Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-04-12

II will be seen by the following letter. that
Mr.. Baooxs, the Washington correspondent OF
the Portland Advertiser, has been in the Ancient
Dominion,
THINGS IN RICHMOND, VA.
Conversation Nth Member efths Firginia L.
gisLatue
There being number Of the members OF the
Legislature as vet left in Richmond, have made
talk with one whenever | could. and have often
been amused and interested. The state pride OF
V,rsinian surpasses all that we can we'll under.
stand. There is no place like :" old pirginny'
in his estimation. He glories in the fame OF his
ancestors aud imagines there is something IN the
soil fitted for the nurture OF great men. tir.
ginia is sovereign State, SAID one 10 me. glow
inc with exutation, :. Virginia is sovereign
State. and, therefore, she has right to secede.
She can't be sovereign. unless she has this right
and she is sovereign" There was no match.
iny this assertion without long and tedious ar
gument, and preferred to listen. Jefferson"
he continued, /" was a democrat always. -
| Democracy ran in his blood. It's with men as
| with horses. There is something in the blood.
You can tell them by their pedigree. James Ma.
olson was always federalst. In '9S, he did not,
| in his famous Resolutions, express his own OPT
Mons, but the opinions of party. He was the
party's organ, and wrote out their sentiments
| This made him President, and Jefferson kept him
straight bu, as SOON as Jefferson died, you see
he went over to the federalists. whom he betray.
ed. He could not keep aw ay from his kin. Fe-
deraism ran in his blood. 1t is With men as with
horses.
Richie, too, his father was tory, and was
near being hung for tory. Richie was frde-
ralist Jefferson, when alive, kept him bridled,
but Jefferson dead, the tory blood got uppermost
1t is with men az with horses, sir. am for old
Virginia Virginia is sovereign state. You
Yankees DENY secession. because you are strong
er than we are, and can fog US; but let Massa,
chusetts, sir, get angry. anu she will secede.-
She will do as she pleases. She has stuff in her,
and like her for it. Webster is great man.
and Calhoun is great man. They ate two Of
the greatest men in the world. sir don't know
which is the strongest. But Webster Is a Teds
ralist, aud Calhoun is a democrat. was raised
aud bred democrat. | go then for secession:
for when You attempt to Cypress us, when those
big sta,es.-New York aud Pennsy lvania,-at
tempt to break US down. We can secede. Seces
sion is the salvation of the south, sir. We have
slave property, and you Yankees, are opposed to
it. We may be called upon to give up this, and
| then we can secede sir, and the Unlun is worth
more to you than it is to Us; aud if wc secede,
you will do US justice.
| love the Union, but secession is the only way
to preserve it. Virginia would have hard time
as border State, but then we should grow rich,
| sir. The whole south would be under US. The
General Government has been ungrateful to VIr-
gina Sir. before The revolution, we were rich. W.
were gentlemen. Every man had money enough.
Now we have little or no money You Yankees
come in troops to look at our country, and We
can't raise loose cash enough to get across the
Potomac. own large plantation and many
slaves. sir, and can't get money enough to
pain, my house. The General Government has
been viper to Virginia She has sung her be
neTactor. Now you see how poor we are. You
see every thing guing to ruin. old houses, old
fences, ragged slaves. Virginia has nothing left
but her hursrs, and then her race horses do her
more hurt than good. They make her people
idle aud gambling people. Sir, you Yankees are
too cunning for US. You keep better look out
tnan we do. You and the New Workers. and
Pennsylvanians got the old revolutionary debt
for little OF nothing, and made money on that,
ii our expense. So in the late war, YOU bought
the debt tor GO cents on dollar, and made Ut
paw full dollar. Now YOU have got an Ameri
can system, out, tDanK Hedi
is opened. love him. because be- is d FirgInI'
an. and if he had not gone to Kentucky. We
would have made President of him long ago
Virginia has no such stock left. Patrick Henry
and he sprung from the same soil. Sir. Old Vir.
gina is peopIing the whole south and west. Eve
~ great man, south Of this, ia Virginian BY
birth. The .ungrateful sons ran off, My wife
wanted me to settle 10 Nashville, but not |.
loyp VIRGINIA Inn we'll And II this Union wa.
separated. could | fight against virginia? No
oh no, never. But this cursed American System
is running US. 1t depopuatng old Virginia
1t Is making you rich and US poor"
Hitherto had been too much interested in tn
open hearted and lively conversation of my Vir
pinian. even to interrupt him. believe his con
versatiuu thus far embodies the pith of virginia.
politics and Vrginian philosophy. His argu
ment on secession Vas the best that can be given
for the best reason ever given is, that If Virgin
is oppressed by the nation, she can secede; bu
then arises the Interior question, whether psacea
oily, or by revolution