The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-01
SecesateM Abgsad s-9reas Excitement ON
Acceunt OF the Tarifr..Enrepe Npeakfng

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ruin upon the Republican States. They
Assure the anti-slayery journals of the free
/ States, that though the abolition scruples Of
England are the result OF Conscientious con
! yfrtion. yet they cannot, as sensible English
| men, permit their consciences to interfere
/ with their trade, an assurance which, to one
| toiersbly familiar with history, Is quite SUI
| perogatory. The Liverpool Mercury declares
| that +" Northern Protec tionism - lie as bad as
southern Secession" Ii says the new tariff
bill lis about the most retrograde piece of
/ legislation that any country, within the Old
or the New World has seen Off years.
and that its object appears to be to reduce
70 miuimum the foreign trade of the North
ern Union. The Republican party, while 1t
strongly claims our sympathies on one all
essent ial point, is committed to the nonsensi-
cal dogmas of compuision and exploded po-
htical economy" I" 1t is certain that either
protectionists tariffs or the Federal Union
will have to give way. II is unfortunate
for the North that the advocacy of sound
economical principles should be almost cx-
eiusively confined to slaye-owner and their
sympaihizers. and that Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS
should talk like statesman and a man of
sense on subject on which Mr.. LINCOLN dis.
courses like an Essex squire of the corn law
and top-boot epoch"
The London Times adds its deep toned bay.
ings to the general thunders of denunciatio
from Europe. 1t openly advocates the policy
of President DAVIS, and avows its belief that
the commerce of the North will be DESTROYED
by the MORRILL, tariff. 1t says:
IF Americans wish to know with what feelings
this measure has been regarded in England they
have only TO turn to the Trade Reports of TIE
Times, aud their curiosity will be gtallhed Thus
we md from birmingham that a hardware and
less. south Stshordshire is In dismay THE con-
duet oil Congress the Tariff Bill has much
ehansed the tone OF public feeling with reference
whose sympatnies are with the Northern States
attempt to Justify the course which the Protec-
ter the proposed increase OF duties on cotton goods
In the United states is causing great attention -
II New stie 1t is considered that it Will be i'm
ro~sib!yto do business with the Uuited States on
the terms set out in the Tariff, while the bust
ness wlth the Southern States is described sat
istae:ory; In Sheffield considerable apprehen-
sion is ielt as TO the effect of the new farif on
the steel trade. In Woive hampton tie anticipa-
ton that the Tariff has become law darkens the
already gloomy prospects OF the iron trade
In that respect Il has done its worst, but it des-
taed II we mistake not 70 be the fruitful mother
CT other descriptions. What interest have the
great agricu tural Western States, for Instance
10 being made tributaries to the iron masters of
Iennsylvania, or the cotton -spinners of Lowell
They Will desire, as the South nave desired, di-
rect trade with England, and the peculiar position
OF Canada, with its facilities of communication by
! lake, river, and railway, will show them the
readiest means OF obtaining direct trade by a
fresh separation-possiblyb by ANA ga nation
with orr own colonies
These topics are so obvious that we folbear TO
insist upon them, but We beg to point out for the
comfort OF our own eountrymen and the warning
OF the government Of the United States that in
attempting to exclude at one blow twenty mil
lions OF exports from their territory, they have
TTb hag TASK task quite beySod their power
revenue, they may give additional strength TO
those vested interests which claim prescriptive
right to live on the vitals of TIE community they
OF The towns on The Atlantic spepa5oard but they
cannot prevent English manufactures from per-
leating the United States from one end to the
ether. glance at the map is sufficient TO show
this. The southern Confederaey WILL of course,
yannah, MOBILE and New Orleans, depots for
English manufactures, to be Struggled across
separates them from The United States
Nay, II is quite possible that the great city of
New York may prefer to declare itself free port,
and TO become the depot of an illicit traffic,
rather than its wharves rotting its streets de-
serted, and lis harbors empty, because suicidal
folly has driven commerce to the inferior barbors
of the South. The indented coasts of the North
ern states give ample opportunity for smuggling.
ana, what Is stltl more important, the frontier be-
tween Canada aud the Union is virtually tracel1
by the stream of the ST. Lawrence and the centre
eff the great Lakes Ontario Erie and Huron X
is region which might have been created Tor the
express purpose of Furnishing the presumpiuous
folly of seeking to erect tho barrier of prohibition
mutual benefits of commercial intercourse. The
smuggler will redress the errors Of tie statesman,
as he has so often done before. The change may
occasion delay, loss, and Inconvenience; but The
stream is too mighty to be ch9ked, and no sooner
viii the old channel have been stopped than a
new one will be forced"
Even the London Nesos, the organ of Ex-
eter Hall, says:
MT Gregory has given notice that Oh an early
day he Will call the attention of her Majesty
Government to the expedieney of a PROMPT rec6y-
nition OF the Southern Confederaey of america .
There Is no occasion for Mr.. Gregory or any one
else to be anxious to get our Government TO ac- |
knowl ledge the so-called Southern Confeder cy of
American States. The practice of the British
Government, in such cases, is rrmly established |
aud well understood-viz: to recoguize ali de |
faeto Governments, irrespective of Opinions orr |
gin, or any circumstance but the fact of being
the actually established ruling power. If ever |
ana whenever, that happens with the Southern |
there can be- no doubt about their being recog- |
nl1ed by all the European powers; and by ing
but the case has lot yet reached this stage; and |
II Is very 1ar from reaching it.
The people of France, our ancient and
chiyairic ally, lead the way in welcom-
ing the new Confederacy into the contra
ternity of nations The Honitear, the off,
clai journal of the Imperial Government.
mas expressed the deepest Indignation at the
increase OF duties imposed by the Northern
states upon French productions,'' and the
rays has loudly proclaimed "Let the indie
penosnce OF the South be recognized. In the
hands OF Northern men, the edifice, which
was raised with so much care and labor by
their predecessors, comes crashing down,
to carry with it, in its fall, the
industrial future OF every other nation"
The Peser-Seituay, of Bremen, says:
''The political crisis In the United States has
sraduaily reached point, after which ali con- |
Itullonal discussions are utterly superauous.-I
'R at to revolt against the Federal Government:
heir revolution is no less fixed fact which |
FOUND policy will have to treat according TO pria-
'ples different from those of the Supreme Court |
y Washington. This is not the FIRST Instance in |
history where an indubitable wrong claims to be
reaied on the same footing with rights and insti-
utions that have existed for centuries The ;
eaiity OF lie never fails from time time to pro-
nent OF nation at first invariably revolts but
ooner or later the moment arrives where il be-
re y asve.opment OF nations to the rigid formula
! written law, and to judge OF its changes as we
udSe OF question OF civil law.
n his one sided point of view is speedily over
oihe ana put 10 resi-, whereas in the new world
the origin and growth Of the existing Constitu
Ion does not date back into lmmemorial and ven
rated ages, but here this process has been gone
through as the visible and tangible work of men,
Wing and and y s shs sa !, were q generation sti
he Constitution of the United States u Z cn,npro
~ ~ tns record Of which lies before US in ieg
! the eighteenth century; everybody knows that !;
Is not the nysierie us result of the uncons cous
rowth of a thousand years, hut the product of {
cry prosaie and prudent calculations, which | 6
ere based upon clearly defined interests, where
nesiions OF finance, of administration, of per c
onai security and security of property, played I
tMost an exclusive part. Questions very similar :
, those brought 10 bear tho formation OF the
= CONSTITUTION, are TO day operating in an op-
osito direction for its destruction; and it onght
,erefore not to surprise us, that the support
hich the state of things heretofore existing re-
elves from more ideal views of men and from I
lie sentiment OF national aud fraternal yensra-