The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-13
Nev Yerk Times.

New Yssk Times.
We have never sssa anything more ex.
ouieitsly cool and rsfreshing than the impu-
dsncs OK the New York Times. Considsring
the audacity Of his propositions and the insig-
nifcanee Of the creature who makes them, the
Tina. ON the var makes the coolest and most
DELIGHTFUL summer reading to be had this eide
the North Pole. The furious little manikin
has a truculent article lately on the " Condsca-
ton of Rebel Estates," and we cannot deny our
readers the luxury Of few extracts. After
remarking, what We think is very probable, and
will become general thing before long, that
the Northern people are sometimes startled by
the vast amount Of money needed, and insidi-
GUS traitors among US intrude the inquiry Is
the reduction Of the Southern hostility to the
Government really worth the immense sum
that will be required?" the Times thus spreads
its majestic pinions and bears the country
aloft:
At this time, therefore. 1t may be encour-
aging to the country to be reminded that oy
the law and usage of nations II IL entirely ie-
ultimate to make the property OF the cilzsns
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provoked this war, pay the whole debt incur
red by the Nation in n storing the supremacy
of the Cons titution and laws. That 1t
will be just to infiict penalty on treason, no
one can dety; and the country Will demand
the recoeni ion OF this principle, partially, If
not TO lis full extent, by special !Iapost on
the nroperty Il those traitors who have
plunged the Government lhIo It's present
The debts incurred by the Confederate
States for the support Of tneir conspiracy and
revolt are clearly without law and void, and
will De so treated by all National Courts
They will not, therefore, be = charge upon
the property OF the people OF the seeded
states when the Union is restored, or rather
when the National jurisdiction over them Is
t.sumed. II will be within the ability, tAen,
OF the disloyal States to mako up TO the Ma
fional Government the losses they have oc-
casioned it and the very revenues they nave
de vised-the export duty on cotton, and the
direct taxes they will 1ay-may be properly
di yer ted bv the National Congress from the
support OF treason to the extinguishment Of
the Nations war debt. The export DUTY on
cotton will thus become permane mt regula-
ton of American commerce; and as the Eng
iish people, who are Its chief purchasers, have
no fault TO find with the imposition OF this
outy by the rebels themselves, 1t is not to be
that they will complain II 1t IL
sdopted and con tinued as settled policy OF
the National Government.
1t would not be at all amiss for the Ma
tional Government, in the exercise OF It's
rientful power, to conflscate the property Of
rebels, to lay a special tax on that species of
property in The seeded States that has, more
than any other, been the cause OF the present
civil war The rebellion was nomnally in
aneurated for the protection of slave proper
ty. 1t has practically destroyed it. The only
safety Of slave property now lies in the res
toration of the Constitution and the Union
Il is most fit, therefore, that the property
that has caused the rebellion should b. spe-
cialIy taxed to pay the expense it has occa-
stoned. And it can well afford to do SO in
view of the fact that the money now expend-
ing BY the Nation is the absolute salvation Of
the property in question.
Mr. Secretary Chase very properly pre-.
sents this whole subject to the consideration
of Congress, in his admiIa'l e report on the
Treasury. He says that "the property CT
those engaged in insurrection, or in giving aid
aid comfort to the insurgents, may proper
ly be made to contribute to the expenditure
made necessary by their criminal misconduct
As a part of the punishment due to the guilt
of i'll volving the Nation in the calamisies Of
civil war, and thereby bringing distress upon
30 many innocent citizens, Congress may just
" provide for the forfeiture If the whole or
part Of the estates OF offenders, and for the
payment CT the proceeds into the pubic
"
1t is oby iously the policy to confiscate only
a part, and not the " hole, OF the estates Of the
masses of the people found i'll arms against
the Government. The object is not to crush
leaders, to be sure, should have nothing LETT
to them-perhaps not even their mischleyOus
lives but the more innocent people, who
have been deceived into a par ticipa ton Of
their crimes, may be spared to repent, aid re-
deem the country, by honest industry, from
the deb, they have brought uron 1t.
We hope Congress will not hesitate to pass
BILE laws AT once Smbodying the princi-
pies herein embraced. 1t Will strengthen the
loans proposed by the Government, TO have it
ass urpd that they will rest upon the pledged
wealth of the entire Unioo-of thirty-four
tates, and thirty millions of people. And it
will greatly cheer the loyal States and their
citizens TO know, by the enacted laws and
resolves ofthe American Congress, that the
whole debt Of 500 900 goo, now to be incurred
by the Government to suppress treason, can
and will be drawn ultimately, every dollarof
it, from the property and industry of those
whose wicked acts have made the expendi-
ture necessary.
If the "little villain" of the Times, as he
was contemptuously designated by the "big
villain" Of the Tribune, were NAPOLEON BONA
rARrE, with four hundred thousand French
men at his heels, and four hundred MILLIONS
actually in his exchequer, instead of being, as
he is, a parvenue Yankee editor Of second
rate newspaper, he could not dispose of the
South more magni6cently than he announces
their fate in the above proclamation. But it
is impossible, so far as he is concerned, to feel
any emotion but contempt. 1t is well re-
membered that his Gtwo we'll appointed armies
of $4,000 men EACH" were to have taken Rich
mond long ago with the greatest ease, yet
though four different armies, making in the
aggregate a hundred and twenty thousand
men, have been arrayed against us at four
different points, not one of them has as yet
made ten miles of progress within our Dor
ders, except in the Northwest, where treason
had already prepared their way and they had
no opposition to encounter.
But as the programme of RAYAoND's mas
tiers, the extracts we have given deserve at
tention. They will suggest to orr authorities
the proper course for the Confederate Govern
ment to pursue. This business of conhSca-
ton is a game at which two can play, and we
must be prompt to make the North reimburse
us for any losses We may suffer. This is a
practical advantage which We anticipate from
the publication Of the Times article, in addi-
ton to the amusement 1t must afford our read
ers. To see little, half-educ atsd, parvenue
Yankee, disposing of the fate of empires with
the air of JovE, is a spectacle that relieves
with its broad farce the dreary tyranny of war.
European Immigration.
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of foreign immigration continues to flow to
that port in full volume, unchecked, so far,
either by the political connections or by the