Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-08-08
THE WAR.
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The Baltimore Esehongs, in an editorial upon Trum
bulls bill Of denominations, styled IAN AMENDED Dill 70
suppress nsurrection and sedton, and for other pur
poses" says:
The most malignant Jacobins OF the Constituents AZ
senbly the Robsspierres st. Just, Barreres ooutnons
and their followers have their prototypes 10 the pren.
Congress of the United States In that mad Carnvh
radical Republicans, when a harot was adored S Tue
Goddess of Reason, and every law, whctner humau VI
divine wss sell at defince-a the blood that wa snsu
and all the wckednsss that was perpetrated was oope
In the name of the people. Nsrat invoked the people,
when he demanded the heads Of ten thousand arstocu
The cold malignant Robespierre canted OF "L'barty,
Equality and Fraternity" The sanguinary fouquler
Tinvle doomed his innumerable victims TO the guilo
tine that the land might be purged OF traitors 10 tne ne
public lone and indivisibe." The ferocious Oafrrr
checked the waters Of the Loire with corpses on the plea
that Il was to Sustain the Government The
Anglo Saxon writ Of habsas eorpm was unknown 10
France or II would have been laughed to scorn, Is
in these days with u.s. Tbe right Of the peopla TO DO
in their persons, houses papers, and ensc was
90 Systematically violated then as now. The gsnddrn"
of Paris no more permitted the circulation OF petitions
TO Government for redress Of grievances than do the
police authorities of New York. and innocent persons
we're denounced as spies, or arrested on suspicion
Of giving aid and comfort to the enemy at the
instance the Dictator and with the sanction OF his plant
tools in the Convention, precisely as such things have
been done at much later day and much nearer home
Is il necessary that should point out any further the
almost perfect correspondence between the acts OF the
French Republicans nearly threequarters Of century
ago and those of the American Republicans OF to
We might compare the laws passed by both, and show
their similarity in all essential particulars and we might
cite Mr. Trumbulls bill the GROWING infamy OF long
series of outrages but forbear 1t is sufficient for
to note the accuracy with which history sometimes re-
peats ITSELF and every man who loves liberty and
hates oppression take heed lest he lose the former
and fall victim to the latter, through the sancum which
he may have given, the liberation he may have ex-
landed to the despotc measures Of the Administration
CossEQUESCEs or THE WAR.
Az able editorial in the same Journal of Monday last
on the respective abilities Of the two sections to carry on
the war successfully, concludes a. follows
whichever way We regard it, the consequences Is the
,.me-paraly Injurious TO the South; but disastrous
TO the North The South loss little, it spends compaa
it.le anti piling its veal ur The North loses eve
thing spends enormously and stores scarcely any thing
Every day adds in fact TO the strength OF South and
dminishes that OF the North. The war tes alike on the
Western farmer the Eastern manufacturer and the New
York banker The effect upon the former, however, 10
only temporary; upon the two latter 1t must be
permapent The eventual result Of the war will
surely be to unite the slave States in grand Republic,
and the North will then find that its suicidal policy has
only served establish nation which possesses not on
" vast resources in the growth OF staples peculiar to IL
se hut which has in addition every element Of wealth
nossessed by the free States. The North will at the
same time discover thsit has separated itself from
contry upon the productions Of which actually de-
pendent for the prosperity OF its largest interests and for
the means Of sordiDg employment TO its operatives and
occupations TO its mariners.
So long Maryland remains with the North, she must
share the fate Of the North.
TROUBLE IN THE wIGwAN.
trouble has already sprung up IN the Federal wig
wan upon the accession Of Gen. Mcclellan to the COM
mand Of the army Of the Potomac. The New York
Herald wGxes wroth, and says:
Already in the hour of the revival OF public con-
6dence upon the assumption of the command of The army
of the Potomac by Gen. Mcclellan, the politicians are
making mischief by their untimey and ibodipg inter-
ference Yesterday, General Mcclellan was informed
that It was the desire Of tho President and the Cabinet
that the whole responsibility OF the organization Of the
army no is 10 command should devolve upon lin alone
and that consequently he should be fully empowered to
make his own selection of all division aud brigade
manders.
The intimation that tho whole Of making these
selections was to be couhded 10 Gen. Mcclellan gave
general satisfaction TO all who have the cause OF the
country exclusively at heart.
But unhspply-and disgracefully, let add-like the
devil creeping into Paradise the politicians have stepped
In and marred the symmetry OF this most excellent
rangemeut They have ends to serve and objects to at
tain, which, TO them are OF higher consideration than
the salvation Of the country.
Their politic, friends and pets and followers and
tainers must be put in position, even at the imminent
hazard Of losing another battle, even Of ultimately
Disappointing the hopes of the loyal people and destroy
ng tie integrity OF the Union.
To-day they have procured notification to General
Mcclellan that certain officers must be assigned to
maud biigades; and thus while throwing upon him the
responsibility Of victory or defeat With an army that
has once already retired from the Id they insist upon
choosing for him tle agents upon whom he must rely IN
the hour Of trial.
The interference OF simple politicians with the opera.
tons he army has already been tolerated too long
They haze done much mischief and IL not thrust aside
will do much The Administration has been cloth
cd with all the power necessary for the prosecution OF
the war to a successful and glorious result II IL will
now eounie in the proper military officers and turn
deaf ear to the politicians all will be we'll but IL the
military Ia to be made their playhing forete
the result This is the hrst fatal step in the
psign.
rYyrcr oY THE WAR UPON rASKEE wArrRKo rLAcrs.
The New York Herald, not long ago, announced that
the war had played sad havoc with the fashionable water
ing places Poverty aud destitution described
r,ignipg there supreme. This We regard as one good
effect Of the war; and have the satisfaction Of beev
ing that Southern patronage is Withdrawn from those
pestlentia spots forever. We fad in the New York
Day Book the following interesting letter from New.
port:
If there is spot on the face Of tho earth to which
Goldsmith's description Of Deserted Village" will
apply you may set it down to be the once famous sea
side resort, Newport have wandered through its
dv Rrssgrown Streets ssuntered along the corridors
OF ts empty hotels sroed upon its magnificent beach,
with no bathers; have weared myself in beholdng its
complete desolaon in every respect unlike that which
has heretofore made il the queen of watering
places Not half the hotels have been opened and those
which have, have done losing business The season"
has come, but the yisers have not of the eighty and
upwards Of fine villas and cottages built upon specula
ton fer summer rent Southerners, could not learn
that a single one was occupied Even the Boston
princes" who are supposed TO own hsbitation down
bore have gone through the sostce In town, RECALLING
themselves with stroll about the Boston frog pond"
and the big elm as matter Of necessity and economy.
Those freeheared Scutherners who, in times past have
made not only Newport, but other watering places
popular and profitable have not come on. Those peo
ple Who IL you believe the bowling natcs, could not
be driven of the Unon have concluded to give abo
lition New England wide berth, and the skin Pix
pence" Yankees find it very uncomfortable one to lie
alone in assure you Mr.. Day Book they have got the
blockade in the most aggravated form in Newport and
the seems TO have spead TO every other place
Of resort Only think Of setting down at the fremont
in Boston, regulr dinner with just eleven persons
all told and the hotel register showing only five arrivals
for the previous day will stop with the facts and
leave you to make your comments; but as the poor
actor summed up his benefit you can Set New England
watering places down to beggarly account OF empty
boxes.
RIOT At HARRISBURG.
fierce riot occurred among the returned volunteers
at Harrisburg Pa, on the 27th u, In consequence Of
the negsc. Of the Federal Government to pay them Of
The Harrisburg Patriot says:
large number Of the volunteers congregated p the
Market Square, Who had expected to spend the Sabbath
st home, became olamorous, of them exceedingly
infatuated An sigy, labeled "Paymaster," Was hung
the lsmppos in front OF the Jones house. which was
set on FIRE and consumed amid the huzzis of the soldiers
While the. conf igraton going on, the Twelfth Reg
ment of reserves marched in from Camp Curtin and
charged down Second street.
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