Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-05-07

penpable necessity Cor mill arg emancipation and arm
ing tho blacks, would come unless avered BY ina |
NJ ssurs. They declined the proposition and was, in
m bsst Judgment driven 90 The alternative Of either
gu eodsiDg the Uon and With 1t the Constitution, OF
o, laying stToDg-haad upon the COored elemen'.
chose the latter In choosing IT, hoped for greater
gain than lOss but of this not entirely confident.
More than year OF trial now shows no loss by it. in our
foreign relations in home popular sentiment;
none in our white military foTce-no loss by il any
how or anywhere. On the contrary, it shows gain OF
quite hundred and thirty thousand soldiers teamen
an aborers. These pable facts about which, as
facts there can be no cAving We have the men, aud
we could not have ad them wihout the measure.
"And row, Lee any Unien man. who complains Of the
measure test himself by wTi ing down in one line that
10 for subdung The Rebellion by force of arms, aud
in tie pex. that hs is for taking three hundred and
thirty thousand men from the Union side and placing
them where they would be- but Tor the measure he con
dsmus II he Cannot face hs cause 30 saed 1t only
because he cannot ace the truth, ..aar.tI
81 add word which was not IN the verbal CONVEX
sation In telling this tale attempt no compliment
to my own ssgacity. claim not 10 have controlled
events but confess plainly that events have controlled
me- Now at the end OF three years struggle, the ma
ons condition Ia not what either party any de
vsed or expected. God alone claim it. Whittier
of great wrong and wills also that Of the North,
as well as you Of the South, shal pay fairly for
completely in that wrong, impartial history will find
therein to attest and revere the justice aud
goodness of God. Yours trny,
"a LISooLk"
FoRREsf IN UEDIsTURBED POSSESSION OF WESTERN
KENTUCKY.
A telegram to the n Y. Tribune, dated at Columbus,
KY, April 81 says: f
but what little is known Of it is certainly humlating-
Forrest holds complete aud but weakly disputed pos
session of the region OF country north Of the Marietta
and Cincinnati Railroad and between the Tennessee
and Mississippi rivers except the posts of Memphis
Columbus a. Paducah At the same time we are con-
strained for want OF men, remain on tho defensive
only confident of ability TO cops with the enemy
while on tho inside of earthWorks. True Grierson
is ont north OF Memphis, but to very little puTpose-
We have yet to learn that he has made any offensive
demonstration beyoud following in the track Of tSe enc
N.Y. not daring, from sheer pAucty Of numbers TO ven
| turs within lighting distance.
Forrest has probably as many as ten thousand men
north OF the Marietta aud Cincinnati Rail DAD, all
mouuted while we. with comparatively ana nunber
OF cavalry to watch bis movements aCd with an extern
sve river line to guard are, from the force Of crcuG-
stances compelled TO remain in garrison and patiently
wait for the enemy 10 develop his own intentions =
Thus it was that Forreht able to march upon Pa
ducah without molestaon in tier front or rear Thus
1 n
fore Memphis, Columbus and Paducah, VIII 10 at tie
same time he attacked Fort Pillow with his main ARM,
AID captured and butchered the girr.son.
rRE YANKEE CONGRESS-
In the HouEe of Representatives, during the debate
on The bill "to guarantee Republican Governments to
States subvertej OvertbrOwn by the Rebellion, Mr.
Dawson, Democra, and Mr.. Stevens, Republican, ex-
pressed their vews:
Mr.. Dawson (Ps) opposed to the bill under con-
sideratio1. Il proposed at time when We have
not the power, If had the right, to recognize
single State. The States had been treated as II they
had no reserved rights All State Constitutions had
been trampled upon and placed a. the mercy of the
power A solemn act had been passed TO protect
Mtsry Agents against any they may think proper
to commit The last vesnge Of State rights and the
protection OF citizens together with all other powers
are sought to be central Zsd in the General Government
THIS he was uos pre- pared 10 sane ion by his Vots-
The I'll inended TO legaze and perpstuae che
constitutional proClIma ions of the President l. had
been said that slavery must be eradcated in order TO
preserve permanent peace but this the cry Of cruel
and unrelentDg ianateism. 1t an effort on the
part Of the strong to justify their attack the weak
The MY reconstruction there be 20 spread
the kindly influences OF the old Constitution all tae
lard He did not justify Secession, which brought
about by foolish men, who deserve punishment and who
preferred their own wicked projects to the welfare Of
the country believed there we're good men enough
North and South TO overwhelm both the Aoctiunsts
aud SecessioBss and restore the glorious old
Union The existing usurpation OF military
power should De removed There does not exist
despotic Government than this en- earth Abraham
Lincoln is Lot merely despot in name, but in fact.
Mr. Stevens Pa repeated the points heretofore made
BY him, namely, that the Retel we're eni led TO no
rights under the Constitution and the laws aud could
invoke the aid of neither in their behalf and that they
we're 10 be treated durug the ellgrsn accord
ing TO the laws Of war and nature that they could
ruht
wnom We are at war; and subjected to ~ the la
bes OF foreign beigers nts that their real and per-
sonal property may be taken TO pay the expenses of
the war and TO relieve the wounded soldiers aud the
families OF the fallen. While the innocent should be
spared the morally and politically guilty should be pun.
ished He proceeded to reply the attacks which had
been mads upon these positions Arguing that from tae
crimes of the beilgerents We justified in eKsctng
the extreme demands Of war. The people the alb
soue sovereigns and there Is other Government in
dependent of these sOyersigns. When tGey make an
unjust al their property both public and private is
subj ct 20 forfeiture.
The Confederate States are Republic, however bad
may be the soVeregn aud speak fer the entire people,
This view he illustrated and sad TO allow them TO re-
turn with their property uparnished would be rank In
justice to the loyal II, has been conteuded
they in the Union, where their representa- ives
We are MAKING war upon them for going GU Of the
Union without law, and they should never again be
ceived into until they repent aud are rebaptzed into
the National Union.
10 the cou Of his remarks he alluded to the recent
speech of Ne. Bai of Missouri and to that gentleman
stealing the mantle Of the President and sabbng the
friends of the President in the laters name. If be kr
S,even could live to tbs land trod By the
foot Of slave he would be content with any lot.
AFFAIss N NEW YORK.
New York letters in the Philadelphia Inquirer say:
There quite panic along the line of the Sixth Ave
nue. Rlroad in consequences of the explosion Of anoh
or torpedo internal machine, on the track between
and o'clock last night, at the of Hudson and
Canal streets The report was tremendous but hap
ply neither the car nor the passengers Sere injured
h.di