The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-07
Thu Raxinninx Of the End.


The Beglnnins Of the End.
The British newspapers are beginning 10 see
that there are two sides Of the slavery ques-
tfon 10 far as England is concerned, -one the
moral aide, and the other the side on which
their bread Is buticred. II any one doubts
which aide they prefer. in case they are called
upon TO choose between the two, II is only me-
o>ssary to consult the human nature OF gov
srnmsnts in general and the history of Eng.
land In particular. We shall soon see wha,
we shall see. At present our new converts
are brought TO the point OF opening their
minds TO conviction. This Is a great point. -
When you can bring an old sinner, like the
late SIMON Sroos, TO discover that his smoke.
house 10 empty. OF in danger of becoming 40,
semseody's bacon has got to suftr even If II
b. that OF his nearest friend. With but
twelve weeks supply Of cotton in the store.
houses Of Liverpool and Manchester, and q
prospect of having the source OF supply in
terfered with by civil war, our English
friends ara beginning TO desert and even TO
abuse their abolition allies. The ". J. Err
press says that they are getting slmpses Of
the truth, as regards the real nature of the
Revolution now In progress in the United
States even In Scotland-Scotland, which
sticks up. or used TO stick up. notifca tons
over the approaches 10 her AbbotsforGs, and
other places that have historical interest for
the traveller
''SLarehotders from -f,.erica admitted
and Scotland, which has just been sending
round the hat for contributions, TO enable the
Rev. d. CHRgvRR, of Union Square. to prose
cute the cause of Abolitionism by the Christ.
like agencies of ''cannons and confagrations."
The journalists there have n suspicion now
that there might be two sides 10 the story of
this extraordinary movement in America, and
as hitherto they have only had the Abolition
OF Anti-Slavery side given them by the North
eru ~. S. Republican presses, about the
only American exchanges they ever see,) they
are now betaking themselves, with commend
able assiduity to such other sources of infor-
nation as will be likely to present them i'm
partially, with facts they are. All OF a
Sudden a demand for Charleston, Savan-
nah, Mobile and New Orleans newspapers
has sprung up there. The influences of this
change of lnenta diet are already very marked.
The Scotch philosophers are seeing now with
the two eyes which Providence has given them,
and not with only the one eye Abolitionsm or
Polyphemus had given them. The South"
and the Shareholders of the South In Il mir |
aculously short space of time, have ceased to !
be " barbarous" the cotton planters and the |
rice growers are longer spoken of as mon |
sters, and there is every reason 10 believe, if |
things 60 on at this rate that the aforesaid |
sign board over the gateways to public places |
will speedily have TO submit TO such an |
amendment will expunge the negative ad. |
verb from the sentence altogether, so that
shareholders from America may be admitted.
Verify, the world does move, and we submit
[ " he her
strtkingly visible In the following brief ex
tract:
From the Glasgow Courier.1
Il can no longer be denied that the United States
are on the very verge of disruption. Divestin the
question OF slavery OF special arguments a. con
sstent with the moral law, on which much differ.
enee Of opinion exists, it must be conceded bv All
unprejudiced politicians tina; the Souiher, ar
slave states stand superior to the Northern on |
tais question.
many respects the interests Of the ortheru and
hcuihern Statce are diametricaliy opposite. Their
climates are iso widely different The North is
agricultural, and would be manufacturing TO
Cooperating, be it marked, TO an extent almost
beyond belief, against the manufacturing
years, been naul cted Of sum in shape of import
duties positively amounting to some Thousands OF
question Of slavery in assembl cd Congress usiust
attempts nave been made to plunge the Southern
Ferry raid The Northern saos have no rab
do this than would have to interfere the do
mcsuc concerns OF france or Belgium. The South
ern states, on tho other hand, raising cotton rice
sugar, and tobacco, desire free trade with rest
Of Inc world, and vindicate slavery as o wise in
stiution, by which these val va be products can be
raised By African labor, alone equal To the heat of
the climate. There Is much, therefore, in the
2 question which does not at once meet tho eve and
" hich cannot BIO answered by every shallow de-
palmer against slavery.
The southerners are vi the best English blood
are in many respects, a superior 10 the North
srnsrs or fankees-and, hig spirited as theyare,
Till not, In our opinion, quietly recede from their
present position. There remains bur TO ba adJnd
that this country would gain vastly by direct trnIe
With the south, while the fearful families likely
~ arise from the Cessation OF even one ven ann
ply of cotton cannot be- estimated At this moment |
v Q have only eleven to twelve weeks supply of
potion In Liverpool. -
1hs Glasgow weavers and manufacturers
are not alone In the new illumination. Various 1
London journals are beginning to make their !
way towards the anxious bench, among them !
he London Chronicle, which confesses "that
he question flor England) is, In fact, little
hort Of life and death. Ruin to merchants )
nd mill-owners, and starvation to the rest of Y
ne population, hang Immediately In the =
alance. One years failure of the American t
rop, or postponement of the American sup. I
'iy, would produce calamities worse than any >
var or famine within modern experience =
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