The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-27
Th. probabl. Course or England.

Much interest is naturally felt as to the
course of Great Britain in the present war
We have never entertained Il doubt as to what
tina, course would ultimately be. To suppose
that she cares baubee for the North or South,
Us such; to fancy that Governments indulge
personal loves and hates like individuals, is
simply nonsense; to imagine that nations
have consciences, and are governed by con-
victions Of right OF wrong, is contradictory TO
all history We see what the whole North is
doing at this moment purely from INTEREST,
or what it considers such, and its interests are
the only principles which any nation recog
nizes. We mean no disparagement to Eng
land, therefore, when say that, show US
what her interests are, and we will tell you
what her course will be in the present contro-
versy.
Certainly, thu. far, the tone of her press has
wonderfully altered from any it has ever held
before. Most of the leading journals have
discovered that there is South well as a
North, and speak of Mr. President DAVIS
with rs much respect as "Mr. President LIN
COLIN" The great Thunderer, the London
Times, leads the column upon the Southern side.
Lord john RUSSELL and the Law Courts re-
cognize the South as "a belligerent power"
and entitled to Issue letters of marque and re-
prisal. The proposition Of the Northern press
TO agree to the Treaty of Paris which before
they had refused, comes too late, because
England has already acknowled god the right
of the South to issue letters of marque, and
boy hat fhn
fuses to relinquish it, and, therefore, is more
bound by the surrender of that right by the
North, than the United States was bound by
the surrender of that right by the various Eu-
ropern Governments.
The necessity of England for the peculiar
kind of cotton raised in the Southern States is
the great fact which will control her policy up
on American affairs. We observe that the only
mode of obviating the difficulty suggested
in England, and confidently maintained in the
Northern States, is, that cotton will be shipped
up the Mississippi, and thence by railroad to
the seaboard-an onerous and expensive pro-
cess at best, but one which the North hugs to
its bosom with frantic assurance. Thus,
Northern paper remarks:
'This years cotton crop, which will be
ready for @ Dor tation about the beginning of
win ter, will be shipped up the NJ ississipp and
thence by railroad 10 the seaboard, thus trans
ferring to the North the principal branch OF
Southern commerce, and benentting our great
lines of transportation. The articles OF ne
cessary consumption which the South must
purchase with the proceeds of the Gotten
crop, must come to them during the bloc kade
of their ports through the Northern cities -
True, the war will diminish their ability RS
buyers, but the North will be benefited by
their trade as far rs 1t goes, whether il be lit
tie or much Business will readily adapt it.
self to the new condition of the country, con-
fidence will begin to revive with the termina-
ton Of suspense and uncertainty, and the
industry and trade of the country will be suf-
ficient to give us resources for conducting the
war to successful termination"
If the South permits one bale Of cotton to
20 Northward, it will deserve subjugation.-
But it has not the most remote idea of sur.
tant to it than an army of a half million o.
men, and, which in fact, may compel the
most powerful empire of modern times to vim
dictate its independence. The Northern dream
ers are reckoning without their host when they
suppose the South capable of such folly.
They know nothing of the temper o.
the Southern people, who have mad,
on the face of the earth,-cotton, labor an,
life,-before these scoundrels shall subjugat
their country. The Memphis appeal declare
that this whole Northern project of gettin!
cotton by railroad
els just what we have determined at every
hazard 10 crcumvent. Cotton will be raiset
- usual for foreign markets, but we bsliev
that we only echo the voice of fixed and ir
reversible public opinion when we assert tina
not one solitary bale will be allowed 10 pas
North Of the Confederate States line, unit
predecessor, John Brown, shall meet witt
come other than n successful termination >
The cotton crop for the present year may fal
short Of the usual amount owing to the ex
traordinary quantity of provisions, bread
sturs and other army supplies that are bein
raised throughout the South but those who's
conduct brought on the circumstances neces
sitAung this deficit, m ust endure the priva
tons which IL may oecas ion."
The Savannah Republicans says every bal
Of cotton, and every cotton field 10 bloom, wi
be burnt before Southern cotton shall leav
the South except through Southern port,
This Is the true spirit of men who deserve (
have country, and who, VIC hope in Heave
viii mske the whole lsed q desert before
shall pass into the hands Of those mercenar
cities Of the North who are seeking our a,
stTuction.
With such q determination on tho mar,
the South made manifest to England. tn,
country will soon throw the weight Of h
sword in the balance. Whilst she has ever
thing to gain, she has nothing to lose by su,
course. She Is not dependent in any ",
upon the North; the North lie her commerce
and misunderstanding rival, whose wings wou
be clipped forever by an alliance of Engla
with he South. Moreover, such An allan
would relieve England from her CALLING d
psndenes upon powerful rival for the supp
Of IN article essential 70 her own power q
prosperity, and which has compelled her, m
o. long ~ the United States remained O.
people, would continue to compel her, to enda
Insults and indignities, simply because d
eoald not afford to resent them. Never "
thsrs such IN opportunity ~ England nd
hes, to preserve, promote and perpetnsts b
manufacturing, commercial and political grss
hess.