The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-12-30
FROM EUROPE.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
PRESIDENT JEFF. DAyIs's MESSAGE IN
ENGLAND.
The Independence Of the Southern
Confedcracy Predicted.
QUEEN pIcToRfA's PRockxx<Tyoys
&c, &c., sc.

by 'he arrival OF the Cunard mail steam
ship America at New York, on the 9Th inst.
we nave European mails of the 7th instant
win MES OF papers to that date We Civ,
'eiow some very Interesting extracts, bear.
ing apon the all-absorbing topic which oc
eupies the public mind at this time:
| President Davis's Message In England.
WHAT HsR CABINET AND POLITICIANS THINK Arr
| HOPE PROM rHR rAPsR.
From the London Post (gov 'nment orean) Dec. =
| the principal intelligence convened by the
Edihburg from America consists in the mes
sage OF the President of the Southern Con
| leuerauon, and we are glad to notice the
| friendly tone in which it treats OF the re Ia
tons or the South with this country while
We are embarked in a critical negotiation
| with the North and while we are Also about
| 10 enter upon our intervention inSrIexico a
| country bordering upon the Southern States
ms Is, IN fact, the only satisfactory and sig
hncant information that the present Ameri.
| can packet has brought. The "Trsnt ouas.
| ton remains in sfata 9no. The opinjou of
| the law officers Of the Washington Cabinet
| which is now repeated, had reac ched us by the
| fersia on monday last; but the popular ex-
| eitement which the question had provoked
appears to have in some measure cooled
| down. For the moment, therefore, South
| ern politics arrest our chief attention.
| The Message Of President Davis to the
| southern Congress is, iI onr judgment, the
| more satisfactory for the firm and deternnin-
ed attitude in which it confronts the Union
| ist party and the Cabinet Of Washington !:
| Ior II we concede the conquest Of the South
| be next to impossible, it is by the ex addition
| OF Southern strength rather than OF South
| ern weakness that peace is TO bs restored be-
| tween the two belligerents. President Davis
recoun's that throughout seven months OF
| hostilit;es the confederates have almost uni.
| iormiy held their own, and that in several
| instances they have thrown their opponents
| int q defensive attitude.
Ia ic haTn full anti tod
tc the bold ground which he assumes when
| he declares that "the South will be content
to live at peace with the North, bnt that the
/ separation is iinai." He adds that the South
Will accept of 20 compromise. He is now,
| perhaps for tue f1rst TIM, in s position to
make use OF this language. Indeed, one l.
! led 10 ask, after the trial and exhaustion OF
| so many designs, and the expenditure of so
| much money on the part OF the North, what
| is yet to Introduce decisive features III to the
campaign The fedsrais have enjoyed i'm
mense advantages in point of men and mo-
ney, ard also {as We showed yesterday IN
| drawing warlike supplies from this country,
| through their superior command Of the sea.
President Davis will no doubt derive fresh
confidence when he reads the two royal pro-
/ carnations which, In the latter respect, have
now placed the North and South on a footing
| OF squalty.- But there has been scarcely Il
| single State oyer run by ths Northern army
| during the whole course of the campaign,
| and IL is much questioned whether the ma
| val expeditions of the federal government
| to Hatteras and Port Royal have done
| nuch more than slightly to reduce
| The assertion OF the southern President
must, therefore, be admitted to be substan-
| tally true, that 1.-The reconstruction OF The
| Union, which the Federals seek to effect by
force OF arms, has become more and more
pairabiy i'm posi- bie.h He maipt tains also,
| tnat the causes which broueh ht about the sepa-
ration not oIly remain in full force, but nave
been stre.i gther ed since tiie civil war began.
L IL of
between the con tending States, we have care
tally refrained from officially recognizing the
South bat the time has certainly arrived at
which We cease altogether TO believe in the
possible reunion of ths States, and at which
we mu st, at all events, recog -ize the indepen
dent Confeder alton Of the South as sn actual
fact.
President Davis speaks with lust indigna-
ton of the seizure OF his Euvoys to the
Courts of France and Engiand; aid there is
passage in this part of his message which
throws q probable light on the distinctive
mission on which Mr.. Siidell and Mr.. Mason
were sent TO Europe. He remarks, with
some evident pride, that ths Confederate
States have been content to fight their own
battle, and have solicited no assistance from
foreign Powers. But he declares that they
have a right to bring before Europe the ques-
tion OF the application of The existing block
AIDES OF their own poris to the acknowledged
principle of ihtarna tional law, that block
ades, If they are to he respected by third
Powers, must be effective. He is about to
represent to the European Governments, &C
cordingiy' the total inefieiency OF these
6loekades, ana to put the assertion upon evil
dence. 1t is fair inference that this was
one OF ne Questions upon which Messrs. Sill
dell and Mason were sent to Europe.
But there is another statement IN our pres.
ent American intelligence which threatens
to put the blockade question in a light alto.
gether new. 1t is announced that twenty
nve vessels have set sail, apparently from
New Yord, heavily loaded with stones, with
the view of their being sunk at the mouth of
Southern Ear5 Now, in all pro liability
ingress or egress would be as difficult at a
Sc1'nern port, win hye-and-tWenty sunken
vessels In front of the harbcr as it Yves at
Ssbastopol, where the Russians sank several
II their ships with the view of preventing
the entrance OF English and Fren ch vessels OF
war But II the Federal Government desire
oy this elpedient to relieS Se their own ships
by thus blocking up Southern rorts they
must be perfectly aware tho, there /, at once an
end Of tie blockade in eusyy instance in aolica their
"e0 plan IS 10 oppiy Sankea cessels soiH not con-
stt.nse blockade let them be as as sseaectiren as
ttey may and trscrer The FeeraI Gooernz skau
thus substitute sakcl U,ssels for its shiDs of. soar
then tAs A0caads is at once terminated bg the con.
+ sen, Of az NATIONS
We draw attention to the rational and
friendly manner in which the Southern Pre-.
sidrnt alludes TO the attitude m ain tanned hitn.
erto towards America by this country, be.
| cause we regard our relations with the South
ern States as henceforward Of very consider.
attained sncb posifion N - We ,,1st ar;n~ rT~
| ourselves to believe IN the permanence Of
differences with the North III which the
| Southerners are directly interested: and we
| have just included a treaty with the Juarez
| Government Of Mexico for O. settlement of
| our iohg-standing claims upon that country,
| under the "Aldham Convention and 9th er
| recorded obligations. Our naval expedition
| to the anlf of Mexico is charged with the
| exec exec anon r of these terms; and, probably, be-