The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-12
The Southern Cenfederacy.

The Southern Confederacy," now a liked
fact, has been already announced in our col
umns The Geographic sensation dispatches,
which have been flooding the country for sew
eral days, with reference to the proclamation
of free trade with all the world and other re-
ports intended TO irritate the border States,
have all been exploded by the authentic in
telIigenee of the proceedings of the Conven-
ton We have already said that we never
heard as many falsehoods circulated IN thirty
wears, as there have been within the last three
mon tbs about the action Of the Gulf States.
The sixteen dollar tax on negroes i'll South
Carolina, the forced loans the misery and
starvation in Charles tom the conspiracy 10 re-
viye the slave trade aud lastly this baldcr-
dash about free trade are but few out of a
thousand ISLANDERS, manufac tured out Of the
whole cloth for political purposes 1t seems
lis if the Father of Lies had taken the field in
person, AS Field Marshal of the crusade
against the Southern States. The very frs t
action of the Southern Confederacy spikes the
principal guns aimed at the new Republic
The slave trade is the first thing prohibited
The Committee on Finance has been instruct
ed TO report promptly tariff for raising rev.
enue for the support of the Government
rnsasure of moderate duties for revenue, le-
We'd on imports, and then the delightful bug
bear, raised by those inventive geniuses who
have been trying to scare the South into the
idea of two separate sets of tax collectors
both levyng directly from the pockets of the
people, for the support of the Government
will be entirely dissipated. We have been es
pecially gratified with the manly and noble
,ha ,a,l, Art
e, clause of the Cons titution The Gov
eminent hereby instituted shall take imme
diate steps for the settlement OF all the mat
tiers between the State forming, and their 9TH
er late confederates of the United States in
relation to the public property and public
debts at the time of their withdrawal from
them these States hereby declaring it to be
their will and earnest desire to adjust every
thing pertaining TO the common property,
common liabilities, and common obligations of
that Union upon principles of right, justice,
equity and good faith Let the General
Government meet this Just and honorable
proposition in the same spirit and equita-
bic adjustment can be peaceably made, and
the horrid alternative of civil war be avoided
The gentlemen chosen to preside over the new
Government will command for il universal re-
spect and confidence Gen. JEFF. DAVIS, in iron
will and military xenius, is nearer ANDREW
JACKSON than any other man on the stage of
public affairs, whilst in sagacious statesman
ship and culture of mind he is probably supe-
rior to that most popular of modern Presi-
dents. "A. II. STEPHENS, the Vice President, is
one of the most eminent and incorruptible of
the public men of the present day His name
will be a tower of strength to the Rephb-
lie. This Confederacy, composed of six States,
the chief cotton producing States OF the world,
TO which Texas and Arkansas will soon be
added, will, in conformity with precedent and
from the necessity of the case, be at once re-
cognized by England, France, and the other
European Powers. We shall then begin to
realize the deplorable loss which the Union
has sustained i'll magnificent Republic.
containing the most valuable elements of COM
merce which this country Possesses, and en-
pjoying the most unparalleled advantages of
climate, soil, and production of any spot of
equal extent ON the whole surface of the earth,
gone, gone by the selfish ambition of such po-
litical 57nayes rs SEWARD, and the Puritan ia
naticism which he has used as the convenen t
engine of undermining the rights of the South,
and which has compelled the Gulf States at
last TO believe-honestly, We doubt not-that
until the politicians, delnagogues and fanatics
are all dead, buried, and damned, and until
the principles of selfish ambition and of fanat-
icism are eradica ted from human ma ture, there
can be no safety for the Gulf States, where
slavery is vital necessity, except in separa-
ton and independence. 1t requires more
philosophy than we can command to contem-
plate with composure the folly and the wick
edness of those pestilent aboliaion politicians
and fana tics who have at last succeeded in
casting " Il pearl away richer than all their
tribe