The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-19
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hSeIANos OPfoRrUsfry--Therei ID not an
Interest, nor even a passion OF Great Britain
governments can be supposed to be mfr.
enced hy rassons, which 10 not involved in the
present contest IN America Ifshe fails to avail
neraelf Of this golden opportunity. i, lie becaus.
ner statesmen are incompetent, 10 the guar.
dianship of her afairs We do no, believe
Tint The dullest perception cann., fail to zee
that the commercial, navigation, and manufac
turing interests Of England must all he placed
beyond the reach Of hnman rivalry by the a.. !.
eess OF the Southern Cenfederaey. Nor i.
e'is all The MoSaog doctrine will no lonye,
tnierrose even a nomina, barrier to the rr, i.
gress Of Earopean colonization on this conf.
nept, and the colonies which England already
possesses will no longer be in danger Of al :
sorption by the mammoth Republic The m
hnence OF radical principles, which, with
every year of the progress of tue United
States, must continue to grow until it gradually
undermines existing institutions in Europe
will not only be checked but aunihiiated b,
the overthrow of the United States Govern
msnt The only considerations which can b.
sddaced in opposition to giving laid and CON-
fort 10 the South, are tie abolition sentiment,
of Exeter Hall the fear that Canada may b,
invaded, and, what the North has threatened
that ave hundred millions of British property
within lie borders will be conscn,ed
Exeter Hall, however, has not yet become
snch power in the British empire as to in
fnence its policy where pounds, shllings, anc
pence are concerned. Moreover, it is no,
sufficiently assured Of the purposes of tn,
Federal Government in this war to give tha,
active -ympathy Which it always yields to i'm
practicable and destructive measures If tn.
war is one simply to put down what the Lon
don Times has styled All insuirection of South
ern planters against their commercial master.
l.. the North Exeter Hail. of course, feels n,
Interest in such N strife. 1t must be such h
war ~ FaxMosr LAS proclaimed in Missouri.
to enlist tue synpatuies OF Exeter Hall but
Fremont has been recalled. When we cor
sider tue enormous War debt which the LIN
coLS Government 10 running up, with no
earthly prospect of ever pay ing the Interest
upon IL, except by obtaining command of TIT
cotton cro,e OF the South, Exeter Hail MA,
Well Conclude that the puoic creditors Of til,
Culted States have hot advanced their none,
upon the iheUry Liistt an Institution which Is
sssenlia 70 tile cultivation OF cotton snail b.
destroyed. IL ir therefore idle 10 suppose tina.
tue poe lido philanthropy OF Great Britain vii
be stimulated 30 Any special paroxysin III be
half y. sucn Cause: nor II it could LAS it ever
yell been able To control the policy OF En- iano
III any point affecting her Commercial interests
aud nasionai power.
Inc secuny of Canada 10 of course a sui
ject which no British ministry Could overlook
and doubtless affords reason for the caution
which that Government has exercised upon
the American question Tie colonial posses
tions of Eng land this continent are nearly
- great tie territory OF the late United
States, and have been constantly increasing Ill
wealth aud Importance. Cani,ia, in proportion
to her population, is more profitable customer
of England than tie Unted States, and large
amour of British capital have been invested
in public works and private enterprises in thai
growing portion of the British Empire. The
Government has aided in the construction o1
.gI.itcent improvements, OF railroads, canals.
and bridges, which are intended TO develop the
vast resources of Canada, and to enable her to
compete III trade and prosperity with her
publican neighbor. The Canadian people al
ways among The most loyal Of British colo
uists, have become more than ever attached to
their institutions since the disruption of the
American Union. They point with pride ana
confidence to the soi.dity and safety OF their
own Government, to The permanent. securit,
OF property and life, AMI TO its vast superiority
even on the score o: civil and political freedom,
to the lawlese military despotism which has
triumphed over the American Constitution.
We cannot Of course expect that England
should abandon such a colony to the risk of
Yankee invasion, which has been openly men.
sced by the profigate and shameless journals
of New York. We must give her tine to pu
Canada in state of defence before she assumes
position that mnst bring her in direct coils
ion with the American Government. This she
il doing as rapidly AS possible, both in the con
struction Of forti6cations aud in such large
achievements of men us TO excite the Jealous
outeries of the Northern press IL is only for
the South to hold its own little while longer,
and we shall he in close alliance with tn.
most powerful empire of modern times
The Northern menace. in the event OF
British recognition of Southern independence,
TO confscaie the five hundred millions OF
Britain property i'll the North, is a mere brutam
Cuimen, which the British Government will
know how to value rs it deserves If, as the
Northern press all.ge, the control of Southsr..
hundred millions year for series Of wear,
The same Goleonda would he purchased ev.l
more cheapy by Great Britain if the North
should conEsc.tx every dollar of Der properr,
within her borders But The North would
never venture on snch step. with the proc
pect of having al it's cities OH the Atlantic
coast knocked ahont its cars by British sauad.
rons in w eniy-four hours after the decree oi
eoifsca,ien sl,euli 81 forth. Nothing ismor.
absard than the gascenading thrsats of th.
Northern press giilst Great Is tain What
could the United States do in tie eve Mt of a Wal
with tha, country Privaieering she has h.r.
self denounced as ri aoy and a. this moment b ar
Our Sou bern priva,eers in prison cells, abou,
Ia try them for their lives Oh that CHARGE
he surcesses of the last war with England
ford 10 standard by which to estimate the
Results Of Another conhict with that giyanti,
p,wer The Uuilei States Went to war Wit.
England when Eng lals was al war with all tbs
rest vi she world, and, besides, was herself
united when she vsntursd upon that haz ard
ous sutsrpriss. She would now fluid Eng
Land ansssupisd with any other Eombal..ul,
u thous..nd SHIPS Of var, most of them stesm-
ers, and some Of them iron-piated vessels,
apon the handful of shpa ia the United state.