Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-04-03

capacity to the mind During the Mexican war The West
Pointers did good ssrsioe beosuse thy we're made to
act in their proper spheres No one thea thought OF
making isuen.ns, because they had grsduaied West
Point commanding generals. The complaint new h,
that this rent Into the justice Of this complaint
shall not enter. But II may bs said, - matter OF Gu
osity and lection that this Institution arose In the
land from low and vulgar origin TO eminent considers
ton, like some Fremont, Lincoln, or Deuyln among
politicians. Al FIRST Institution Of charity than
anything else, it, young officers in the army, finding
themselves dssgarded in society," soon learned to for
among themselves after the manner OF all UPSTAIRS,
fraternity of infinite pretension and assumption As the
States increased increasing Congressional Districts and
snlargng the school, this fraternity grew into military
and social og,rchy in feeling and in principle il not in
fact until they at length came TO manifest hostility to
further appointments from civil life to the army. Finally,
their numbers had grown so great and the fraternity
had become enlarged, THAI like the Jsnisaaries and
Msmslukes, they came to hold the army exclusively
Themselves II the Uaion had continued unoroken, in
the couss Of time they would doubtless, have become
dangerous to the Sate And with these facts before Us
let the Southern Confsderacy beware Of establishing
similar Institute With the States, separately the ques-
ton is quite ffsrent .....
But matters not how al this may be- again say
that this is 70 time for the manifestation Of heartburn
logs ,alouses and rivalries. The enemy Is now upon
as he has broken through sinsulsry weak and
tsnabe lines formed in Kentucky and Tennessee and be
Il now advancing grasp great central routes Of
Railroad leading from Nashville to Richmond from Men.
phi, to Charleston and Savannah, from Grand Ja7cion
to Jackson and New Orleans, and from Chattanooga 10
MOBILE and Psusscola-thus seeking 70 form junction
with Burnsids he prcc ,eds from the Atlantic ccesn
and Pamloo Sound into the interior Of North Caroline,
and with Butler he progresses from the Cult OF Mex
aud P.scsgOuli Bay into the interior Of Mississippi,
relying upon portion Of his forces to burst through
the Gaps in the Cumberland Mountains and to accom-
pish the frs while the army Of BAIL shall do the last
Lot him succeed in these designs and be hopes 10 cruh
the county We have no alternative. We must accept
the situation and rush 10 the standard OF our ne
rails whoever and wherever they may be. II too much
partay has been evinced towards West Pointers over
civilians of approved military Abilities the war vii lit
long enough eIposs the evil and lead to its remedy.
We cannot now fJrd to wrsnge, and all personal CT
fences sick into psgnfcance before the public dargtr
aad nscsssitisr Shoui day Of reckoning be necsssa
~ let il come hereafter but 30 long as the enemy Is
UPON our soil dsscnsions among ourselves must BE- suo-
dued and every minor passion swallowed 10 the deep
vengeance of patriotism. VIVA. UNNECESSARILY heshtens
the importance of shis position, Ia the attitude assumed
| by Gr,at Britain and France towards u.s.
This attitude has been foresesn and predicted from
elements Of reasoning ard logical deduction that were
.ppsrvut. Revolutions accompanied BY civil war and
boodtd seldom terminate ~itbou. the tubversion CT
preceding forms aud politics Of G,,ernnent There IL
no special reason that should constitute either the North
or the South 40 exception to this general fact Of history
ard what temporary industrial sacrifices wsud Great
Britain and France be wiling to make to achieve the
overthrow Of Republican institutions throughout Ams-
Ii,4, l. 1t not well known that at this r'ry time they
are engaged in the ef,rt to establish monarchy in
MEXICO, Il not the principle of Dasposm already rv.
cited upon the NORTH aud who fail to that Iupe.
ras must follow in That region as tho necessity Of so.
ca order At the South nehher the spirit Of peo-
pie nor the structure Of society admit Of Imperial
ism in Government; but subdued BY the North, all
this would BE- changed to suit the order Of things
there obtaining and We should become embraced in the
Empire The bare prospec. Of these result, would cause
,uis Napoleon before interfering with the blockade Of
our ports or recognising the independence Of the South
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Great Britain until tho crack o. doom and will induce
Great Britain remain repulsivey Indifferent. to the fate
Of the South long the enemy continues to advance
upon our SOIL In vain shall the dying grosns Of fsm,b.
ing operatives be heard throu yhout tbs manufacturing
districts OF these two Governments in dark cellars and
in dusty garres along the highways and the bye"ays
in bitches and in fds, when, few years ago, two
millions thus persisted in Ireland and in vain shall sp.
peal. be made to their sense Of justice and maguanimy
in behalf Of our cause the measure Of their philan
,hropy, charity sense OF justice and msgpanimity will
be the measure Of Southern victories and rumphs over
the arms and chcanery Of the North. Ii only through
the strong Of nigh. that right on sarh comes 10 bs
recognized; aud il seems to be an memorable decree
universal il lis application, that every man. every pao
pie every nation has work out his, their or lis re
dsmpon from sinful oppression and oppressors, an q
the hroes the agon.s and the ccnVusons OF the soil
Blu, the most seriouI charge that has yet been mad?
against those in authority IT, that they have not seemed
b.reoor, to appreciate the magnitude Of the sue, in
yoyed in the war; nor measured properly our strength
aad resources with those Of the enemy leading TO grea
errors in the disposition Of our forces, aud 10 The con
duct of the war l. Is believed that had these niits
been understood by suhorities they would not h.v
foregone all tue early advantages the South possessed
for It is asserted that while yet the Northern a.ets wer
scattered over the in the most distant ports, ant
their gular army stationed in ssmentsry stsch
nsats along the remote frontiers, and the six mouth
troops csl ed ou, under Lncon FIST proclamation, "er
dsorderly rabble and their people were lursHc suC
uaarned mcb and the heights Of the Potomac were IN
guarded and Washington City was exposed at all points
and the pcopl, Of Maryland were ready to rise in ou
behalf the South had thrown into the field one hundred
thousand men, the choicest troops in the world, full,
armed and provsoued which, rapid comb nation arc
movement could have been hurled upon the line OF q
susquehauna sweeping Lincoln and bis nyrmidons from
Washington, snd bursting the shaek!es Of har!ilnd a
r.,dy az they we're marched to Manassas, aud there