The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-01-04

The Washington Chronicle, commenting
upon the reecue Of the Confederate officers
of the Chesapeake by the cisiscns of Halifax,
graciously consents not to make the British
Government responsible for the conduct Of
the Halifax crowd unless IL shows remissness
10 following up the matter, which, II al
Hounccs, will be a cause Of graye offence IL
the United States.
UnforiuSatc John Bal! His temporizipg
policy has SO thoroughly convinced Yankee
Doodle that he hives IN constant terror OF the
wrath Of that puissant animal, that, upon
every occafson, no matter how trilliDg, the
Yankee lash Is fourished above HIS head and
Sracxcd about his ears, until he becomes as
Vccile as lamb. To what pitch OF h,-
initiation has Lord John Russell and bis
clique brought proud cid England. II Is
enough to make the blood of every honest
Briton boil in his veins to be thus perpetu
ally builicd by 3 braggart nation, whom the
slightest show Of resentment would drive
upon its knees In an agony of terror. The
Trent affsir showed clearly enough that the
United States could not be kicked into a
fight With Great Britain, and, if that were
not enough, Lincoln has over AMI
over again indicated his determination
t. submit to anything rather than have
foreign war on his hands till he has settled
the present rebellion" Nothing, abso-
luscly nothing, would be hazarded by Eng
laud by the resolute assertion of her nation
al dignity; and yet she, the proudest and the
most powerful empire of the garth, permits
herself to be dragooned by the pitiful and
contemptible Cabinet at Washington, to
follow the beck and call OF W. H. Seward, to be
snubbed upon any and every exhibition she
makes Of the slightest disposition to MAIN
tain her rights and honor. She must now
t1rn herself into policeman to chase Con-
lederate officers from the shores OF her pro-
vinces, and deliver them over to Yankee dun
geons and an ignominious death. What
downfall from the time when the very touch
Of British soil emancipated the captive, and
converted even ''chattel into man -
should she continue this course of submis-
eion to Yankee dictation, that people will
become insufferable in their arrogance
Henceforth there will be no bounds to their
presumption. If they ever put down this
little rebellion, they will prepare to bolt
Canada at mouthful. All the cringipg and
trucking of the war, instead of preventing
that consummation, win only render it more
certain. The U. g. have learned from Lord
John Russell to hold the power of England
inprofound contempt, andthey will make the
uttempt to drive her from every foothold
she has on this continent if they succeed in
eubjugating the Confederate States. IT will
be seen, in that event, that the most short
sighted and injurious policy that England
ever pursued was that of attempting to pro-
pitiate these Yankees. MOI that VIC believe
che will be deprived Of her American pos
sessions Not that we expect the United
States to como out victorious from third
war with England. Blu, it will be costly
and bloody struggle, aud one which might
have been wholly avoided by boldness and
decision In her policy now. Nevertheless,
we of tho Confederacy, if destined to fall,
can look upon such a contest with no APP
prehension of the ultimate result to Eug-
land. She has encountered the whole world
IN arms before to-day, and she can do it
again. She Is richer and stronger than she
ever was at any former period Of her his
tory, and though 'slow of entrance ID a
quarrel" being in, she will SO bear herself
that neither the United States nor any other
Government will desire to provoke renewal
Of her wrath. When the pcntup passions
now boiling in the British heart are Lei loose
upont the u nited States the coneeit will be
30 effectually taken out of that race of pea
cocks that they Will not disturb the peace of
mankind for the next century.