The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-09-26

EoA0PEAe AffGfoS.
The Qasstien Of tie Confederate RAVES
approximations IF War 1iM the
United States.
The United States agents in Europe
have certainly not been inactive through
the Exeter Hall press Of England and
the papers It Paris. We give below
some extracts from the leading free soil
journals Of England, which show the re-
suit Of Yankee secret agents among
them:
From the London Star, sepGs1
So then We are to have war with the
United States Earl Russell's letter to The
Emancipation Society, in which he parades
the imbecility Of the Government of which
he is member to stop private persons from
fitting out expeditions against . friendly
Power, has every chance Of becoming HE
torical. History will tell that at the time Of
the great revolt Of the alavehOlders in Ame-
tca, the deetinies Of Great Britain were In
the hands Of men who acted the part Of
quibbling attorneys, and allowed their coun-
Try TO drift INTO terrible war. The Foreign
oi the communication made to him by the
Emanci patton Society; he admits that both
the Ir. .asury and Home Departments have
made the most anxious Inquiries upon the
subject OF the sfeam-rams hut in place of
Informing the society and the public that
dne measures will be taken TO prevent these
ships falling into the hands of the Confede.
rates, ne makes parade of legal technical
difficulties which do not really exist. and
which, ii they did exist, the hand of wise
and firm ruler would brnsh aside with inf
mite ease.
We do not disguise our anxiety in recard
to the position Of affairs for If these rams
are permitted to leave our shores we know
not how soon afterward the American Am
DaSsadOr may demand his passports. A war
with America would be an unmeasurablc ca
iamity. There are braggarts among US who
talk OF sweeping their navy from the sea,
raising the blockade of the Southern ports,
and doing all manner Of evil to the cities on
the Atlantic coast. Admitting that we could
accomplish all this, it would be an injury
upon ourselves. We might raise the block
ade OF the Southern ports and obtain a lin
tied supply of cotton bales but our popula-
fion do not eat cotton, and q necessary re-
suit of the war would be a cessation of the
supply of corn from the North. Last year
we imported from the Northern States more
than five millions Of quarters Of wheat and
other grain, and more than million Of quar-
tiers of wheaton flour, that is to say, come
fourteen millions worth of food. We re-
ceived corn from no other country in any
thing like the same quantities. We're the
imports from America to be stopped we
should look, for the sudden supply of our
necessitie TO any other qualter Of the world
as much in vain as we have done for suffi-
cheney Of cotton.
We have been able to tide over the one
difficulty because we were at peace, and had
abundance Of food but q starving popula-
ton could not wait until Corn Supply As
sociatiOn had spent years in stimulating the
growth Of grain in Russia or Wallachia. Not
only would the supply Of corn fail, but the
whole export trade wOnld be literally at
standstill. The game Of supplying priva-
teers ia one at which two nations can play,
and We do not know any national character
istic OF the Americans which would lend US
to infer that they wOnld be far behind in the
race Of destruction.
(From the London Army aud Navy axzette, Sept 5l
We are glad to find that our cotemporaries,
who exmited some time ago in the triumphs
OF the Florida and Alabama, and took much
comfort in the law Of the Chief Baron Of the
EXchequer, are little startled by the legiti-
mate result Of their doctrines, and begin to
doubt the reasOnableness of our expecting
the Federal Government to be content with
our neutral trade of building steam rams for
the Confederates We have ever held that
such precedent was about one Of the very
worst that could be established for Great
Britain, that it could be made an engine of
Incalculable mischief in case OF war with the
United States or with France. II 1t ever can
be lawful for the subjects Of 4 neutral nation
TO tit out, equip, and man vessel OF war for
a bellgerent with which the Government Of
the neutral has no relation whatever, which
it only recognizes in exercising belligerent
rights; TO arm it on their own coast, and
then to send it to sea to prey on the com
merce Of country with the Government Of
which their country is not only at peace but
bound by close treaty and engaged in dipio-
matte relations hOisting O flag on board
which the ship has never had an opportunity
Of acquiring by moments domicil in the
waters Of the power for which II ID warring-
If ever thess be legal acts, the supremacy of
again.
If such be our law now, it ought to be
changed, not in Fede, al interest, but in our
own. 1t is no suffi :ient answer to the natli-
raj objections made by the aggrieved bellige-
rent, that the law Of their own country and
their past practice justify the act. II Ireland
was in a state of rebellion. and was so close
y utochaueo thai not ehiP Couiu enter ueT
ports, what would our Government do In
case the citizen shipbuilders OF NJ York sent
out steam fiigafes with the harp and green
flag flying, and commenced burning British
ships, under the pretence that they were Irish
men Of war, and argued that such proceedings
were quite Justified by law and precedent?
We fancy the Government Of the United
States would hear something ON the subject
OF very decided character.
From the Liverpool Post, selt5
The inexcusablc crime of destroying pri
vate property af sea has at length been uni
versally condemned. Even the Times Is IT,
outlying its opinions, in the form of s.natural
progression" toward final condemnation Of
ran bulldog and ram practice. Already it
has arrived. At the opinion that both are mo-
rally wrong, and 1t is not without hope that
the law will step in and put an end to prac-
tice SO abOininable. The moral condemna-
ton will probably suffice. At all events Mr..
John Laird is too honorable q man, feels too
responsible to public opinion, to persist in
doing anything that honorable and honest
men would lisapprove Of
The representatives Of the Confederate
cause In this country must now see that per-
sistence in Alabama doings will operate
against their interests. When affection be-
comes doubtful there il danger in outraging
feeling, and the public feeling now admits be-
ing outraged by the wauton aud canseiess de-
structiOn Of private property. The pax006
Of sowing diseord between Eelederais viii
Federals win fsil dogs Il they do not
that EReAfsoffh eli their strength and bring the
Uar 10 close before France and steam rams
are subsidized by tho Centederafes.
From the Paris Journa, Dss Dssatr, sspt 81
The Confederate corsair, named the Flo.
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