The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-18

b &RsiRihbIIoN " lit SoMk- 1 Hc Iftie Will
yet arrive. we are fully persuaded, when tho
North will be made 10 drain to the dregs the
bitter cup of invasion and bloodshed which il
lias forced upon the Southern people. IL is
true, that Divine retribation for evil works is
not often executed speedily. nor always in the
present life; but, sooner or later it is inevtas
bic. unless we suppose that justice is not one
of the attributes Of God. The history of Ma.
tions ia full of demonstrations that national
crimes provoke national puuishmen,s, and that
HI righteousness exalteth a nation, iniquity,
wrong, and cruelty, are sure to degrade and
destroy it.
The North has acquired vast wealth snd-
denly, aud almost without an effort. Its prin-
cipal cities have sprung up like mushrooms.
JoNAHs gourd Was scarcely more rapid IN lis
rise.ihan the public, aud, in most cases, the
individual, prosperity of the Northern people.
They have worked up the Southern mines
Ia every variety aud shape that could be made
available to Northern benefit. The North is.s
allowed the South barely its food and clothing
tor its enormous contributions to Northern
wealth, aud then has laughed at and derided
poverty and simplicity. 1t has built up its
factories its commerce, its cities, its colossal
fortunes, with Southern staples; tihas supported
its traders, shoemakers, tailors, carriage
makers manufacturers of agricultural imple-
ments, of house furniture, of negro clothing,
of almost every article that can be named OF
convenience and use in the household and in
the daily avocations of life, by Southern GUS
toners and Southern patronage. 1t has annu-
ally iieeced our votaries of fashion of millions
at Northern watering places, whilst millions
mo. e have been contributed for the education
of Southern youths at Northern schools and
colleges. Our reading community have bee,
inundated with Northern periodicals. We
have had nothing of our own, not even a lite
rlture; they have had all, and left us the bare
means of subsistence ; and yet they were not
satisfied. And so they have drawn the sword,
and are striving with all their might to cut
open the goose that laid the golden eggs
Was ever such wanton wickedness since
the world began What lave we done to
this people that our soil should be thus in
vaded, our homes outraged, the blood of our
dear sons and brothers spilled like water, our
whole country Threatened with plumber, death,
and determination What have we done but
feed and cothe, enrich and pamper the invad
ers who are using the very wealth they have
eXtorted from rs the means of our dstruc-
ton! Can a Just God look down upon such
injustice, and permit it to triumph. or to 90
nnpunished! These .vretches, who are pol
lifting our soil. and sending their hordes to in
wade and murder lls are themselves in perfect
quiet aud security. They sit at their ease, in
safe and comfortable homes, and know moth
ing of the war except the pleasant reading III
the public journals, made palatable by the ill
Vulnerable falsehOods Of their lying news
mongers They plot and compass our destruc
ton in perfect safety; they look serenely at
our families broken up, our Young men butch
cred, our towns bombarded, our sea-coast
blockaded, our women threatened with dis
honor, our men with death, our institutions
and our very existence with determination,
and themselves feel not one throb Of appre-
bension for single interest they possess in
human life. Can this unequal condition Ct
things always remain! Must the South be al
ways a passive target for the North to prac-
tice upon till we are riddled to pieces Again
we say, this cannot he, unless Justice has for
aken Heaven The time will eome-oh, thu
it may come soon--when the blazing rafters OF
their own dwellings, and the crashing of ar
tillery in their own streets, will begin the long
arrears of vengeance which their abominable
injustice has provoked.