From the New York Atlas, March Ist AMERICA UNDER A DICTATOR. before the publication of the next number of this paper, the United States will have passed into a condition very little contempla tad, as we must suppose, by the wise and patriotic men who founded the government and framed the Constitution. That condition will be, on the adjournment of Congress, which necessarily takes place before twelve o'clock on Wednesday the Fourth of March, that Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States and Commander-in Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, will become a Dic tator, with such powers as have never before been conferred upon any ruler holding under a pretendedly constitutional government. It was said of Andrew Jackson, when he " tot k the responsibility" and removed the govern ment deposits from the United States Bank, that he had "assumed powers and committed sots that no king on earth, and no emperor save'one, would have dared to attempt ;" and yet the power held by that brave and safe man was the merest shadow as compared to that held by his republican successor, under the late acts of Congress and We evident ten dencies of our whole machinery of govern ment, Had Andrew Jackson chosen to be recreant to his trust and make experiments upon the endurance of the American people, relying upon the army at his back, what would have been the force at his command ? A miserable eight or ten thousand, at the most, with the whole body of the men of America opposed to him. At this moment we have between half and three-quarters of a million of men in the field—such an army as has never before been gathered by any civil ized nation, not only in numbers but in ap pointments and the excellence of the war material accompanying them. But this is not enough—not half enough: the late action of Congress places at his disposal the whole militia force of the United States, to be called into use whenever he may choose, for service anywhere that he may please, and for service as long as he may demand. All ideas of the peculiar rights of the States are at once aban doned in this regard, and the peculiar features ' of the State militia system are entirely ignored in the formation of a " Netional Guard " of the most formidable character. The body is to he one vast " consolidation," for the use and control of which, during the interregnum .of Congress and perhaps much longer, the WASHINGTON AND MADISON . President is to be responsible to no authority We hardly suppose the Abolitionists will whatever. He can make and unmake coin menders, arrange and change plans of action, so far outrage public sentiment as to stigma decide for what this vast army shall fight and t:ze these two eminent patriots (both of whom for what it shall not, and move, in short, all ' were slaveholdere) as disloyal to the country, the springs and lovers of the most p owerful and yet this is what they say in the subjoined military combination ever known to history, without any one having the right ( or at least extracts, and for saying the same thing the the power) to ask him " What dao3t thou ?" Democrats of the present day subject them- To this is to be added the entire control and selves to all manner of abuse and opprobrious command of a navy supposed to be so fermi- „,.,•, 1 ,„„