The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-02
FROM waSHINCTON.


WAsHtNaTox, Dec 81. 1860.
Last day Of the year--a year that beg .n so
happily. Who would have thought Ii could
end so sadly. Bat this is no time to moralze.
Every body seems overcome with glo Jm this
morning The papers are fun of new trou-
bles. Daily they thicken round us IL seems
night we were satisfied that .h"mpson and
Thomas had gone out with him. NV the ru-
NOR Is that Anderson will be 'rdsl ru oacx TO
Fort Moultrie, and Floyd will resume ms
place in the Cabinet This is not likrlv 1t
will eusure the resignation Of the four ST Gre
taries from the North.
Members from Georgia were certain, night
before last that Forfs Pulaski and Jacks N
nad been seized by the Savannah people No
such Information has been received by t.ne
pa$iic We are beginning to feel here that ~
As tlEae The Sou thern people are having an eye
20 all The fOrtiiications which Will come INTO
Lineo.n 5 hands in q few weeks. Come what
may, peace or war, we ought 10 be prepared
There sssonld be no delay about getting tn
several States in the best possible eondition
for defence. Ammuniti>n must at oLce De at
tened to.
Whether the South Carolipians attack Fort
Stunt or Dos, its occupation by Anderson
tends to prevent ANY hing Ike compromise
If they do not attack il, the Republicans will
call them cowards IL they do, ana are ce-
teated. The Rppu blicans will laugh at them -
If they capture it, of which there IS little pro.
babillty, the Republicans wiz set up noWl
against the rebels. Even now he 5 atps nt
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, View YORK
aud Pennsylvania are ORGANIZING faEge bodies
OF volunteers TO assist the q VERT uics. IN en-
forcing the iaws-ln other words, 10 heif - i'll
cOercing the South. II OFthera papers are Soi-
lant over ABderson's successful trick.
On the other nand the Presidents refusal 20
send Anderson back to Fort Moultrie WI II be
a gross violation of his written pledge 10
main tain the status quo, and that will III fla
the whole South. Should the Caarlesto touians
commence hostilities, they will he jus ifed on
the ground that the Federal Government has
periured itself and assumed a threatening and
qnast belligerenL attitude. So il is, the Union
appears to he "belween the Devil aud the deep
sea-" There is no escape either way-no
chance 10 save it, Every attempt to restore
reace has served only 10 make peace impos-
sible.
MIR. Ben jamin speaks this morning. In Il
letter just pu b shed ne touches the core of our
grievances. The passage is so important that
L must give it entire. He declares
That he feeling of very larpe number tif not
majority Of tue people OF the n nth IL utterly
hostile to ,nte ests that this feelln, has been
Rstied into the present generation from IT'S IN :
that the people OF the North arc reseonsible tor
The existence Il slavery IN the South; tina TINS
convl3tiCn OF q personal responsibility tor what
they eEroneuusS teeVe to be u SIN, springs chic
" rom the consideration tnat they ae with US,
Union Itself rs thus made the principal cause ol
hostile interference by them with our Ii stitu-
tIons.'
Our only safety therefore, is in a govern
| ment with which the people of the North
shall have nothing on earth TO do. While we
are under the same oof, there will ai,rayS he a
family quarrel. Let US have two houses; then
each mau's house will be his castle, and any
interference in our domestic iustitu ,ions will
he as J0stlfia bic and rs probable as that the
Yankees VIII interfere with tue private con-
Germs of Brazii, Spain, or any -Sther foreign
nation. Let us listen, then, to 40 comprO
mise which shall keep together, and give
the n Nnrth pretext Qt is all they TanD for
meddling with our affairs. LkD.