The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-10

fRruAy moRHlN0..........JA JAN. 10. 1854.
lr WAS nwcLARxp by the Divine Founder
Of the Christian Religion tha. =" it must needs
be that offences come, but woe TO that man By
whom the offence cometh" War is undoub,
eoly enc Of the most painful Of the tcrribls
evile which the fallen condition Of man has
eotaiied upon humanity. 1t lie in consequence
of his evil nature, II necessary evil, and II
involves other woes besides those which are
peculiar TO itself, and some of them even
more distressing. Famine and pessiience ira
vel in its CHASTITY train, intempera"ee ahe
RIGHTEOUSNESS produce moral d'sorgan,za
lion. worse than physical death, and oppres
zion and cruelty are feund IN Its taeitations-~
We know that il il not, in any ofiss aspects, al
unmixe,i evil. We know iha, it elevates and
.xpands the generous and heroic part Of mans
nature, that it lays mighty sacrifices of scli
upon the altar of the public good. that it
un,,es whole people in the bonds and sym
pathies of common cause. Death, in sOme
form or other, is the common lot of humanity,
ard in no form is i, more glorious than il
tha, Of martyrdom for Justice aad the right
And yet no nan Of common sensiailty cali
look unmoved upon the sorrows AID tribuia-
lions which war brings with it even to those
who suiier in the hottest cause upon the
privaiions. the physical sntserings, the be-
reavemeu, which torture SO many hearts and
anskeD TO many h(beholas. These evils it is
true ara inevitable to fallen humanity. No
nation has ever escaped thsm- No race o:
men who ever lived have been able to avoid
this universal curse. No island nor continent,
has ever been free from the bloody footprints
of war The nations most favored OF God
have been baptized ia tie crimson LAYER OF
battle and his hottest saints have not worn
the crown till they haye borne the cross. ii
America has for q generation escaped the
universal doom, the whole experience oi
naDaind demonstrates tha: its time OF war,
like that III all other nations, must sooner OF
later come, and that neither we nor any other
people upon the earth CAN be assured of per
peluai peace till the Millennium has begun.
Butt it be true that war aud other "of
fences must come mono the less certain i"
,hs "Wo," pronounced by the Son OF God,
ito tina, man by whom tae offence comeih.'
The brand of the first murderer is upon tie
brow OF every king, ruler, and statesman by
whsm war is forced upon the world. Every
Government under heaven seems to c0nce0e
that truth by It's eager and earnest endeavors
10 put ltsoii In the light at the bar OF public
opniJn and conscience and to show that before
making war At tad exhausted every meals 81
setuing its quarrel poaceably aud honorabiy
with AIS ADVERSARY. a nation WHEN At this
age of the world draws the sword before
every resource Of diplomacy and reasonable
Compromise and concession has been employed
to avoid the dire alternative OF war, is looked
upon by common consent as responsible for
all the bloodshed, crime, and misery that ii
brings upon mankind. Tried by this standard,
now universally recognized, the Lincoln
d<spotism is answ cradle at every human til
bunal, and al tie august bar Of the Divine
Judge for every life lost i'll this uhholy inva-
sion, for every tear Of anguish, tor all the
crimes, miseries, and destinations which have
come upona once happy and prosperous
people. 1t refused from the very beginning
listen to aay counsel OF pacihcation, OK "
make tine slightest compromise. Its eonsoll
dation theory CT the American Government
mad never been the theory OF more than ole
party in the country, and that party which
Las always been i'll II minority from the for
nation of the American Constitution till this
hour. The Sovereignty of the States has
never been openly denied by any State or by
any federal administration of the Cuited
States till the present. The trainers of the
Constitution, even including those who con.
tended tor consolidation, explicitly and en-
phatically discarded the idea of coercipg the
States by the Federal Government. The very
man who is now President, On Il former oc
casion, himself denied in the most energetic
terms the doctrine which he now holds The
whole civilized world, from the beginning of
this contest, have recognized and acted upon
tae State-righ theory contended for by the
Confederate States, and which has up to this
time been the accepted theory of the vast ma.
jcrity of the American people. In drawing
the sword upon Sovereign States because they
would not relinquish their Sovereignty, Lincoln
has made himself responsible tor all the horrors
and tribulations of this bloody war. On the
other hand, the South exhausted every mea-
sure of Cancellation and forbeaxance before &C.
eepting the contest which the North was bent
upon forcing upon our country. The South had
submitted, for a quarter Of century, to spoli.
alton, insult and outrage, until they culnins.
ted In the effort Of sectional majority to re.
duce her to vassalsge. Even then she only
wanted to- be let alone. She negotiated and
implored for a peaceful separation. The Bor-
der States offered compromise upon compro-
mise, until they had reached the verge Of hui
initiation, to avoid the fearful alternative
which was forced upon them by an memorable
dsspOtism Not until the Federal usurper had
drawn the sword and thrown away the scab'
bard, did they so much as stand upon tue de.
tensive. Woe, then, woe, to the usnrp-
or, who has forced this war upon an unoitend-
ing people! The maledictions Of Eternal Jus-
rcs rest upon the tyrant's soul There. is
blood upon his hand, blood upon his garments
aud upon his Threshold the blood of the ill.,
noosnt and the just. Let the thought inspire
the hearts and nerve the aims Of all true pa
ssioss. The approving smiles of Heaven are
upon our arms, and its dark frowns, porten-
tous Of calamity and retribution, are upon the
wicked invaders Of our hearths and homes.
OrR SICK SoLplERs-We are informed
that much inconv enieuce and even distress
are caused by the occasional failure of Cap
saans Of companies to give their men when
they leave for hospitals descriptive list
whereby not only the identity of the soldier
may 10 established, but the period Of his last
pay mspt, 70 that when he IL discharged from
the hospitsh he viii have no difficulty in pro-
curing the amount TO which no may be en-