Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-03-15

FIFTY THOUSAND MEN IN BUcKnAM THE
New York HERALD, very last found mares nest, is
that Jefferson Davis is actually preparing to march
on Washington city with an army Of fifty thousand
men, OF course this terrible army is made I'D in
pat Of the ten thousand men in buckram, the
Richmond Enquirer not long since raised ION
paper) to seize and hold Washington to prevent
Lincoln's Inauguration, &c. According to the
sra!d, the Oligarchy Is to Initiate this alleged
Invasion, because, forsooth, the Government Of the
United States may decline to become party to
its own charlottesville alternative to secure ex-
emption from IL (the invasion) being an imme-
diete practical acknowledgement by the United
states Government Of the entire legality Of the
usurpation, not yet acknowledged by the people
Of either State Of the American Union over which
1t holds temporary authority. Practically, the
present Administrations policy with reference to
the usurpers IL that Of Mr.. Buchanan's message
at the opening Of the late session of Congress
That 10 to say: IL does not essay coercion, and
yet insists that 1t has authority to fail to execute
such Of the laws of the United States throughout
the South as IL has power to execute. The threat
ened invasion is, according to the Herald, to be
sssayed because President Lincoln holds to this
position; and, according to the same journal, the
Ohgarchists expect to take Washington by the
help Of the people Of North Carolina, Tennessee
Virginia, and Maryland, In each Of which States
Its well known the Unioaists outnumber the
Secessionists at least two to one.
What could more forcibly prove the despera-
ton to which the news Of the intended evacua
ton of Sumter has driven the oligarchists (whose
schemes hinge on provoking the desired collision
with arms than the fact that on learning It, they
shrek through the Herald for an imaginary army
Of 5000 men to march forthwith on Washington
city!
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except the men In and around Charleston and the
forts elsewhere they have stolen, ng in all
not more than four thousand men. Nor can they.
get ten thousand volunteers In all the States 10
fnftidts eirH tcar. However many they might
raise to repeI Invasion, they cannot raise ten thou
sand men In all the South to invade sister States
Nor have they dollar at command to be ex-
pended upon any such expedition. The over
flowing treasury they boast Of Is a myth. All the
means they have, to pay their current enormous
expenses, have been raised by forced loans, the
issue Of worthless scrip, and other similar means
They are terribly short of provisions all over the
seeded States, obtaining their supplies from the
still loyal States Of the West In short, they are
In no better condition to put an invading army of
nifty thousand men in the field, than the man In
the moon is and the fact that they resort to such
threat only goes to prove that the Governments
policy Of letting them alone severely has 40 soon
driven them to utter desperation.
In thirty days Sam Houston, in Texas, will
afford them employment for all the men in arms
they now have at command; and in thi ty days
thereafter George Houston and the Unionists In
North Alabama, backed by the Cnionists Of
Est Tennessee, (who will fY to the assistance of
their brethren at the first tap Of the drum,) will
furnish work enough for ali the rest they can get
together by that time.