from this quar-
ter, and those recruited from the foreign races,
that have done any good fighting on their side
Ill thi; war. or that give any promise of per
slsting in the fight. The best regiments under
the command Of MCCLELLAN on the Potomac
are those which he drew from the Northwest
Hut the Northwestern people are infinitely
more sohcitous for the the opening of the
Mississippi to free navigation and for subdu-
| ing the States lying towards its mouth under
! the same political jurisdiction with themse! yes,
than they are to secure the valueleys city of
Washington, or the nconsiderable state of
Maryland 10 the Union. Already have the notes
ot complaint been sounded in the Northwest
| against the withdrawal Of their regime ents
| INTO the unprotabe field of action on
| the Potomac, to the neglect Of the Vita
| interests OF the Northwest which concentrate
upon the Mississippi river This proposition
| may be assumed as true for the rest of the
struggle that the Northwest are hereafter to
provide the great body Of troops for the North
| ein armies, and that the Middle and Eastern
States will be expected 10 contribute, as their
quota of AID, the arms, munitions, clothing.
and supplies of all kinds required for the war.
| rs Il general rule, good artisans are great
| towards, as the regiments of New England
and New York have abundantly demonstrated
in the field. 1t is the rural districts ONLY that
| furnish brave volunteers; and it is only IN the
| ,ft n,
recruit any troops worth bringing into the
| field
| i; Is mistake to suppose that the Northwest
| are disalfected to this LINCOLN war Tley
are even more fierce and determined than the
Yankees OF the East, whose zeal in every
| thing is measured by the rule. 1chat d2es II
| PdYi LINCOLN himself is a true index Of
| Northwestern feeling in this regard, and Ger.
| taiuly have the people sf the Northwest more
to lose by the destruction of the Union than
amy other portion Of the Northern population
| If they are crIt off from the navigation of the
| Mississippi, they are in manner cut oil from
| the world and hemmed in on every side Thev
| have Great Britain on the North the Yan-
KEGS on the East, who prey upon their indus
| try ard the hostile South below them They
| have no access to market except over foreign
| territory, or over railroads owned by corpora
| ton. that have no souls, composed Of Yankees
| who have no honesty conscience. The
| Northwest are in predicament that cOmpels
them to fight; and it would be the most inbe
| cle folly and blindness for the South to expecr
anything else but Il formidable struggle with
that young and giant community.
| III this point of view the condition of Ken
| tucky and Missouri presents topic of absorb
ing and vital interest to the Southern Confede-
racy. The South can never consent that any
| portion of territory lying South of the Ohio
or Missouri rivers shall belong 10 an enemy
| If possible, the question Of boundary rises s,t-
| perior TO question of State Sovereignty;
inasmuch as the selfpreseryation Of eleven
! sovereign States is of superior Importance to
the mere political Integrity of two divided
and distracted communities The time has un-
| doubtedly arrived when the South must as
t sutne the power to treat Kentucky and south
ern Missouri as a part of her own territory Ii
| had been better, and more consistent with tde
! l"w-ahiding spirit and policy of the South, 10
| await the formal secession of those States
and their formal accession to the Southern
| Contederacy; bnt their revolutionary con3i-
| ton now precudes these legal measures. The
| voice Of the people has no organ Of exIaes-
sion; and, even ii it had, the exigencies Of the
times would not permit the slow ami formal
| processes usual to legal procedure Ken
tueky and Missouri can no longer be re.-
| Fected aB forbidden ground to the South
| They are both essential parts of the South
| They must be ours, or we must in future con
tim'ally consent to the presence Of an enemy
! III The heart of our territory. To wait now
! loi the formal secession of those States from
! ia" North, is to wait for an impossible event
, II may, perchance, be true that a majority Of
| voters in Kentucky are for Union as against Sc
/ cession; even that case does not change the
| necessity which would impel the South to
! seize the State and fix her boundary upon the
| Ohio
| But large majority, both of Southern Mis-.
| sourians and of kentuckians are with the
| South. The distractions of the times prevent
the formal demonstration of this fact; and the
| South is bound to assume it. TO wait for formal
| political action III revolutionary times, is to
| lose the kernel by sticking in the bark Ken
tucky can only secede by revolutionary act
| and the South may save the necessity of that
by action Of her own ii strict conformity with
her belligcrent rights.
The North are not stopping TO enquire of
the conatitutionality of this or that of their
measures. Their whole conduct and policy
is usurnatory; and it follows that many Of
| their measures only be met and counter
acted by retaliation. The South have acted
upon retaliafory principles repeatedly in the
progress Of this controversy. Her march into
the territory of Kentucky was justified upon
these principles, And where can a case be
found more urgent for continuing this policy
| than III Kentucky and Missouri, where the
enemy are preparing the most formidable Of
| all their measures against ne
We sincerely trust that the Confederate
Government will dismiss ali qualms and seru.
pies about the legality of inaugurating vigo-
rous and decided policy in thequarter IN which
the North is concentrating forces so great and
preparing operations against us so formidable
foolish qualm and hesitation may in three
weeks turn over three fourths of the Ken.
lucky fighting men into tae regiments of the
enemy, who might otherwise be enlisted un-
der the flag of the Co nfederaey.
WEALTH, PAupERisM, AND CRIME IN TIE
NoRrH-Facts Reached by tie Ceasns.-We
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