The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-25
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WARRINGTON, Feb. ~, 1851
We are all agog to-day With excitement The
streets are packed with military. dust, mill.
merry, nisgers, and folks on sway backed horses.
fresh from the country this very morning -
An odor, rs OF mingled fodder ana fried bacon.
is waited from these bucolic Marvlantiers and
raw Nirginians, as they pass you. Rural bug
gies, each occupied by Il clodhopper and clod-
hopperess, and drawn by fiea-bitten mares.
are epidemic. Sporodic cases of ancient sui.
keys may be seen. The town is broken out
with perfect small pox of eager females Ii
rs continent, Tor now they are running like
mao dogs down Louisiana TO Pennsylvania
Avenue, after the soldiers. Such is the ru shing
TO and FRO the hurry skurry of women and
children, the tramp Of armed men, the clatter
OF hoois, the rafting OF wheels, the ringing of
bells, the bieating of wind ins truments. the
bufabling of drums, and the tweetling of fifes,
that find it almost impossible 10 write. AS
yet, the Federal troops have not made their
appearance. They are the boys we most
want TO see. Several thousand people are
gathered round the City Hall, back of which
one or two batteries of flying artillery are
posted. The great show will begin presently,
and / must hurry through my letter, SO as to
witness it.
1t is undeTs TODD that the Peace Congress
Will come to vote to-day. Reverdy john
sons emascula ton of Guthrie emascula ton
OF Crittepdens amendment VIII be voted Tor
by ali the slave States represented in the Con-
gress and by four of the free States. SO the
South, as usual, becomes the author of its
own shame. The New j ersey Commissioners
were willing 10 vote for the Critteuden amend
ment, and even more man that, but, As have
be fore stated, Southern men, zone of them a
Eirginian. as | hear,1 announced deliberately
that the South was willing 10 accept much
less than 1t asked. 1t is said that Mr.. Tyler
and udge Brochenbroush have gone over to
Messrs. RiNes and Summers, lea, ing Mr.. Sed =
don alone. How true this is, you will be able
to Judge by the time this letter reaches YOU
Reverdy Johnson is the aSsis tant and adyi-
ser of such men as Baker, of Oregon, and An
drew Johnson, OF Tennessee. Will the Con-
ven ton OF Virginia sanction the doubly emas-
culated proposition of the friend and counsel
lor Of notorious Black Republican and an
infamous Southern traitor ? Yes. The Con-
yention has been carefully poled, and we
here know well that the honor Of Virginia is
Ia be sacrificed II the shrine of the new tangled
Union Republican party-a horrid compound
of agraTiaGism and centralZation-free- soil
hideously crossed upon federalism. And the
people OF Virginia will submit to this degra-
dation? Yes. They scared. They are
afraid to demand their rights. Let me tell
them that even the hired troops of the Fed
oral Army now in this city have declared that
they will not fight against the South. But
the people of Virginia are so tilnid that they
dare not claim what New Jersey offers to
give. Poor degenerate Virginia
President Buchanan is often seen a. Brown s
of late. tits supposed that he visits EX- Pres =
ident Tyler to learn what is to be done AT Fort
Sumter led.