The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-22
WIN they Persist In shss war :

Oh population. They cannot be learned from
the sphemeral demonstrations Of popular tsn-
Per, announced 70 US from day to day by the
telegraph. That unfortunate people are won
derfully liable to epidemics Of feeling. which
prscipitats them into great and droil extrava-
gances Of conduct. They are SO constituted
that It 10 psychological necessity for them to
BE- carried away periodically by some ross or
other, TO burn at intervals with consuming
fever Of some sort--whstner it be over Kos
surH and Hungary, the Japs and Toxxr, the
Prince Of Wales and his suite, or JOHN O.
HsBxAx, or LIscoLx and his BoB-'o- LIxcoLs
Of SON. Their present rage is over the
Union and Yankee Doodle, and takes q mill
tary turn. They are going TO overdo the bust
ness Of soldering as snocktngly as they overdo
everything else they take up with a furore
and the dose OF tomtoolsry they are about to
1ni1ict upon the world will be the most dis.
gusting the woria has yet had to bolt 1t their
hands with a wry face. The hour is tempting
for 1.-The summer soldier and sunshine pat
riot" to exhibit his plumes and his enthusi-
asm and we shall have such marching OF
troops, and such fiourishing Of trumpets for
. few days or weeks, would strike terror
Into the doomed adversary, ii that adversary
had not learned perfectly we'll the real nature
and siguihcanee Of these spasmodic demon
STATIONS.
The Yankee people have lost their Yankee
natures, If they in fact have any stomach for
the war they have now inaugurated. 1hsy
are the last people in the world TO persist in
course of conduc. that "won't pay" Of all
people in the world they are the very ones
least addicted TO the folly Of quarreling with
their bread and butter. This war not only
won't pay as a policy, but exposes then to
the most stupendous losses. What peeple in
the world have more property or larger inter
ssts afioot upon the ocean than they, And
President DAVIS has hit them between wind
and water with his prompt and pertinent pro-
clamation, calling for privateers. That pro-
clamation speaks to people of all nations and
tongues. and invites the daring and enterpris-
ing from every quarter Of the compass. The
richest prize ever offered to belligerent
power is now offered to the South by the
floating commerce of the Yankees. The fair
est opportunity ever offered 4 fieetless nation
forfmprovising q complete navy is now offered
the South by the foa ting plunder of the Yam
KEGS. A privateer ship is in naval, what
volunteer regiment is in military organization;
but 1t Is much more promptly improyised,
the incentive of booty to lure them into ser
vice; while the volunteer soldier has only the
boon Of cause he loves to urge him into en-
listment. The wealth Of the North is in its sea-
board cities and in its ships; that Of the South,
in the interior country on their plantations
The Yankees property, that which he holds
dsarsr than all things else, is in exposed STU
atoms, where 1t is liable at every moment to
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Southern navies, or Southern armies where
n, it will cost him more than it is worth to
reach the best values Of the South. His en-
thusiastic demonstrations, which we are wit
Messing at present, in New York and else
where, and his Profuse and magnificent prof
fers Of men and money to LINCOLN for aggres
sive war upon the South, are from the first
impulse of passion, and are not the dictates
of that sober, second thought which rules him
In his cooler moments, and inclines him
always to decide for the profitable side OF a
measure. To watch his various phases of
conduct while passing from his present raw
head and bloody bones disposition towards the
South, to those profitable and amicable con-
illusions at which he will arrive in few
days or weeks hence, will be as entertaining
as instructive to the political en- tomologist.
1t Is not, we repeat, from the spasmodic
demonstrations of the Northern populace that
we are to learn the policy which that section
intends to pursue in the new relations that
have arisen between the North and the Sou tn.
1t is rather from the abolitionists proper, who
Adce purpose, will and persisiency, that we
are to derive this important Information
And il must be recolIected that this class of
Northern politicians are humanitarians and
peace men. The most conspicuous e1empli-
Acation Of their consistency as advocates of
peace was the conduct of SUMNER, whose
bloody shirt and cracked skull were carried
over the ocean for public exhibition at Exeter
Hall, as mute bar eloquent witnesses of his
non.combatancv.
The abolition party proper have never ad-
vocated q sectional war upon the South
They have denounced the Union and repudi-
ated the Cons titution; they have cried aloud
for diesolr ton but they have never advo-
Gated q wa Of conquest and subjugatio
against the South. Even GREELEY, now so
blood Thirsty and so valiant, was, only few
years ago, too tender Of life to eat roast beef,
or fowl or fish; preferring the vegetarian
diet, aschewing blood and the shedding of it,
Accordingly we find WENDELL PHILLIPS, the
Mosys Of the abolition movement, the writer
Of the book Of Genesis in abolition literature
setting his face against war. In a recent
speech At Boston, he is reported rs delivering
himself Of the following sen timents-decided-
ly the most catholic and judicious we have
ever known him to utter
''To- morrow's breeze, when 1t sweeps from the
iuston battle Of the new revolution, Well. what
i. double one. It 10 like the triumph Of sad .
AiniAf ma 4 mr. "a m not d aaA
81 twenty millions Of people educated in atweive-
USion should risk battle, should risk disso iSa
ton, II order At any risk to put down this rebel
''But am sorry that gun should be fired at
Port samtsr. or that gun should be fred from
II for this reason. The Administration at Wash
Of bates girding the Gull, who think that their
peculiar in.iitut 4 require thai they should
TO decide that question without appealing to you
or - Alsrgo body OF people Sufficient to make
viii 90 Of osrtsa lorna .na' w Wy
denies them the right Standing with the princi-
pies Of 'm behind MS who can deny them the
lars or . few fortsi Il Ii mere drop in the
bucket Of the great National question. it il
prnspiss Of 10. that Abraham Lincoln has INC mo
right 70 . soldier Ia Fort Sumter.
Bat tbs question eenss secondly, Suppose
iir Yen may punish South Carolina for going out
Of the Union That does no, bring her In. You
may subdue her BY hundrsds Of thousands OF ar
saiss but that docs not make her state. There
plays. Mr.. Jsnerson Davis Is angry and Mr.
aabraaan Lineoln Is mad and they agree to fight.
attesso0A IL correct, we shall la We gone throngh
var, spent millions. required the death OF
nenaeso thousand men. and be exactly then
angry, little poorer, and great deal wiser and
that will be the only difference We nav iust
~ Veil settle Il now Is then 49,
fou cannot 80 .threugh Massachusetts and re.