The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-11

AN o. \ essH sec. 1ueEe IRE, IN tbs NORM IT.
sell, the natsrials Of trouble In the anger of The
great parties, which accuse each other or the
offences that brought on the great war and.
on the whole. there ss, iii my judi ment, great.
er probability of peaceful adjustment Of.
fred by The actual success OF the North. IN
ina she could reconstruct the Union, or al
low the south to go out AZ q dependent Re
public, than by any other form which the
contest can assume. II is impossible for the
North to retire from the ntest in q moral
Bun Run,
Ibis, then II seems, is the most probable Sc
luton of the question according TO the Bull
Run correspondent Of the London Times 1t
is pity he did not go a little farther, and
show the Yankees how they are to accomplish
this proba5ie setslement--how they are to OBJ.
tain the actual success, which is TO result in
readju.tment of the Union" On Yankee
terms, or in the reduction Of the South
10 the condition of dependent republic
That is the very pith Of the whole co nitro
versy, and to say that such will be the result
without telling how i; is 10 be brought about,
Is merely Saying that such will be the result,
because such will be the result In other
words, it is a begging OF the whole question.
a man who thinks a result probable, mtist
surely have taken into consideration the
means by which it is TO lie brought about
Why does not old Bull Run let the Yankees
know through the Times what are tho, a
means which he thinks it possible TO bring
successfully to bear on the subject7 They
viii be very much obliged TO him for the IN
formation, II is precisely the knowledge OF
watch they are most anxiously i'll quest just at
this moment. Perhaps, if ne viii impart it
llay will pardon lin for the truths with
which he has been thrusting, as with two
edged sword, n the very heart of Yankee
dom. Perhaps SEWARD viii apologize for the
prouuncamento Of his Yankee friends a,s,sinst
the London Times. Perhaps the Yankee
press will unsay all the hard things it has said
Of the correspondent. Even we should be
among the foremost to acknowledge our in
debtedness for new wrinkle; for certain it is
that at the present writing we can conceive
no mode by winch the Union can ever be re-
constructed, or the South made a republic de-
pendent upon the North. On the contrary,
We think it difficult TO imagine any two future
events more absolutely improbable.
In the first place, we eau see no appearance
of Il possibility That the Yankees can ever be
successful il this war. They commenced il
with d great flourish Of trumpets seven months
ago. They threatened to overrun the whole
South il "A few weeks, and to sweep its de-
tenders from the face of the earth. They had
planned a grand Redistribution of the whole
Southern country, and the settlement CT all
Virginia rs ii military colony, az AUGUSTUS
distributed the lands of Lombardy among his
victorious legions. Have they made any pro-
gress thus far! Let Bethel and Bull Run,
Oakland and Lexington answer They are
bearded in Their very capital, and have been
for six MONTH They dare not come out aud
offer Us battle. They stand upon the defen-
sive, and that is not exactly the way to con-
quer country. Thus matters appear to U.s.
who are but plain people, and make no pre-
tensions to more than very common share Of
foresight, far less to intuition. RUSSELL ought
to have a little mercy upon mortals less saga
cious than himself. He ought to reveal the
means which place the success of the Yankees
within the range Of possibility, to say nothing
Of probability, as he has it. lie. lis hear what
they are. We are burning TO know, and SO
are the Yankees.
II the Yankees were such q people as the
Romans-if they We're even such people as
the English-instead Of the miserable race of
pedlars which they are, there might be some
chance, though "a very small one, of their
overrunning US and reducing US to absolute
slavery, bat never of their holding us as a
dependent republic. The people Of the South
are resolved upon one of two things They
will either be entirely independent OF the
Yankees, or they will be extirminated or re-
duced to slavery by them. To no middle
course will they submit. 1t is ont of all ques-
ton to suppose that they will ever maintain
any sort of political alliance with them, in any
form dependent upon their own will Butt
Yankees are not Romans, and they are not
English Descended Of race originally
brave, they have degeneratcd into nation of
hucksters, pedlars, and tratickers in small
wares, with no idea above the almighty dol
lar. These are not the people to make con-
querors ont Of To think of the Bull Runners
conquering lis! To think of the Northern
Trotters lordiig it over the gentlemen of the
South Really, Mr. Bull Run RUSSELL ought
to have shown how it is to be done
The reverse catastrophe we hold to be much
more probable If our army should ever fall
under the command of Generals who do not
pride themselves upon their skill in throwing
UP dirt, some use may be made of the next
great victory. Ii the discovery should be
made that the fiery valor Of our volunteers,
and the disinterested readiness with which
they have left their homes to die of measles
and typhoid fever, entitle them to some better
fate, it is probablc we may live to see our ban
ner on the Northern side of the Potomac and
the Ohio.
Gun WoRsT ESEMIEs-The most danger
ous enemies whom the South has to fear are