The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-06-05

s0y w." P0issss III IL ono 0Ay ailer IL has
ceased to be profitable. The war Of the Rev
oution, 1t 10 true. lasted seven years, but Il a.
was war led by Southern chisftain and
supported by Southern arms The last war
with England was Of brief duration, but, brief
, as it was, the Yankees illuminated their houses
and hred their cannon In frantic enthuaiasm
when peace was declared, although the war
left the questions ut issue between the two
nations just where it found them. And if they
could now have peace with the South on any
terms, the great mass Of the nation would be
electrified with delight, and throw up their
hats good deal higher than they did at the
end of the war of 1871.
We do not predict that this will be q sho, (
war; We see no signs of its termination 60
long as tho demsGogues and spectators con.
troll the Yankee Government. But we simply
desire the Yankees to understand that when
they talk in a magnificent way of waging this
war for fifty years, and when an unguarded
admission falls from some individual in the
South that such may be their honest purpose,
ninety nine out of every hundred of our peo.
pie regard with equal incredulity and con-
tempt their idle varorings, and are making up
their minds to accept, with fortitude and re-
signation, war az their natural condition for
the remainder Of their eartiIy existence Ii
the Yankees are willing to fight fifty years to
suh]ugate the Sonth, the South is more than
willing to fight bundled rather than be sub
jusated. The war has now lasted more than
two years, and we are beginning to be accus-
toned to it Habit, which is a second nature
Is recOnciling us to n condition which we now
perceive was inevitable, and could not have
been avoided without the deepest degradation.
The war has hardened our nerves and sinews;
it has discover ed to US our strength it has de-
veioPed our Industry it has delivered us from
the loathsorae and corruDting embrsce of a
dsmosalizsi people, and from the NEST vulgar
aud deiesls BILE despotism thai ever diFgFaced tie
earth. There was time at tie beginning of the
contest when thsr5 ~sas not powder enough
III virginia 70 fight ono great battle, nor per
euss'on caps enough 10 supply single resi-
msnt, nor any other arms or munitions Of
war Of either tho quantity or quality demand
eli by the crisis. If the Yankees had rushed
upon us then, we should have been almost at
ileir mercy; but III that Providence which
then restrained ihsm, and has ever since con.
founded their devices, we see tie sure guar.
ah;ee Of our iiDaI triumph. We have HOW
more than arms enough for our wants, and the
enemy is farther now than he y e q year ago
from the coTeted prize Of biz ambition anu
yin-ictivensss. We have, therefore, 10 fears
Of any fankee proi. 'ngation Of the war. The
longer it continues th,a stronger We shall grow
and the poorer will the enemy become. Nor
will it always be & war of invasion on his
part, and Of defence on ours. No wonder
that he should be reconcled to a long war at
other peoples doors! 1t requires no super
human valor and eaolntion to attain to that
state Of mind. Let us see how long he will
want the war to last when all the horrors that
the South has witnessed are transferred to
Northern soils