The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-03-15

Along peace 1D sure to demOraltze nation
and a dsmoralized people always select as
those least fitted to govern-those who will
govern least-the lax, the indulgent, tbs ef.
femlhse. and the corrupt. Soldiers accus-
tomec to rule. and who know best how to
rule, are caet aside, and stump orators end
dsmag3gues, who fiatter the mob and give IL
cense 3 their bassst passions, are elevated to
all hiAn places. =" The canker Of q bad war
and ling peace" is In such times exhibited
more xlaringly among the rulers Of people
than among the masses themselves, because
the rulels are selected as the flttest expo-
nents, representatives and tmpersona ations OF
the prevalent deoa aushery, ensminacy and
ttnued, thu voice Of the people is the voice OF
Beltal-lifs demon; in time Of difficulty, ad.
versity, anl invasion. "the voice OF the peo.
pie is the toice Of God" Then they select
their best. most honest, and mos. rigid msr.
ana cast asate corrupt, silly, tndulgent dema-
gogoes and sump orators.
Fnese stump orators held all the high and
honorable Psitions upder the late Federal
aovernmentandh have been bequeathed as q
legacy, or fallen as a blieht, upon our Con
federase GoVrnment. They Interrupt and
IMPEDE the administration Of affairs, State
and Federal, b. speeches to Buncombe, and
by prying into &scutive matters, about " hich
hey understand nothing, or il they did, are
90 numerous, teD tattling, and too corrup: to
be trusted with execntive secrets-for divided
responsibility mikes all legislative bodies
more or less careess and corrupt. Besides,
executive BUSINESSMAN only be surely or sasely
conducted by shgls sovereign head. In
times Of difficulty home found two Oonsuls-
one too much-andalways called in a dicta-
tor. England does the same thing, and
virtually clothes herPremier with sovereign
power during the petding Of serious hos,ili-
ties. We must folhw their examples
We must find In eaca State governor, or
soldier, or somebody che, no m attsr whether
1t bs Premier or resident, priest, q
eunuch. or q woman whose will, for the
time, shall be Law, ,whosabehests the Leg isla-
ture shall obey, passinksthe laws which he
proposes, and granting tn supplies which he
asks for. Sitting all the while with closed
doors, excluding repoItera and mono speak.
Ing more than 10 minutes 4 a time
Congress must. also, in ID same manner, !,
bs guided, directed, and 0ntrolled by the
President and hi1 Cabinet; 70 promptly and
chesrfully what they are reqired to do, and
ask no impairment q uestions; or 50 numer /.
ous = body should never Be trusted with
War naturally suspends laW and liberty,
and IL we are not willing to submit TO the
temporary sacrifice, we shall I, coz Quered
by the North, and be without law or liberty
forever.
Having thus gagged the stumA orators in
Congress and in our State Legislatures, We
must next turn our attention to Or armies.
where they are unfortunately AlIlbst as nu.
merous az In our deliberative bodit. Impro.
vised 0eneralsl In all the tide of ime, OK.
cept a. q miraculous Interpolation u Provi.
dsnce. such phenomenon was Ee.er wit.
nsssea before. 1t I: true. there w.s little
David, and Joan OF Arc, and MinsrN, who
were BIT ave warriors. and needed no tHchtne
or training; but they were quite out II the
ordinary course OF things, and wholly Anliko
q Confederate stump orator.
We shall certainly he suojsct to fre4ent
rsvsrses, surprises, and defeats, until w. gst
rid Of this pestilent material In our III Ises,
No trained and In telligent soldier ever sas,
or ever will be. willing to fight under the Nd
utuYVvn ~ tor AStA . hnA A.
OF war II the most difllcuN to learn; aAd
none learn it we'll but men Of genius, who AZ
ply themselves TO 1t In youth, and practice
for many years. Old men, and most ssps
new. Far better make . boy OF eighteen /
General. for he II impressionabie, and learn
new thugs readily. than attempt 70 make al
ofacsr of man over forty I'VE. who 4 a. hal
II The incubus Of dem oslsm, in the shap'
Of stump orators, descended 70 us from tn
late Union, fetters our limbs, p,ralyxss n
and will soon ruin as, II not speedily shaker
On this subject We win egain quote MIR
$50 that the sad conclusion, which all ex
psitence, wherever II has bean tried, has II.
tally made good. appears 70 be, that ParliA.
msats. admirable - advisory bodies. sno
that capacity, AREAS railing or sovereign bo
dies, NOT useful, but usele9s or worse. Ths
. soYscsigu, with n1ne hundred Or aixhun
dYod and nfty. etght heads, all set 70 tall
four or twenty.ssvtn, or eighteen millions
oannotdo the work Of soyerslgnty aS AL, bu
10 smittsn with sternAl incompetence for tina
lanction BY the law OF nature itself. Such
alas 10 the sad c0nclusion and In England
and Wherevar else Il u tried. Asad expeTiene'
will rapidly make IT good. -.
Only perhaps ip-the United States, which
Alone OF al cOuntyiol. can do without gov
1rnipg. sysrY man belng O least abs 70 liy'
and move on Into tns witdsrneseElss Uop
eallod seovernmsat" contlnus 1b4 any leugt1
81 1lnD q t0rment mea with the somblance
when the Indispensable sahstanoe H. eone
Tor Amegica, n the cttixeus we'll knoW,
can Unparailed county," With mad ssot
eaouen. onA nsfce sum eno1nh. II the Atssts
sippl VALLEY aione. = grow Indian eorn for ~
other copntry ever stood IN Baah o. oase
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