The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-04-26

60 - -RAe AigAess - rkes pfiee
q mr. O9B1ck Ter I'll kinde sa1aM
s6TlGA AND MHn Ran, N ""'
CAssce e Aeassers.
II eoueeimsD said that Il . man 10 to
nays matter Il matters little who the mas
TER =. md that. independence Is nothing
Without liberty.
WAs2hse the man Wa ever bern that 's 10
b the uastse Of any other man In the Coz
fsderaee States Of America IL scarcely prse.
tical question. Speaking In general way :.
sAould surmlss that the citizens Of the Coi'
fsdsAAe etaam entertain no such appreuSn.
sioas Of my mortal now born. or 70 DC w.,
Aersaftsr. II any individual not yet 'a"u.n
"a upca tho tide Of time Intends TO oc WIN
Sos any s1ch psrpose, We advise him 70 le,
caneiiee his determination. The times ana
H. gsnins Of the people are not prop'',o"'
% each enterpriseA 'C@sar had his brn'as'
Co., the First his Cromwell" and any
gentleman that undertakes to make slaves Of
southern white men may profit by their ex-
smple.
The yery preposterousness OF such TO-
tn exposes the serious rcfater Of 1t to the
painful consequences Of writ de tanatieo
snssSsss1o. The only master who, booted
and SPARED, proposes to ride and lash and
destroy %, d Abraham Lincoln. Virginia
~ long In believing that even he could be
such assdman and knave. Somewhat slow
u and relsctantly she adopted the concin-
sloas Of Geosets and other States upon that
subject, and, following where they Invited
her, gave the banner Of resistance to the
breeze. She ID now called upon to believe
that sonsbody else IL aspiring to be her
master, and that revolution counter to that
suit. Verify, - Mr.. Sam. Weller hath it,
'svot thing It 10 to be 90 sought arter."-
But, one ct time, gentlemen, one at time!
Virginia b very robustious and long wind
cd Commonwealth, not altogether deficient
and dropping in the hour of battle, but even
she. double jointed and belligerent giantess
that she Il, cannot carry ON ct the Same time
. revolution and counterrevolution. She
has been called the mother Of States, but
whilst she can bear with fortitude the ordi-
mary pains OF ordinary parturition, she may
1t least desire, If Jacob and Essu are to be
born 1t the same time, that they will Ell.
deAvof, In their nascent condition, to keep
the peace, and will follow each other in due
order upon the stage of public events.
In period Of such war as that in which
We are engaged, We cannot expect to enjoy
all the rights, any more than all the COM
forts and all the security Of peaceful life
We cheerfully give up our property and our
livsa to be saved from that which Is worse
than poverty and death, and there is nothing
In habeos corpus 90 divine that it should not
for time 60 the way of all things human in
this controversy. Eogland, to which We
owe that writ, uniformly suspended its ex-
ercise whenever the public necessities re-
quired 1t is less tyrannical to suspend the
writ than to suspend the corpus, and in
choice Of masters that circumstance might
% permitted without derogation to free
mans liberty to enter into the selection.
'1f man Is to have a master, it matters
little who the master L." We should like
20 know what liberty soldiers, fighting the
battles Of their country, enjoy, compared
with citiEensf We should like to know if
the army, comprising the blood and muscle,
the brain and soul, of the Southern Confed-
aracy, hiss not given up its liberty for time
20 its military leaders and commanders, IA
her than to be slaves for all time to a Yam
Zee despotism? II they can submit to such
discipline - that of camps, why may not
civilians endure for o time milder disoi-
Line for the same patriotic purpose? Who
lslieves that any restriction upon personal
LIBERTY is to last longer than the war -
Who believes that the Confederate President
desires any higher glory than to conduct this
great struggle TO o successful conclusion,
and to retire at the end of his term to pri-
vate life, with the gratitude of his country
and the benedictions of mankind?
But whilst We loathe and execrate the idea
OF having master a. much as any mortal
man, and regard the existence of any rival
with Abraham Lincoln for that position as
the very error O. the moon, we deny that it
matters little, II country is to have mas
ter, who tho master 10. Does it matter little
to France whether she is ruled by Napo-
leon or IN Englishmany To Hungary, or
Italy, or Poland, whether q stranger or one
of their own race sits upon the throne? TO
the South, whether . native born slave
holder or Yankee abolitionist and email
gsmationist ssise the sceptrc: Why, there
u not king Of ciyilised Europe whom the
Confederate people would not prefer as their
ralsr to Lincoln, Seward, or Butler. But,
syAin We say, no son Of her begetting desires
20 be her master. II we are wrong, if It be
tsas. - averreI, that Q would be tyrapt
within her own borders il seeking the impe.
rial purple, and that there lie no choice be-
tween him and Lincoln, Why keep cur
armies another day In the field. II there
- no sneh danger, why announce such q |
propoeition, and conjure up before the pat !
riotae soul Of the country, just braced up for |
. dscisive struggle. . goblin to distract its |
attention and paralyse Its arms!
~ caARLEsTOS-Rev South erlsrd. a
reeages from Charss.on, Will lecture upcp
MAJ CAy-lss history, ~ people, and iss military
s;sasssoo -'nss:!sy sveains, ssth last, a. sx
c'ooek 10 u AsIbodiss Protestant Church. Nsyo
s.sesty eetees. Grace md Bread Admitaanee. 81. |