The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-14
of the possible reformation in the Northern


. fffe--e1S THE kor1HrRS cosFEpERAcr nj
sRqsoBf sarK 2 e
The Southern Confederacy IL organized TO
twelve months. That Is fixed fact. At IT.
i head stand public men---in the centre Of whom
o Is that rEisnT SataDis OF fNr SocrH,' JEr
rrzaos DAris--wlo arc powerful in in teIlec t
y strong IN resolution, and the man who eypec I.
chiId's play from them will be- most woefulI,
/ !, disappointed. That Cqafaderacy embraces tn.
most important staple growing States in ths
. late Union. The foreign trade with them i.
more 10 he sought for than that of all III,
balance of the States sogether Therefore
Their Independence will be promptly recog
nized by powerful foreign nations and q new
course OF trade VIII commence with the Anne
fican Atlantic seabcard aud GuIf utterly
reNolutioniling that heretofore existing
VIII 1t be an easy matter TO break mp such
| n Government to abolish such alliances? II
the people who compose i, are unwilling
4 what excuse VIII there he to attack them
They declare a desire to settle all ques lions OF
/! property with the United States upon the
most just and equitable footing-they have
! forbidden the slave trade-they VIII allow the
most unrestricted navigation OF the Missis-
/ sippi--and evince fairness and frankness
! which should elicit admiration rather than a
reyengeful spirit.
There are reasons to suppose that they will
not be willing to come back. They have been
the objects Of obloquy and denuncia ton in
the Congress and the whole North Their
prominent men have been threatened with a
teton S death, and the wra tn and power of the
Federal Government and of every Northern
state have been held in readiness TO burst
upon them with all possible ferocity nd ruth
iesshess How would people so treated move
amongst their denouncers, under 4 restora ton
OF oId relations? Would a truce between
them be candid, sincere and cordial? These
are matters which the members of the South
ern Confcdcracy will no doubt fully canvass
in their own minds.
N.-THE CENTRAL CoSFEDERACY
The proposition of Central Confederacv in
the event of a failure to restore the Union. is
IN impraCticable idea and can only result in
ticing the border slave States to the North AS
members of an Union in which they will be
utterly overpowered and so insignificant MS
never TO be felt. Such n Confederacy. TOO
would be flanked by two inferior powers who
would be ever Jealous ever apprehensiva ot
il, and who would seek alliances abroad IN in
lure their more powerful ncichbor and pre
1udice her commerce. This would bring trou-
bic on all. The New England States would
not hesitat" TO form an alliance with Canada
for this purpose. The border States would be
in the meantime between upper and neither
millstones-susp ected by their Northern al
lies hated by their Southern neighbors and
finally deprived of their own srIf-respect -
Indeed such an alliance on their part would
be the signal for the exodus of their host MOO
pie, causing the feebleuess and desola ton of a
transition state. and would ,lasf;o,.
as mere tributaries TO Northern affi uence and
power How far superior would be tho mar
tition of the nation into two great Republics
on amicahle relations with each other and
with power TO command the respect of the
world and protect themselves.
But the Central Confederacy is an ilnpossi- |
bility. Who has right to slough off the |
New England States? And how can it be |
done? i is an iinpossblity and the idea of |
such Coufederacy is an easy way to the |
fast ening OF the border States to the car of the
North as powerless captivcs, to be, rs long as
the Union with them lasts, the tributaries TO |
their ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and the supernumeraries
of their grand political drama.
WHERE sHorLD yIRGINIAGo
If there can be DO restoration, where should
Virginia go The Legislature of Virginia has
and interests are with the South SO has. we
believe every prominent man who has written
oil the subject who is elected to the Conyen
find that Virginia has ForR HUNDRED MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS worth of property IDENTICAL with
the property of the South, and which the North
d'ctar"S is not property! She has the best har-
bors, the best wafer power, and the largest
amount Of mineral wealth and as a member
of the Southern Confederacy would become
The chief merchant and tho manufacturer of !
tho south. Her waters would be filled with |
sails, ans her rivers be indicated by the ever |
rising smoke OF The fast moving steam vessels |
actively conducting her commerce with all !
nations. Every city and town would be astir
with the busy industry of art, and animal ted
by lively commerce. All this would be sup
ported by the South and Southwest which
would be welded to Virginia by every tie that
Gould bind them to her.
Yet a tie stronger-or one that ought 10 be-
nan this, than these, than all. is the TIE of
ace lhe people OF the South are the de- |
'cehdahts, III great degree, of Virginia they
Ire her children--they her fie 81 and blood |
can she turn away from them! Con FOR
I'D,
Nehaye thus presented diSpa ssiona telv and
diriy' some facts and arguments which we
hink should go 10 the mind of every one, aud
e well considered. The Old Union has been
reat and grand, and il it can be restored
n proper grounds, it would be consumma-
ION indeed grateful to the nation The diff
ulties IN the way are immense. Let our fer .
ent adJura lions be, that those into whose
ands the whole matter is entrusted NAV so ,
CT as 10 bring about, under the viii of Proyi- |
ence, the best result for our own Heaven
iyored land