The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-11
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WASHING ON, Jan. 3th, 1851.
If 1t be true that the Fedora! cavalry were
sent TO Harper's Ferry al the request Of the
Superin tendent, il will become my duty To
make known some ugly facts Ia con nectiou
herewith. 1t is no time for men To iamper
with the safety of Virginia. See where we
are even now. Fortress Monroe is strongly
garrisoned by the soldiers of power which
proclaims itself de,ermined to coerce any or
all seeding States. Fort Washington on the
Potomac, though oo Mary yland soil Commands
the commerce OF Atexsndria, every one of
whose ships must now pass under the guns of
the Buchanan Scott administration--for it Is
very evident thai Scouts energy is at the bot
tom of recent movements Last but NOT least
Harper's Ferry is in the hands of the enemy,
and all its munitions of war ready To ba
used in coercing Virgtniai II she dars 70 resent
the threats of Buchanan aud Lincoln. Shall
we sit q uietly and permit the manacles u be
welded ON every limbl Theu kaow nothing
If the character of Virgiaians.
l. will be remarked that soldiers are sent
hi her and thI her Ia secret, not openly aud
above board ID this mean nothing Some
say hat the rs ar of the West" Is bound not
to Charleston, but To Pensacola, and the idea
receives partial confirmation from the plan of
subjugating the South developed by General
Scott privately a month or more az which
was to land a large army In the Slate Of Ms
sissippi and another at Pensacola, aud for the
two armies 10 figh, their way toward each
other until they mef, ard a Gordon OF military
posts was established in the very heart of the
Cotton States. On the other hand, the CoaSn-
tuition, of this morning, affirms that the 'Star
OF the Wesr did go TO Charles ton, and that Sc
cretary Thompson resigned because this was
done in defiance of the pightea word OF The
Admins IA tiuD, and win tut his Knowledge.
Here is the third perjury OF Buchanan =
FIRST, his honor was pledged 10 the mem oers
of South Carolina aud 10 Gov. Floyd sec bnd,
to M r Boteier In regard TO Harper's F-rry;
third, to Secretary Thompson. And General
Scott Is a party tu this viola ion uf piedxes.
Wnen We nave to deal with those wno violate
their solemn engagements, Il IL NOT high tlms
Tor Virginia to take her welfare into her own
handsl
Gen Lane is OF opinion that the bes, chance
for peace is for Virginia 10 act promptly All
the border s 'ates look to her l received u
letter from Knoxville yesterday, which ciosrs
thus: " Tennessee Will, Ieel certain, call a
Convention next week, and consult win Vir.
giuia, and whatever she (VIrgiuia) does, we
will do with all our night" Browniow, by
a gentleman of my acquaintance now here,
sent Tins message To Andy Johnson: Tell him
tnat he ana are ia the same bed ut iasI, and
that l am ashamed OF hin." As 6otn hate
eacn other as they do the devil. tnis message
Will dIsgruntle Andy not u little.
Last hight asked a member from Texas
how his State would act. He replied by read-
ing IL passage from "a letter just recei, eu: I'VE
shall elect Frank Latham 10 the Convention,
because he is In favor vi Texas goins out yester
day'-thal is to say, one day Ia ud vance OF i'm
mediateiy. Latham lives Pint Isabel.
the Rio Grande, where there egrOes at
all. He is Connecticut mau by birth, but
In case of Il general war, We snaii have three
Texas Rangers to rely on, viz: Ben McCul-
loeb, Jack Hayes, and Major Bell, nvinE
in North Carolina. Give each OF these re-
nowned partisan leaders three hundred picked
horsemen 60 command, aud we should have
three whirlwinos of desIr NC ton whose rapid
forays the North could neither anticipat nor
resist.
Mr.. Pryor's absence from your meeting last
night, is attribu table, am rod, the fact
that he failed to get any ,elegrapnic response
| to his letter accepung the cali to speak on that
occasion.
General Duff reen, through The Y Her
aid, announces his belief that Lincoln Is not
unwilling TO accept a compromise which Uon-
gress might make, but which he himself could
not The Tribune, urged oI by rs W Ashington
correspondents j. r >" Is much alarmed at
The prospect. But, then, friend just from
New York, tells me that four-nIths of
the Democracy there are In favor OF coercion,
aud one Saerman, OF that city, an influential
politician, reached here last night in sfats OF
freDZied passion against the South. So, al
least, heard.
AT the Theatre, yesterday evening, ! saw
Hackett play Sir Psrtinax MacSy Gu p6ant -
He is a capital actor Miss Alice Pacids
Mann, stylish. pretty, graceful, spirited wo.
man, play ed her part admirably.
The weather this morning is as capricious
and unreliable Buchanan's cons. ieGce-
When l went TO breakfast, it was snowirK;
when left the hotel tor the DOS l-a ffice IL las
showing again and now il DON'T know exact
iy what it is doing. l believe IL Is trying o
rain.
Wilson, the Massachusetts cobbIer, speaks
in the Srna,e to-day. Unwilling 10 muddy
| my boots for his sake, 1 have stayed al home
and writ en- Till am as tired as your readers
will be when they get through this letter.
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