The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-16
The False Prophet Unveiled.

button as well as OF safety.
The False Prophet Unveiled.
We confess we are surprised at the sud
den unwilling OF the False Prophet at Wash
ingion. We thought we knew the man and
his retainers. The moral and in tellec tual struc-
ture OF that breed of dogs has been our study
and entertainment from early youth. No
branch Of natural history has ever given us
such exquisite and varied satisfaction as the
investigation of the peculiarities, prejudices
passions, and, above all, the magnificent SCI
cretiyeness of the Puritan family. We have
long ago satisfied ourselves that the dis tine
tive defects and vices of this chosen race, this
elect of the nations, this peculiar people, had
become inwrought into their physical organi-
cation, 80 that they were transmitted from
parent 10 child for generations, like any other
disease that flesh is heir to. In their business
transactions, in their social intercourse, III
their virtues and their vices, their peryadIng
and eternal reserve aud secrecy never for
one moment forgotten. Nothing but the great
Day of Judgment can ever lay bare their
hearts to any eye but their own, and no tur-
tie caught without its she'll and set upon and
deyoured by its INSCRIPTIONS companions,
ever suffered such fortunes Us those lovers OF
darkness will endure when, at the last day,
their spcretive souls are drawn out OF their
shells, and exposed with all their plots, trea-
sons aud stratageIns, TO an assembled uni
verse.
From the very beginning of these troubles,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN has shown that of all the
secret and reticeut men of the Yankee race,
he was the most reserved and taciturn. A
great faculty this, if exercised in good cause
and infinitely more respec table than the To-
ouacious weaknesses of n garTulous genera
ton But then, if exercised against your
friends if, whilst your unarmed neighbor is
trusting to your professions of peace and
friendship, you cover with this mantle OF re-
ticence an intention to fire his house and cut
his throat, it becomes quality not much TO
be reyerenced There has been but one man
in the present century who hasequailed ABRA-
HAM LINCOLN in the combined secretiveness,
hypocrisy, and diabolism OF his character
The name of this man was WILLIAMS, and he
fiourished in London about the year 1905
Whoever will read " Three Remarkable Muir
ders," by De QUISCBY, Will find the most mys-
terious and remorseless murderer OF the nine
tenth century the exact counterparto of ABRA-
HAa LINCOLN. This man was so clVll in his
demeanor that if, by chance, in passing
through the street, the professional instru-
ment which he carried under his cloak brush
ed against a passer-by, he would stop and
apologize for the accident; and yet, so purely
devilish in his heart that when he had silently
entered tavern in quest of victim, his evil
passions gave such an Internal expression to
his face that the poor wretch, whose blood he
sought, without knowing who he was or what
he wanted felt she was doomed, and, dropping
down upon her knees, the involuntary excla-
nation was wrung from her lips, Lord
God, have mercy on me-"
But il is doing great injustice to this eminent
artist" as DE QUINCY calls him, to liken
the urderer of a few families to ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, or any of his Cabinet WILLIAMS
may have had the genius of LINCOLN, and
possibly the thirst for blood; but he never had
the opportunity. Here is this man, pro-
Tossing for months TO desire a peaceful solu-
ton of existing difficulties, deliberately, per
sistently, with malice aforethought, cajoling
the friendly, credulous Virginia Convention,
till he has made them believe he did not in
tend coercion he did not intend to seize the
Southern ports he did not intend to collect
the public revenue, and that all his thoughts
were bent Oh peace. Thus has he tolled them
on and kept them believing, waiting and
hoping, as betrayed maidens are allured to
w
ready for blood and we are--where? Yes,
where? At his feet AT his mercy In all
Virginia, not one fort-not one redoubt-not
one earthwork-every fort and arsenal in the
hands of the Goyernment-divided among
ourselves by bitter feuds, and seventy five
thousand men gathering in the Northern
States to sweep down in al avalanche upon
our unprotected homes and iFesides
ha MAJ liz months. from
the moment of his election, has been rolling
as u sweet morsel under his tongue, the plot
which is now beginning to develope itself at
last to the horror of the most credulous. He
A. Il fanatic vulgar fanatic of the Tri6Une
stamp fodr of whose editors he has APP
poin ted to foreign missions; a fanatic of the
Independent stamp, which paper is his pet of
all the Abolition papers, and is regarded i'll
his house as a family bible. JOHN BRoWS
himself did not hate the South with Il more
deadly hatred, nor keep more secret his in
formal plan. The animus of the whole Cab
met may be gathered from reply made by
CHASE TO a question of a Kentucky gentleman.
- Sir" said CHASE, 1--WE care nothing for the
negro, but we hate his master" The purpose
of these men is wholesale murder and mas
sacre we are to be invaded with fire and
sword the horrors of seryile war if possible,
are to be added to those Of civil war our
fields are 10 be laid waste, our houses de
stroyed and If we resist we are to be sho:
down or hung as rebels and traitors. Such is
the programme which LINCOLN has been
creuy meditating, whilst inducing the friends
of Union in the South to believe that he was
for peace, and therefore to wait, and leave
their forts in his hands and make no prepare
tons to defend their homes, their wives and
children and their household gods, and to
denounce agitators and incendiaries every
one who raised a warning voice TO put the
people on their guard and waken them to pre-
pare for the coming war.
Such preparation would have ayerted that
war. A common Union of the South would
have saved the South from that gigan tic tribu-
lation which is now impending over her head
Its too late now. The procrastinators, in their
credulity and prejudice have left us on the
eve of such caiamities as this Continent has
never seen. For the whole Southern race
men, women and children will die, before
ABRAHAM LINCOLN shall be master of the
Southern States.
Nirginia's Quota.
The number Of fighting men that Virginia