The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-07

TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY !, 1865.
In yesterdays Dispatch we published
the late legislation of the Yankee Con-
gress abolishing slavery, and the scenes
attending its adoption. The proposition
which that body has passed is for the
incorporation into the Constitution Of ar
amendment ordaining that "neither sla-
very nor involuntary seryitude, except
as punishment for crime, whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or
any place subject to their jurisdiction"
In order to be incorporated in the Con-
stitution, the amendment must be rati-
fed by a majority in each House of the
Legislatures of three>fourths of the
thirty six States belonging to the Union,
Of which (the Yankees having twenty
eight States there can be no doubt.
If We had ever doubted that this was
one Of their Revolutions, not designed to
60 backward, if we had ever harbored a
suspicion that reconstruction of the old
Union was within the limits of posi-
bility, or that bene6cent Heaven had
led US forth from the land Of Egypt only
to return to the dominion of Pharoah.
the crowning consummation of the Aboli-
ton triumph has set at rest forever this
idle and unworthy thought. The hand
Of Heaven has written on the wall the
eternal separation of the United States,
and no Confederate man will longer even
desire to join together that which God
hath put asunder.
From the bottom Of our heart we;
thank the Federal Congress for this most
timely and decisive legislation. We as
sure them that it did not come a moment
too soon that it is not in any way too
stringent or too sweeping. We look
upon it as the manifest hand of Heaven
interposed in the very way, and at the
very hour, that our condition required.
1t is greater boon to US than grand
victory In the field. We echo back the
shouts of delight that rang through tho
House Of Representatives. We should
like to see gun for gun fred with their
frantic population in honor of the event,
only that we wish to save our gunpowder
and give them shotted salutes on the
battlefield. Do these Chinese summer
set-turners and tom-tom- -beaters ever.re-
fleet that the Confederate people have
never vet fred salute in honor of any
of the magnificent victories we have
gained these four years? Do they see
the difference between men and chill
dren? If we do not now ring all our
bells, fire all our cannon, sing 7e Deum
| in all our churches, it is not because
there is no music, joy and gratitude in
our hearts: Just the right thing, aud
just the right tipe.
81 thank thee, Roderiek, for the word,
1t nerves my heaxt, it steels my sword"
1t was but few days ago that the
military organ Of the United States con-
ceded that the Southern Confederacy
could not be subjugated by simple force
that it was upon the overthrow of it:
"wlLL," Of it's "HoRAL STRENGTH" thai
the United States relied for its conquest
If ever there was . time when it
twill" was weakened, or its "noRAl
STRENGTH" decayed,- thanks to tha
Abolition Congress-thanks. to Lincolr
and Stewards reply to our commission
ers-it stands now upon Q Gibraltar
Henceforth the most sordid spirit in tn
whole Confederacy will not dream of re
construction the veriest poltroon viii
be brave. The dream q, re-unite'
country will vanish even from louah
asylums, and every eye will see in tn
fsce from which the Federal mask ha
been dropped by itself the undisguise'
features Of the Thug and the Deyil.-
They win have our property, our lands
1oor livsA Win thsyi Let them COM