The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-17

Lord Falmef9ton on the War.
~, the House ef Commons, on the 2sth July, i,
sspiy b a question by Mr.. Lindsay, Lord Palmer
stoh il reported ss saying
II can assurr my hsnosshe aiend that her Ma
jassy's Government deeply lament the great sacri
iso-s that war has produced IN this country. I'm
". have not thought that, in the pseseat stat.,o
things, there Was any advantage 10 be- gained bs en-
tos.ng into concert with any other Power for III,
negotiating with the Government Of. the United
SSte. or OF the Confederate States to bring about
termination VI this unhappy war;
The Gr-, sentence of this paragraph Is a false
hoAi-ahypoa,tea, felsel,ood- most shameless ana
slaost TRANSPARENT, falschood Her Majesty's Gov
ernmcnt," tha; is to say. Lord Pslmerton himself,
aIhl his colleague Lord Russell, do not lament the
great sacrifice OF life and property in America"
On the contrary, it Is 10 them the most pleasing
event that could possibly They in it the
contamination of policy conceived by the Govern
ment Of Great BnSsin within one year after the
ussty Of l7s3, by which the independence OF the
Thirteen Colonies was recognized, and pursued with
reo,seiess pertinacity throughout the whole inter-
seaing space OF time until its contamination in
lsco. The statesmen Of Great Britain coald not but
fseseo. even at that early period, that If the Union
vi the States continued uninterrupted for a GEN.
tnry, Great Britain must lose, to be regained
her prestige as mistress of the They foresaw
that the United States must be the ruling power
npon that fayorite element-that element from
whose bosom had sprung 50 much oil that
wealth, and that greatness, which at that time
the envy md the admiration OF the world. They
iore-aw that her manufactures would be driven out
OF all the markets of the world that her commerce
wond decline as her manufactures gave way, and
that her colonies would lie ut the mercy of the gi
gantic power which they saw rising in the Western
hemisphere. 1t was with them, as it has been with
their SUCCESSORS from that time to this an OBJ
Ject OF the greatest importance 10 effect the dsin-
tegration of this mighty empire, which, if al
lowed to expand to its legitimate proportions, must
end by oyershadowing the world From the mo-
mcnt Of our separation the intrigues of British
agents in Canada We're incessant; and during the
war Of 1872 they very nearly succeeded in de-
tsehinS the New England States from the Union.
Indeed, all Yankeedom, with a very few honorable
exceptions was at that time nest Of traitors The
war bore hard on their interests, which We're largely
involved in the trade with Great Britain and ber
colonies. and no Yankees were ever known to hesi /
tate between treason to their country and treason
TO their interests We escaped that trial but there
was another in reserve for us, which Great Britain
Knew well how TO aggravate, and which she did ar-
gravate until it became altogether intolerable We
ande, Of course TO the slavery question: which her
cmissaiies have been the most forward to agitate
and which they prompted the Yankee Abolitions,s
to agitate until they succeeded.
Yet, the mere dissolution of the Union was bnt !
half the battle peaceful separation would have
len TWO great peoples On this continent the one os
them the rival Of Great Britain in manufactures |
ana commerce. and the other her superior in all the
productions Of the soil that constitute the raw ma
leHai- III the separation should be peaceful the |
danger to Great Britain was still the same The ,
ankees would still drive her manufactures OUT of
[hs Market and the Confedcrates would still sur
pass india anu all the colonies in the production of
hs IA" material England's object was four-iod | /
sh' Desired % continue to he the first manufactur
hs power al the world; she desired to nonopolise
lie carrying trade Of both hemispheres she desired
Dc, as she had heen mistress OF the seas: and |
ne desired to become Independent of other nations
af nor supply OF cotton. None of these objects
oi'a DC eiiected by peaceful separation war :
long and bloody war-a war as destructive of ,,,o
srty as possible--a war exhaustive OF both n,,
es' that ut the end Of 1t neither of them could give
ny disturbance to her i'll any project of smbtiau
I interest which she might thereafter entertain
Is What she most earnestly desired. She has her !
ish now; but should the war terminate a, II. |
resent point, her object would be but half accom-, |
istied We are both 1--WE and the Yasleesl ,sax,.r-
Il al thus time-ether Of us aide TO beat o,.., |
ntain On land, and, therefore, 10 defeat any
heines she may entertain against any norton of
~ continent Blood has flowed like water. hnt
'oasn OF 1t has not yet been shed to satisfy har
suinuy apPeute- She has already four-fifths of |
c carrying trade, but she wants il all Her ,no, /
anls, shp-owners and manufacturers arr, all mob
e'iossai fortunes, and would depiore the ternna
~ "a the war as the greatest of all possible "a -
Ae eo''oh Operatives are starving but |
aseu 70 H. and nobody listens to | u
Lei the war 60 on. 1t is making us
' :" 'ne cry oi ali classes in England ex Sill
u The Operatives before mentioned "Let ,ha
go on until this aeeursed negro slavery he ova,.
own ana abolished forever" Such is The o,. ,n
ia Russell IN the Hause Of Lords. And wbsn
10 falmerston tells US that he deeply laman,s
whlen as securing the naval asoendancv Of bl
eat Britain giving her the Carrying trade of ths
rids and literally drownins her in a golden deh,ca
SIMPLY do not believe one word he saws Nor .
= any one else, eSen in the House of Commons G,
leve H. He could easily have prevented il in H
! ne had wished. His humanity is all affeeta-
!. He could hear Tomorrow that the whole
Qlation of both the beilieerent sections had haan
sriy extermlhated without one feeling of regret |
me pans Of relnorse. Why should the British
'sFnment depiore what they have been trying to On
ct for the last eighty years! a