The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-17

feelings nf TINS Uilcer.
WAR UPoH tuLOKs.-'ille Administration of
I.I>rnLN appears to he determined that there
shall 10 longer be any variety OF co!0rs in the
dress of the Northern people. Tic old tyrln
ny of the Roundheads il to be revived, and
IL" fashion of a mans apparel and the cut of
his hair, tn he regarded as indicative of his po-
ilic,tl principles aud treated accordingly The
despotlsm at Washington, which considers !,
no offence at all to trample under foot the
American Constitution, and deprives It's people
al every vestige of freedom. seizes a man by
the throat in the public streets because his
ucchcloth IL of variegated llues, and cnnlpes
him 70 choose instantly between sIrrendering
thar cravat or surrenderiug hadeas corpus
A Government which endeuvors to sustain
Itre!i by serious aggressions upon popular
rights, shows plainly enough its weakness
bat when il descends to such absurdites n.
this, i! becomes simply ridiculous. We for
get the injustice of the outrage, in the ride
ulons aspect such an act reflects upon the
authority by which it is pelpetrated When
Government descends to such position that
people laugh ,t it, it is evidently OH its last
legs Yet it is hard 10 realize that such a
change has come over this continent in so
short a time; that the United States, which one
wear ago was Il free constitutional Govern
nent, - now It despoti-ln as complete as any
III Europe, ap,. that u long, lank, vulgar Hi
uois raul splitter, who, one wear ayo, would
not have presumed to critcise the dress of any
of bis rustic neighbors, in the town Of Spring
field, nor dare for his lie 10 direct his better
half III her choice of culors, should be the
despot of Americ;,--a despot not only over the
principles the press, tue actions of the people
bu, dictate the color Of their clothing. and
compel every man and woman of his subjects
to examine each article Of their wardrobe be
fore they pat it on, to see whether 1t coutorms
TO the ccrulean edict Of that first born offspring
of the sun aud fall brother Of the Moon
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
We aPrrehenl that this august potentate
will enlarge the sphere Of his crusade against
colors ill lie has obiiterated everything like
variety from the universe, and reduced to IA
loyal monotony all the objects, animate and
inaninuate, of the heavens above and the Wa
tiers beneath. Let him begin this good WORK
at once. Let HIM commission Commodore
srRlNoHAM 10 hunt up the shells of the ocean
with their treasopahle diversity OF hues. Aad
send BoNBAsrLS FGRIOSo b. TIER 10 arrest
the rainbow for showing the tri-coior The
rainbow, besides its gorgeous variety Of hue
il also guilty Of treason as an emblem of
Peace. Every time that magnificent arch
spans the azure hrmament, it proclains that
the Great Monarch of the Universe has for
given the Rebels who provoked his displea
sure, and that there Is Peace between God and
the earth, Leithe Tail splitter at once authorize
BUTLER to announce that victorious col
unin viii early IN the autumn direct its march
pursuit OF the rainbow, and arrest and com,
mt 1t to Fort Lafayette on charge OF high
treason to ABRAHAM LINCOLN,