The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-12-31
From WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE or THE DISPATCH
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WAsHINGToS Dec. o, 1860.
1t is believed that Col. Anderson &c ted uH-
der orders from Gen. Scott but this is denied
by the General and the Administration, also.
One thing is well known here viz, that Gen.
Scott is in fav II of immediate force, even TO
the extent of sending large bodies of Federal
troops into all of the Southern States. As a
military man, 1t is natural he should urge
ing lived SO long in the North, his sympat hies
are enlisted there, rather than on the side Of
his native State and the South.
Civil war is as certain, in my judgment as
anything IN the future can be l had an in
terView last evening with Loyejoy, the pro-
slavery brother of the aboIiticnist OF that
name. He is one of the few NortherD men
who have studied the subject of slavery thor
oughV. His views GO the full length of any
Southern man 6. He says we of the South
are purer people than the North, and that
our form of society ensures at once higher
morality and a more stable government. How
war is to be averted he cannot tell. The abo-
litionsts will not yield; the South cannot and
ought not TO abandon its rights. Deprecaung
fraternai strif" he yet thinks it inevita Bile
The Inflammation ofintersectional feelngis so
violent, that it can be cured only by blood
letting.
The Republicans, fresh from visit to their
cons tituents, confirm this opinion. They are
more defiant than ever Doolittle, in his speech
IN the Senate yesterday, haughtily and insult
ingly told the Southern Senators that it was
Idle to talk about amending the Constitution,
Ava LhcJ ktuc tcUuCu W ducuO
1t to suit themselves. This is what Seward is
after in his proposition to ad init all The Terri
tories at once as States. Kansas, Nebraska,
WashiDgton, Idaho, Nevada and u tab will be-
come Northern States, adding twelve to the
Repu bican strength in the Senate. Very soon
they Will have the two-thirds requisite to
amend the Constitution, and reconstruct the
supreme Court according to their own notions.
Meantime, the fact OF Anderson's holding
South Carolina in check, will stiffen the Re-
publican neck. They foresee that Fort Mon
roe Will do as much for Virginia. With the
navy they will blockade ali our ports. Of
Ger ainty, they will whip US in if they can.
What can we in Virginia dol a good deal.
Our Military Institute has filled the State
with competent officers. Our citizens are
brave. We are better organized than any 9TH
er State in the Union. Every county has its
volunteer company, armed and equipped,
mostof them, and accustomed to military dis
cIpllne. We are we'll supplied with guns and
ammunition. The Harper's Ferry raid has
put us on war footing, and events have kept
US SO. In the U. S. army we have the great
est military genius of the age-so pronounced
| By General Scott aud all the army officers. l
mean MAYOR General Lee He is a son of Nir-
ginla and will be true TO her. At home, In
Richmond, you have one of the finest Regi-
ments in the world. Its Colonel has in his
veins that Celtic blood which always seeks
The hottest front of battle and conquers there
Its General has proved his courage on the
plains OF Mexico. Moreover, we have Henry
a. Wise-a tWo-edged sword Of living fire
les we can do a good deal. We can fight. If
the Abolltonists are determined TO try cou-
clusious at the point Of the bayonet, Virginia
Is prepared to meet them.
Cur only danger is from treachery in our
own camp. More than thirty letters have
been received here from The Valley and North
west Virginia, IN regard to a ques ton OF taxa
tiou to be rdIsed in our State Convention, if
We hold one. 1t is believed nav, il is virtual
| ly k:.oWn, that these letters owe their origin
10 the suggestions of high authority. The
man who, Tor selfish purposes, and when civil
war is impending, could stir up the embers of
an extinct quarrel and divide the house against
itself, is denounced as infamous beyond the
power of language to express. Such man
would not hesitate TO murder his own mot ther,
IL by so doing he could secure the object OF his
| contemplate ambition. His motive. in the
| present instance, Is as transparent as glass
He will meet his reward.
Virginia's long silence has provoked the
| conuem nation OF both Northern and Southern
men. A distinguished man, formerly a Sem
| ator from one OF the Northern States, said to
| an acquaintance Ut mine, I'VE always knew
that tEiTginIans were sluggish and lows piri led
| our recent course SHOWS that you can never
| be aroused until we come down aud prick
| you with the bayonet. John Brown speared
you into momentary Wakefulness. You
| soon sunk back into sleep. Sleep on now and
| the first thing you know you'li be squeezed
| like an orange, until you are perfectly dry.'
Our members have been tardy IN acquaint-
| ing the people with the immineney of danger
i
| sure 10 state mat the member from your dis
| trict, Mr.. Dejarnette, has been less derelict
| than the rest. Ten days ago a paper WAS
drawn up in his room while l was present,
| setting forth the simple fact that there was
| not the least hope in Congress, and that the
| people of Virginia had no other alternative
| than TO rely On themselves. This paper Mr..
| Dejarnette carried around to all our Repre-
| sentatives, but Obtaining only five signatures,
| thought IL inadvisable to publish it. 1t is but
justice to make known this fact in regard TO q
| man who is as true to the honor of bis State
and the best interests of he South as any man
| living. The paper 10 which have alluded Will
| probably be signed to-day, and at once for
| warded to your city. Harris (Letcher's sue
cessor) and Millson Will hardly sign il. Glenn
| mems is doubtful
| L have written a long letter, because l am
| ANXIOUS exceedingly that Virginia should
| act promptly and becomingly. A single quo
| tatlon from an article addressed to Southern
| conservatives by The Tribune, aud have done
Union men Of the South the day of compro
| misses is over. We want TO retain the Union, Du,
| 1t must be as equals. You have right las agans,
and condemn 1t. If YOU have right to seek its
dlftdslon we have an equal night TO resist 1t: II
than we, they viii beat US; If are the strong
we mean to beat them. If we admit that We
| eyes, would 40 as you do, you should admit Tn al
| you, standing on our ground, would do an we do
| May the victory enure TO the Right"
| The reply of our Conservatives Will be that
| the tribune does not represeng the North
| answer that 1t represents to the very letter the
| opinions and purposes declared by Lincoln
himself to be fixed and unchangeable) of sas
party tohtch IS going TO control this G0rsrHRlsnt
| and that IN less than ninety days from thiS Usry
| hour. 1t is the blindest madness to talk OF
| Union now OF to delay action. True conser.
vatism, like charity, begins at home. When
| We have secured our own preservation, il will
| be time enough to think about preserving
| the Union. The fact is, the only hope even
| tor reconstruction rests solely and entirely
Upon the prompt action of Virginia. FED.
| WASHINGTON. Dec. 20, 1850
| While the resolutions offered AT your meet
| ing on Thursday night do not come quite uI
| To The mark of true Southern sentiment the
| afford little or no encouragement to these
| amiabie Northern gentlemen who have SO in.
| duslriously sought 10 make Virginia the too
OF their coercive designs. Brief, pointed, dis
| n I'D w rDn "A nd wi to, tn.