The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-24

"""uiactures, moreover, began to in
prove; her western forests were cleare
up with unexampled rapidity, and b,
population increased at rate unexau
pled IN the history of nations. If Enl
land stood idly by, tn time was, cv
IDENTIFY, not distant when her tram
Atlantic rival would overtop her ow
gigantic proportions, and drive her froz
the arena of commercial and man,,fac
turing enterprise, and despite her po,ye
and influence among the nations. Itwa
useless for her to attempt to get rid O
this competition by war. Her experi
ments in that way had been too costl,
and fruitless to warrant their repetition
She, therefore, looked with eager eye:
for some vulnerable point in the armo,
of the young giant, and thought sh,
found it in the slavery institutions of the
Southern States.
She had planted slavery here herself
She had poured in slaves upon us con
trary to our earnest remonstrances she
had been the great slave trader of the
world; but what mattered that? AT
once she made the discovery that slavery
was the greatest of human denominations.
Her public sentiment unde derwent at once
a transformation little short of miracu.
lous. All her organs of public opinion
sounded the same emancipation note
The pulpit, the press, the bar, the litera-
turc of England, became thoroughly
saturated with the new philanthropy.
The leaders of society gave the cold
shoulder to shareholders as the most exc
cradle and wicked of mankind. All these
influences were brought to bear upon the
non- slaveholding communities of the Uni
ted States. Emissaries, with their pockets
lined with English gold, came to Ame-
rica to stimulate what was then feeble
anti-slavery sentiment in the North: to
encourage the organization of Abolition
societies; to circulate Abolition tracts
to infiame the Northern public mind
against the institutions and principles of
the South. For nearly thirty years
England has been pushing on with her
whole moral power, and, no doubt. such
aid as she could furtivelv rem
der. crusade which could have no
other possible end than the disunion Of
the American States. The wedge was at
asst driven home, the once stately tree
,oppled to its foundation, the flames of
var lighted a once peaceful land. and
hen, for the first time in thirty years,
he conscience of England ceased to be
xercised upon the subject of Slavery
since the war began, we have heard very !
title from England of that iniouity.-
ince the war began, she has discovered
hat something can be said on both sides
that question; that shareholders are
OF unmitigated monsters, but, on the
ontrary, are very chivalric and Chris
an gentlemen, who had been grossly
lisrepresented and misunderstood,
These newly~acqdired lights of intel
sencc do not, however, prevail upon
cr to afford us anything more than the
5ht of her amiable countenancc. She
not disposed to demonstrate her new.
'rn sympathies by any practical works.
ne is careful to inform us by every mail
Iat reaches this continent that she
cans to take sides with neither belli-
rent She furnishes arms to both par
IS with indiscriminate impartiality,
ID hopes they will have a fair fight. It {
possible she dcplores our defeats. but {
rely not on our account. She would j
joice to see our blood flowing for half '
injury, or any other long period of /
nc, so it did not exhaust our veins, till
c North was equally exhausted. She t
IFS that we may fall, because she ap- v
ehends that, in that event, she may be h
lied upon to pay the arrears of long a
count, and that both parties may find :
new bond of union in vengeance for {
mmon wrongs. \
In any event of this war, it is impos-
lie that England should derive perma.
Mt advantage from the success, thus
, of her schemes. Her policy is as