The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-12
viii the Legislature Leave the State De-
fencelcssl

In view OF the &C hemes said to be silently con
coctiug at Washington for the subjugation OF
the South the People ofvirginia desire to know
If the State and it's capital are to be left ex-
posed 10 a sudden ineurson of an armed body
from Washing ton, such ne 1t Is alleged liz al
ready projected for the purpose Of selling the
Armory, munitions of war, and other sources
OF supplies to the Southern States. II the
Conven ton will do nothing will not the Lee
gislature at least put the State in attitude
Of defence by passing the bills for that pur-
pose which received the unanimous sanction
Of he lower House before LIScoLS's Coercion
Inaugural had appeared II they will not,
then we trust the People at the assailable
points of Virginia will at once organize, and
under competent military advisers, construct
such temporary defences and establish such
A look out As will save the State from a sud
den surprise. We should like TO know why
there Is necessity for the u. S. Government
TO arm and man a fort on the Potomac River
| and keep up and increase an army of thou
| sand regulars at Washington, and none Tor
| Virginia to throw up a single outworE, or put
| single company in the field to defend Its
| soils
Noefort says the Washington correspondent
| of the Examiner, will be left untried to paci-
| fy Virginia, so to give time for the Govern
ment 10 accumulate its resources, 10 make
| Old Point impregnable, and thus have the
| State of Virginia controlled at all the
| strategic points that she cannot move, and a
| sufficient number of troops to move rapidly
| on 10 Richmond and seize the Armory, pow
der, arms and munitions of war. The follow
ing extracts show that under the velvety pro-
LESSONS of peace, the claws of the tiger are
beginning to move
| THE policy of Seward is to gain time. Gen.
Scott does not like to undertake general war
without collecting all his resources, and getting
in from the frontier many troops as possible
II Is given out already that the Federal troops
here, reaching nearly thousand, are to be large
| ly reinforced Everything is TO be got ready TO
be Cspits In event of their attempt to seeede
Mr.. Lincoln has decided upon the policy he
intends 10 pursue, and it viii be fully carried out
by Gen. Scott, through the War and Navy Depart
Gen Scott Secretary Holt. Geu. Cameron nd
the Secretary Of the Navy, were in conference for
J ,everal hours to-day. They were srransDe
matters looking the reinforcement of forts sum
Ter and Pickens. and 1t will be carried out very
"Gen. Scott has been studying this matter fully
for some time, and IT is u understood has arranged
1t to his entire satisfaction. H /. Of the opinion
? that reinforc, ments can be thrown into Fort sum
ter easily and with but little los Of life. Major
Anderson, however, is Of different opinion
Ne believes 1t would be useless to send less thar
fifteen or twenty thousand men to Char lesion har
Dor. THIS number would be able to silence thei1
batteries and o. h1r means Of defence, and sue
= "Assfully reinforce sumter with men aud sup
= plies.
= Both arms, the Army and Navy. of the Gov
: eminent will be actively employed for some TIM
7 20 come n carving GU tn policy Of the new AID
| miuistraton. Orders to this effect have, il ID be
= l'eyed, ALREADY been issued and 1t was fer TIL
, | reason that Colonel Cooper, Adiutant General
- | through whose department all orders have to b.
issued, resigned his position IN the army Jher
. will DE other designations OF distinguished officer
- | when this matter is fully known
5 Again. ask, will the Legislature adjourn
and leave, the State defenceless' In the Ian
p | guage of the Exam liner:
p. 1--WE are standing on the uttermost edge of
| great precipice and do not know the meme Mt W
; shall be topped over. When armies are about t
act they do not publish their intention for the IN
! formation Of their adversaries or their victims
: ON any day we may find the telegraph wires cut
h and see ext mnrp three or four thousand regu
. lar troops Cling through our streets. on their " a
e seize all defensibe points not already in the1
II hands,