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The Standing Army at Washington.

Why is the Standing Army kept up at Washington? The New York Superintendent of Police, who had the audacity to send his spies through the Southern States, now admits as the result of his investigations that there never was any plot such as was made the pretext for assembling this force at Washington. Why are they kept there, then? Has Virginia no right to ask that question? --Has she no right to demand of Lincoln the withdrawal of a force which menaces her independence, and can at any moment be thrown into Old Point, and be made instrumental to her subjugation! What is Fort Sumter to Virginia compared with the practical question of Old Point! People of Virginia, unless you prepare to enter the Gordian knot in the harness of King Lincoln'schariot, you will be dragged behind it as ignominious slaves.

The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 13, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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