The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-13
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ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE DISPATCH

| MosT6oAgRT, ALA, May I, 1851
| Ieace, the first of human blessings, wing
DeeH oenled 10 the people OF this Government
| by the ignorant, barbarous despot at Wash
! ington, the issue of war has been formally ac-
| cepted By their Represen tatives i'll Congress
| congress on yesterday, passed In secret ses-
SION an act which was soon after wards made
| public, enumerating the acts of hostiities and
aggression by the Lincoln Government, in
| tending, 1t declares, ITO overaWe, oppress and
Iludlly sublugtte the peo pie of the COME
| Hte Stttes,' and recognizing the fact that
| war now exists between this Government and
the government OF the United States and the
| states and Territories thereof, except the
states OF Maryland, North Carolina, Tennes.
| see, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri and Del
ware, and the Territories of Arizona and
New Mexico, and the Indian Territory South
of Kansas.
1t also authorizes the President 10 issue to
| private armed vessels letters of marque and
| .eprlsai against the goods and effects of the
Unite states Government and the States
ana territories OF suid Government So the
numerous proposals that the President de-
CARED In his message he had received, besides
the Other applications that are known to have
Teacned MIN since the delivery of his message,
VIII be at once accepted, and bold privateers
so hapihIy styled by the Publicisto of the Uni
yea states " the militia of the seas" and con-
sIdered by them an admirable IDs trument of
defensive warfare, Will intest in brief space
ol tlne the ocean;-when, II Mr.. Lincoln's
Navy Is so fortunate as to make any seizures
of them, we shall see whether the threat re-
Gently made in one of his proclamaions-tha
all prlvateer vessels would be treated as pi-
raucai Crafts-wlii be carried out. II so, il is
hndeT&tood here that the lenity and harmless
pity heretofore shown the adherents of Lin
coin, when taken as prisoners of war, will be
laid aside, and with - wings swift rs medIta-
tlOn, - this Government will sweep to a re-
venge that shall present to the mind of a beast
mus bloody aud unnatural, the picture of his
own followers made 10 kick as summarily
tWi%t Heaven and earth as our unfortunate
pflFateers, when swung from the yard arm of
bis vessels.
A blockade of the harbor at Pensacola
was declared on Friday last and was
TO be enforced on yesterday by the Uni
ted States war vessels six in number
ihe greatest activity prevails among the
Confederate troops around Fort Pickens
General Bragg, 1t Is stated has caused a num-
Der OF vessels TO be sunk in the harbor so AS to
prevent the approach of the United States
Heet. FIFTY thousand sand bags were ordered
by the commander, on Saturday last, and to-
day thousands were sent HIM by the ladies' of
Mon tRomtry, some OF whom, IL is said, deyo-
ted almost the whole of Sunday and Monday
nights to the patriotic work. Large bodies OF
troops are being seut to General Bragg's as
sisttnce. The indica tions favor an early con-
hct- To-day the Continen tails, II magnificent
Mobile company, of one hundred and sixty
men; aud the Sumter Rifles, numbering over
an hundred, besides other companies whose
names | could not learn, reached this city en-
route for Pensacola.
Gov: Brown remarked day or two ago
tnAL III lulFly thousand men We're called for
from Georgia, there were many tenders of
services pressing upon him he would ba forced
10 draw the companies necessary to com pl etc
the requisitton by lot.
Three OF Nirginia's Commissioners TO Con-
gress arrived in this city on observation-disclosures
peterborough, Staples and mpbell
The military power recently shown by the
Old Dominion, to bring into the field at least
one hundred thousand men, as brave as there
are IN the world, accustomed from their in
fancy to the use OF arms, and ready TO die in
the defence of their homes, must have proven
to Northern journals that the 'rich fields and
beautiful gardens" they painted i'll glowing
colors 10 their soldier raj BILE ;ls sure to be the
reward for sordid deeds of blood committed on
her soil, lns tead OF being ''a good deal tram
pied on," (in their 1anguage,) preparatory to
an easy allotment, are far more likely to be
conyefted by their brave owners into burial
grounds Tor The destroying Williams who shall
attempt to pollute them with their tread
Much sympathy and anxiety are felt by the
Government and people here for Virginia
ihey know her bold secession will make her
the "Flanders' of the threatened terribIe
war, and men and women seem alike anxious
TO rush to her rescue. Information concern
ing her is received with eager and painful in
terest.
As l close, salute of twenty guns is being
Hfed, by order OF Gen. Walker in honor OF
the secession of Arkansas and Tennessee
Wo more stars have been added to our frms-
more stripes erased from the |
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