Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-07-20

hantic inteIrsnce received yesterday, states that
tbs spsmy's los exceeded 500, while the killed and
wounded on our side about 60 Another report.
for which We do not vouch states tho enemys killed at
upwards Of l ,Oc0 and our casualties" at l42 We
have no certain Information 70 the particular indvidu-
ais. on our side, who were killed or wounded.
At noou yesterday all quiet In the vicinity Of Ma
nsssas the enemy having fallen back whence they came.
The telegraph trOu Washington reports Patterson to
have moved upon ChArlestowr, instead olwiucheser.
From other quarters. ve have no particular n.s'n-
ssnce, worth reporting. ~ sa. u
cess lFoa raR WING
TO SENATORS BAYARD OF DELAWARE, PEARCE
AND KRNNEDY OF MARYLAND.
NJ, B,ar sirs Let an old friend call your par.ieu
lar attention to the most appalling production Of the new
world by exposing its hoinousness more deliberately thar
the many and pressing demands upon your time MAJ
pe,is YOU unassisted tosvew il in. Surely there b
anv thing more mons,rous in American annals than thu
following paragraphs from LineOlns sxiraOd nsry mes
ssvs TO the extraordinary Congress- IL would have jus
.ed the visit Of two cemsts instead Of one which nov
.Hr.i y. lsps n Otophlehqs huge,
10 ne Arie ~, and from his hosrid hair,
hh.kes pestl enc snS ssr"
UOf course some consideration" (the Italics are mine
twas given 70 the question Of power and propretl
6sfoSe this matter" he suspension Of the privileges
the writ Of Ba5sas corpus acted upon. The nhol
.of the laws which we're required be faithfully
cuted were being resisted AID falling OF execution II
NEARLY one third Of the Stairs. knsi taeg pe allow
led to fcaly fail OF execution, svss had il been per
"fsesy clear that 5y s HSs Of ts necessary q
'ih,ir erseution sons single las. mad; in speh sz
"rsms tsrdsrs,sss Of the eit;sRs liberty, at PTdetiedE
IN relieves more If ggiity han Of tks trs0esHt,
soElS 10 Uery kBtiIsd t<teIlt Be Violated 10 stag
"ke question: more directly, az s fal's out ono "a
go sRSzsc'stSd and s gOysRHsn nseif to go TO P's-
ices less that Ofls Be vio!etsdf
"Even in such case would not the oticAl osth DC
hroken, the Government should be oyerthrown rhsn
at cas believed that disrsgardin9 the single tac roud
tend 10 preserve iS But it not believed that The
question sas presented IL Was not believed that any
''las violated"
Passing over the nonsense snd vugari.y Of many oil
the expressions and the style Of this precious extract
as exemphfed in the expressions, "the whole OF the
laws failing of esecntioh" and being allowed to final
ly fail of execution let here express hope that you
duly appreciate the condescension of your yrant for
giving scs consideration" the question Of the power
which should authorize and the poprey" which should
guide his conduct; bu, you perceive that this
some" vas so little that he utterly failed to be governed
BY either aud that he is totally ignorant of the first
principles of free government and the first duty Of the
chief magistrate Of a republic
The above paragraphs announce, as distinctly "a any
proposition be announced in the inierrogatve form
that the magistrate who is sworn faithfully 20 execute all
the laws, may violate any of them he deems its
violation necessary preserve the rest 1t this be So
be may violate two three, four any number of them
which he may deem it necessary to violate to enable
him to execute those which he may deem il most pro-
ductTe of public good 20 carry into effect. This is
the doctrine which all the yrannies upon earth civil
and religious, have teer based and vndicAted. The
massacre Of the babes in Bethlehem and Of the Huge
nots in France vas defended the sape principle that
tue massacre in the streets Of 81. Louis of and
children, and the taking old men from their beds in
B,imore and pluogng them into the dungeons of Fort
McHeury, is justified in the infamous document lately
sent from the Executive mansion where Madison Kon
and Jackson administered the great Republican Gov
eminent of America to bA; Capitol yet ringing with the
accents in which Randolph and LOEndes and Calhoun,
aud Clay and Webster-embalmed, it hoped, ior
immortality, the great principles Of American Liberty.
Tue true meaning Of TIE message in question no
be concealed by the gross passrDg Of the bufoon
OF the bar OF petiloggers Springfield than by the
double dealing of that epitome Of lsehood whom 10
has ehosen for his prime minister It all comes at list to
this "To do great right, do little wrong" and which
must in any Government Of hW, be answered nov as it
vas then;
at must not be-there is no power In Venice,
''Csn alter decree established;
"'Fwll be recorded for a precedent,
"ARd many error by the same example
''Will rush into the State. IL cannot be-"
Your tyrans Washington however, proclaim to the
uord the Of all tbs. They claim to be their
ii hs the magistrates of Government of strictly LIN
led power and the best possibly defined law to assume
whatever power they may deem necessary to preserve
their authority, and to tIampe on any law they may
link barrier TO the execution Of such as it may be their
pleasure to put in force No one can deny that this is
he elSsr import Of their late infamous proclamation to
Congress- and that they did not put Il 10 the distinct
hsps in which have exhibited it, Is, perhaps, due to
apprehension that they have not yet sufficiently tram
lied into submission all that was once 80 brave and free
the spirit Of the North. Ipresume, as that quais the
one Of your tyrans viii become more and more defiant
nd less and less uendaeious.
And indeed IL were under your miserable despotisn,
would wish that my masters should boldly assume at
rest prototype Jack Cade did, when he exclaimed 81
I'LL make myself knight presently. IKneels. Rise
p, Sir John Mortimer. u
Away burn all the records of the realml Ny
Mouth shall be the parliament of England" It istetter
be wropged and then let alone than to be wronged
I'D then nsulted BY attempting to csole you into the
sef that you not Wronged q. all. But the upstsrt
yrants at Washington tell you as plainly as they habit
ally tell anything, that they would have violated the
reat and most cherished of all the muniments of Anglo
lxOn liberty If il had been necessary to do So for the
of other laws bus you the question
ever arose. 81. not believed that any law |
as IiOlAted-" By whom was It not bslievedt |
Vas il not believed by the Chief Justice of the |
nited States Can there be q human being |
40 reads bis opinion the action of Lincoln in regard
this great privilege Of British subjects and American
zsns vho is SO stepped in ignorance or besotted by
ASSIGN, not to bave believed that this law was yo-
ted And what i the given for the belief that
Law has been violaedi Why, that the Constitution
self IS silent to which or Who Is to exercise the
oEer' Of suspending the writ of hq6sas eorpas Now
this be So al the statesmen who have heretofore ad-
Mustered your government would have unhesitatngy
yrced that there no which and no "vho" that had
power Of interfering with the usual operation Of this
nit Unt the creatures who pollute the high Of
,es Of your government cane to administer IL twas
Universally Acknowledged to be one Of clearly defn,d
overs and that no department Of the government pos
Used any power not distinctly conferred by the Con-
tuition. Ipresume that even Mr.. Attorney Bates viii
arcey pretend that there Is anything in Article IL of
Constitution, which establishes the Executive De.
lrtment Of the Government and defines its authority