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

REeoSsTRucTIov.--It must have struck our
readers that, in commenting upon the ba,tl. u
Manassa, the foreign journals gave it as Tie
opinion of the leaders Of pHbiic opinion abroad
that compromise between tue two sections is
no longer posshIa To the people Of the
Southern Republic sush language WAS scarcely
ineligible, for the simple reason that no enc
here had entertained from tie moment Of Sc
cession the most remote ilea of such a losai.
blIiiy. Ii Was difficult. therefore 10 uudcr-
stand why it required Il grand battle Ike that
of Manassa to open the cYes of tie foreign
public Ia a fact 80 evident ~ ourselves. When.
however, we bear il mind tia; the foreign rnb-
lie see only Northern Journals. and that in the
North the idea Of pcrnanence in The secession
movement is as universally secuted rs the idea
of reconstruction is in the South, We cease 10
be surprised that Europe should require
some such grand decisive event as that
at Munasaa 10 open lis eyes and make it
understand that rccoue. traction Of the late
Union is not as likely even 4s the recoustruc-
ton OF the British Umpire precisely as it ez
listed before the American Revolution A
more injurious idea 10 the Southern cause
abroad than this most miscellaneous one of re-
organization il is not possible 10 conceive, and
yet W to the battle of Manassa It has been
universal III Europe. and. even ROW, there are
those in the North, Vine, protesting 10 be our
friends, endeayor to PROPAGATE the same inSi
dions notion. Even the Jot.ual of Com nercc
publishes elaborate articles, arguing that a re
organization Of The OH Union is but Il ques
ton of tine that "d?lom;tcy' mus. be sub
sttu;ea toc the Sword, and the Southern
Confeder7lcy recogu:zedasa P,ciiRiaarYxtcp IL
reorganization 81 ne tni9a. For ourselves
If we thought such a thing possible; If we be
Heved that after ali the heroic lives which have
been freely laid down il this war; ali the sac
rifieeE whcA -lorions wives, mothers and sis-
tiers Of the South have made with a flita in
God and Il conviction Of duty rs stern Is that
Of the patriarch ABRAHAM, when he laid his
first born SON upon the SACRIFICED pile; all the
prayers Of the p.o,,s, and the tears Of the be
reayed, all the selfdenial, the anNieties, the sd
Perhuman Valor, and even more wonderful
patience and constaney Of such an army Of
patriots and gentlemen as the world never saw
before; if, after all The gigantic efforts If the
North to crush, to Luaiiiiate, to e,.ternti,.:ite
saeh u people; tae proclamation OF lis Ere
mont TO shoot like "a dog every man found in
arms in defence OF his liberties; the arrest and
Imprisonment Of Southern men, and even no-
men for daring to breathe "A free though, the
contenptuoas tr;lmpiing down OF the Consti-
tution beneath the heel of an armed soidiery ;
the proclamation ofanin;eniion to treat oar pri
viteers ~ pirates, 10 hang our President Cab
met, Congress and every prominent Secession
list; TO sequestfdte Southern proucrty; to sub
jet Southern women 10 a worse fate than
death; the handouts and fetters that accom-
panied the Grand Army,--if after all this, Il
single man in the North should suppose a re-
construction of the Union possible with South
ern consent, he would be an idiot or mad
man; and single man i'll the South who
would desire it, the most degraded creature that
ever crawed upon the earth Il vile migrate
to the martyred dead, foal traitor to the race,
the State, the church, the family, the honor
and the happiness OF his own native land; a
traitor 10 his own wife, and TO the honor and
safety OF his Own heafths,one; false not only
to every relations human and Divine, but even
to himself Traitors we have had in the last
as m the FIST Revelation; Judas Iacariots,
there have been many III TIE church, ard Ben
ediei Araolds in tie State. bas never did 8. no
iltieal traitor merit SO black doom as that of
the reProba'e who viii dare 10 whisper in his
dreams oil reesnstraetng the old Union
Inc solemn eanestness, the elear and irrevo
saot purpose Of the South must l- tloronphly
understood abroad before we can exrect re-
eos'iion by European powers Everyiie with
Tie North must be broken; industrial. social
ana commercial bonds between the two seq
uohs must be snapped like the withcs which
"oaio nAMsoN not pile OF The brid ,e
which We have crossed sbopla IA. l.,, s.a.,.I:.7
The policy aad purpose of tie Southern C;os.
eminent and people must be made elem, ~ al
mankind as the MONDAY sun Then. and ia,
tii then, Will European nations deem i, safe IN
recognize our independence. Ii one Mar,assa
has not convinced them of the fact, we must mul
tiply MANASSAS; we m,ist answer the insidous
argnmentsof Northern reeonssrtlctioaists with
sword, bayonet AMI artillery. Those are the
only language of the South that can ever come
10 European eyes aud ears. At the same time,
we do not attach any vital IMPORTANCE to for
reign Recognition, We ean aelie.e Our indie.
pendrnee without their friendship. They are
dependent on ms, not We on them We can
live and live well we can feed and clothe our
population without their aid They can do
neither without the South