The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-01-14

ras, says: "a bark has lust arrived, consigned
by the banker and broker Of Gen. Ba,ler
| this brother,) to concern here, which is load
| ed vita superior barrel pork, lbear;ng the L.
! s. Inarks,) packed for the use of the Federal
array, which has been offered to the commits.
| sary CT the Confederate States, to be paid for
! in gold or cotton. Treasury graenbacks re-
! fised,'' &c; and learn from reliable sources
| tia: the pork was sold to the Confederate com
niissary and Ia:d for with M Msss cotton OF such
! oeiyes half tie gains while the robbery ia
| covered by consumption in New Orleans "to
prevent Starvation or by reported actual
| issue TO troops. This traitor General has,
through all his administration, been receiving
| the lion share of net proceeds from powder
| saitpetre, mnskets, and other war. material
sold TO Confaderates, snrreptitiousiy sent out
! from New Orleans by the lakes, &c, cover ID
| by permits for provisions-dealing in tine very
| life.b!ood of his own soldiers. OF such things
the military infamy is composed Of the base
| coward, who betrays ali-trne to none.
! I: would take small book to describe the
| sceres tina; took place between citizens who
| had been despci!ed by Butler, calling Gil Gen.
| Banks for restitution. Mr.. Buekner, one of
our cotton princes and lnilionaires was robbed
By Gen. Butlor Of Sl00.o00 in bills receivable,
sept lin from Natehez. Gen. Butler sajd he
could not find ,hera when called on to return
par.iea he said he paid this amount over 10 the
| Governmsnt. Samuel Smith q Co. hai 500 900
| in specie taken from their vault- 81 Bntier;
| S53,U'D ia in suit d: Washington: the rest was
| returned, less 81 500 stolen. Gen. Butler re-.
turned this amount in currency, thereby taking
| advantage of thirty five per cent. on the gold
Acrostias ana poetry L.mnooning him were
seni TO him in scch quantities that Uaa. Banks
| had to protect him by an order, No ia see
New Orleans papefe One verse runs thus :.
EsreTeiii eEd i: In nci; there dws;ls
a demon aush IS iacu,
Ehen, s.tsn. y.el.S $50 ssap:ge UP
TsJ inisslen'. ovor NOW. q
| Mr.. Davis, the President Of the Bank os.r
New Orleans, was thrown into jail without 4
ffrial and in one shoTt month VAS released,
alter having been ,ol,; he was 10 he huns, and
| is now raying maniac This is the foulest
| deed Butler has been guilty Of In nv next
! VII give all tLe news fha. ssalspirss.
One Of the letters from citizens Of New
Eork hegs the World ID expose the scoln1rel
fully. The writer ssys.
Tell the peopls hero how ha charged DIR.
Campbell 81 200 for pass to onter the Co-
| tederate i;,:es, asad, while Ie was gone, ei-cted
his wife ficm her paia.ia nome. tnat lie might
oconpy it himself, 10 all Of which hundreds of
New Orleans men now here viii not fear to
testify, since their property is no longer under
! his control.
Tell the people about his partnership with
his brother, aDi how he charged $i2 a had.
| freight for sugar On his boats from the la
| fourche 10 New Orleans, fwhen 81 used 10 be
| the price, ai!owfug 40 competition.
And tell, toe, how he would permit nore
| but New England men to take goods into the
| interior OF the State 10 sell them.
| TIE PLATFORM or LISCorH's aDaIsIsTRA-
T,oN-THE NEW ABOLITION PROVINCIAL
MENTo.
| The speech OF Mr.. Thadieus Stevens in the
| United States Congress- "a notice of which Wa
| published yesterday has created q new sensa-
ton at tie North. The New York Wta;3.' thus
| reviews his position:
MIR. Thaddeus Stevens, Of Pennsylvania. the
real leader of his party in the House of Re-
p:esentatiyes, has al last rendered the country
the only service which the country could have
| expected at his hands lie has nnnasked tha
! new policy of the Administrations, ard the is
sue between raiica!ism at Washington and
conservatism throughout the country has row
! been officially made The radical organs in
| the press have for some time past been throw
! ing forth intimatioHs Of this issue. The slight
| est expression OF reverence for the Cons:ft,l-
! ton has long acted upon them as holy water
| ID reputed to act upon the Prince of Darkness
Hr. Stevens now evows, on the floor Of Con-
! gress, the settled policy at which these anti
| pathetic eontor,ious have long been limiting
The chairman Of the Committee of Wavs
| and Means deliberately recognizes the Con
| felerate States az forei IN beIii erent power
which has lost all irs rast relations with the
| Union. over which the guarantees of the CO.
| s'itution no Ion. er extend, and which is To be
| Made war upon and suhiugated or made peace
| with, Substantially as II il were desirable
+, portion of the Mexican territory, or al atti-se-
| tive province of Canada. Of course tlis p0-
| siti0u, ii 1t be the position OF Mr. Lincoln
| poTerninant, mast profoundly affect The reia-
| tiops OF foreign powers 10 the American aues-
| lion. II is virtual aDdicaiion Of ali tie
grounds w wfiieh the government has heretofore
| taken IN IFS diplomatic CORE spondence. It
asks Europe Eot to stand by in silence and
| avail; the restoration of a violated compact,
| but 10 watch the progress OF the arms Of the
Graon in war OF conquest and domination.
| Bat We fnibear at present to Comment fully
upon the natural consequences ofsneh change
! OF front IA this upon the opinion, and inevi.a-
tily, therefore, upon the action OF the world ut
large ia respec. 10 onr internal dissens;ons.
The domestic aspects Of the radical Drcnun-
| csfsmsnfo more Immediately demand our a,,en.
| lion. II invites Us directly 10 contemplate
| war for the Union without tie Consultations
| This is net the war which the American REQ.
| rle have undertaken it il NOT the war for
| which they have poured out blood and treasure
| like water, it is not the WAX to which their
hearts and hopes are this day pledged.
The Constitution, said Mr. Webster, In the
sole bond of union between tha States. To
surrender tho Constitution is to surrender the
Union. Aud t:,is, Mr. Stevens. in behalf Of
| the adminis: ration, now proposes Ia do. He
| declares the old war ended and Il new war be-
| gun. The Old war was waged or was profess.
| ed to be waged under the Democratic and eou-
ssrvaiive theory that the Constitution. with it's
guarantees, aud with the supreme uibonal
which it established for the adjustment Of diff
| fererees between the States, was adequate TO
secure the blessings Of Justice, liberty, and pro.
sress to all the inhabitaots of u faulty Of
Stases extending ever vast territory, and am
braeing snanv aiyersi,ies Of eiinstc, habits,
character, ana interests. The new war is To
be wsgei on the radical thcsxy that all rixhts.
and the Constitution itself, ultimately depend
upon the will OF accidental majoritiee which
may oblltera.e legal Distinctions, aunihiiate
social order, rnbvsTt ideas Of property to suis
tie real or the tanciei eclyendencc Of such
| majorifies.
Tie Old wsr had m aim which rosa beyond
| tho msse blind fury OF srmA and couid be
fought 10 the possible result OF . settieuent In
which, rights being respected, law coald b
restored. The psW war implies no Alternative
result beynud the e4tefminAti0n Of one party
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