The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-21

NUMBER 66.
since tAs revelation Of 1855. Ths int
rest on this debt is six Pr can't, whila
theistlEsst on The Engli1h DIT = e1ly
three per cent. It has ben coaipa66
that the interest O. tho debt x fho
United States, Together with the anount
nseessary to carry o. it, 0oy~nmaet
term were the war a& N andl Vou1d
not fan much short Of Jecs Asssdre4 ssil.
tssNs per annu1n 10 sum al6smo1 % b
Greater than the entire annual voA1h q
the Northeru' States. While = peD11A
in self-defence, may submit chea1hlly g
any" privations and suAssings-eo any
sacrifices Of treasure and Of blood
thfEs is limit beyond which . coun-
try wsgine war e saQgrsssiee 81
conquest win not go. We cannot stop
this war without. degradation, ruin, dis
honor. Our enemies can have peace at
any time by abandoning their wicked at
tempt at our subjugstion, and Allowing
US to govern ourselves in accordance
with those great principles for which
their fathers and ours fought side by
side.
Considered, therefore, in every point
of view, it is impossible to believe that
the people Of the Confederate States viii
ever incur subjugation, or accept sub
mission as the result Of the great strug-
gle in which we are engaged. Neither
is it possible to believe that these States,
compelled by long years Of unjust and
unconstitutional action towards them BY
the Northern States to withdraw from
political union with them, can ever be
tempted by any promises, or so-called
guarantees" to again unite themselves
with them under . common government.
Forced into this revolution BY their faith
less disregard of the obligations Of the
constitutional compact, and by the sel'
fish and sectional legislation which they
fastened upon us, what, in the course Of
this war, has occurred to change our
opinion as to their character and pur-
poses? The barbarity and unrelenting
ferocity which has characterized their
conduct of it has excited tho indignant
wonder of the world. Falsehood, dupli.
city and mean cunning marked their
course in its inauguration@And, in its
progress, every artifice of low diplomacy
and persistent Misrepresentation has been
resorted to by them to lessen us in tho
estimation of mankind. Our struggle for
the right Of selfgovernment-which thy
themselves have always declared to be in-
alienable-has been held up to the world
as contest for the maintenance Of Afri-
can slavery-a purely State institution,
ov; which neither the Confederate States
Government nor the United States Co.
vernment has any constitutional control.
To prevent foreign nations from accord.
ing to us that recognition to which We
were entitled by public law, and even
the very language of existing treaties-
a recognition Which they have them
selves accorded to other countries on far
more slender grounds-they have delibe-
rately falsitied accounts Of military ope:
rations and our capacity and resources
for continuing the contest A war which
has been carried on for four years with
ever varying fortunes, their Minister Of
Stst6 has again and again assured foreign
Powers could not possibly be waged BY
us for more than no or three months. :
And, after all their insolent boasts Of
their power to crush US, they have been
compelled to resort to foreign enlist.
ments and the arming Of our captured
slaves in order to fill up the ranks of
their armies. In spite Of these prac-
tices-winked at, if not countenanced.
by European Powers-thsy have practi.
cally confessed their inability to van
quish us in regular warfare by the in.
human policy Of destroying tho dwell
ings, the food and the agricultural i'm
plements OF our nor .,ombatsut popula-
ton; thus endeavoring, by the starva-
ton of their wives and children, to break
the indom liable spirit Of our soldiers.
In the invasion of our soil neither pri-
vate property. nor age, nor sex, hiss btea
spared from the raracity and brutal pas
sions of their mercenary legions.
Wherever they have passed over tho
surface of our fair land, the b)ackness Of
desolation has marked their path and
such barbarous devastation has been
their devilish boast Public records have
been Observation-Disclosures Of Learning
public and private ibraries-pillaged
or burnt, and the temples Of God sacsi-
legiously de6led.
Fellow. .countrymen, will you, can you,
ever submit to be ruled by such Feo-
Pile? Can you ever join hands With them
in fraternal union : Can you, with all
these things freshly before you,-daily
occurring on your native soil-ever re-
turn to . political union With these de-
spoilers Of your homes these violstosa
kof your wives and daughters Never
A dark crimson Stream divides you,