The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-30
RICHMOND, va, FRIDAY, AUGUsT 80 1861.
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Afsirs q the North ars rapidly approasI
ing one OF the other of two conditions: sss
Of France under the Raign of Tsrsor aad d
RoBssp1ERHk, or thatof Isaly under the ah3sct
isspotism Of tbs last, the most imbecile ana
the most dsspotia Of the BouRBoss. If Err
COLIN had brains, he might institute IN oves-
whelmiDs terrorism and play vita success tie
role Of RoBEsPIERRE. Bat he lacks braing,
and seems embarked upon the careor Of TIE
royal fool Of Naples, the late King BosBA.
It depends solely upon himself what career
be will pursue, for tho Northern people wil
sndure any sort Of "strong Government"
They ara too besotted in their hatred of TIE
South to care what becomes Of their own
liberties; and even if they had the instincts
Of freemen, they hav~ SO completely lest sll
ideas Of free politics ( not to know the poljey y
Of BoxBA from that Of WAsHnersS orr a
MADISON. &
Infinitely more tyrannical acts have already
been perpetratsd by LrscoLn than by BoxsA
more tyrannical in the fact that they thye
been committed in o land consecra.ed q lib.
erty, rather than in one surrsn dered for sxss to
despotism and in community supposed in
theory to be jealous Of their liberties, and ready
at every moment to defend them, ya.her than
among populace long hopelessly immsrsed
in the night of absolute despotism.
The fact is, that the Northern people neye,
felt in themselves the capacity of self govern
ment; and their whole history during ths ex-
istence of the late Union proves that they
never possessed the faculty of self-rule. The
result has shown that ALEx. HAMILTON was q
wiser man than he was esteemed to be in his
lifetime; that, so far as the Puritan race il
concerned, he was correct in his belief that the
expert msnt Of Republican institutions mus.
fail and that MS policy was eminsntly expe-
dicnt which looked to a gradual transforms.
ton OF our government into q monarchy re-
sembling that of Great Britain. Whoever has
read his plan fer effscting this metamorphosis,
usually denominated his Thorough" will q.
cnce confess, in the light of subsequent his.
tory, that it is the mildest system Of govern
ment that could possibly be adapted to the
giddy, the treacherous, the self-seeking, tie
Iebellioas New England race, whose ingrained
cowardice is equal to their conceit, aad who
only need bold and tyrannical master to be
the most abject slaves in the world.
If the question had been left to the states
men Of the North, the Federal Government
would long siuce have usurped and conseIi-
dated all political power on the continent, and
been transformed into monArchy-iimiied,
possibly, in theory, but possessing all the
powers necessary to an energetic rule indepen-
dent of the people. The "blsck cockade y
Federalists of 1898 were all as good monarch
lists as HAMILTON himself, who was their lead
er; and though JOHN ADAMS was aa homes,
Republican in feelings and principles, he vas so
actuated by PIcKER1Ea, WALccrT and Nc
HENaY-the crafty tools whom HAMILTON kert
in his Cabinet-that he left the Government
with the alien and sedition laws in full force
with an army, regular and irregular, of nearly
hundred thousand men, organized and un-
der the command of HAafLToEss General
in Chief; and with q political organization
ready, but for the tremendous uprising of the
people in the elsction of JEFFERSON, to carry
out their plan Of consolidating and monarch
izing the Government. If the Northern states.
men who, at that. time, held control Of the
Government had not been ignominiously ban
ished from power, and the Government placed
under the control of Southern nen--whsre i.
remained until the accession Of LISeeLN-the
despotic measures which have been insugu.
rated in 1861 would have been put in fcrce
in 1900.
It is difficult to realizs the truth of these
statements; hut whoever viii turn back to the
history Of American politics during the ADAMS
Administration, will find that the 'hlack cock
ade" Federalists possessed no confidence in the
republican experiment of government then
making, and were laying deep and sure plans
for essentially changing the character Of ou,
political institutions. Another four years o.
popular deception, another term of Northern
Administration, would have consummatsd the
plans of the arch-conspirators, and given them
power to defy the people and their grea'
Southern leaders,
At last, the same New England couasels
have again obtsined control If the Fedora
Government; but the power is held, not by
great men capable Of vast designs, like HAM
ILroN, but by the msrest drivel!ers and clowns
Of the stamp Of BoMBA LINCOLN, who live
from hand to mouth, floating upon the surface
of events, incapable of divining or preparing
for to day the events Of to- morrow.
) Tee South has but to maintain formidable
belligerent attitude for year to bring about
at the North, by means of the power which
the Northern army will place in the bands Of
few, the same state Of things which prevailed
in France during tho sway of RoBEsprEREE
or in the Kingdom Of Naples under the stolid
despotism of BoMBA. Probably the state Of
things will assimilate to the condition of botl
France and Naples for while tho imbeeility
of BoaBA viii reign in tho seats of authority
the despotism of q swarm Of military cap.
tains will spread terror over the community
The South has only to bide her time, and al
the tyrannical and evil passions which rsnkls
in the bosom Of the New Eagland race viii
bs lighting her battles for her In six month,
ct the North. sss1
i A FALL II TIA ALPs.-A French Baroness
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