The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-05-21
The FsPsiGp News.

The two greatest powers in the world, with
reference to the disturbed condition of affairs
on this continent, increase. Their commercs
and manufacturing industry are most seriously
Affected, and their national revenues must suf-
fer diminulion. The Distress amongst the
people 10 intense and extensive. The Gov
ernments are surely pressed by the emergency
inswhich they find themselves and the inter
ssts they have to protect foster.
But with all this We need not, we cannot,
safely rely upon any measure advantageous
70 us in their join: councils until We strike
more decided blow than we have vet given.
The assumption of positive neutrality Tor go
many months deprives them Of II pretexs to
interfere until something more is done-unti
Q new phase is presented by the situation Of
theeontss.. Seward ia artful enough to keep
biz foreign relations in we'll guarded condl-
ton. He viii apologize to the great powers
for every outrage CT subalterns rather than
fight until hs has succeeded in sub)uyating the
South, which he is sufficiently dsluied TO be-
Heve he can do. His present scheme Is to
latter the European Governments that the
proclamation Of the re-Opening of trade
In the ports his forces possess will afford
TO them the raw material they go much
need to give their people occupation. 1t
Il true, they are to bs undecsived both by
tho destruction of cotton in the South and the
failure to plant crop this year. But when
they are undeceived in this respect Seward
will be again ready with another trick in
political legerdemain for their diversion. They
have lost the prstex: for breaking MP thstloc
sde Of our ports-shey have almost deprived
themselves of all reason to in;erpose on any
ground. Ye. their situation is go pressing, and
the grand political motive which makes then,
desire the perpetual dismemberment of the
old Union 60 ovsrshsdowing, the: if they cali
nud prstext they will 10 good tine avail
themselves Of it, aud offer their medi alton a:
least. The best occasion for this wonid be one
or two grand victories to the Southern arms
In pitched battles.
We are not of opinion that it is especially
desirable that France ard England should ill.,
tsrvene for the establishment of peace in this
country. In the first place, we apprehend they
will not propose mediation until We prove our
own ability to achieve our independence. In
the second it is probable tina: they will be in.
elined TO acknowledge the claims of the enc
my TO all the territory occupied by his forces
to which We can never Submit. We can never
agree to any mode of settlement OF the status
of Southern territory occupied by Lincolns
troops, which dePvives the occupants of that
territory of the right, without menace or
threat, and without the presence of soldiers, to
my to which Government they desire to be
attached and owe allegiance.
While Of course the sentiment and policy of
with reference to our struggle ara deeply in
tsrsstiog 70 us, they have shewn thus far each
. ssudious neutrality where they were called
upon by the law of nations az constrr-
ed by themselves to interpose-shewipg a
neutrality which eprsssd indeed to the
great advantage Of our powerful enemy in
giving him the free right to purchase and
tfsueport all the appliances of war, while We,
without his means, machinery, and is4ns,
were almost entirely cut off from that privi-
lege-out of, too, when had we been able to
supply ourselves fully We could have ended
this war ere this that we are much more in
different a. 70 what they may d. than We have
been We have long ago come to the con-
clusion that We would never be the object Of
their friendly measures until they saw We
were uos particularly in n,ed Of them. The
Emperor Napoleon might nave been disposed
- extend his good Offices towards us, but this
he could never d. without the cooperation OF
England, and thus he is made to pursue the
same frigid policy adhered to by that Gov.
eminent.
After all. whatever the speculitioDs we may
euter into on THE subject, We Cannot avoid
the conclusion that upon Ourselves everything
dspsnds. We must free ourselves from an
hated dominion OF New England Puritanism
and Northern oppression. When we have
done that, We shall have plenty Of friends,
and We shall make just what terms we please
with them.