The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-06-12
Missouri mud Maryland.

From present indications, II would appea
that our Yankee invaders will have, in tn,
contes. in which they have involved themselv'-
with Us, more to do than they expected. Som
Of their more confident braggarts thought, &
pretended to think, that they would only ha'e
frolie, in reducing the South to LINCOLN
despotism but they already begin to fac
tina, they have engaged in no child's play
They have, by invading Virginia soil, thor
ouybly aroused the whole South, and we daily
see thousands Of determined men from ia.
South and the Southwest rushing TO her rescuf
from worse than Vandal enemies. Animated
by such spirit throughout tho entire South
the contest on the soil of Virginia cannot be
long or doubtful. The invaders will be killeG
or driven out, and our enemies may learn some
good lessons, one of which will be to mind
their own business, ard another will be, TO le;
other peoples business, (including, of course
their domestic institutions,) alone.
The South can, and will conquer in Thu
war; and when the invaders are driven from.
the soil of Virginia, the true Southern sons o.
Maryland and Missouri, who have felt The
CALLING chains of LINcoLNs despotism, should
receive all the aid necessary to set them free
Maryland has been compelled, under circum
stances Of great aggravation, to witness out
rage after outrage committed within her Dor
ders. Her citizens have been insulted-driv-
on from their homes-murdered. They have
been deprived Of every means Of self defence.
except those given them by their Cop. Not
withdrawing all this, in them the spirit of lib
erty is not dead. They need only little aid
and comfort to arouse them TO noble deeds
to enable them to break their shackles, and to
set them fres.
Missouri, too, should be remembered. She
has greater white population than any of the
slave States. She has agricultural resources
unsurpassed in the world. She has lead enough
TO supply the South for all future time
She has copper. zinc and coal in any desira
BILE quantities. She has iron, in two deposits,
alone sufficient, according to her State geolo-
gist to supply the whole world, at the present
animal rate Of consumption, for thirteen hun
dred years, and without digging deep into the
earth for it. She, unfortunately, has disaf-
fected population, principally of German and
Northern birth, who are used as the tools of
such men as FRANK BLAIR, Jr., and B. GRArs
BROWN, in their war upon Southern institutions
They make, Of themselves, formidable enc
my, numbering over ten thousand men, most of
whom are well armed and drilled, and heartily
cooperate with LINCOLN in his work of subju-
eating the South. Added to these, there is
another influence bearing heavily against the
Southern feeling in Missouri. 1t is that of the
annibal and st. Joseph Railroad, owned and
controlled by Northern capitalists. But Mis-
souri, is without supply of arms, and conse-
quently is not prepared to take bold posi-
ton with the South unless she can have the as
surancs of aid from her Southern friends.
Will the South, with the power to prevent it,
let Maryland and Missouri be conauerered
and annexed to their Northern enemies p
Will the South permit itself to be deprived of
two such States as Maryland and Missouri.
when by a small sacrifice of men and arms,
both can be acquiredf
We believe that the sagacious statesman and
valiant soldier at tho helm Of affairs in Rich
mond, will not rest content nor sheathe the
sword until Maryland and Missouri are united
with the Southern Confederacy in bonds of
amity which We hope may be lasting as time
iteelf.