The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-03-11

AFFAIEs IN WAsHINaTON- 8REILLYs PLAN FOR
PGACE-TRE FOUR shuSDERs CT THE ADMIN.
l5TRATION.
Tho Washington corresponle, I. Of the Ch'cseo
Times sends that psper al Interesting Iett.r from
which we make the following extracts:
Prominent amorg the s'g1z O: ths times is the
recent extraordinary ASTON Of Horace Greeley and
the Eew Yo,k Tribune Greeley has been in Der.
feet accord with the PfssideD ever since tbs OF
september On that day Mr. Lincoln threw him.
self into the AIMS OF the " aite atsd Ihosophsr
and ever since has been his obedjeat aud dosie
pupil. Since that day Horace 0resley hss been the
master and lsadsr Of the Administration. he has
been thsn thst. e!ncs that fatal day Il o. ace
Greeley has beel ths m aSter OF thu American Deo-
pls Thsir gits. their hbefties Il @ sec1ri.y @.
their psrsons snd property have all heen at his
mercy. WhatsveH De comm IN dsj thu Pfesidsnt to
do, that the President has done. The will OF
Horace Greeley baa bsen ada the Buprem law Of
the land. For the President has bssn peased .
do whatever aorscs " llsd MIN to do, and the At
tornsy General has declared whatever peaass the
President that ID law
Well, Horace now villa that the war shall stop.
He has been here to see ,he Presidsn,; be and his
friend srd cp.lsborer, Wendell Phillips. They
have become convinced that the touth cannot be
col Quered Fearful, therefore that the eOnse rvA
tives will also be come sc convinced, and the latter
uniting with tho conservatives Of the South, will
devise some assures to restore the Union, they
have determined to avert thA: calamity (as they
consider ID at ali hazards and by every me ans -
b
ON the subject are the ssnls a. thcss of Mr. Grss-
ley that ke too is convinced OF the uselsssusss OF
prosee uting the war any IOr sr; and that he will
faithfully carry out Mr.. 0reeey's progrs IN ne in
the South, and the recognition OF the intepsnd.
ence OF lhs Southern Oonfedsracy.
But the plots Of Greeley and the radicals are not
the only that are has.sning the termination
of the war. The hs.lons, hn.nees viii not mach
longer bear the tremendous strain to which they
lave besn subjected for the lat twenty months
No man In his senses can rise from caudid exam
iustion Of the national faa without being con-
vinced that :hs nation II on tie verge Of roin. a
are staggering under n load OF financial embarrAs-
r,spts such as no nation ever before experienced
Al! the schemes Of Mr.. Chase have been no mora
than tbs temporary shifts resorttd TO by spend
thrifts who put of the evil Gay from time to time
by raising loans on exsfbitsnt and compound In.
tsrest and who 6ad th slves AZ lsRs bound haad
And foot and at tas mercy OF their mereile cssdi
tors The crash Ia approaching surely, but not
slowly. It my eoEs before the lass Of March are
past And whom 1t does come. the war IL over.
Another cause that 10 haateui & tbs termination
of the war Ia tie DISCUS. Of the people at the hide
ous complexion which It has assumed, aad their
iudiRuatiCn at tie revelation Of tie deceit which
has been practical upon tasn by their rollers -
They ievsr would have given their sons, thei.
brothers, their husbands, to be butchers1 tn war
the sole OBJECT OF which |. nov disclosed to be the
abolition Of slavery and the sxtsrainatIon Of the
Scu hs.n pecpe They were assured by tho ad-
m,nis,rstion VII III war began, that il was
war to restore the Uaion. ghsy sss now that i ~
q war to prevent the Union from being fest.rsd -
Mr.. Lincoln assured them tha. he had no desire. no
intention, no power TO interfere with slavery In
tie States whore II exists. xhey NOM ace him
"prooisiming" awey twelve hundred million d0!.
lars worth Of slave property. They have seso all
tho good 0snSrais whom the var has produced
smitten down, one after the other. by the hand Of
arbitrary power at Washington; aud they have
sesu tbs solduct ef the war committed to the
hsads Of politicians. l1wyers ehsrlstans. fsnAtcs
and upstsrss. Such war they Will not snpport.
The conservative statesmen here are Ia favor OF
bringing tho war to aa immediate tSFmlnstion.-
They sac that, In commencing the war st oil, tho
ADM inistratiop committed four great bluudes:
lst In thinking that . revolution undertake. by
twelve millions OF people could be crashed - sas
y, and BY the same means, ~ IN ordinary insor-
roetlou
81 In urds'rs.iag the power and rssoutcss Of
ths Southern people
Sd Ia thinking that ths people Of the Northern
States. whsu cncs eptFspped into Whatthsy would
bslisve 10 bc war for b, Onion. would 10 VIII.
f. i, con iuus II after It should become evident
that /. was really war 70 prevent ths rtsoesssue
tioa Of ths Ualon. 49,,
9Th In forgetting that the in'srual TRANQUILITY
Of both Rranse and lasland depends upe9 tAsle
isll ae1 sssalar supply Of 4usslsen eetsoe 81
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