The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-20
Nithmanu pispatrb.
Who VIII b. the L.es.r:


We venture 10 prcd,ct that whatever the is
suc Of the present confic, between the North
and South the North will DO the loser uiti
ma.cly. and viii have reason To repent IN
aus, and ashes that she ever drew the sword
IN this enho,y conflict.
The Southern trade cannot be conquered
back by bayone,s. Humanity under South
ern sky, or any other sky, cam OF fall as low
A. that. The people does not exist on the
face of the earth who are so degraded. II
the Southern trade can DO conquered back by
bayonets, then the Southern people are the
most abject and slavish Of all the beings that
Heaven has ever made. If the bayonets
could conquer our country and deprive us Of
all political and civil privileges, that very fact
would make it impossible to conquer back any
othe, thing which we have the power to with
hold. And when one such thing-Southern
trade-is the very motive and handspring OF
this outrageous war, that is the very thing
which, above ell others, our enemies shall never
possess again. That vengeance lies in our
power, and if VIC did not crafty i, we would
be less than men.
We must show the North, now, at the outset,
that they do not understand this people. They
think that they do; they say we are an indo-
lent, impulsive, self-indulgent race that We
are brave, bu, vain glorious and boastful; e.
silly ela,ed and easily depressed warm in our
affections, warm in our hates, but tickle as the
moon. They propose to whip US soundiy, and
expect us, after an outburst Of passionate, but
impotent rage, to forget it soon; to buy q
them again, rather than take the trouble to
manufacture for ourselves; to find consolation IN
the solid comforts Of good eating and drinking,
and buy our calicoes and raise our cotton for
the benefit and behoof Of New England lords
and masters. We can only undeceive them by
the most decisive means. Nothing short OF
such measures as those already resolved upon
in the Cotton States will ever dispel the delu-
sions in the Northern mind about Southern
character. We have already announced the
determination, in our principal seaboard cotton
mar,s, to receive no more cotton, where 1t can
be exposed to seizure by the enemy, but that
each planter will keep it on his estate, and
burn and destroy it rather than permit it tt
fall into tue enemys hands. This is the
policy which the South must at once make W
its mind to pursue, at every mile OF progress
which the enemy may make into our territory
Ii we cannot keep him out, we must devastate
and lay waste every tarm, and burn every city
which he expects to capture. Rather than
permit our own beautiful Richmond to fall into
his hands, We must rise to at least the elevation
of Russian patriotism, and reduce it to ashes
Every part OF the gaiden before the Northerr
march must be TUNED into desert; let hli1
see that wilderness is to be his only sPoils
and he will soon tire of the murderous crusade
for Southern money which he has begun. Fol
no murder for money was ever committed
which had about it more of the elements Of
murder, and was prompted by more cold-blood'
ed greed of gold, and more reckless disregard
of the life and property of others, than thi'
most wicked and mercenary war.
Suppose, then, that LINCOLN succeeds in
raising his four hundred millions of dollars
and bis four hundred thousand men; and
suppose. also, that with these he succeeds in
subiagating the South, how will the North re-
imburse itself for the expenses of the war;
II canpot fall hack on trade it cannot COM
rel US to work our cotton fields for its benefit
it cannot prevent us from making the whole
cotton country a desert, and sacrificing our
selves aud all that we have for our county,
1T cannot compel our negroes to labor for any
but their present masters; nor, if it coul,
can any others iutelligently direct thoir labors.
It's own people cannot live in cotton growing
climate, and every experiment Of raising cot
ton by free labor has hitherto failed. We
know they say that the South will think bet
ter Of all this. We can almost see the self
romplacent smile with which they declare that
. they understand the impulsive South. If they
do, we do not, and the whole result depends
urcn which estimate of Southern character is
correct. We, fer our part, feel sure that a
people whose mothers give up their sons, and
whose wives their husbands, with pride and
10Y, to the battle field, will withhold nothing
eise from the altar Of Patriotism and Retri
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