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The Briti h I mancipation V t, pass ii |
,„ )• t providvd i-i the liberation ol
' about i ..'.l.f bundri 'I thou mid slaves in
! live year: Ironi the |• i igi '»( the act
: The f-uin appropriated for tin- compent .
lion ..I iiu- proprietors was twenty mil
' j,,.!,- of [loundi h i ling, oi n t ball the
: value oi the slav, and in man) in
t:tii-a • not 'i thud Eroin the date ul
: that act the agricultural produce of tin.
! island gradually disappeared, until it
he, aim a wildi rue: - in i ompaii: r,n with
I its former fertility. The plantei nevei
'- received anything! hul the interest «.t the
| twenh millions; and their once garden
! likee tat.-, have returned, like tbe ne
'[ ~,„- ( to the freedom "I nature
i The i laud "i St. Uomingo, before tlie |
emancipation of the negroes, produced
seven hundred millions pounds ol sugar,
being more than all the rest ol the worl i
put together Aftei emancipation, it
was compelled to imj t that article.— j
Let us hear .Napoleon -'Had any of |
your philosophic Liberals come out t" i
Egypt to proclaim liberty to the blacks
or the Araks, I would have hung him up
to the mast-head. In the West Indies,
similar enthusiasts have delivered over
tlio whites to the feroi ity of the blacks ; j
and \.-i they complain <■! the victims ol
such madness being discontented. How j
is a j„, - ihle to give libert) to Afrit an
when tin) are destitute ol any -p. .< !
~t civilization, and ignorant even of
v hat a colon) or mother country is. Do j
\«.u suppose that, had they keen aware ;
~l what they were doing, they would
have given liberty t<> the blacks? Cer
tainlv not . hut few persons at that time j
were sufficiently far-sighted to'foresee
the results; and feelings oi humanity
are ever powerful with excited imagina
tions. But now, alter the experience we
have had, to maintain the same princi
ples cannot be done in good faith , it can
be the result only ol overweening self
confidence or hypocrisy." \et the
United States, with all this experience
before its eyes, is frantic for the initne
diate abolition of slavery. It will not
even accord the five years of apprentice
ship permitted by the British Emancipa
tion Act, although it required live bun
died years to wear out tchiti slavery in
the British islands and render the
transition from servitude to liberty safe
and salutary. The African can 'be
clothed with the habits and desires of
a treeiiian by a simple act of immediate
and unconditional liberation!
In the palmy days of her African slave
trade, Gleet Britain transferred above
Mf«n hundred thousand negroes to this!
side of the Atlantic, which ia believed to J
be the most extraordinary example io-j
tbr history of mankind of so considera j
bh* a removal from one part of the world I
RICHMOND, VA.. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 81, 1864.
!to another. In 1807, having turned phi- |
lantbropist, she put 11 peremptory stop |
to the slaw trade; notwithstanding
which, the si-.ve tra.le became doubled j
in extent and quadrupled in horrors ' -
Whilst the agricultural produce of the
British West Indies rapidly declined,
th.-.- colonies of other nations which
still retained slave labor received an im
petus o! prosperity which is almost in
credible. Puerto lii", which twelve
years befon only exported rattle and
coffee and imported sugar, exported, in a
short period alter the passage of the
British Emancipation Act, more than a
sixth of tlie whole British consumption, j
Iho in. reuse of the sugar exportation
from Cuba and Brazil was equally marked j
and wonderful. This prodigious increase j
was the result ot the emancipation mad- J
ness of Great Britain, and was, of course, j
j only obtained by a vast increase in the |
; importation of the African race. j
'Itu whole history of mankind proves 1
that plavery is a necessary step in the j
progress of civilization. Without it.
avage man never has forked, and never
can be induced to work. Fur that reason
it could not be expected from Greece or
Koine, n-.i among our Saxon progeni
tors lor five hundred years'; for that rea
son ii still exists over the larger portion
ol the Globe. Whatever evils may be
attendant on servitude, they are unim
portant in comparison with the total
stoppage of the advance and prospects of j
th.' human race which would follow
universal abolition. If the L'nited States j
could succeed in the overthrow of the
Confederacy, und of slavery
within our limit-, we should have the
! stein consolation of knowing that it had J
totally and forever involved its own pros
peiity and power in the common ruin.
Scarcely a mail arrives frdtu Europe
: that does not bring a statement from
Lord Palmerston or Russell, or both, that
j_ n r.uul * ni* ii Is t.i [.reserve the mosl |
I iii-id neutrality between the Amcrieau
Brt.nl . and that, in theii opinion, \
! the time foi intervention has not yet ai ;
rived. The war has lasted now netuly
toui years, aud the same stereotyped
!mi ive is constantly crossing the At- j
lantic, until it seems to have become _, |
I 1,-ulai part of the invoicu of every |
': steamer, ll it should last four hundred
years, and the two old earls, who seem
jto have as many livi s it- a rat, could live
!so I-M:-, we should bave the same ines
~,,. f. the end of tlio chapter. The
time for intervention will only arrive
when America is destroyed, the Revolu
] tion of 'T'i avenged, and the only com
I mercial rival of Gie.it Britain swept
' from the face of the earth.
These two old gentlemen seem to be
j putting themselves to a great deal oi un
nci i- ii v trouble. At their tune of life,
the) would tv itei I'l.iplo, themselves in
settling theii own individual att-ursfur n
future state of existence, and givesublu
nary, and especially trans-Atlantic things,
the go-by. We are not so* hopclesslv
thick headed as not to comprehend _l_e
same statement when it is made a hun
dred tuiif. over. They need not behur
rying their gouty old legs to every steamei
and sending over their compliments j
"rigid neutrality, etc , but not yet time ;
to intervene." They are both very in-j
teresting persons , and that intelligence,
when thej first communicated it, was a
verainteresting piece of news; but we
vt nture to surest that the best tiling in
the world loses by infinite repetition.—
Their explication of the position of Great
Britain is well understood both here and
in the United States, us they themselves
also are.
If they expect tokeep the United States
in good humor by the eternally reiterated
declaration of their neutrality, they have
adopted a angular mode of effecting their
object, it is precisely the recognition of
the South as a belligerent which lias of
fended the United States past all atone
ment. The United States 10-.k upon the
Soyth as Great Britain does upon Ire
land pert and parcel of the empire
and here is England, exalting her rebel
lious province to the u.gnity of a bel
ligerent, and constantly declaring that
she will not take sides with either. —
It was lately urged in the United
States Senate, that, but for the re
cognition of the Confederacy as a bel
ligerent power, Semines and our other
cruisers would have been treated by the
whole world as pirates, and, consequently,
the commerce of the United States have
been safe from harm. The speaker
therefore proposed that a demand should
be made upon Great Biitain for all the
losses which Yankee comineice has sus
tained by Confederate cruisers. The fact
that, these cruisers arc principally British
built ami British-manned has led to a \
prevalent idea in the North that thryarc j
neither more nor less than British priva- j
teers, titled out frith the knowledge of
tlu- British Government to prey upon '
Yankee commerce. This is a very un- |
ihaiitable notion, we admit , but it none j
the less exists, and, should the cause oi
the Confederacy fail, England will be
called upon to make good all damages to
Yankee merchantmen in this war, and,
what is more, she will have to foot the
bill.
For, in the event of its success, the j
United States will be no longer the same j
nation thai it was when, in the palmy
days of that political eunuch, James I
Buchanan, English gunboats chased and
boarded our own .essels on our own
toast, and when .1 ihn Bull twisted the
nose and slapped the jaws of brother
Jonathan as suited his sovereign con
Ivenience. The United States was then
like a horse w nn ass, that did not know
i its own strength The exemplary Bu
. lianan took kindly every affront put
I upon his nation, and made many polite
bows in recognition of the condescension.
1 But even if the war had not disclosed to
the United States itsown military capaci
ties, the eagerness of England to avoid a
conflict with that powei ould rouse its
valor to a dangerous point. Whilst
Great Britain has been seeking, by every
indirect means, to do it mischief, she has
fondled, like a spaniel, upon the Yankee
Government, to avoid an open rupture.
! Such, at least, is the view taken of mat
ters by the Yankee people, and their
memory of an injury is remarkably
good Should a consolidated, gigantic
military despotism dominate at souse
■ future day in tins hemisphere, as.Russia
| does ni the East, "our cousins" across
the Atlantic can re lie t at theii "leisure 1
upon the fruits oi British neutrahl
jln that event, the British Parliament
' •ui_ht as well execute a .fait claim deed ,
i r ' ■
Uo all its possessions on tins continent
! and bid good-bye to its.dominion of the
i seas,
! OUR WILMINGTOS CORRES
PONDENCE.
Wilmington, North Carolina, j
December 10, 1804. ,
There has been considerable excite
ii.ent here for the last two or three days,
and especially yesterday, when the local
forces were called out and other mea
sures taken to resist thereported*landing
oi theenemy. Without giving the au
thority upon which the statement is !
made,' 1 may remark that intelligence has :
been received t>> the effect that a land'
force, estimated at twenty thousand men.
j together with the tleet of monitors and
Lmiboat: which has foi some lime beeu I
assembling at Fortress Monroe, sailed on
Friday, the loth, for the sooth, with the
intention oi making a descent on the
coast in the woinity of Newborn and
\\ ilmington. Other facts and circum
stances were reported in connection with
the expedition which I need not stop to
relate. If Wilmington had been the
destination of the enemy, the fleet should
have arrived off the mouth ol the Cape
i Fear onSaturday; any bow, on Sunday ,
bill up to the hour at which I Wiile 5 :
IP. M. Monday nothing has been seen or j
I heard of it, either here -.r at Newbern.—
The weather, which is rough outside, j
may have made it necessary for the moni
tors to put into port at some point further
north, or the fleet may have l*pt on to
Charleston or Port Royal—provided, al
ways, that it has sailed at all. Beast
j Butler is reported to be in command of
the expeditionary forces, and this leads
' to the belief that their destination is the !
j South Carolina coast. At this inclement
I and stormy period of the year, it would
be a dangerous operation for an enemy
to attempt to land an army by such boats
upon the open beach, and it would be j
quite as difficult to subsist it there after,
it had landed, it is out of the <|uestion I
to land artillery and cavalry. It would j
appear necessary, therefore, for theenemy
first to redme the forts at the mouth of j
the Cape Fear by a sea attack, which is-;
considered here to he impossible, owing j
to the strength of the iorts and shore j
batteries and the insufficient dep-h of ;
the water. A few days will decide!
w nether the expedition has sailed at all
and-fff so, to what point and in what j
force. _•»
Trustworthy accounts from Oeorgia
are sufficiently discouraging. Some woe- J
fill blunders have been committed there,
and some in Kichmond. Sherman's
movement will be finally and fully sue
ceeafuL A base will be secured on the j
sea, from which our hues of communica- .
tioii w ill be assailed, and an effort made J
to isolate Lee's army in Virginia and
to cut off its supplies The grand ob
ject he has in view, however, ii not the |
destruction of railway lines and the re
duction of Savannah and Charleston;
these are only means to help him lo an
end, and that end-which is the real
object of his advance to the sea and of
Grant's present comprehensive combina
tions—is the complete isolation of Lee's
army and the enforced evacuation of
Virginia by the Confederates. The en
emy, once in possession of Savannah,
Charleston and Wilmington, would be in
a position t«> successful.) assail our com
rnunication at the railway angles or el ,
bows at Goldsboro', Biaiichville and
Milieu. These, it not strategic, are, at
all events, most important points. In
deed, if any place in the Confederacy
may be called a vital point, it i< Branch
v.He; and. if Sherman- success extend
to Charleston, it will require an army to
defend it.
it may well be doubted, therefore,;
whether the President and i.eneral Lee,
looking alone to the security of Rich
| inond and Virginia winch it is feared
lengrosses too much the attention of
j both did not lose an opportunity to
place the safety ol Virginia beyond fu
turc danger, ".i.l al tin- same time to
tiil.e tlie loe a fatal blow, when they
it-, lined to send HJ.OUU seasoned troops
to Georgia. With thi- force, added to
the forces already there, the destruction
..f Sherman would bave been assured.
There has not been the lea t dangei ol
an attack upon Richmond ami Peters
burg since the last assault, on the _..lb
uf l»e,ember. Ail of Grant's recent
j manoeuvres were undertaken for the ptir
! pose, doubtless, of producing a ditlerent
I impression, ami to preve# reinforce
! incuts being sent to Georgia. 'Ibis i.s
not more evident now' than it was two
weeks airo ; and the wonder is that
I ever) body did not see it.
Burial oi __« Yankee Minister at
Paris.—A letter from Paris, dated the
6th instant, gives an account ot the bul id
of the remains of Mr. Dayton, the Yan
kee Minister to France. It says :
"The last -sad duties to the remains ot
the late American .Minister to France
were performed this afternoon m the
American Chapel of the Rue de Berry
The reading oi the openinp services was
bared in by the Rev. L>r Sunderland,
pat t..i of the . htii'i h, the Rev li
Cleveland, •■: New Haven, Connecticut,
j and the Re. Mr. Larason, of the Aiueri
can Epi copal Chur< h in the Rue Bayard
lhe , !,.,ii >'< t the two '.bill", be: were uni
ted on thu occasion, under the direction
i.l Mr. Crane, .mil vv iih lhe magnificent
new organ, and the admirable ■■>]•> voice
of Mis Rii i' . of New York, th.- effect of
the service was grand and impressive —
Rev, Dr. Sunderland pronounced an able
and appropriate eulogy on the eminent
public services and private uualities ot
the deceased, and was in turn followed
by Mr. Consul Bigelow, who also spoke
:ii length in the warmest term, of praise
aud affection of tlie lost friend, the pa
.riot, and the eminent public man. 1 bete
wen but few dry eves iv the house, for
to all of that vast audience the deceased
was personally known, and all had learned
to love and respect him, and all felt that
they could illy her the loss they had
been called on to support.
"The chapel was crowded io over
flowing , many went away for want of
loom, and a large crowd remained stand
ing in the street, 'lhe Government sent
a detachment of soldiers of the line,
two tile ni which, wiilt tixed bayonets,
,i„l knapsacks on thtii backs, held the
two aisles of tli.- < hurch, while the afreet,
,ii front of the church, wa:. also held by
a double file, resting on their arm-. The
coffin, placed on a platform in front ol
the pulpit, was draped in the American
flag and decorated with flowers. Ine
Emperor wis represented on this occa
sion by one ol his Chamberlains, who
attended in a state carriage; ihe diplo
matic corps wasfully represented; there
were many leading secessionist > present
former friends oi the deceased in pun
lie life ut Washington; ami in ever) di
rectum the eye encountered notabilities
of the political anil fashionable world.
Such a tribute to the memory oi the de
ceased was a great source ol satisfaction
to his friends, and to all those who knew,
by association, the eminent qualities ol
his head and heart.
Heaill ol an old ACTOR. The death
of James William Wallack, a., a.t0i.,.1
the "old school," i- announced in the
New York paper- The Tin ts publishes
the following obituary of him
"dames William Wallack was born in
London in 1793. Both his parents were
on the stage; In- father, William Wal
lace hem- a dist nguished comedian and
vocalist and his mother, Ehzabeth|Bield,
playing the leading female characters
with Mi. i_.arr.ek l-.r sereral year- lie
made his lirst appeal nice in London at
the age of seven, and, alter ph. ing boy.-'
parts for some time, passed to tbe A. a
f-mic Theatre, established by Queen
harlotte, m Leicester street, Leicester
Square, where English and lieriiian
children appeared on alternate nights. -
Here he attracted the attention of Rich
ard Brinsley Sheridan, who gave him an
engagement at Drury bane. That the
atre being Mihse.-ueutly burned down,
te went to Ireland; but in 1839 returned
. England, and on the opening night at
the New Drury Lane appeared as " La
ertes in Hamlet.
"At the ageol twenty two he replaced
NUMBER J 57.
Mr. Booth in playing ' lago' to Kean's
■ Othello. 1 About this time he received
very tempting oilers from New York, and
having, by the intervention of Lord By
ron, who was hi- personal friend, ob
tained two years' leave of absence from
the management of Drury Lane, he made
his first appearance in America at the
Park Theatre, of this city, September 7,
1818, in tho chaiarter of ' Macbeth.' --
Alter two years of remarkable success
here, be returned to London, where he
remained only one season, making then
j a second visit to America. Having bee_
injured shortly atterwards by the upset-
S ting of a coach, he went home to recruit,
j but returned for another season to the
Inwteil States, and after that became
j stage manager of Drury Lane, under Bl
listen, pciiorming also the leading cha
racters. In 1 *-.:-.t'«, he opened the National
Theatre, at the corner of Church and
Leonard streets, in this city. In lßSf>,
it was burned down, and during the next
ten years he played star engagements in
tin- I'nited Stat.-s and Great Britain.
"In 1851, he n_ed his residence per
manently in Ibis city, and established
Wallack's Theatre mow Wood's), ..n
Broadway, at the comer oi Broome
I street Here he enjoyed an uninter
i rupted mi cess for many years. The es
tabli hm. i.t was always distinguished by
i uniform excellence of its stock com
pany, and ;. careful regard to tbe pro
prietiea ot scenery and costumes, which
<_vive it eminence among American thea
tres. In 18G1, thu present Wallack's
Theatre, the hailing theatre ol the
I imed States, was established at the
; cornet- of Thirteenth street and Broad
was.
•• Mr. Wallack was probably, up to the
i time of his retiring from the stage, the
1 best of the old school of actors. liv
was, perhaps, most admirable in what
, might he termed the romantic drama, in
such representations as 'Benedict' and
'•Reuben (ih-nroy ' Although critics
■ might be disposed to question him in the
highest works oi tragedy, in parts that
merged upon the melodramatic, like
'Julten St. Pierre,' he was inapproach
able in his time
"Mr Wallack has suffered for some
years of affections often incident to old
...* -. lie always dressed with the most
! fastidious taste, and had rather a Pari
sian appeara ice. His name wa. ever
; spoken with respect by the members of
the thes*ri< al profession '
DcATB Of COLONEI CIIAKI ES A. Mai
'The death ol Colonel Charles A.May,
w hu .. name was .piite famous during the
Mexican war, has been noticed. He died
in New York of disease of the heart.
He was a native of Washington, District
ut Columbia,* Mid was a lieutenant of
dragoons in the Florida war. The New-
York Times says .
"At the beginning of the war with
Mexico he joined the forces under Gene*
j ral Taylor, and assumed command of a
squadron of his regiment. He took pait
in the battle of Palo Alto, and was bre
ve-ted •ajor lor gallantry and distin
i guished services in that action. He was
i one of the heroes of the following battle
\ of Resaca de la Paima, where be charged
I a battery of eighteen-poundera, leading
his dragoons up to the guns, and sabre
ing the gunners at their pieces. For this
he received a brevet commission a* lieu
! tenant colonel for gallantry and highly
! distinguished conduct in action.
A i the battle of Buena Vista, where
Ihe was wounded, he again distinguished
! himself, and the brevet of colonel was
conferred upon bim for gallant and me
; ritoi ious conduct. Colonel May resigned
his commission in 1860, and took up Ins
1 residence in this city, where he lived at
' the tune ol his death, having held for
! some years tbe responsible position ol
Vice President of the Eighth Avenue
' railroad In the old army, Colonel May,
or Charley May, as be was commonly
! called, was very popular He was cele
1 brated for bis kill hs an equestrian and
' for feats of horseman—tip. He was a
i popular hero in I*4o, when the story of
bis daru.g achievement at Resaca de la
1 Paima was in every one's mouth, and
pictures of "Captain May," charging
| through lire and -moke up to the Mexican
I guns are familiar to all of us He was
' a brave soldier and an accomplished gen
tleman, and hi> name will be associated
in history with the most romantic inci
dents in the annals of our army.
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