The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-08-02

i"'.'oN VI huHe out rpUeis. " hen tHttF troops
occupy a tract of country all men vile are not
open and avowed Sceerrioniats are houndS,!
rem their homes, robbed of their crops, pro
vlsions, cattle cast into prison, or forced TO
serve IN their battalions. When our armies
occupy that saIiie country we make no differ
ence between loyal men and traitors We pay
The rebel Us flill prices and as good meney as
we give the Union man. We carefully pro.
tect his forfeited property, and are scrapulons.
" tender of his Confederate conscience He,
therefore, Is safe under all circumstances II
Is only the tpIon nian who suffers. l. itsthcn
wonderful that we find no more loyal pcopie
as our armies advance Should we he asfei-
isHed az the apparent perfect unani.nisy witch
prevails in the South y Can we ha s;itur:scd
that tue rebels are always su.EasIie.! by
friends while our lines are constantly inis sstd
oy spies by our past policy the iuhabiiants
OF the seeded States have everything " gain
hy being rebels and everything to fear and
lose by a1iiering faithfully 10 the Union:
All tbis--unlese we would have the rebaiion
honrish ootIi we are impoverished, bankrupt
and eEhausted-aG tais must be radically
changed. As we have remarked, we must
have such action as will make the rebel iIsur.
gents ana tf;iitoGs-paesive as well as active
know and feel the difference between loyalty
and treason. This policy inust come fron tie
Executive. Better from li'ui upon whoIa the
ss FL II I'D M ts u Ees 5stss gES 4ssa s 4s2s .5 m m
the Commanders in Chief of the Army, as d le-
giiuaie exercise of war power, than from tie
agitatoIs IN Congress or elsewhere. When
this policy ia laid down hy the Executive it
| must be enforced There should be no talter-
lng In ITS execution, and no more paltering in
ooanic sense between oarselvessor with the
Toe. RlSid obedience should be every where
| exacted. If Cabinet Minister is hostile he
must be removed II Il General is contuna-
eions he must be deprived of his command
Ihe CRISIS demands not only severe poiiev
and vigorous action. but unfalterimg obedience
and hearty cooperation mall departments and
arms Of the Government. And the people
| all the peopie-must see the vital necessity of
| giving a cordial and unanimous support to the
execution OF such a policy, if we would have
| the war brought promptly 10 a close
| The New York 7'ijmae> fully agrees in
| these views of ga fierce and short war" but
| don't think anything can be accomplished lu,-
| til the slaves shall be liberated It seems TO
| overlook the fact that the Federal troops can't
| get at the -four millions" to liberate them. 1t
| says:
| The rebellion will endure in the South until
the extinction Of Its parent and source, slavery
| And so long rs the four millions of slaves
| shall grow the food, weave the Aoinespun
cloth, dig the trenches, and carry the baggage
of the rebels, enabling JET Davis bv his III
| eXorable cOnscri ption, to sweep the whole
| hiehodied male white population OF the
South into his armies. it viii be very diiiicuIt
| even to uverfuu the South. We do not say it
| cannot be done we osay it will not sIav done
| Gen Curtis's army has triumphaniiy held and
| traversed North Arkansas for the last six
months--to what purpose Tile waters omen
| before and close behind him; and We doutt
! that the rebellion has less soldier III the
| field than If he had unypr entered th. Statn
| Had he been authorized 10 put an end to
| slavery wherever he marched, it would have
been very different The robust slaves wouid
have vanished in his track. and the whites now
in the rebel armies must have been called home
to grow food for their families or leii them 10
starve.
Ill this is 50 plain that presume every
man who is at once as loyal aud as clear
sighted as Judg" Holt must perceive it. Pre-
Iudiee, interest habit. party aiiiHit;es, cherish
ed catch words, may blind even s,. men for
Il season to tic most obvious truths. still, they
must steadily make their WAY. There NAV
be still a few truly loyal men who keep gp
the parrot cry, Don't sacrifice the Union 10
tbe ie:sr.1, bps tbs lsrgeg 2ssatiAst. af LIZ, a.r-
ln;il chorus have given ii up. Tie great ma
iority of those who still talk IN that absurt,
way do not mean, and never did mean, that
the rebellion shall be suppressed. Thev are
not exactly dlSunlonsts-tiIey still cherish a
lists, making 1t a crime 10 speak i'll of slavery
anywhere. and perhaps kicking the New Eng
land States ont of the Union they could some
how bribe or coax JelI. Davis and his crew to
resume their old seats IN the Cabinet and in
Congress- and nagnan m0usly forgive the pro.
slavery tmonlsts tor not receiving The seizure
OF the national armorles. arseuaie, forts lnints.
sub-treasuries, &c, with due meehnees aud
Tor getting excited over the bcmbardnient of
Fort Sumter. 1t Is Ill vain that ,jeft. tells
these creatures IN every conceivable way and
with every variety of conteulptuous gesture
that lie loaths and spurns ihem--tiat their
abaseme,t only Increases bis scuul--tllat he
and hls viii never. never be recOnced 10 the
tnion under any clrctimstances,-thev are SO
accustomed 10 be kicked by the Slave Power
that they fairly coyet the exercise, aud cannot
comprehend Ills avoWals OF detestatou as
ether than playful way he hts OF asserting
his conceded superiority. lie may kick them
till doonsday without kicking the inborn SER
Witty OUT OF them.
For our Own1Dari, we have long been una
bic to see how the Union and ita deadly foe,
Slavery, could both be conserved. IL has
seemed so PLAIN to Us that one or the other
must be thrown in their death gr:pple, that
we have been willing to wait, through suffer
ing and disaster, for other tni0nisls to reach
the same conclusion. The President has wait
ed for the Border States the nation has waited
periorce for the President When Border
State patriots like Judge Holt shall be ready
TO say decisively, Save the nation, though
Slavery perish, the aspects OF the struggle
will be radically changed. We only entrrat
that they do not hesitate too long, and that,
when the Government does speak. it shall so
clearly express itself as to leave no slave OF
Rebel in doubt that, by openly adher.ng to
and serving the Republic, he Will earn its pro-
lection and secure his own freedom.
GENRAL TwlGGs's SWORDS RETURNED BY GEN.
BUTLER.
Gen. Butler has sent to Lincoln the follow
ing characteristic letter, giving the history of
the seizure of the swords of Gen. Twiggs
HEADe RS, DEPARTMT OF THE GULF,
NEW ORLEANS, July /, 1862.
To The President:
Sir--I have the honor TO send YOU with this
ITote three swords, with the equipments, for
Inerly belonging to David 4. TWiggs, late Gen
eral in the army of the United States They
are all presentation swords; one given him by
resolution of Congress, which bears the fol
lowing legend
Presented by the President Of the United States
agree able to resolution OF Congress, 10 Brica,isr
General David Twiggs. in testimony Of the high
sense entertained by Congress of his ganotry aud
good conduct in storinipg Monterey.
Resolution approved March > l6i7p
Another was presented by the State of
Georgia, and bears the following legend and
inscriptions:
"CoksrIruTIoN.--The State Of Georgia to Ma
ior General David E 1wixss, United states Army,
az a tribute TO his galiantry ia Mexico 1871, Pao
Alto Rcssca dc la Palma, Monte aY Vera Cruz
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