The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-11-20

k1Y6 US aces ~ ~ PUpnlation una 10 military
resources from tch we are now, In n great
meastlrH, dabarred. We should Increase
greatly til. safety aud capacity of our means
tor Transporting men and military supplies.
II the construction OF this road should, IN the
judgment CT Congress, as II IL Ia mine. be In
oispsnsable for the most successful prosecu-
ton OF the war, the action CT the Government
will rot be restrained by the constitutional
objection which would attach tn work for
commercial purposes, and attention Ia invited
to the practicability OF securing it's early
completion by giving the needful aid 10 the
company organized for Its construction and
administration.
If we husband our means and make judi
cious use OF our resources it would be di lfi-
cult to fix a limit to the period during which
we could conduct n war against the adyer-
sary whom we now encounter. The very
Ell Irts which he makes to isolate and invade
us must exhaust his means whilst they serve
to complete the circle and diversity The pro-
dnctons of our industrial sys tenn The recon.
struction which he seeks to effect by arms be-
comes daily more aud more pal bly, ion posi-
bic. Not only do the causes which induced US
TO separate still exist in full force but they
have been streng thened, and whatever doubt
may have fingered in the minds of any must
have been completely dispelled by subsequent
even t.. IT, instead Of being dissolution OF
League 1t were indeed q rebellion in which
we 8 re engaged, we might fiad ample vindi-
cation for the course we have adopted in the
scenes which are now being enacted i'll the
United States. Our people now look with
contemptuous establishment on those with
whom they had been recently associated.
They shrink with aversion from the bare idea
of renewing such a connexion- w hen they
see a President making war without the
assent OF Congress when they behold judges
threatened because they main tain the writ OF
ka5eas corpus so sacred to freemen; when they
see iusLice and law trampied under the
armed heel OF military authority, and up
right men aud innocent women dragged to
distant dungeons upon the mere edIct OF
Gespot; when they lind all this toisrat ted and
"a nth ke. N
fGil enjoyment of freedom but feW months
agC-taey believe that there must be sume
radical incompatibiiity b-tWeen such Z peo-
pie and themselves With such Il people We
may be content 10 live al De ace but ths se.,.
ration is final, and for the dependence we
have sSertsd we will accept 40 alternative.
Tho nature OF the hostiites which they
have Waged against us, must be charaC teriZed
as barbarOus wherever it is underS TODD
They have bo,nbarGtd uudeianded villages
without giving QolIce 10 women and children
10 enable them 10 escape, AMI III one nstance,
seiected tho night as the period when they
zig mt surprise chem most edectually, whilst
asleep AID uns uspiciOus Of danger. Arson and
Taplne, the destruction u prlvi.t houses ana
proper - ana injuries o. the most Wanton
cha acter, even upon non comDatants, have
marked their fCraJs along our borders aud
upon our territory. Although we ought 10
have been adnonished 10y these things, that
they were disposed to make war upon us in
the most cruel and reieutiess spin yet, we
were not prepared 10 see them lit cut Il large
naval expedition, with the confessed purpose
not only 10 piilage, but to incite a serv lie in
surrectlon in our midst.
If they convert their so Giers into ircendi-
aries and robbers, ana involve us In Il species
of war which claims non com atlantis, women
and children as Its victims, they must expect
to be treated as outlaws and enemies OF man
kind. There are certain rights of humanity
which are entitled TO respect, even in War,
and he who refuses 10 regard them, iorfsitS
his claims, If captured, to be considered
prisoner OF war, cut must expect to be dealt
Win AS an offender against all law, human
and divine.
under the law OF nations, at home, they nave
extended these injuries TO us within other
jurisdictions. the disting uished gentlemen
whom, with your approval, at the last ses-
sion, commissioned TO re present The COut-d-
eracy AT Cert in foreign courts, have been
Gently seized by captain of Il Uni ed
~ ties ship of-w.r, on board Il British steam
er. on their voyage II IN the neutral spanish
tjorc or Havana TO Eagi:.ni. Tne United
states awe thus claimed q general jurisdia-
ton over the high seas, and Lering g
BRUSH snip, sailing under Its counLry's
flag, violated the rights OF EN- BUSY for tnt.
most part held sacred even amongst barba-
mans, Dy StIzLg our MinlslefS whilst unCer
the protection. and within the dominIons. of IL
neutral nation. these gentlemen were as
much under the jurisdiction OF the British
Government, upon that ship, and beneath It's
flag, as If they had bsen its soil; and Il
claim, on the part Of the Cnited States to
seize them IL the streets of ioadon, would
nave been Is Well founded as that 10 apure-
bend them where they Were taken. Had they
been m ..ief tetors ana citizens even OF the y
states, they could not have beer. arres ted on
& BRUSH shp, or on British soil, unless IN.
der the express PROVISIONS of treaty and ac-
cor0ing 10 the forms therein provided for the
extradition of criminals.
But nights the most sacred seem 10 have
lost all respect in their eyes. When bIr
Faulkner, Il former Minister of the United
States 10 France, commissioned before the
secession OF Virginia ms native State, re-
turned in good faith to Washington TO settle
his accounts and fulfil all tn" obligation. into
which he had entered, he Darfiuiously
arrested aGd imprisoned i'll New York, where
he now is. The unsuspectiug confidence
with which he reported to his Government
was abused, and his desire to fuial his trust
10 them was used to his injury.
In conducting this war, we have soughtno
aid and proposed no alliances offensive and
defensive abroad We nave asked for re-
cognized place in the great family OF nations
but in doing We have demanded nothing
for which wa did not offer a fair equivalent,
The advantages OF intercourse are mutual
amongst nations, and in seeking to establish
diplomatic eIiIions, we We're only endeavor.
ing 10 place that Intercourse under the regu-
lation OF public law. Perhaps we had the
right, ii we had chosen to exercise il, to ask
to know whsther the principle that block
AIDES, TO be bindiLg, must be eifectual,'' so
solemn announced by the great powers of
Europe al Paris, is to be- generally enforced
or applied only 10 particular parties.
When tne Confederate States at YOUR Last
session became Il party to the declaration re-
. fiirming this principle OF International law,
which has beeu recognized so long By pub
licists and Governments, We certainly sup
POSED that it was to be- universally enforced.
The customary law of nations is made up Of
their practice rather than their declarations
and if such declarations are only 10 De enforc-
ed in particular instances at the pleas ure OF
those who make them, then the commerce of
:ne world so far from being placed under the
al.
jact TO tna caprice Of these who execute or
suspend il a will. II such is 10 he the course
of natioGs In regard To this law, it is plain
that it will thus become a rule Tor the weak
ana not for the strong.
Feeling that such views must be taken BY
he neutral nations of the earth, have cans
ed the evidence 10 be collected which proves
mpietely The utter lnefficiPncy of the pro-
claimed blockade of oUr CO tst and shall d-
rect 1T to be laid before such Government 5 as
shall afford us the means of being heard.
But although we shonld b. benefited by the
emf Ice'nent OF this Ia W so so iemnly declared
by the great powers of EUROPE, we are not
depend"nt on that enforcement for the sue
cessfui prosecution of the war. As long as
nOstilties continue the Confederate States
will exhibit a steadily increasing capacity TO
furnish ths ir troops with food, clothing and
arms. 1t they should be forced To forego
many OF the luxuri.s and some OF the COM
f6ris of lite, they wilt AT least, have the con-
ISOLATION OF KnoWipg that they are thus daily
becoming mora and more independent of the
rest Of the void. If, in this process, Dor u
the Cbnfederate States honid be gradually di-
verted from those great Southern staples
which have given life 10 so much of the conf
merce OF mankind INFO other channels, so rs
to make them rival producers instead of pro-
f1tabie customers, they will not be the only
or even the chief losers by this change in the
direction OF their industry. Although ii is
true that the cotton supply from the Southern
States could only be totally cut Oft by the
subversion ofour social system, yet il is plain
that q long continuance of this blockade
might, by diversion Of labor and an invest.