The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-15

0oldsnealf, In Cooper 16annikins, says 10
his son, Government II IN danger loans and
regiments II thou wilt. Give ~ more order !;
wholesome taxes. to accnstom the nation TO
contribats 70 its own wants and sustain it,
| credit"
This all sounds inarvelou.ly like the cry
now abroad at the North. From the Presi-
dent down to the Trays, Blanches and Sweet.
hearts of the war Journals, all bark to the
same tune. Government, It 10 tue, 10 in
started by the thief himself, the danger is
from the men who raise the cry. Who is it
that, having obtained control or the Govern.
| nent, has violated every fundamental guar
Who lie 1t that has placed the civil and roliti.
cal rights of our people at the pleasure of An
unrestricted military power, subject TO the
arbitrary and anti-republican caprices Of
what IL entitled ga military necessity ?" The
war President. Who is II that has made the
| civil subordinate to the military power 7
| This same chief executive officer, who had
solemnly sworn to preserve and defend that
| Constitution, whose provisions he has 30
| rnthlessiy trampled under foot
Give us mole order, toe, is the cry; "bayonets
are what we want, and good, wholesome
taxes" "Order" once, We have understood,
| 'reigned in Warsaw" and 1t was es tablished
there because the Russian artillery had de-
stroyed its noble defenders, and silenced for
ever the voice of the patriots who fell fighting
| in defence Of its liberties This is ever the
kind Of order that waits upon the bidding of
| bayonets. II is the .'order' tyrants seek for
| 1t comes only at such bidding. 1t is "order, -
| out simply the regulation of arbitrary power.
1t is the same order that now reisns in op-
pressed Baltimore, and in the State of which
| IT is the chief city. Maryland is still q State
| in this Union, faithful " all the obligations
| conquered enemy. Her soil is occupied; her
property and that of her citizens seq tered
her public highways seized and Gus true ted
her laws suspended, and her chief city con-
M mil Me-, ,C,,u
vens! How long is it to pe before the people
| OF the North VIII awake To the awful res pom
| sibilities of their position?
Depraved and hardened in falsehood and
| deceit was the brain that conceived and the
| hand that penned the Presidents recent mes.
| sage. IL Is Il tissue OF miss u tements, peryer-
| sions OF well known historical facts, illogical
| deduc tiOns, and i'm pudent propositions from
| beginning to end. IL is untrue that the oriri-
| nal policy OF Mr.. Lincoln was ITO exhaust
| peaceful measures before resorting to stronger
| ones" He declared the ontrary in nearly
| every one OF the speeches he delivered be.
! tween Springfield ana Harris burg, and in his
| war proclamation he distinctly ayerred that
| his inaugural Address meant war 1t is I'M
true that 'he only intended, originally, to
| hold the places hot yet wrested from the dow
| eminent" 1n his inaugural he openly
threatened to retake "al property belonging
10 the United States" and, at Indianapolis
| an army in to South Carolina "would not be
| INVASION" and that to seize the fortresses in
| the hands of the seeding States would not be
| coercion. The whole Fort Sumter story, as
rela ted by the President, ls so UNANIMOUSLY
mendacious that no one acquainted with the
real Facts OF the case, or VINO has read the
| statements of Judge Campbell and of the
| three Commissioners from Montgomery, can
| fail TO pronounce the fabrieations it contains
| more worthy OF the denizen OF State prison,
| than OF the head of an enlightened people
| Line by line, the sentences OF the Presidential
| apology for enGeayoring to re-enforce and
ara So lrad h
| deliberate untruths, that each syllable may
| De said to embody some separate iaisehood OF
its own.
Mr. Lincoln passes from his Fort Sumter
| romance to the beginning OF the war He
| falsely states that mo choice was left but TO
| call out the war power of the Government I.
ana so to resist the force employed for its de-
| struction by force for its presery alton No
choice left BY the advice of his Abolition
| associates. he actually swindled the country
in to the fratricidal conflict which he so baseIy
| inaugurated. Neither could he summon .ont
| the war power OF the Government" for ont
| side OF the twelve thousand men Composing
| the Federal army such a "war power'' did
not exist, nor could it, without perjury, be
created by him. Neither had any force been
employed for the =" destruction of the Govern
| ment," and consequently no "force for its
| preservation" was needed. From SO baseless
| and empty preface, Mr.. Lincoln goes on
to justify his subsequent proceedings. in
| the teeth of his pretended respect for au-
| thority, he recognizes the bogus Governor and
| Legislature of Western Virginia, and mis-
| states the material facts connec ted with the
action OF that State. He says that the call fer
| three years volunteers was "ventrred upon,
| whether legal or not, under what appeared to
be necessity. trusting then, as now, that
Congress would ratify the samel'' He then
proce eds to justify the violation OF the suspen.
| sion OF the writ of ho6eds corpus, with a de
| tail of untruths with respect to the cause of
| that high handed measure, which we shall
| take a future occasion to expose as they de
L 1 a ntnh .3Hne- AaYs a.
| ing seldom equaled, he endeayors to show
| that the trainers of the Cons ,itu ton intended
to intrust the President with the power of
setting the writ aside, al though in the preced
| ing paragraph he had virtually confessed that
he mad been guilty Of e. shameful usurpation
| in doing so.
| In face of the fact that the relations of the
| U. States with foreign Powers are of the mos
| pTecarious description. and that we are, per-
| haps, on the eve of a war with both Great Bri-
tain and France, and not ilnpossibiy Spain,
Mr.. Lincoln asserts that general SYM thy
| is manifested with this country throughout
| the world" Nevertheless, he confesses that
| his own policy had led them TO believe that the
''early destruction Of our National Union was
| probable" He then proceeds 10 the single
paragraph which embodies all for which he
really felt compelled to call Congress together
| namely, to obtain money. He wants, he says,
Eat least $4,000 men and $500 DOC, 900 and pre-
| supposes debt for the present year Of no less
| than 5000 900 .0Q0, which he hppantly tells US
| is really no amount at all, "a less sum per
| head than was the debt of our Reyolutio
| when we came out Of that strugg lie; and sure.
ly,' he con tinues, ''each man has as tropg a
motive now to preserve our liberties On as eac
| had then TO establish them" What reckless
subiimity of imposture "Our liberties" to
| be ''preserved' by bankrupfing the Repnblic
| in order to enslaye ten millions of our fellow
citizens, and reduce their territory 10 the con-
| dition of Wretched, subjugated province
The remainder of the message is exclu.
| sively devoted to a miserable essay on State
sovereignty, in which the exploded errors OF
/ Federalism are sWamped in SO silly, discon-
| nected and siovenly manner, that even our
| most ferocions Republican contemporaries are
ashamed and Disguised with the performance.
| He lnterlards IL with pusillanimous appeals
| al mtserfcOrdfam, bad jokes and hypOcri.i.
cal buncombe for the benefit Of the Bsecher
| ana Tying school Of parsons, which are sim
ply nauseous. The only true statement this
| or any other portion OF the document con
tains Is, that not single regiment has been
| sent South "out of which a President, Cabi.
| net and Congress could not be selected 4" az
good as those now in Washington. No sensi.
| BILE man will dispute this. Mr. Lincoln would
| have been nearer the truth had he declared
| that 1t would be impossible to choose from
| the very worst regiment, even in Missouri
| Chief Magistrate and Government more
| untru thful, dishonest and undeserving OF
public confidence.
THR hAxAwHA VALLRY.-A member Of the
Valley Rangers (Wise's Legion) writes to the
| Rockingham Register:
| We are encamped upon the lands which the
Father OF his Country" donated from Con.
gress. as free gift for services rendered in the
| Kevo!u tion-lands selected by himself, and