The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-19
The Radical ReyOlutiOnists Preparing
for another War.

Hon. II. j. Raymond has writtcna letter
10 his paper from Washington, which con-
tans the following startling intelligence:
You may have noticed the passage in tho
House, Il few days since, OF resolution
offered by General Paine, Of Wisconsin,
calling oil the States to organize, discipline,
and equip their militia, and directing that
two.thirds of the arms, ordnance, and
ammunition now under custody OF the Ge-
neral Government be distributed among the
.StoteS.-thc distribution among the loyal
States TO take place Immediately, and that
among the States lately in rebellion to be
postponed until further orders. The rcso-
luton came up from the Committee on
Military Affairs, and was pushed to vote,
without debate or delay, under the pre-
vious question. Ii attracted as little at
tcntion in Congress as it has in the coun-
try, and the public will doubtless receive
with iucrcdulity the assurance that 1t was
intended by those who secured its pass
age as the FIRST step to,card preparation for
aItoH,r cirH ,rdr. Although no debate was
had upon it, members were urged to vote
for il by direct conversational appeals on
the floor on the part of the few who were
privy to its introduction. Some were told
that il wa. necessary to enable the South
crn lovalsts to protect themselves :-othcrs
that il was simply matter of detail III the
War DEPARTMENT Others that the arms
must be taken out of the hands of the Pre-
sidcnt and others that it was proposed at
the instance Of the Secretary Of war. An
appeal was made by Mr.. Kasson, of Iowa,
10 allow debate upon it, as it seemed TO be
matter of importance but this was re-
fused.
Most of the leading and rejecting Radi-
Gals in Congress take this view of the po-
litical future Ii the fall elections result
in the choice Of northern Democrats,
enough to constitute, when added to the
members from the southern States, Il ma
iority of the House, they assume that this
majority, thus constituted, will claim to
he the Congress and will act accordingly
and that they will bc recognized by the
President as the body to which he Will
send his message, and whose sessions nc
will, if the necessity should arise, protect
10y military force. They assert, on the
other hand, that the Union members from
the loyal States-if they constitute ma
iority from those States-will claim to be
the only legal Congress, and will, If neces-
Sary, invoke an insurrection of the people
10 maintain them i'll that position. They
do not in the least conceal their purpose III
the event of such collision to appeal
totiorce, and to "drive the rival Congress,
with the President and his Cabinet and
supporters, into the Potomac" to use the
language of one of the ablest and most SIN
ccrc of their number. If you VIII re-
call the remarks of Mr.. Boutwell,, OF Mas
Sachusetts, in last weeks first caucus,
YOU will see this movement clearly tore.
shadowed-indeed avowcd. lie declared
his belief that an issue Of force was rapidly
approaching, and that we must DC pre-
pared to meet it. He acts, and oil who
cooperate with him i'll these measures pro-
fcSs to act, under the apprehension That
the President intends TO resort TO forcc,-
that he means to disperse the present Con-
yress on its reasscmoling in December if 1t
refuses to admit the Southern members;
and Mr.. Farnsworth ascribed to Mr.. Seward
the declaration that this Congress should
never rcassemble unless the Southern
members were admitted-in support OF
this belief. l need scarcely say that Mr..
Seward never made any remark Of the
kind, nor that the project ascribed to tho
President is purely an invention, or at best
the crazy dream Of a political nightmare.
But in either case it serves the same pur-
pose. 1t covers, and is held to justify, the
determination to arouse the north and pre-
pare for resort to force upon the assem-
bling Of the Fortieth Congress in extra or
in regular session and this determination
is Quo,ned. And the resolution to which
have referred for an organization of the
militia and distribution of arms in the
northern States is the initial step to its
execution.
l do not propose to comment upon the
result Of such movement. It is obvious
that If any such contingency should arise,
the war would not be sectional, as was the
last it would be a war of political parties
and of neighborhoods. Not only have the
great body of the Union party in Congress
no sympathy with these views and pur-
poses, but they are in the main ignorant.
and incredulous Of their existence. That
| the extreme Radicals entertain them, how.
ever, there Is not the slightest doubt, and
We know from the experience Of secession
in 1861 how few men il sometimes REQUIRES
TO plunge great party or q great nation