The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-25
FROM CHARLESTON.
rnksYsroSpRSCE OF THE DISPATCH.

rC'H ., dav Official business prevents it.
Nc are getting exceedingly impatient with
w ,,oycments Of affairs in every direc-
iEf '.rB | Gorot think that the people OF
UvN >"nthern Conlcderacy will much longer
i",srs the menaces OF these forts and the
r"''. IN ynrious quarters. As Tor that Peace
itr.'esTerce ia Washington, II nothing is ac
'Vy"'nI,.ne,i II viii not be the fault of your
tUl.'i-i.sIouers but of their more plucky
- Republican brothers.
b. I've letters daily from all parts Of your
s.s,p. snd generally from strong Union men,
H,',.ay Virginia viii seccde before the 9Th Of
M,"v.b Can il be so / can hardly credit il.
NfRGISirs.
Since writing The above, the Cabinet
..ro,rtIu eLt, have been announced, except
81. M Pos llussIer General, which is not vet
-; Secretary Of State, Toornhs, of Ga;
,.r,.-,ry Of Treasury, Memmiuger, Of :. c..
,,r.-tr, of War. Elliott, OF Miss; Secretary
NAVY. Perkins. of La; Attorney General,
- W.,iker of Ala. 1t is said that Toombs
viii MOI accept. v
CHARLEsToN Feb. 81 1861
7b.rf. are a few comm on words and EXPIRES
ms which ! think Southern speakers and
.,,,,rs ought TO correct. as inapplcable,
.,oe and unworthy of Southern naniiness
Ia,. v.urd l. ask" ASK and W shall re-
-. Is the injunction Of our hi, inc Lord,
f..r.v Implying the dependent upon the pos
..sr Of the thing asked for Ask of the
N,-,h OIL! rights as though they We're the al
-s1nprs ofour rights. ASK, eli? Is there no 9th
~ word in the Enghsh language more suited TO
..a case, ave Will ask OF the North
7,brs. If she dont grant them" ASK
I'D grant" These words made Use of in the
|,aueruon indicated, show a degree of pusil-
gaIn!tY that is degrading TO Southern men,
ryrfu Of any nation. Demand, mot TO give
,su YOUR rlshts,) but demand that they touth
moi your rights. Oh, Tor the spirit OF the Nir-
si.l4 Fathers irginans asking rights OF
Yankees and that, too Ut 4 tim" when Yam
.4s ems are pointed a. your breasts
1ry II IL.
Wise in The Convention. and, for my life, !
,sHro; see what be is aiming at. He says he
Is opposed 10 secession, and intends 10 fight in
the MON. We do not comprehend Mr.. Wise.
I have been asked a hundred times what
Sir WISE means. and l cannot give
svrr. He certainly does not mean rough,
roll and tumble fight'i with the Black Repub-
hcauS rarporedliy does lie
should like 10 put two questions to your
Convention, and to have a plain, direct an
swrr 70 them. The ques lions would be these,
.suppcs!uc Virginia 10 remain attached to The
oil Mon j Do you recognize the right of
STATE 10 secede2 Ii so, then. suppose the Lin
coin administration should attempt to re-
take the forts and aIsenals, or to collect rpye-
nues and light takes place between il and
.hr people OF the seeding States, would Nir-
giua stand by and acquiesce in it
So that Mr.. Moore has already answered
In the negative Mr. Moore seems haunted
with a nightmare about the Cotton States
aad the African slave trade, and find nearly
all your MON men talking about the stare
.-rts with a mighty holy horror DO they
not read what the Southern Congress has
done on that subject But it is 4 little anus
gg that the old, broken dozen Wing ieaGers of
Virginia can lind no better argument for hold
pgon to their old Wing friend Lincoln, than
his petty issue of the slave trade, when all
intelligent men who know anything outside
81 their own potato patches know that the
raye trade sentiment in the Cotton States is a
mere bubble-confined to here and there q
man. | viii venture TO affirm, that even in
South Carolina, where all the horrors that
haunt your Union saving men exists, you will
lot ind, IN the whole State, fifty men, wo-
men and children, in favor OF re-Opening the
slave trade. But when did Virginia get so
WOndruus piouS or, is that piety confined 10
the Union saving, old defunct, but now res
urrrcied Lincoln pray ing party? FIRGINICs.
CHARLESTON. S. G., Feb. 2Ist
promised 70 drop you line from this
place. Place, do say this is wrong, for II is
no. I place. l want more dignifed expires
sion. \ city soTenowned for its chivalry, for
is political antagonisln 10 Black Republican,
i'm, ms pres a sense OF yeneration that lifts il
above the ordinary term of place. | wish
Richmond was as free AS Charleston. II is
true, Fort Sumter is i'll the hands of her enc
mics but ali else within and around her is
hers, and that silent, sullen, lonely looking
clamp OF masonry Will soon be levelled with
the waves around it.
since | reached here l have been quite un-
We'll. and have not felt like taking an o5ser-
walton 81 what is going OH, to day. 1 have
visited the structure that was to be launched
today known AZ the " floating battery -
The tide. however, was not quite high enough
10 launch it, owing to the prevalence of west
tTly winds here for some time past. This
structure is intended to perform a prominent
pay! in the capture OF the aforesaid fort and
III not going TO be a plaything for Mai Ander-
son. l assure you. Until l know whe Their it
VIII be considered here as telling news out Of
,laool or not TO give you description OF it,
! had best say no more about il, except sim plv
toas~ure YOU that the Major had as well try
10 put ball through the Blue Ridge, from
whore he now is, ~ TO pene te this concern
have been down 10, and around all the forts
here, as near a. | could prudentiy go, and they
are quite numerous and formidable, and there
Is surely 10 be some astonishing shooting here
soon The Morris Island batteries are going
10 take the black out OF sumter. 1t is Il little
more than the Major can do, take it, TO shoot
through three layers of railroad iron present
Cd 10 his balls at an angle OF Is degrees sup
ported, too Is these rails are, by a wooden
structure Of great strength. They viii pass
on giahe!ng upwards, and may go TO the
moon for All the men on the island Will care -.
Inc Wings OF these batteries are supported by
great sand banks. Fort Moultrie Will have
me Aorhlest part of Sumter to contend with ;
oui Aon!trie guns are of Il heavy callbre,
ana are We'll arranged All these forts are
ABLY manned; and only think OF six or seven
great batteries frowning on Sumter at the
same lime, and ready for action; and next
week Is 10 tell the tale.
nave taken some pains 10 advise myself on
'ae subject of the recons true ton of the Union,
IIAd II were to use up pages of explanation
could not say more of truth, and 10 the
punt, OF the Southern States, than simply to
"a! mat they are not going to DO IL. They are
rally hot lnteres ted in the question of settle
.le'} going on between the border States and
,et State, AZ this time, only so far as they wish
'Ae border States well, and no farther. There
= an honest and prompt expression of indig-
11'toh from the people here, of every class aud
pio,''son, at the suggestion of their going
'0A on any terms. They say they are COM
FrH'y out, and they mean TO stay out
+Aefe IS no installing this sentiment here,
aAi sooi and true men tell me that it is the
80 lhlng with nincteen-twentieths of the
roFle o! TIE other seeded States. So Vir-
f1uia may Prolong her deliberations or not, AZ
'tt,s as she thinks best If she is too slow F.,
,o van blame South Carolina and her sister
nI% p re- Tor being just fast enough 10 get OUT OF
Wv aus clutches. They have stood by their
t'sH@ IKE patriots and freemen, and they
, IN eaiiantly opened the way for Virginia TO
the OUT like poor Tam O'Shanter's mare,
rn p Uiu oarlin, | fear, will catch her by the
"'np' and leave, &c. q.
'0''esp9ndence OF the Richmond Dispatch.
III, PRrRRsBUgG, Feb. 22nd, 1861