The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-09

md children a. a shield, he lies secure. JOHN
sroN. with his far inferior force did not feel
justified in attacking, and Winchester being
the common converging point OF several roads,
10 has felt bound to fall back upon that town,
| lest MCCLELLAN or some other .1emy might
get into his rear. He thus gains the advan-
age of choosing his own fighting ground against
| a superior force. and places his adversary al
| tn, disaay antage of making the attack. Sure
ly after SO many efforts to get Eight out OF
the enemy without success, our General may be
excused for rcsuming his best position.
What IL will Require TO Conquer the South
The Conft ssien OF Lincoln's Message.
There Is a fatal confession in the LINCOLN
message which destroys all its sophistry and
sets at naught all its artful periods. 1t is that
four hundred thousand men and four hundred
millions Of money arc requisite to accomplish
The objects If the WIT in which the Washing
ton Government is engaged. Before that con-
iession, what avails the idle assertion that in
40 other Of the seeding States except South
Carolina are the people in favor Of dissolution
Before that con fession, of what worth is the
absurd palaysr, never before ventured by
statesman or partisan, arguing that there is no
such thing as sovereign State known in our
economy Of Government for if there are no
States at the South, and If the Southern people
are not enlisted in the Secession movement,
pray, against whom are these four hundred
thousand men and four millions of money to
he employed? OF what use are great, whop-
ping lies, insinuated in studied phrases, such
a. this one Of SEwARD's, that it is only South
ern politicians that are engaged in the Secession
movement, when there Is the great fac. con-
fessed, that imperial armies and hundreds of
millions of trea sure are requisite to put the poll
iticians down Is not SEWARD sensible enough
to know hat the world has little sense as
| we'll as himself, and that its great eyes cannot
overlook the cloven foot in the message when
it sticks itself out in the enormous proportions
Of four hundred thousand men and four hum
| bred millions of dollars?
The Message was evidently framed for efec,
| in Europe; but this confession of the effort it
will cos, the Washington Government to put
| for the South than all the messages which Sc
wAHn and LINCOLN could put forth in Il GEN.
| fury. Europe might have besitated to acknow-
| ledge the political existence of the Southern
| Confederacy before: but when informed by
| SEWARD himself. that it is of stability and
power, requiring such huge armies and such
vast funds as are called tor by LINCOLN to
crush it, she can no longer doubt. Whether
LINCOLN can raise the armies and the funds he
| needs, is another question; for whether he can
OF not, the confession is the same, that the
South has strength and resources which can
| only be conbattcd, with any probability of sue
| cess, by the inmense force and means de-
manded by him. That he cannot raise either
the men or the money, especially the money,
makes the case conclusive in favor of the indie
pendence Of the South but Europe will not
stop to inquire If that matter before the sutii-
cient fact confessed that the Southern Conted
| eracy has resources Of the magnitude measured
and confessed by LINCOLN himself in the mea-
sures proposed for putting it down.
The confession must tend also to open the
unwilling eyes of the Northern people to the
| real power and strength of the South. They
commenced this war under the delusion that
the South was miserably poor, weak, silly and
helpless. LINCOLN himself measured her pow
ers of resistance by only seventy five regi-
ments. His IDEAS of Southern prowess have
enlarged somewhat in three months. They
have grown at tho rate Of hundred thousand
men and hundred millions of money per
month. which is reasonable enough. At this
rate they bid fair to attain a proper magni-
tude by the end of the war. 1t is probable
that the Northern estimation of Southern re-
sources will grow in like manner. That the
Northern people will be surprised at the mag
nitude of SEwARD's demand for men and
money is certain; for they are not yet disa-
bused of the hallucination with which they
entered the war, touching our weakness and
imbecility. The poor success of their armies
thus far had opened their eyes somewhat to
the true state of the case; but this confession
of LINCOLN will open them wider. They are
therefore, in fair way Of learning the truth.
This is we'll; for the best security for harmony
between two hostile nations, is that they shall
we'll understand each others strength.
All the rest of the Message is mere twad-
dle--a mere hash of SEwARD's well known
.Semardisa,s. The only piece of actual bust
ness in the document is the call for men and
money; and that call speaks volumes, and tells
the whole story. 1t confesses what the South
H.. ol cd hat he
do to accomplish its aims.
The world, at home and abroad, discarding
ell the trashy special pleading of the Message
and selling upon this confession as the kernel
can have but one criticism upon it. 1t will
say, "America boasts itself land of free
self- government. Half the American Union
assert this right against the other halt; and
that other half confess that four hundred
thousand men and four hundred millions Of
dollars are needed to suppress the Secession
In Europe, this effort to crush out popular
movement, might be legitimate; in America it
is at war with the whole spirit and theory Of
their institutions. This disproportionate call
is confession of that fact, and we have no
option but to recognize it, The pretentions
of the North cannot be made good at all if
they require such immense MEANS"
NoBtR LAplEs.-The ladies of Petersburg,
on Saturday last. dispatched seven large boxes,
filled with needfui con tributions. to the SOL
diers at Yorktown. They had previously
made generous responses TO appeals from
Portsmouth ,Culpeper art-Honse, and other
places.