The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-05-23

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rarp Rsssell and me Cssss desacy.
n 4 recent debate on the American ques
sioa IN The House Of Lords, Earl Ruseel
took occasion, and very gratuitously. to ex
press the hope that the war now raging her
would snd il the abolition OF slavesy.
was not Ne arst time that the Minister To-
Foreign Affairs In the British Cabinet Mus
trated ~ dstsssain<d ae.tra,ity In the s'f"s
Gle on this continent, by altering h's a'''
slavery sentiments In connection VT" 'a'
Discussion OF that subject. In what """.',
Il the abolition wish OF this disiatefeS'e0
aud philanthropic Minister TO be aacomp
lisheds Il would DO An interesting inquiry
for come OF the opposition members 10 pro
pound to the magnsnimons Earl He
could NO. expect Il to be achieved, save in
the over running and sutjagation OF the
Southern States and when he expressed
the ardent desire for the one, he inevitably
prsvs for the other. Ia what other way
could the hoped for event come abouts II
may be said that the war may so exhaust
both parties, that they may be content to
! hearken to the circumstances Of Foreign
nations, who, as umpire, might settle q
peace between them, by o separation Of the
South from the North, ON the condition OF
the abolition Of slavery. Does any man in
the North, or in the South, believe that
possiblep No, not one. Whenever the
question 10 propounded, it will be seen, at
once, how much sincerity there lie in the
Yankee protestatioas that they are fighting
to hberate the slaves. The philanthropic
professions Of the hypocritical North are
merely designed to enlist European sympa-
thies, and to conceal the rapacious and ma
liguant spirit which is at the bottom Of the
invasion; and the proposition to let us
alone, provided we will give up the slaves.
would be Indignantly repudiated by them
It IL needless to say that it would be as
promptly rejected by the South, which is
determined, as long as it has an arm to lift
mp to strike its assailant end to defend its
rights, That It aoiu submit to dictaf;on from 40
quarter and from no posoer on earth. Oar own
domestic concerns are to be settled by our
own laws, and public opinion within our
own boundaries. We shall never allow in
termeddling from beyond those boundaries,
and, least Of all, shall We hold parley with
snch hypocritical philanthropists as Earl
Russell.
This is quite enough to settle the matter,
30 far as We are concerned, against any pos
sibility Of accommodating Earl Russell by
means Of Intervention. Therefore, there is
no mode by which he could be gratifed save
by our utter suhjugation, and that is what
We believe he desires. His course en- every
subject, in which our interests are involved.
betraYs bis real sentiments, not to take into
consideration the occasional expression of
such wish as that alluded to in this article.
Very naturally his aversion to the South
drives him to the side Of her enemy, to
whom he has BUNDLED the British Lion on
several occasions, until his own countrymen
are diegusted with his want of spirit and
the disingenuousness with which he essays
to explain his trucking and timidity, when
ever he Is arraigned by Seward.
Independent of the right of the South to
manage her own affairs in her own way :;
her determination TO allow no dictatiou As
long as she has the power OF resistance, and
the closing OF the question OF abolition
completely on that ground, she is indicated
and justified on every other imaginable
ground: moral, civil, and SCOTLAND could
not on any of them permit any interference,
even though under the guise of friendship
The Power tor whom this philantLropic
Minister now manages the foreign relations,
established, through the co operation of the
Dutch and tie Yankees, the institution OF
slavery on this continent, and established it
against the earnest protestatious of the peo
pie Of the South. Aye, and they established
:. under the impulse of that worst of vices,
Avarice-the profits Of the trade to the
crown and to English traders and there
fore turned deaf ear to the circumstances
Of our ancestors. Being established, aud
becoming part of the social and political
order In these realms, its extirpation even if
desirable, is impossible, without such a con-
vulsion that could not and would no be sub.
United to. II there is anything wrong IN it,
however, let the blame rest On the British
Government, and on that most monstrously
hypocritical Of all nations, the Yankees
Neither the veal of the negro, nor of the
white race of the South, could in any wise
he promoted by the measure Of abolition.
No better illustration of this need be de-
sired than the fate of the British West Indies
The impossibility Of such q measure-of
changing the relation OF the blacks and the
whites while they remain in the same land,
and Of accomplishing the mighty undertak-
ing Of their transportation aud colonial
tion-is well understood here, and may be
appreciated By any impartial investigator.
Well may distinguished British statesman
say that it would take q thousand Great
Easterns to export them. Bat it would be
the cruelest deed to humanity that ever was
perpetrated, to place these blacks on a
strange coil to take care of Themselves
Witness the recent futile attempt of the
Yankees to send colony of Southern slaves
to Hayti. They were not enited for the as
sociaaion with Haytiene, who were, to those
asclsilized and Humankind blacks, intolerable
bArbarians. Disgusted and dispirited, they
retained. even TO the frigid ana iahoe-
pitable shores OF Massachusetts,, rather