Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-10-17

THE CiIIL IN IF-iR ANFRiG 4 F..
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
New ioug, Aug. |


FROM OUR OWN cOERr SPONDEAT.
New foug, Aug. 10.
My recent letters have so often expressed
the belief that McI!lcllan's new base of ope-
ratinnS at Harri.on's Landing was unsafe and
untcnahle, and that he was silently taking
measures to ovscuate the position, that by no
lnenns share The surprise ofthe people OF New
ork who learn this morning, for tho first lime,
that he haa commenced the withdrawal Of his
forces towards Williamsburg to protect the
city If Washington. The movemen, is wise
one. IIad he remained where hr was three
weeks longer, fever and stencil, lad water
and knd ioo', heat and encouragement would
have spared thr C0nfederates the trouble of
drf.ating him. Yet, in the face even of so
significant confession of vast error and pre-
sent weakness, thu Northern press continues to
brag az Justify as ever. 70 read the papers
OF this morning one would think that Rich
nlond had been actually taken; that The
100000 volunteers had enrolled themselves
without hnnnty money, out otpure patriotism
aud anper abundant pluck; thai thsCe;:W aa. NJ,
necessity for i cjpipulsnry ana unpopular
firxus aud that IN ,ss than M. Stewards
40 DAYS" there @as certain 10 be an alId n
The war and reconstruction of the Union.
The real ::ituallon is very different. Unable
to capture Richmond, the FcderalA Are colu-
pcliell TO tcIeld Washington. The voluntary
enlstlhtn!a have been atlm nlutru by The fear
Of the conscriptlnn AID the augmented
| bounty money TN one town i'll Rhode Island
amounting to az much as 500 dollars per man. }
Lut not TO such an extent as to haze filled ~
the numbers required by the time originally
fixed in the President a proclamation. The tinc
expircu this day, and has been extended to
the lat Of September. The merconai les wh"
are disposed to enlist in the old regiments
will thus have another fortnight in W hicll TO
make up thc,r mnds.and receive their money.
| The draught continues 10 grow in dlSiavor,
and coming, into uperALiun simultaneously
With il. InXgtlhrI will Sor:ly ty the pa-
iicnce n. we'll HI thr lnYulty nf millions vino
.a,e never yeL publicly uttered v nat NJ
! Stanton and Mr.. Seward consider to De
treason, but Who may have thought it, never
theless. So unpopular is IL, and So certain to
be resisted in the " estern as we'll as the mid
die States, and, lnired everywhere except in
New England, That it is doubtful whether the
President will not back out vi it on the plea
that the volunteering is sufficient, an untruth
that will deceive nobody Oh this sidn of the
Atlantic.
Tie premium OH gold which was teInpora-
rily checked Ly the uon-urriva FROM Eng
land Of American SrcuI tiles oIiefrIl ior irn-
mediate sale, las again begun to rise anrl nov
| stands at IL pur ccnt. Silver has nearly dis
appeared from circulation postage stamps
too many OF them Old uirs already, from
which lhe marks ot transit through the post
Office have he,.n clrvcrly obiiteratcd do oil the
duty ol minor currency. The most yalua-
| BILE coins handled by the people are the one
| cent of nickle and the three celL piece Of al
loyed silver. The hadeds corpus is suspended
Every ONES liberty is at the mercy Of spies,
infornlers and eXtortiontrs. The will of Mr..
Lincoln is law, as is that Of Mr.. Seward and
Mr.. Stanton, provided the President does not
object, which he never does; and the country il
de jacto pure despotisrn, with the mere form
and sembance Of Freedom that has ceased in
reality to exist.
New York is under martial law, the supcr-
intendent Of the police having been appointed
special Provost Marshal, to prevent citiZans
from travelling, or aliens from leaving the
country without passports, and also to arrest
all persons, who by word or deed, discour-
age enlistments, and to give the men the
| choice, of the army or Fort Lafayette
Foreign trade is almost wholly at end, and
neither the people nor the Government
know what to think or what to do to make
things better.
And while this broadly stated, is the con-
dtion of The North, what is that Of the South Z
perilous, no doubt, but full of hope for the
Snuthern people. Unrecognized as ii is, it has
succeeded in making itself nation-isolated
from the outer world in all things, except in
sympathy, combined with fanaticis'n, intense
| love Of country, and enormous suffering, have
| welded it into sdalnanlIhu unity. Ii has been
baptised in fire and bland, and StaEds before the
| CREATE Commonw eallh Of .hrGtend0n heruicand
| undaunted nm object Of admiration even to
three fourths Of its late fellow -ciuzcns who
arc in arms TO resist its independence. The
North offers no such spectacle. It is nation
and il il not nnitpd The immigrants from
Enropo ~hn added so largely 10 it,! wealth
and power refuse 10 fight lar It. Its own
! people would rather do hattie for it vicarious
| ly than personally. 1t is split up into ire
concilable factions, eaclr calnoTirg for the
Others blood Fort Mcfl.:nry, Near Balti-
more. is rereiyirg p"lsI:aI prisoners al the
rate OF - pc; dae. The nho'tIini-ts Of New
England hurl foil epithcis Of treason against
such men as Mr.. VallandiEham Of Ohio, DIr.
Wicklitfe, Of kentucky, aid Mr.. Fernando
| Wood, of New York; and continually
urge the sorely bcwildered President to
consign them, and all who agTee with
them to Fort Lafay etts or the gallows.-
On the other hand, the once moderate and
| constitutional democrats call upon the gov
! 70 fba nf h.
ers Of disunion as Mr.. Wendell Philips, Mr.
Horace Greeley, md the Rev. DR.. OhaOver,
aud mt TO be afraid Of using the hangm g
rnpv if no other instrumentality can he made
SD readily available. Both parties pretend to
love tho Union, but love something else bet
ter; both applaud every act Of abiirary pow
er, however atrocious, provided only that it
hs exercised against political opponent
Like the ducks and geese in the FOOLS Para
disc of the fairy story, who rim ahont with
knives and forks in their t,eahs, crying aloud,
como kill me and eat me-" the people Of the
North run after their government, ready truss
ed and bandaged, and .implore it to destroy
and feast upon the public liberty. Authori-
ty wars with authority, and every crotehct-
morgcr in high place either assumes to set
his crotchet above the Constitution and the
law, or to make the Federal subservient to
the loyal government. The President objects
to arm black men, and calls for draught Of
100000 citizens-meaning white men. Gov
ernor Andrew, Of Massachusetts, who is quite
as much Of rebel as President Davis, replies
that his State shall provide the proper con-
tingent, but that they shall be citizens ire
spective of color, and that black men and
hite men shall serve in his armies on an
equal footing.
General Hunter, man of similar opinions,
has organized negro brigade in North Car
olna, against orders, and the result has been
that four-tifths Of his black warriors have run
away into slavory to their old masters. rather