The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-25

no man is admitted who has the Sigh test
sympathy with the Southern People. At
Washington there are one thousand troops of
the regular army at all the Northern Navy
Yards, gunboats of light draft and carrying
heavy cannon are being hurriedy prepared
Old Point, Fort Washington and Hsrper's
Ferry are already occupied by Federal troops,
and 4 large naval squadron is already concen-
trated near the harbor of Pensacola. Mr..
LINCOLN is therefore in condition to begin an
attempt to recapture the forts in the seeding
States and to hold In check the Border States
should they carry out their solemn pledge to
resist coercion. That such is his fixed and de-
liberate intention, who can doubtr
From the molnent he opened his mouth at
all, on leaving Springfield, till his arrival in
Washington the whole burthen of his song,
has been his determination that the Union
shall be preserved, and that he expected those
around him 10 sanction him in doing it: and
to this there has been a universal affirmative
response. What Union did he mean? OF
course, the Union which, think, has al
ready been dissolved, but which Republicans
maintain is still intact, and which is illus
trated in the flag of thirty four stars which
the President elect raised at Philadelphia
How can he preserve that Union Six States
have already gone out and formed indie
pendent Union of their own. How can he
preserve that which is destroyed? His mean
ing plainly is that they shall be brought back
by force, and that is his intention. AT Tren-
ton, New Jersey after again asserting his in
tention TO preserve the Union, he says "Ney-
ertheless fear may have to set the foot
down firmly, (here the cheering was SO pro-
longed that il was several minutes before Mr..
LINCOLN could proceed and having put the
foot down, to stand firmly upon il. And, gem
tlemen, if you think / am right, you will
stand by me, won't your (Criss of I've
will" awe will - What does alfvosit mean
Let the Force bill now before ConG8 ex plain.
In his late speech on the Force Bill, Mr..
BocOCK, of Virginia, shows clearly that this
atrocious measure is not only uncons tuition
al, and in conflict with those sections of the
fundamental law which limit the purposes
for which the militia are to be used, and limit
the power of the President as Commander-in-
Chief of the Army and Navy, and of the militia
when the latter is called out to suppress in
surrect ton, but il invests the President with
dictatorial powers, and gives him at the same
time an unlimited control OF an unlimited
my, to be used at his discretion in the invasion
of any sovereign State i'll the Union 1t is an
attempt TO subvert the Constitution by an
act of Congress, and to create the incoming
President military dictator.
The Constitution, rs a New York journal
observes in an article on this subject, gives the
President power to call out and to use the
militia for the suppression of instruction in
any State, or on the call of the Governor if
the Legislature should not be in session, and
the reason of the provision is assigned-nalae-
ly, that the Constitution guarantees TO every
State a republican form OF government, and
the Federal power is bound to in terpose when
legally called upon by the authorities of the
State, to prevent its overthrow by physical
violence. There is only one other case where
the President has any constitutional authori-
ty to use the militia, and that is in repelling
invasion in the event of foreign war. But
this new Force Bill, in the face of the article
Of the Constitution which limits the powers of
the President by declaring that what is not
expressly granted is reserved to the States and
to the people respectively, authorizes the
Chief Magistrate to call the whole power of
the Army and Navy, together with the militia
and yolun teers in any numbers, to invade a
State and subjugate it, under the pretext of
enforcing the laws of the Union," not mere
ly without the invitation of the Legislature or
ton to their authority.
The new bill gives him authori ty not merely
to enforce the laws in aid of the Courts and
the civil power i'll a State, but to employ the
whole military power to enforce any order he
or his agents may choose to issue, however
arbitrary ard despotic. A postmas ter for ex-
ample, could embrOl the whole country in
civil war in pursuance of this bill. And, fur
la ,,f
all the military force OF the land is to be put
under the articles of war, and should any
member of the militia make any harsh COM
ment on the measures of Congress or the pro-
ceedings of the President, ('speak dsrespect-
fully of them, he is liable 10 the tender
mercies of a CONTINENTAL What more, we
should like to know, is necessary to the com.
pletion of a military despotismy
Scarceo had Mr.. BococK finished his speech
| upon this bill, before Mr.. STEVENS OF Penn
| sylvania, declared, in some remarks on the
Navy bill, that it was the design OF his party,
by mears of that bill, to invade the Southern
States and retake the forts. An army and a
navy Of invasion, and Military Despotism,
are thus impending over the head Of the
South. If We want any farther light upon
the ultimate designs of the party which has
| is about to draw the sword upon US, we have
IL in letter in last Wednesdays Tribune,
from one Of tho editors and proprietors of that
paper. in Washington. Hesignilcantly asks
"Caunot everybody see how easy il will BE- IL
hostiities between the sections arise. to make the
desyn efion Of aarcry the issue OF the war? Wear
In eondict on the question. If we come TO blows,
u viii DO still about slavery. And what then Is
| ineyitabley Why simply this. and nothing more.
sud nothing less-a light 70 see whether slavery
| shall 10 up or 80 down. The issue cannot be as
| capped The war will be waged to crush the eggs
Of ihs reptile that has matched the brood of trai-
| tors and revolutionists."
Here, then. is the bold avownl by the man
who made LIscoLS President, of the diaboli-
| cal design Of the Force Bill which is nothing
less than To kindie the iires Of another St DO.
mipgo In the Southern States OF this Union. -
There are thousands Of fanatics ready and
eager 70 embark In that heilish crusade. The
| reign OF lespotism IL about TO be Inaugural ted
The recapture Of the forts will be ut once at
temptssi the effort will b made TO coerce
the uthern States back in to tho Union aud
| Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky, have
declared that they will resist coercion. JHgr
Will HEEH THETA W0nD