The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-24
The s,.rser. .f lncsmp~seacy md Malice.

MoRN'd. :. APRIL -. 1881.
The DIundera Of 1ncsmpescscy md Malice. |
The world are at a loss to know what ideas
OF statssmanship or what principles Of policy
govern the powers at Washington. From the
hour they assumed the direction Of affairs
there is not one single act Of wisdom, of states
manship, or OF patriotism, that can be found
In their whole conduct. They are strangers 70
all patriotic emotions; for there has not one
single word escaped them which has toae"e"
the patriotic heart. or has excited lis's.ot'e
impulse in single American bosom. An'y
seem incapable Of any act OF gen u'he "oo.s
nces. Their action falls as colby upon tue
country as the snow. Their woros arc "' ""'
feeling as their policy 10 venge'ui ana cunning
The demonstration upon ChariesVoh a's'
,,o.ea the selfish and calculating counsels
that actuats them. The manly course womb
have been the withdrawal of ANDERSON and
the evacuation of Sumter. They had not the
generosity or the courage to do that. They
Ts.rex, the clamor of the North, and they pre-
ferred TO risk hundred lives rather than risk
the frowns Of q ruthless faction. They sent
around their fleet to Charleston merely rs a
feiut, merely to make denomination OF en-
erry: when they knew that the certain con-
averv mans life in Sumter at hazard. That
was the cold and cruel beginning OF their
campoirn against the South. 1t was enough
To DISCUS. every Uni on man In its whole Dor
ders with a cause which 30 butchered
and disgraced by its official managers.
Their concentrating, or attempting to con-
cen trate. immense numbers Of troops at ASH
fnrton. IN another act of owardly senshness
which must greatly disgust even their own
sdherents and apoloSists. No ono thousht u
molesting them in Washington until they IN
yitei mo,estation by their wicked ana toonSn
cau for seventy-fve thousand troops 10 as
sembla there The plainest CONSIDERATIONS
must have taught them that Virginia would
not brook a formidable menace OF that sort
from, an INSCRIPTIONS foe upon her very
borders. If they had paid less attention to
tho flattering assurances of HICKS, and more
TO the real oracies Of popular sentiment In
MARYLAND, they might have anticipated the
resistance that has risen up 80 suddenly and
unexpec teddy in that State. The consequence
of this needless call for vast army OF men
has been to make their dispersion ana Inc
taking Of Washington military and poiiticai
necessity to both Maryland and Virginia.-
The demonstration upon Charleston forced
Virginia to secession. The call for seventy
Ave regiments has converted Marylan from
a Union to a secession State. The occupation
and fertilization of Washington by so numer-
Gus an army, though in tended for their seeuri-
ty,really places them in most imminent peril
1t is said that LINCOLN starts ut the mention
of JBPp DAVIS, or WISE, or BBE. McCuLLodH
and that body guard of Kansas cut-throats
under the lead of JIx LAMB, the murderer
sleep every night in the East Room. He viii
soon nnd that Virginia has other names o
terror for cowardly aboltionists, and that Il
be surrounded by cut-throats may put hi
own jugular In danger.
The marauding expedition which the Wash
ington Administration cent to Norfolk wa
dictated by spirit as cowardly as it was i'm
potent Why was WRIGHT, an Army of
flcer, sent upon an excursion of q na val yes
sci, under naval command, unless it WAS be
cause of his officious suggestions of this reck
less policy, early made and long persisted in
and his malignant zeal for burnings and des
tructionf What principles of elevated states
manship could have dictated the burning O
the best Navy Yard belonging to the Govern
ment, and some of the finest vessels in the ser
vice! The Navy Yard was unoccupied an
undefended and upon Mr.. LINcoLS's ow
theory, that there can be no secession, TN
that Virginia, and every part Of her, is still IN
der the Federal jurisdiction, this act was
plain levying of war upon the United States
Thus the President himself is guilty OF hig
treason. What can be said Of the policy of a
Administration which, under the pretext {
suppreseing insurrec tion, deliberately puts II
self into the position of levying war upo
the United States! This proceeding
Norfolk is of valuable significance in or
particular. 1t clearly reveals the animu
Of the Administration. 1t shows that the
have no hope of further deceiving Virgin
into the occupation of neutral attitude
and that they intend war TO the kni
against the South. The only powers
the country which hold the issues OF w;
and peace absolutely in their hands, a
the powers at Washington. They can new
restore the Union but they can restore peaa
without the further effusion of blood. 1t
plain, however, that they intend to esche
ouch a policy, for their proceeding at No
folk utterly negatives everv idea of peace.
There il but one possible chance for Il
e,rIy cessation of hostilites and that chan
lies in the plumbers of LINCOLN. 1t is impo
eib,e but that his incom potency and folly VI
bring him to a speedy downfall. Tits not
nnfreo uent circumstance that wickedness Al
adage, that If persons of a certain class a
~ given rope enough they speedily hang then
selves. The Administration at Washingtt
have already done much in this direction.
They have produced secession where sece
sion never could have been effected but f
them. They have raised up enemies in the
path by every measure they have taken
put down enemies already In existence. Thu
are beautifully illustrating the art Of sinki
the ship Of State in attempting to naviga
her. Their futlies and blunders seem to poi
to the only exit for the country from the ev
which nose very follies produce. In ty
more mAths the North itself will pray
the downfall of LINCOLN. They can afford
tolerate his Administration much less tn
the South. He is the South's most efecu
ally he is tho North's evil genius.
The Hypocritical Conservatives.
Four years ago the Republican party lns
It's first attempt to destroy the CONSTITUTE
and provincialize the South by the election