The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-18

however, We nave 0a8ee0 between 2, 600 Ant
1000 prisoners at Ro. 0ke, beetdes rebel
Brig adiers and lesser officers At For: Henry,
and hold very large balance of po wer. 1t
10 not pro bable that We shall hear any m ore
threats Of hanging U0l. Oorcsran, and other
this. Ths, game works both Nv ways, % and ave. W.
can hang two or three men for their ole
now, II we like.
THANKS 70 PoorI FOR HIS VICTORY.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Jeb 9tn, 1862.
manding United States naval Forces,
Cairo, ILL.,:
Your dispatch announcing the capture of
Fors Heary, by the squadron which you com.
manded, has slven Inc highes graf flea ton
to the President, TO Congress, and the coun.
try. 1t was received and read in botb houses
of Congress in open session. The country
appreciate your gallant deeds, ana this de.
Fsrtnsns desires 70 coLyey to you anc ysur
service you have rendered.
GIDEON WxLLss, Sec'y of Navy.
WHAT Is 70 BE DONE WITH THE SOUTH WHEN Ir IL
oOxQUskRD.
The New York Herald has the following:
This 10 q very i'm por tant quest ton. Whatt.
fat rebuke received by Senator sumner
whose resolutions, On Tues day, were laid ON
the table Ly vote OF 2l to 10. These resolu.
tions are only part and parcel Of the came
mpracttcabiiity which has marRed the en-
reer Of the fanasica faction to wnich Senator
Sumner belongs The man who roposed to
send am ba- sadors to the black republics Of
Haytl and Liberia now proposes to put the
black race over the white race at the South
wherever the blacks are more numerous
than the whites.
BY some unnatural idiosyncracy, all SEN
ator Summers sympaties are lavished upon
,Sovvp ~
race to which he is supposed to belong. Such
Is his passion for ths negro that he would Law
the train for St. Domingo nassacres from
the Susquehnnna to the Rio Grande, and he
would light the Christian civilization Of
the Caucasian race in order to subs ii .ute the
cannibalism and fetishism Of the King of Da.
honey. Having played his part in breaking
up the American republic Of white men, this
ian atlc 10 now engaged In the work Of pre-.
venting its reunion.
Mr. Sumner maintains thst the Southern
States cease to belong TO the Tnion, and
therefore we Of the North may treat them as
we please--they are beyond the pale Of the
constitution. Territorial 4oyernme an ts m ust
be established, and we will rule them with
a rod OF iron. Now, if the Southern States
are not legally within the Union, what are
we Waging war with them for! Has not the
war been set on foot to "execute the laws of
tho Unionf" Why did we not establish
territorial 4overnm ent for NJ Mexico VIII en- we
conquered her7 And why have we not an.
and made them Territories9 The colonial
system of the old country is unknown to
American laws.
We do not believe in the folly of enslaving
the white men of our own race for the pur :.
pose of emancipating negroes. Tine MON snt
we attempt anything of this kind we absoIve
the Southern population from all alleg giancs
to the United States, and we have no Ion ger
| any cause of war against them. This Is
| either war for the maintenance of tho Con.
stitutiOn or it is not If it be war for the Con
stitutiOn then it must be carried on accordi L
| to the principles Of the Constitution. II be
not a war for the Constitution, what Is it for
Surely not for q mere abolition theory, q
anatical abstraction, is this great nation to
pour out its blood and treasure like water. -
If the old Union is not to be restored by the
war, then we have no more to do with ths
Southern States than We have to do with
l Mexico, Central America,or Canada But il
| the object of the war be to restore the Union
| 1t may be necessary during the struggle Il
place under provisional government thos,
Southern States which are subjected to oul
! arms. That has been done to some exteat al
ready.
| hIsCELLANEOUs.
A meeting on behalf of Colonel OorcoraI
| was to have been held in Tammany Hall las
| night; but, in consequence of the necesss ,try
preparations not having been C. .mpieted
it has been postponed until next week
n large audience WAS .isse nj last 9V0n