The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-13

field. desrariug Of -uccess in conducting the
war urou any other rrctcA,, the Yankees. in
their rage, n.;,tncss and folly, have now deter
mined to play their last card, and to make of
this, in pretext at least an anti slavery war
This Is the meaning of their raids unon our
southern coast. They are afraid To meet us
on land they mean to employ against us al
the resources of their navy, and they must
needs excuse their projected robberics ravish
me';s and petty thcits along our seaboard,
upon the convenient plea of liberating our
slaves,
The South may he Slow to believe that they
| have determined 10 convert the war into an
| anti slavery crusade but foreign eyes are
| better detectives than onrs of purposes of this
| sort; for il il to foreigners they unfold their
| plans, pleas, and excuses. THE latest letter
of Lord joins Russell declares that tue is
sue ia narrowing down to the question Of
slavery aud aboitionisn, and expresses the.
| opinion that President LINCOLN will soon de-
clare all slaves within the United States free. >
| FkENo>r, the lieutenant of LINCOLN in
| Missouri, has anticipated his chief in respect
20 that State, and the chief has publicly given
out that he cordially concurs i'll the Missouri
| proc'a nation. The telegraph announces thai
| the greatest activity liz discernibein the Wash
| ngton Navy Yard, and war organ in Cincir-
| matt boasts that 1.-THE next we know, a mighty
| fleet, with ten thousand men aboard will open
one of our cotton ports; that the profound re-
| pose which the Southern coast and the nests
| of conspirators in the Cotton States have been
| permitted 10 enjoy, will soon be seriously dis
| turbed'
Nothing is palmer than that change of the
theatre and plan of the war ia absolutely ne
cessary 10 "A change of its fortunes i'll their be
half; and that the sole possibility which re
mains to them of preventing the active svu
ralhy of European powers with our cause, is
the conversion Of their otherwise insane war
into an anti-slavery crusade.
Their refusal of the challenge Of our Gene
rails before Arlington and Alexandria, and
their assumption of defensive attitude every
where from Maryland to Missouri. proves
clearly enough that they have. ut least for the
present, abandoned the ION to Richmond and
ION 70 Memphis programme. Their plan of
campaign is now 10 be petty system Of an
noyance and theft along our seaboard, with
here and there = formidable demonstration
against an exposed port or supposed depository
Of cotton. In these raids they will ply them
selves mdustrlolIel V 10 all sorts of theft and
Will endeavor 10 salnc,ify and justify their con
temptible iarecnies in the eyes OF the world BY
Introducing Cuffee into the case, and stealing
nfgroes, along with Eiee, chickens, grain, live
4 l.. l.. IL
The righteous act of stealing Il negro will be
| made to cover a multitude of sins and feIonjes
contemplated in their new programme. They
are committing acts Of tyranny now in their
own States which shock modern civilization
and throw the enormiiies of BoNBA into the
shade These outragcs and whatever acts of
absotutisn and tyranny their tippIing hero,
McCLELLAH. commits on men and women in
his drunken fir, must he excused TO the rietv of
the world on the hypocriticat but sufficient
plea that the war they are engaged in is,
against slavery, and that the victims of these
outrageS are douby deserving of their doom
rs traitors 10 the Union and as adcrs and abet-
tors Of the damn;,be institution.
Their policy hencetorth is to be a policy Of
will send grand a:naments to make attacks
| only when there viii be the certainty of "a fee
bic resistance, the doings of which will be
hcreldtd rs brilliant feats Of arms Regular
| operations i'll the field they viii no longer dare
TO conduct and they viii endeavor to dstract
| attention from their inactivity Oh land by naval
expeditions magnifed by their newspapers
irilpI I, ha
very long before they ingloriously stampede
from Washington city, leaving to our army its
spacious palaces of marble for winter quarters;
and donbtess the grand armament for the sea,
concerning which their newspapers are sig
nlcantly boastlng, is intended to create di-
version of the popular mind from that ignoble
hegira.
1t cannot be denied tbat the resort TO the
| anti-slavery pretext is necessary expedient
10 the Government at Washington. What
| violence can they not practice upon refractory
| spirits ut home in the name of abolitionsm
| What ignominions defeats can they not sue
| cessfully rally from under the fanatical ban
ner of anti slavery What acts of meanness
cowardice, butchery, rape theft, and arson
can they not inhict with Christian impunity
upon the South under the cry of down with
shareholders and slavery
Such is to be the programme and such are to
be the shibholeths with which the South is to be
| assaiIed To be forewarned is to be fore
| armed. We must prepare TO resist their raids
at all points; and we must anticipate and pre-
Vent Them by carrying The war 10 their OWL
| doors