The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-12-02

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MONDAY MORNING.. DEC. 2. 1851.
wHaT tRR WAR is roe.--Therc are good
many theories on this sntject. but II we arc
NOT mistaken, Il wonA puzzle the Northern
people themselves to give satisfactory an'
swer to the question what the war 10 for.
The general rcrly IL that II lie to preserve "the
glorious unicn," bat Decides this vague and
generality, there seems to be 10
cnityof design or purpose even among our
snemies. II there II, We look in vain for lie
expressicn In any mauifessation Of puelic
opinion that we hare yet seen Az every
body has speculation on the object of che
war, we may as we'll have onra From the mo
ment that il became obvious the border States
would not promptly make common canse with
The Gulf States, we believed that war was in.
esitsble. We are not surs that even with the
matted action Of all the Southern States sep.
&Fation could have been accomplished with
oas war, but 1t held out. as We Thought, the
best chance Of a pacific solutions and for this,
among other reasons, we advocated the carly
secession Of Virginia. War once commenced,
no one who understands the interests of the
North In the Union, and the temper of the
Northern people. could anticipate a short
struggle. II we had been able promptly to
folio ur the bstile of Manassas, as far even
as the occupation of Arlingten Heights, 90 as,
without occupying Washington, TO hold rod
a. terrorca, over it, we should be good deal
nearer peace than ~ now are.
But what is this war for We think it is
lass for what Mr.. I1iacoln says it is-the sub
1ugasion Of the Southern people. Ii is useless
to say that no sane Yankee can indulge such
an idea. NoYankee is sane upon this subject.
The consolidation idea in the Northern mind
is universal and ineradicable You might AS
well attempt TO convince q Northern man
that tho city and county of New York are not
rari Of the SrAse OF that name, or that Boston
does not belong to Massachusetts, as that the
southern Coni.deraey is not part of the
Union. They look upon it as we look upon
Northwestern Virginia, and mean 10 bring i.
back just rs we mean to bring back the State
Of Kanawha" to where il belongs. They
think they can 10 it, for they have capital
numbers, great cities, all the outside show OF
wealth aud power, whilst the South has 8
Large, sparsely settled territory, with q con-.
paravveiy small population, with no money
no manufactures, no commerce, its ports ali
closed to the outside world Ii they cannoi
whip US at snee il the field, they think they
can tire us out and starve Is out Ii educa
ton and intelligence were as universal in the
Oh ,,rate-,5 shaw trn0l5
terrain such absurd notions They do not I'M
derstard either Southern resources, Southern
character or the decisiveness and solemnity
of this great occasion. 1t is evident that they
expect ali this commotion will pass away like
q summer cloud; that, here and there, the
lightning will seattle some homestead and the
hail desolate some field, but that, on the whole
the atmosphere will be purified, and the fa
ture more healthful and brighter than the
past The value of the Union TO the North
shows US the precise amount in dollars AM
cents of what tho North is fighting for. Cal
o,lase the amount of Southern contributions
to Northern commerce, manufactures, trade
and enterprise in every form, and you have
what the North is fighting for in figures which
cannot lie. We do not say that this is the only
spring and motive of the war. The Northern
mind has of late years been abolitionized, and
the anti slavery element adds its snIlen fire to
the threatening fame. The irritation, arising
from the carefully disseminated idea that the
South looks upon the North as race of cow.
ards, has also more to do with the persistency
with which this war is and will be waged
than is generally imagined. Another obiec,
was disclosed in speech of G.. A. Grow
Speaker Of the Black Republican House Of
Representatives After speaking of the pur
chase of Louisiana and Florida, he renarked
~ follows: s.s -s
Your fathers believed that il was one of the
questions OF vital importance for the future
Of the country. that no foreign Jurisdiction
should have home at ths> mouth of the Mis-
els tppi or In Florida; and yet to-day the m en-
who settled those territories ron permit IL
organIzs iato STATES, and TO set up an indie
pendent jarisdition over thern-an act Tor
which your fathers were ready to wage war
and peril their lives 10 prevent. To-day Won
are ready TO psrmit traitors 1T home TO &c
what no foreign power heretofore dare at.
tempt.
Let there be but one war better it should
eost HiliAens of lives than tina we should live
IN hourly dread OF wars, con tguous to a peo
pie who could make foreign alliances and
: land armies upon our shores to destroy ON,
liberties. Though ii may cost blood and trea
sure, ths ex pertinent II ust be n,Ide.
The New York Tribune, commenting OF
this somewha. significant and remarkable Oh
servation, said that the considerations sug
gestsd by Mr.. Speaker Grow were practical
and that the dangers and necessities alluded
70 by him were wholly outside of the text O
the written constitution. Said the editor:
The abstract right of secession might b,
proved clear as the nocnaay sun, and its as
sertion be recognized by all the powers CT Ea
rope, but yet the United States cosld nevrl
power As a nation is utterly broken and gone
Secession may be proved IN the schools dis
meDbermsnt OF the Republic can only com,
by the sword.
There is, il Gne, no end to the variety o.
potives and objects Of this war. We predict
that it viii end when the North becomes una
Bile to prosecute it, and not before Our oni,
wondps 10, that anybody could ever dauL. whal
iaa wag was for, or ianasias shss 1t wcgla b.
Ut short duration.
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Ia xnothsr column speech of Captain Jsry;a
n A dalivnpnd on tha 05,h ~ Ootoh.u H. 49,.