The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-04


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The Military Despetism at Washington.
Bot for the habit which the South has ac- |
auired Of looking only for insult and injury |
from Washington city; but for the disgust |
which has been implanted in our people by |
The latter.day sycophancy Of that city to the |
powers that be, As reflected In the loathsome |
columns Of such papers as the Star-we should
behold its present humiliation with the deep
-, melancholy and indignation. Next to
,acking and burning by bost:ls army, the
.addest fate that can befall refined and pros.
porous city is its occupation by an undisci-
plined soldiery. 1t 10 the fate Of Washington
70 be now In the possession OF the most often
sive species Of soldiery conceiyabls-of men
disg uised In uniforms, without personal idsn-
tity, released from the restraints of home.
bound by neither moral nor civil Law, refined
In by no an hority, and embarked In q career
of legaliaed license and violence. The best
armies that have ever trod the earth have
been demorslized by few months residence
In cities. What must be the effect Of such
residence upon raw recruits taken III Chief
part from the trsgs Of society," and how sad
the fate Of the city itself infested by SUCH
corfu pting and demoraliZing presence
Bat Il 10 not In Its mere local bearings that
the subject pos sssses Its chief significance. is
shat q Government Of the peoples choice
which REQ uires to be upheld by these loath-
some and dangerous appliances Is u the
CAPITAL of the American republic thus Tiled
with a rabble soldiery and bristhng with oayo-
petsf IL IL q free people that these aIIoed
and drunken legions are 1narshalled tc.tlher
70 menacet Are the people stu free, aye the
States really sovereign; u 1t Goyernaent
faithful to the Constitution; is 1t to enforce
tho laws Of the statute book, or To carry into
eject the arbitrary edlcts of power-that
these anomalous and revolving scenes ale wit
messed at the capitalf jim LANE, The Kansas
murderer marauder and thief--is the moral
sense of the North so dull, are Its intellects 80
daft, as TO accept him as the genius Of order,
As the prop Of the Union and Constitution, as
the knight sans pour ct sans reproehs of the
Stars and Stripesi 1t required thousand
wears TO achieve the downfall Of Rome, and
It's 70 in was begun and ended by vicious SOL
diery. Sixty days have sutticed fer the de-
moralizs ton of the powers at Washington,
and, with blind infntuation, they seem to
have brought around them the very agents for
sfrsc ting their speedy overthrow.
These troops will not be allowed to Invade
the South. If they have the hardwood to en-
ter our domains they will be driven back,
beaten and disappointed, to the den which
they have made of the Federal Capital -
They will be there nominaily to defend what
will not be attacked. The most effective cam
paign the Sou tn can make against the Federal
Capital now that Maryland cannot be pe-
cured, 10 TO keep It full Of Federal troops
sy-h ho thar ha do will ypa a
a workshop Of their idle brains. Their mouth
will be full of com plant, their heart full Of
mutiny, their eye upon the Government
Gan Congress deliberate freely III the presence
of ruae and insolent soidierys With mus
kets, CIV ,lassss and pistols in the gallery, what
BECOMES Of free speech on the floor Will
the treasury BE- safe VIII LIScoLN himself
ind In hts boon companion, jim LANE, and his
band Of HUMANS, q sufficient protection
1t was a fearful experiment Of the Federal
Government TO aband the arguments Of rea
son and to invoke the arm Of force. The
most dangerous Of all nenials is an army
They who invoke 1t cannot dismiss it. They
are at once its masters and its slaves. If they
fail 70 fud 1t task after task Of blood and ra-
pine, II they leave 1t but q short time In re-
pose, 1t will tear them in pieces. LINCOLN has
the fate Of DIonsoRs may be his, who was
dsvoured by the very horses whom he had
taught TO eat the flesh and blood Of men. AL
most every Northern State has deliberately
infractsd the Constitution; he himself has
insuItsd the laws. How can he expect his
Northern msrcsnaries to respect either the
one or the otherf The army Of CROMWELL
overthrow the very Parliament that had
called 1t into being, and from which 1t had
long received its orders. But the army OF
CloAwBLL was little more than band OF
soldiers. They regarded themselves as q
band Of saints, and ravsd from the tops OF
tubs against the men Of Belial "until every
trooper thought himself prophet" But,
whether soldiers, saints or prophets, they
were not too good to cut off the head OF their
King, and to kick out of doors their Parlia-
meut.
The moment the Federal Government re-
solved to call An army into existence, that
moment its doom was decreed. The moment
. republican government ceases to stand py
reason and the consent Of the governed, that
moment 1t ceases TO be republican. 1t becomes
then but q military despotism, whose LIE ID
ever brief and bloody, and its end SUICIDAL
The invocation of military force by LINcoLS
was virtual cancellation Of the Constitution
and dissolu ton Of the Uonfederacy. The Oon-
sutution was ordained to establish "psrfse'
Uatos," and his regiments were called out to
destroy 1t. The Union was established for the
general good q the States /; his regiments
were designed to carry destruction into hall
Of them. LIEcoLH has oyerthrown the Con
sutution and the Union. His army will In
the end make a finish of him.
Major Anderson.
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