The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-27

outrages. Upon their heads must fan ths 70.
| tribution also. Who. that tells people 1.-THE
laws are silent amid arms" has any right to
the mob at Havsrhifl, Concord, Bangor
or Easton, hear them any more than
the Cabinet at Washington If the laws
| sleep at all, they are awake to no man. If they
are silent at all. they are silent altogether. II
The President may suppress public J1urnal,
| without color of law, because 1t does n OF suit
him, why shall the people, who are sovereign,
| not do the same thing 7 The question be-
tween bayoLets and biudgeons Is one OF detail ,
| and not Of principle-so is it between tar ana
have rather the advantage, if there be any, in
! the reasoning. II it be patriotic to suspend
the laws. they are apt to be less selfish in their
! patriotism than their rulers. A President or
| q Secretary may readily mistake wound to
his self love, for wound inflicted on the
country. A mob, if more fanatical and mad,
is not likely to be so personal or 90 self seek
ONLY days sn ago the tss
lures Of the Northern newspapers upon
members of the Cabinet are regarded there
mos ~ said the Grand Monarch, 1.-The State !
i it is myself" Attacks upon us-say the
members of the Cabinet-ars attacks upon
the country We are the country A mob
might be wicked enough to do anythng-it
could not be so absurd or SO regal as 60 say
| this. It's efervescences ale madness-the ty-
| ranny of Presidents and Cabine "a is system.
/ The sins OF the altitude are ignorance and
passon-those OF rulers are ambition and lust
| OF power. The leader OF a mob which de-
| stroys printip offl.e and lynches an editor
| in its rage, is not half so unprincipied or dan
| gerous, as the President or the General who
| silences free speech with q squad of soldiers,
| in armed and deliberate def ance OF the Oon
| stitution. Ten fold worse than either is the
| rhetorical, phrase. polishi demagogue, who,
" nj I r
| official responsibility, prostitutes his talents
| to the overthrow of public freedom and the
/ con ption OF people who look up TO him as
| patriot and counsellor.
| THE FREEDOM OF THE PREss-oPeosITIos JOUR
| MAILS TO BE DEALT WITH.
| From the Washington Cor. Of the Philadelphia
Inquirer.1
/ The Administration decided to-day to take
| another step, which will be quite as startling
| at first as the former, but which is equally
! founded On sound policy. The Constitution
| prov iues for the freedom of speech and OF the
/ press. But it also provides tor the privileges
/ Of the writ of hdbedS corpus. 1t has been
| found that the safety of the Republic req uired
| the suspension OF that writ. Inc Adminlstra
| ton is now satisfied tn It the safety OF the Re-
| pub ic req uires that those papers IN the North
| nlcl 10 not yield O. hearty support to the
| Government and to all the measures OF the Ad-
| ministrdLton, and which, by their sympathy
| with the South, nourish at the North u hos
| tie feeling against the Government, shall be
/ warned to deslst, and if they persist, shall be
| suppress ed Attorney General Bates has been
consulted on the subjsct, and says that the
/ Government would De perfectly Justified in
doing SO.
THg NEW BRA-ERADIcArIoE OF STATE L1ggs-A
NATIONAL ARMY TO Bs ORGASIzED.
| From the Washin ton Correspondence Of the
Philadephis Inquirer.l
4 new era has dawned. The recent order of
| the War Department, ordering TO Washington
| all the regiments now organized in the North
ern States, and all parLs of regiments, even if
| unazued and without uniforms, is but one
| steptp the new order Of things that has been
inaugurated here since the adjournment of
Congress: That step will result in the forma-
| ton of National Army. The men, as they
! arrive here, will be formed into companies
| and regiments irrespective OF States from
| which they come. They will be armed and
uniformed alike-the uniform being the army
| regulation dress of blue cloth. A new
| menclature will be adopted, discarding the
| names OF States, and referring only to the
position WIFI IN the respective regiments will
| occupy In the Grand Army OF the United
| States.
| THg MOB sPIRIr.
The New York Commercial Advertiser,
/ speaking OF the suppression of the nswspa-
pers, says:
| That day will indeed be most calarnitous
| one, when our people will not permit the ut
! terance Of an opinion In opposition to the will
| Of the tyrant ms l0rity. II there is TO ba q
| suppression of free discussion all, let 1t be
done bv soma spiritual or secular autccrat-
| some En- peror, King Pontiff-not by the
| people themselves.
The people Of Concord, Bangor, Haverhill,
| and. lastly, of Westchester county, Pennsyl.
| vania, would seem alike destitute of faith in
| the power of truth and of the first principles
| of liberation. May these be the last ou TRACES
| committed at the North which it will be our
| duty to chronicle.
| ANOTHER PAPER PRESENTED.
| The New York Journal of Commerce says
| We have omitted to state that the Grand Jury
| p-esen ted one paper (the Brooklyn Weekly Ea-
| GLE which has not been in existence for the
! last seven years.
NEW ENGLAND PRESCRIPTION.
IFrcm the Franklin IN. Y Gazettel
"Publishing Secession"-anti-W Wallpapers
| In the New England States is becoming rainier
! a dangerous and unprof liable business
| Palladium.
| Aye--and it was once dangerous" for Bap-
| lists to be found in the same part Of the world
| where these things are happening. 1t was
| once dangerous" for peaceful and incifen-
| sive Quakers to live in this same ted
| New England. Freedom of conscience was
| then no more respected there than Freedom
| of speech and Freedom of the press" are
| now. 1t was once dangerous" in this same
| New England for citizen to sustain the Gov.
| err ment in q war with a formidable foreix u
| power. AS it was this same New England
which, in that war, opposed the Govern
ment, sided with the enemy, burnt blue lights
| upon the coast TO communicate with the
| dations, and plotted and prac ticed treason
against the Government long as the war
| last ted. In this same New England, too,
| a few years since, Catholic Converts were
| destroyed by mob violence, and Irishmen were
| not allowed to bear arms and keep up mill
| tary organization as uniformed militia OF the
State; but now, when they are wanted to do
| the fighting in this abolition war, Original ted
| by New England, they are u ged to form Irish
| regiments, and ali SORTS of compliments are
heaped upon them. And it is this same Won
| derfully patriotic New England which de-
| clared the Union dissolved when Texas was
| anne d, and has been ever since openly and
| deflautly resisting the enforcement of mate
rial provisions Of the Constitution, and in
| dustrous1y sinking the mine which has at
| length blown up tie Union. A great place
! for freedom and toIeration-to all who think,
speak eat, drink, act and dress according to
| the orthodox standard, the prevailing can't,
| aud the puriranicai notions of its pharisee
| Pulpits-and always was.
THE DOVE AND rHK OLIVE BRANCH
These emblems of peace are printed upon
| envelopes just issued by firm in Hartford,
Conn ana are now being sub tituted by the
friends of peace in that State for the warIke
symbols recently SO common on the letter
| envelopes.-N Y. Day Book.
BURNING OF WARsEoUss.-The Tncsr IiarN
Caught.-A telegraphic dispatch, under date
0. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, August %
says:
"The warehouse of Oaks d Austin was
burnt last night with its contents. The fire
was the work of an incendiary, who was
arrested at Mercersburg, and brought to this
place in irons. 1t is generally supposed that
The man arres ted is one of those who robbed
the warehouse OF Mr.. Henderson, II Carlisle,
last week He was member of the Scott
Legion. The evidence against him Is strong,
and it is generally believed tina: he had
completes, who ara still at large. The ware
house Of Mr.. Sha flint was also visited the