The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-23
The Northern PreRrsm ma.

The Northern Programme.
A renegade Englishman, by the name of BA-
kxn, is making himself conspicuous in the SEN
ate of the United States by his excessive zeal
for the conquest of tho South. In late
speech, not As late a. Sundays battle, how
ever, he says: Tho President has asked US
for siOo, 5000 No propose to give him $780,
100000. He has asked us for 400, 900 men We
propose to give him half million. want sud-
den, bold, forward and determined war and
do not think anybody can conduct a war of
that kind A. we'll as Dictator. hope to be
among the Last of all men willing to lay down
| arms ct ell. 1 will never vote to do it till,
without treaty, tho flag of the United States
wares over every portion of its territory, and
over population either enthusiastically rally
! ing beneath its shadow, or else abjectly SUBJ
ject to its sway" "We may have to reduce
the Southern States to the condition of terrific
ries, and send from Massachusetts or Illinois
Germans to control them" We give these ex-
quisite excerpts as specimens of the spirit and
temper of the Rump.
This miserable adventurer, BAKER, is almost
as implacable as his olel master, GEORGE the
Third, who was determined never to surrender
bis dominion in America, but who fonnd reason
in the course of time to adopt wiser resolu-
ton. Yet, after all, what was gained by
tn rowing off the yoke of royal tyrant, if it
is to be succeeded by the worse despotism of
vulgar military despotism? Who would not
rather be ruled by the gentleman GEORGE than
by the loafer BAKER, THAckHRAY once
said that an English snob was the most ire
deemable Of all snobs, and it Is equally true
that an English radical is the most arbitrary
of al despots. No country is the world has
a nobler class Of gentlemen I'D patriots than
the English aristocracy. But, Heaven deliver US
f-om such specimens of vulgarity, audacity
and arrogance as sometimes ind their way to
these shores, and of which this adventurer
BAKER, who has crawied into the chamber
| once occupied by WEBSTER, a CLAY and
CALHOUN, is conspicuous exa mple.
1t is an ext raordinary spectacle-one which
might well mako rejecting men in the North
shudder for the future-when they see for
eigner standing on the fosr Of the U. S. SEN
ate procaiming an imperial programme for
the "abject subsection" Ct their Southern
States into territories and provincss-for
Dictator, und FIVE hundred thousand
men, backed by five hundred millions of
dollars-and this programme sup ported by
vast standing army, consisting principally of
foreign people! Is anything American left
IN the United States? The Constitution tram
pied under foot, a military dsspotism the &C.
knowledged master of the country, and that
despotism sustai ned by a foreign army!
In another portion Of his speech, Mr.. BA-
KER declares that after the South is con-
ouered, "you have no more neAd of standing
army. Twenty thousand man are more than
ample for all the military purposes Of this
Governmsnt in time Of peace" It is scarce
ly necessary to say that the man who speaks
thus is either a fool or az imposter. If he
does not know enough of American character
to know that there is not single State in tho
Union, whether in the No nth or South, which
could be held in subsection by such peace
establishment as he spea ks of, no is unfit to
enlighten bar-room audi tory, and If he does
know better, he is wilfully deluding the North
ern people to a state Of things which will re-
quire a permanent standing army larger than
that which LINcoLn fss alrea'r m the field
There is another visw Of the CO SO which the
North may contemplate at us leisure, when
returning reason gives it an pportunity to
calculate the consequences of it's present cru
SADIE against the South. 1t has established
the maxim, by tho popular sanction as we'll as
| by the vote OF Congress, that "the end justif.s
| the means" that the President of the United
| States may violate the Constitu ton, and per-
| lure his soul, as it is conceded LINCOLN has
done in six separate and distine ct particulars,
he himself being the judge pf whether the
public interests demand a collation. of the
| Constitution or not. 1t has talled into exis-
tence gigantic standing army, composed of
| foreign mercen..ries, with the avowed purpose
| of 6epriving all the States Of every vestige Of
| right tAat ia recognized in tas Federal Con-
| stitution. And it insanely expects that such
to its own injury that such inventions as
these will never zetu m to plague the inven-
tor that this vast standing army, with the
return of peace, will dissolve like some colos-
sal iceberg beneath. the rays of a Southern
sun, and leave no tr ace upon the troubled wa
tiers. What grand delusion! If the South
is conquered, constitutional liberty is dead in
America. The very n anne of Republication
will stink in the nostrils of all mankind. The
world will detest and an alternative Is the
bassst, because the most hypocritical of all
dsspotisms, the usurping dynasty in Wash
ipgton, which surpasses the worst tyranny of
Kings, yet has the disgust ing effrontery to
call itself free Governms mt. The foreign
mercenaries, upon whom i: has relied to fight
its battles, will feel thsis pow and cause it to
be respected. Most of their. Ger mans, upon
whom it depends for tho 80 EDUCATION of the
South, are quite as much Fed Repu hlicans as
Black Republicans, and the North, which, Sec
ing the probable danger to its property and
rights from that source, set on foot the Know
Nothing crusade, will yet have rcsson to repent
in dust and ashes that she has endowed a pop
ulati on which, even by the regular accretions
of immigration, was becoming n formidable
element. with weapons for the subsection of
others, which may be easily turned to the sub
| jugation of themselves.
Another Ceincidsnce.
We have before observed several striking
condolences between the regular lessons of the
| day in the Episcopal calendar for Church ser
vice and important current events. Tho first
t,ssor f,r Ia AZ Supdav svnn;no was q ram r.