The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-12-14
lord wharncliiie lately wrote to Minis

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lord wharnclife lately wrote to Minis |
ter Adams, requesting, on behalf oil the
Confederate Bazaar. Of Liverpool, for per-
miss on ia srply fi7, COO, which had been
collected for that purpose. so the relief Of
tte i'oafeasrste prisoners now in the
hand, Of the Yankees The object was,
no doubt, to buy them blankets and warm
clothes, to keep off some Of the rigors Of
she, approaching winter, which promises
IN he . VciV hard one Adams wroie 10
Seward COR instructions, and he received
them. They are eminently brutal, and
therefore eminenily Characteristic Of the
author. Had they been otherwise, people
might have been led to doubt the pater-
nifty. But there can be no doubt now.
There is but one man living whose heart
would have allowed him TO write such a
letter as Stewards in reply to Adams.
Even Xankeedom itself could not furnish
another although, with regard 20 that
race, 1t 70 perfectly allowable to parody
the witty speech Of Lady Mary Woriley
Montague about the Nays, and say,
and Yankees" But for the sufferings
which the unfortunate Confederate pri-
soners must undergo in consequence Of
the reiecsiUn Of this ofiering-for all the
world. and none better than Seward,
knows the wretched condition TO which
they are condemned by the cruelty of
their gaolers-we should rejoice that this
letter was written. 1t places Seward in
his true light The picture, drawn by
his own hand, is inimitsble. "Scratch
Russian" said Bonaparte, "and you will
find Tartar" Scratch Yankee, and
the paint falls off You then have be-
fore YOU the genuine, unsophisticated sa-
wage.
Seward instructs Adams to tell Lord
Wharncl:fe that his proposition to dis
tribute seventeen thousand pounds OF
British gold among the insurgentsis dis
allowed. The older portion Of our read
ers recollscts from what culver Seward
plucked that arrow and Seward himself,
no doubt, recollects how efficient it was
in former times. In the war of Jack son
upon Nick Biddle and the Bank, the lat
ter were charged with bribing every body
and every thing, and it was all done with
British gold" Seward, always de-
magogue, thinks the old device will help
him at this pinch with his people, and he
cannot resist the temptation of thrusting
it into a diplomatic note. This letter will
be published, Seward says, and then
" the American people" chat is, the
Yankees will be likely to reflect that
the sum thus insidiously rendered in the
name Of humanity constitutes no large
portion OF the profits which its contribu-
Tors may be justly supposed to have de-
rived from the insurgents by exchanging
with them arms and the munitions of war
for the coveted products of immoral and
enervating slave labor There it is. The
virtuOus Yankee nation, we suppose,
never coveted any of these products.
There is no such place as Lowell, and
there are no cotton factories any where in
Ysnkeedom The Southern people are,
of course, very eneI yate, helpless peo-
pie They have not set all ankeedom
at defiance for the last four years They
have net compelled Lincoln TO call out
100000 men They have not beaten
the YANKEES in every battle in Nhich
there was anything approaching an
equality of numbers They have not
made them resort to every nation in En
rope for recruits They have not com
PEELED them to enlist 200,0 900 negroes I
Lincoln did not say that but for these
negroes the United States could not
have sustained the war; They have not
driven the mercantile fleets of Yankee
dom from the ocean, and compelled Yam
kee merchants all to ship in neutral
bottoms Assuredly, a people who
could DO all this have not been eneryated
by slavery or anything else. And Sew
ard says slavery is enervatihg. 1t fol-
lows, therefore, that they did not do all
these things Perhaps they were con
qnered in sixty days, as Seward said
they would be.
Seward endeavors to throw the whole
odium of Sheridan's and Sherman's wan
ton rayages upon ths subjects Of Great
Britain. He says: Nor will any por-
ton of the American people" (meaning
still the Yankees) "be disposed to re-
gard the sum thus ostentatiousiy offered
for the relief Of the captured insurgents
as a too generous equivalent for the de-
vastation and desolation which a civil
war, promoted and pr0tracted By British
subjects, has spread throughout the States,
which before were eminently prosperous
and happy" There is some truth in
this. British subjects-nay, we are dis
posed to think the British Government
did trst conceive the idea of dissolving
the Union, and they worked at it per
sistently for seventy years. In this
pious enterprise, Mr.. Seward himself
was one of their most efficient co-labor-
ers II hardly becomes him, therefore,
a. this late day, to cast it into their teeth
so palpably as be does in the sentence
above What will George Thompson, of
the Tower Hamlets, and his co-laborers
i'm Eyefer Hall cay IN fhis1 Ruf Mr.