The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-25

Bankr t..Drilllaut Prospects or the
Southern Csnfederacy.
Just a. we predicted, the British Lion, at
the first reception of the MoRHrLL Tariff, has
set up a roar that makes the whole forest
shake. The great Thunderer of the Times Is
pouring it's wrathful bolts hot and heavy
upon this bill Of denominations. II ever the
hand of Providence was manifest in the con-
troll Of human affairs, 1t IL In the direction of
those events which have rent asunder the
Union, and steadily widening the gap till re-
construction is impossible. As IL the inaugu-
ration Of q sectional domination was mot
enough, the power that permitted PHARAoH's
heart to become more and more hardened af-
ter every curse, seems TO have doomed the
infatuated Government at Washington to
judicial blindness, and to the madness which
goeth before destruction. If the friends of
the South had been permitted to devise a ma
chine that would enrich the South, impover-
ish the North, break down the Federal Gov
eminent, and leave 1t impotent in its malice
as mailman In his chains, they could NOT
have devised as effectual an expedient as this
MORRILL, Tariff. The first news from Europe,
after the arrival OF intelligence that the NOR
KILL Tariff had passed Congress, is the hrst
puff of a coming hurricane which Is destined
TO hurl the old wreck of the Abolition GOV
eminent high and dry among the breakers
and send the noble Confederate Ship OF State
with swelling sails and flowing streamers, on
glorious and triumphant voyage.
We shall soon see whether the Commls-
sioners Of the Southern Republic, who are
about departing on their mission, will have
10 dance attendance as long at the Courts of
Europe as at the Court of the Black Repub
lican Autocrat The New York Herald
Justly observes that upon the single issue be-
tween the new high tariff bill adopted by the
Government at Washington, and tho low
tariff schedules of the Sou thern Confederacy
now in force, French and English interests
will appeal strongly in favor Of the South
On English iron, cotton and wooden manufa
lures, and on such French productions as
silks, laces, wines and brandes, the differ
ences in the du ties range from ten and twenty
to fifty and sixty per cent. between our new
Northern and Southern tariff laws; and as
upon those imports from ten TO sixty per cent.
duty can be saved by taking them into
Charleston, Savannah, Mobile or New Or
leans, instead of discharging in Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore, the reader
will comprehend the force of the argument III
favor of direct European trade with the South
The saving in the mere choice of a seaport
of ten or fifteen millions of money upon fifty
millions Of their goods, destined for the same
consumers, must exert powerful influence
upon foreign Governments in favor of the
Southern Confederacy but when its Com
missioners shall propose to enter into still
more inviting commercial reciprocites, by ex-
press treaty stipulations, they can hardly fail
of a successful hearing. The formidable home
squadron of ships war which the abolition
Government at Washington is mus tering for
the purpose of enforcing in Southern ports
the Northern tariff law, will be harmless
from mischief when France and Great Britain
have recognized the independence OF the new
Confederacy. II is important to Europe
to maintain the independence Of the Cotton
COnfederacy as of the Swiss Cantons, and it
will never permit single cotton field to be
desolated, or single cotton port to be closed.
That astute politician, and indefatigable
wire worker, THuRLow WEED, admits the
irrepressible conflict between the two tariffs,
the impossibility of collecting the revenue,
and the dead lock to which the Government is
reduced. "The Executive arm, - he says, "is
paralyZed. There are no laws at all adequate
TO existing eXigencies. In the
present condition of the country, it's embar-
easements have been aggravated by q compl-
Gated tariff. Congress adjourned without
passing the laws necessary to enable the Pres
ident even to collect the National revenues
Greatly as extra sessions of Congress are to
be deprecated, there seems now to be an over
ruling necessity for one.'
Such is the humiliatng confession of the
imbecility of the Republican Government,
made by the organ of the chief member of the
fyaIx
will be all collected 1T the South, and the
whole trade of the cities of the Northern sea-
board will be diverted" there. The duties on
foreign goods reaching Savannah, Charleston
New Orleans, &c, amount to more than $2O,-
900 per day, "and to this extent the General
Government is practically paying tribute to
those in open rebellion against its authority"
BY the time fixed for the new tariff to go into
opera ton, nearly two millions OF dollars, says
the Journal. will have passed into the hands
of those who have thrown off their allegiance
to the Union Nor is this all. "After the LIST
of May, the rates of duty will be much lower
at the Gulf State ports than elsewhere. The
difference will be SO great that the entire
Northwest would find it to their advantage to
purchase their imported goods at New Or
leans rather than at New York" WEED con-
soles his party, however with the idea that
the authority of the Government can be as
well maintained "by collecting the revenue
on the quarter decks of armed frigates, to be
stationed at the entrances of the harbors. -
But this will be an act of war, and an i'm
prac ticability besides, which would be resented
by the most pacific of the Border States. 1t
is Difficult for mere politicians to understand
that the old United States Government per-
ished on the 9th of November last it then
ceasing to be a National, and becoming, by the
election of LINCOLN, a Sectional Government
that the Union was subseQ uently divided by
the withdrawal of seven States which have
since established an independent Confederacy,
and that the purely and exclusively Northern
Government, inaugurated on the 4th OF March
last, is already broken down, hopelessly bank
rupt and palpably doomed to still further di-
vision, and to National perdition.
All the Foreign Appointments from the
Free States.
The present Administration is acting lite
| rally upon the ma kim, ''To the victors belong
the spoils." In the late purely sectional con-
test, the -slaveholding section has been
the victor, and the spoils of battle have been
awarded to it with a sectional exclusiveness
that satisfies even the New York Tribune. AS