The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-12

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TUE STARVATION QUEsTioN.-Ihc North
set ont in this contest under several very re
markahle. tn; at the same time very comfoita-
bic decisions They considered 1t a plain
proposition that twenty millions of people
could readily whip eight and they according
" began to parcel ont our Southern lands in
Yankee farms before they commenced their
invasion; toIge;tinRthe homoly maxim, better
not count Your chickens before they are hatch
Cd" This deusion has somewhat cleared
away since the affairs at Bethel, Manassas and
Springfield, bn; still retains chronic hold upon
the Northern mind.
Another delas!on was fondlv cherished in re-
gard TO our slave population They confident
" expected onr negroes 10 rise upon their mas
ters at the first alarm of war; and scrvile in.
surrecion 10 rage throughout the South, bile
their victorious armies We're marching trium.
phantly, rl.I.dcring and ravishing, al H6itV3n.
through our territory. This dclusion, too, has
been dispelled The negroes were never so
quiet. never so loyal 10 their duty, as they have
been during the siN months Just gone by. They
have taken the same interest in the war for the
South tha; our white people have done and have
heipedto STAY Yankee soldiers on the field ofbat-
tie An authentic instance is told Of a servant at
Manassa having killed two soldiers OF the enc
my, during the progress Of the battle, by stouing
them 10 death The Yankees have stolen ne
groes, and persuadcdsome OF themto runaway
FROM their masters Oh some portions of the sea
board bu, there is scarcely all instance OF ne
gro violence to white people recorded during
the whole progress OF the present war. The
period OF the war bias strange 10 SAY, been d.
period remarkable for its exemption from thls
sort OF trouble 20 the South.
But the most amusing of all the halluciua-
tions of the North in the outset Of the war,
was the belief that their own States fed The
Southern people: and that, by biocKad;nI our
ports, they would siarrc Us into submission
Yankees are IL shrewd and Intelligent people
in all matters Of business and in all practical
affairs. They ought TO have understood the
resources Of the country well enough 10 know
the ta.llaey Of this notion But their belief III
our non production Of food was 80 tlatterng
10 their vanity, and so comfortable 10 then self
complacency, that they would not take the tron
bic TO ascertain with certainty the facts of the
case Which were readily accessible. And that
was the theory of their blorhadc-,hat we
would starvc by our separation from the
North; and like the pTodigal son, would III
due time return from feeding upon the hnsks
Of secession, begging the fare Of servants,
in the bitterness of orr penitence and huIniha-
ton The blockade had other objects indeed :;
such as that of keeping arms and ammunition
ont of our reach, and cutting LIE of from direct
communication with Europe; but its primary
idea was 10 s,arve us into contrition.
The census tables Of 300 abundantly show
that the South produced more of the great
ticlcs of human toodper man and according to
population than the North; and these tables
We're everywhere open to Northern inspoc
ton. They remained, however, "wiIliugly
ignorant" Of a fact which SO Ill compored
wfeh their favorite theories III regard to the
facility of Southern subjugatlon Aswe took
occasion 10 prove III detail some months ago, the
census of 1880 demonstrates that the South,
though embracing but 80 per cent. Of the pop
ulation of the Union, produced wheat more
than sufficient for its entire population, ex-
porting considerable quantities 10 the North and
to South America: produced also 40 per cent
Of the entire corn crop of the Union and 80
Der cent Of all the animals that We're slaugh-
tered for food. Besides these articles, she
PRODUCED her rice crop, which enters SO con
siderabv as an item i'll the consumption OF
food AZ well as quite many sweet and irish
potatoes per man as the North produced OF the
LITTER. De.iGes these articles Of food, she pro.
duced very large sugar crop with the due pro
portion of that most invaluable luxury and ne
ceesaIv Of the table-molasses. She did all this
too, while producing full crops of her two
great staples Of cotton and tobacco: our eX
port abroad of which, besides the consump
ton within the Union, was in 1860 worth
S2lO.000,0,0 We have no doubt that when
the census statistics of 1860 transpire, If hot
uurbled by the Yankee Government, they
will show a considerable increase of the
Southern production in all these articles of
food and of income.
Yet, this Is the country which the Yankees,
starve into oontrition and submission
When England blockades Newcastle, for the
purpose of eating off its supplies of coal
when Australia sends to Europe for gold;
and when Connecticut begins to import tin
Cnpe, wooden clocks, hams aud nutmegs then
the North may expect to hear general wall
rising up from I'll the South for bread
The cereal crops of 1861 are the most enor-
nous ever known in the South 1t would be
no exaggeraton to say that they are sufficient
alone, to supply the South with food for two
or three wears Il is thus that Providence con
spires 10 confound and bring TO delision all
Northern calculations in this war,
TINS WAR AN AHTISLAvERY Wharf.-The
proclamation Of Fremont, by which he sets
free all the slaves held by persons whom he is
pleased 10 s'yle ''rebes'-that il, by d large
majority OF the Missouri slaveholders-giyes
entire satisfaction at Washington, and is re-
ceived with ocstatic JOY by the Black Repub
hean press in all quarters of Yankeedom-
Even the New York HsrQld, which few
weeks ago recommended the "sQuelching
ont Of the Tribune and Times on account OF
their Abolition procliyities and the tendency
Of their daily TRADES against slavery To
strengthen the hands OF the Secession
lets by uniting all parties at the South, |
exults at this mastery stroke Of policy Il is, |
In fact. but al extension Of the system inau |
Bora,ed by BUTLER, who fell upon the notable |
oxpethert OF declaring all sls yes contraband and |
e"nllseat'ng them lis property belonging 10 the |
rebels. FREYoNT and BUTLER both mean |