The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-03-04
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Essla.d and sAs. .sesAe q sas
r.. announcement by Lord John Rasssll
rnvlsnd will not recognize, The Southern
~ ''.s.d.rnoy until it has sstabEShsd its own
- ....naeuos 10 her satisfaction, puts quis
6" .ny expectations Of aid and encourage.
~. ~, from that quarter. We havs never
I'm but one man in the Southern Confeds.
-, who, st the beginning of this content,
,'..ea ths, England would Eave 70 succ umb
King Cotton, and that was John B. Floyd.
y. -acollect well Mr.. Floyd:s elstGsr on the
'.s,.c, which was transfsrfsd 1t the time to
=. richmond Da,pateh, and not one opin.
=. ~ which. 80 far A. England Wa scouosrn.
"A aid the public endorse. Il tdrne ont, how.
80, tbs, Mr.. Floyd, wisk.hs accustomsd
a,acty was right, snd the ret Of NJ al
.rons. Whilst We have repeatedly warned
Il. community against manifesting any de-
cadence on foreign support, we have never
..srtsined the shadow Of . doubt that their
,...rss.s would ultimately compel both Eng
and and France TO break the blockade. If
he counsels of France had been followed, il
,sud have been broken before this time.
". Massey, An influential member Of Paflia-
n.n, lately stated shst the Emperor of the
french bad repeatedly urged the British Gov.
.puent to that course, but his recommends.
.oa, had slI bean declined Behold with
Row little wisdom tho world is governed" and
never was that truth more strikingly illus.
,-s,.d than In the stupid and stolid indifference
Of the British Government to the fates Of the
South and of its own manufacturing popula-
uop. f-e
We need not recaptulats here the ton thou
and interests-eommercial, manufacturing,
sna political-which throw their gigantic
weigh, into the scale against the six hundred
uiliOn. Of British money in the North whic
nissl have been con6scated in the event of .
va between the United States and Great
Britain. That those interests would direct
be. coarse and make her an ally of the South
va always believed at the North more FIRMLY
ssd universally than it hss ever boon in the
suthsrn States. The New York Herald and
lss Northern Journals almost without excep-
aoa have taken it for granted from the start
,hs, England would side with the South, have
.scused her of it in evefy daily issue, and
hsve been endorsed by the evident eonvic-
lions of their own Government, which has
appropriated seven millions Of dollars for the
fortiaeation of the Northern seaboard So
,hs, i, cannot be said that the Southern lead
,. held out unreaso enable expectations to the
Southern people, for those expectations were
al in ho Nnrfh bo
Bat they eeem to have been doomed to disap-
yointment. The North has managed to con-
vince England that she can get the cotton
without breaking the blockade, and England
las been credulous enough to swallow that
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Another reason. besides her diversified and
Sltevident interests, gave rise to the belief
that Great Britain wotfd recognize Southern
Independence. 1t was, that, beyond all dispute,
English anti slavery influence has been brought
70 bear for nearly thirty years upon the do
nessic institutions of the Southern States in
lach manner az to leave no doubt in reflect.
iug minds that her object was, not to abolish
slavery-for her commerce and manufactures
we're dependent upon Its produets-but to d.
rids the United States, an which she was de-.
pendent for Products essential to her welfare.
Slavery in Brazil, in Cuba, in other countries,
received no attention from English philan.
ihropsts; it was only slavery in America that
excited their horror and aroused their ener
sss 1t was to America that they sent ennis
slss, stirring up the srnouldering embers o,
hnsteism in New England, and urging on
that war of aggression upon Southern Right.
which has eliminated in the present bloody
aruggle 1t was abolition authors like Mrs
Stowe, and fugitive negroes from the South
srn States, who were made tho companioni
md pets ofthe British nobility All the mora
aid aud comfort that any nation could give te
any cause on the face of tho earth was giveI
by Great Britain to the abolition cause II
America and never, till the Union was .dis
psed did England ever discover that there
vas more than ono side to the AmeficA1
,lsvsry question, and that the South was on
iitled to be heard at the tribunal Of nations
Since that period, the most intelligent and
well written arguments we have ever seen in
behalf of Secession have appeared in English
'urnas the character Of the Southern poo
Pc has been eloquently defended, and even
tic institution of slavery, if not openly vindi
ated, apologized for and presented to the
British public with every sxtenuating circum-
tancs that human ingenuity could suggest
change 30 wonderful could never have oc
cured if the public sentiment Of Great Bri
an, which is generally all-powerful in thai
sngdom, had not warmly favored . dissolu
ION of the Union, and a recognition Of South
EN- Independence s24te e. .r.f1s!y
If Lord Russell expects to get Southern
s''ton or Northern capital BY this late disclo
'a's OF British policy, he only proves TO tho
World that he is in his dotage. He will gel
neither Why did he not declare tho position
Of England long aSo7 Why did he suffer
Doth bslligerents 70 remain in doubt till thil
Tine Of the purposes Of tho British Govern.
nen', and continue to excite hopes in the South
and apprehsnsions iathe North1 Let him now
get tas cotton if he can. II tho South h
soi.ny Of Independence, she will make q
,onn'o OF the whole rather than permit the
H0Ha or Great Britain to seize a pound Of H.
I"'ae South now show her faith by her works
-'' her plant no more cotton for the benaft
" 'oreign or Northern consumers. Whstevsr
" as result ofthis struggle-and II tho South
,'a people are true TO themselves, there can
70 out one result has lo,t forever
4 Nv H'endsbip Of the North, and has thrown
away from her that-of the South.
River DsfeAsss.
Ne would invoke the attention Of the pro.
~ authorities sa-the fact that, in the opinion