The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-06
Coercion or Compromise"
Under this head the London StaI, Of ia
Is has the following.

Under this head the London Su-, Of Jan.
Is, has the following:
II there be. indeed, NO choice but between Sc
cession and civil war, what true Republican can
aspects u the situation are sufficiently gloomy to
make the question q very practical one
With IT. Ssfone i nr~ a. iehfJS
Tax & iectors-i!s own flag, its own army, and
its own Ambassadors at the seat Of the Govern
inent from which II mas reY0Ited. IL Is true that
ii body 81 United States troops occupy strong
fort Gu the Carolina territory. Bur that they do
so has occasioaed several vacancies in Mr. BUch-
anan's Cabinet = the Secretary at War holding his
honor engaged T. the Commissioners from the
seeding state that there should be no change
Of military observation-disclosures the COM
mandant has only surrendered a weak posi-
nor 10 occupy a stronger. Is the state whose
marks OF respect 10 be re-eonquered2 Are
we to hear of heated shots to BE- poured from
Fort Sumter upon the city Of ChaFleston-of II
Federal army shooting down the Southern hus-
bands OF Northern wives and in@tigating, by its
very presence, a slave instruction IN state
where the cnlored population l. greater than the
white? Is the Government Of ii great Republic 10
initiate tho foolish and wicked usage of old world
monarcbieS, by attempting Ia substitute the rule
of fore" for the authority sustained by common
consent? Even were ii not cer&aI IN that the flari
cida! confc; would spread until every one of the
thirty three States engaged one side or the
other. and the struggle became universal OBJ
,tinata it, Initiation IcnuId he M art of madness
There can be no pretenCe OF necessity for compell
ing even a solitary seceder to re-eutcr the Union
Solitude would soon prove intolcrable, and re-
II
seven States have not the right to constitute
separate federation, we know not on what princi
pie Of light the American Union constituted itself
hy separation from the British Crown. II is GER
tilnly true that the Union has exercised over
the Southern states 40 such oppression i the
British Crown attempted upon the Colonies
But every community must be the Judge of its
own grievances, and tho imaginary wrongs of the
South will be rendered very real by the least at
tempt at coercion. We dcpiore lie infatuation
which iInpel- he Cotton States To a course SO un-
jus ifable and Gangerous-a course exposing ia Gu
that OF SPryi!. lnEurrart from
which they were safe while in the tniou, and
hnrryisg them into collision with the whole civ
ifized world upon the ocean which they desire to
traverse with slave ships. We sympa,hizo with
our brethren OF the North in the trial OF principle
and temper tn which they are subjected. but
while warn the South that they are rushing
on their own destruction, we adiure the North t"
do nothing IN violation of the true Republican
principle, that every community is its own mas
ter: and nothing that stain with blood the
banner that will be the more glorious when, with
hall lis stars, lis stripes have lost ali their SIMS
ter siEni1caBco.
This is the language Of London paper, u
paper which sympathizes with the Republi-
cans, but cannot blind its eyes 10 the injustice
and wickedness of coercion. In fact the
whole London press cry out, with one voice,
against coercion. Great Britain has reiu-
qushed il against her own colonies, and III
the case of the Immensely valuable Australian
gold fields, to which the right Of the crown
was indisputable, she acted promptly and
gracefully upon the liberal policy which she
learned from the results OF her experiment of
force with the thirteen American Colonies
We need no. point out the errors int whicl.the
star has been led, as Well rs all the foreign
press. in regard to the negro population
There is not a more true and loyal population
i'll the world than the slaves Of the Southern
States. The experiment of joins Brown il
Illustrated that fact, but it has been demon
strated on Il larger scale i'll South Carolina -
i member of the NirgiiIia Legislature, who
has recently returned from that State, informs
us that the blacks are as unanimous Is the
whites for secession, and quite as anxious for
4 fight. Even the New York Tribune is forced
1T last 10 admit this fact. The Stars protests,
however, and those of the whole London
press against coercion, Are significant. Let
il be tried, and we shall see whether OF not
England can dispense with cotton.