The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-09-22
MONDAY MORNING.
.sRPT. -, 1859.
The rslicy OF Enslsnd.

As the war arags its siow length along, the
British Government asails itaelf of every
suitable occasion to reiterate. in terms too ex
r7ieit and emphatic to admit of miseonsts,,c.
ton. its positive determination not to inter.
v4ne in American affairs II strikes us tha,
the British Government might save breath and
time hy saving nothing more on that subject
II its object is to disrel from the South the
false hopes II entertained on that subject il
NAV reg, satisfied that the South has long ago
ceased to look for foreign intervention. and
has learned not 10 put its trusi in princes. Nor
ia this all The South. from its own experience
Of war. might be disposed not much TO cen
sire Grea. Britain for avoiding dire alterna-
tive which has already entailed upon her an
enormous national debt and national and indi-
vidual distress beyond computation. But it
has become painfully evident to rejecting men
in the South that the policy Of Great Britain
in this contest is impartial not so much in
friendship as in eumity: that 1t seeks with
equal regards the mutual destruction of North
aad South, and that il refuses 10 interfere in
this war simply because the war is the very
thing which che has been laboring to bring
ahout for the last thirty years. and because
peace in America is just what she does not
want till both parties are so worn out and
helpless as no longer to be an object Of alarm
10 each other or 70 the world. The long and
persistent efforts Of the British Government TO
inaame the two sections of the old Union
against each other through the influence Of
abolition, and the immediate disappearance of
that question from all prominence in England
or soon as ii had produced It's destined fruits
IN the division and civil war in America. are
too significant TO have escaped the observation
of CAIN and dispassionate spectators. The
only solution of English policy afforded by her
course during the present war is that she de.
sires equally the destruction of North and
South, so that she may make the world de
pendent upon the cotton production of India
for its supplies No other theory has been
suggested which at all explains and harmon
ICES the whole policy of Great Britain in peace
snd war. towards the American States
The supreme malevolence of such counsel
is no argument against their existence, for n,-
items know no conscience, no principles, no
humanity, no law or any klnd nut their own
interests. AT this moment the British Gov
ernment behoids. unmoved. the terrible dis
tress among its own manufacturers; and if
can permit its own people to suffer thus. for
the purpose Of working ont the ultimate indie
rendenee of Great Britain in the production
Of cotton, we cannot wonder that size is su
prenely indifferent To the distress of stran-
gers. These remarks apply exclusively to the
Government, and not to the people, who, in
general, sympathize with the Southern cause,
and, if their voice could be heard would recog-
nize the South tomorrow. With or without
recognition, however, our independence is
equally certain, and we shall have no favors
TO acknowledge. no friends to reward. no in
terests but our own to make supreme