The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-16
THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH l6, 1865

The London Times lifts up its hands
in affected horror, and auazement, at
me spectacle exhibited by this continent
to the civilized world. While it asserts
that the world never beheld such fight
ing, and for the like must imagine
two or three of Napoleon's blood
lest campaigns, all fought together in
one country "by the hostile factions Of
one people" and with all the fresh aids
and appliances which act has since con-
tributed to the service Of war, it affects
to deplore the melancholy fact" that
the British have contributed almost eve
.rything necessary to the spectacle. eve
have supplied from our own race, both
.combatants, at least nine out of ten of
them. We have supplied the bone of
contention, both the original slavery,
and the more modern cry against it.. We
have furnished arms, powder, nay the
vary percussion caps and the medicine
ch .sts, the clothing and good deal Of
the shipping and of all the other materi-
ais required" All this was done, too,
for the love Of gain, the Times might
have added, mems lives, nay, their im>
mortal ouls being as nothingwhen the sac
rifce Of <.ither or both may lead the way TO
wealth. We therefore take the jsyen.iad
Of the Times exactly for what it is worth,
and that is the paper on which it is
written, not being prone to believe that
it is in English human nature, really to
r, yret any calamity to the rest of the
'orld, which may swell the prosperity of
r ;itaan III, ,HttH Il ths Tines III snd score of % hu>
N anity, it could easily have pointed out a
u of avoiding all these horrors in the
C announcement of the struggle At that
Ii the before the yankee nation had felt
ii oan power, the British ministry
IT light have put an end to it by word.
I he inference is that was an agreeable as
ell as profitable spectacle to the pretend
ed neutral party, and that the lamenta-
tons which we so often hear from the
mini sterial benches, are neither more nor
less than sheer hypocrisy.
But there is one aspect of the case
which seems to affect the nerves of the
Times. 1t is that this war, al
ready so gigantic in its proper.
ton, must spread. 1t is the nature
-of war to be ever extending it's in
tuences, and embracing new countries
N its circuit. 1t is like the ringlets that
s. 'ow out of throwing stone into pla-
cid. lake; it is like a tornado, that begin
nj ng from small point, embraces entire
di: rtricts in its whirl; it is like fire kin
diet In the middle of vast prarie. No
man can tell whittier it will 20, what
country it will reduce to ruin, how it
may be extinguished or where it NAV
end. A dispute about a few chests of
tea, in an insignificant fishing town in
Massachusetts, grew into war which
involved England, France, Spain, Holland
and America. Factious quarrels in the
streets Of Paris gave rise to the wars OF
the French Revolution, which extended
all around the globe, and involved near
ly every nation upon its surface. Com
pllcations may arise, which even the cal
ious homer of Lord Russell cannot sub
NIT to disentangle by submitting to
insult. This is the craven thought that
now reigns uppermost in the imagina-
aons of that people, once so renowned
ior their belligerent propensities, that
they would permit none Of their neigh
bors to settle their own domestic affairs,
without interfering to direct them. Prob
ably policy Of submission to all man.
ner OF humiliation may secure them
peace, for honor seems to be out Of the
question.
And yet it will hardly preserve
70 Britain the boastsd trident Of
'A' xas, Or secure. Der Indian