Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-04-14
uN1rtbnestern Hir9iuia, .4prH 6, 1910.

st.SOrfhlceSteTR IUgtHid, .1pTH D, lS4u.
GLOW stands old Virginia. What is the position of
the mother of States: Where floats the flag ship this
preat Commonwealth Of States' Under what banner
IS she brought into action and under whose command
is she to strike for victory sink under defeat The
mountains which divide from the parental portion OF
the old Commonwealth do not divide our affections,
and these to us are questions of deep importance We
want to know whether arc fighting alone or not.
We want 10 know if the banner of State Rights is
struck down, and an old Federal commandment has run
nm the gorgeous ensign of one CENTRAL overshadowing
despotisur We want to know these things; we want
to know If Monticello has voice of Handicapped
against the old Federal usurpations and principles of
tyranny We want to know if the labors of Giles, of
Henry, of Edmund Randolph, and Thomas Jefferson
is the dead song of forgotten generations; these we
want to know, that own hands may be strength
encd and our hearts nvigorated If Old Virginia can
consent TO desecrate her honor then, indeed, has the
loht which beamcd from the Declaration Of lndepen-
dence and reflected from the Constitution, its guiding
Le1us crown dim: then, has the form OF Daniel Web
ster usurped the place of Thomas Jefferson in the
niche of our country honor and James Madison been
cast in the dust make room for Ialmadge, Davis, or
others such; then, has the 'long shot from Castle
Hill directed and exploded by the intellect, and the
hand of traitor, done its fatal work These things we
want to know; for, united sympathy would cheer our
toll but your detection from the old and cherished doc
trines of '9e will not make Us talter. We have plant
ed ourselves upon the radical principles OF Democracy
We are not tainted with the treason of the old Federal
ism, nor of its latest FORM new Whggery We acknow-
but Two parties the people and the restless and am
bilious iew the privileged and well paid, monopollsts,
privileged classes and r The o sde ap
exports our country affords the other We stand in
solid phalanx and although have baldeaglc who
is descendant in direct line from the imperial bird
which rested the banners of the ambitious monarch
Of Macedonia when he marched over the runs OF the
States of Greece TO conquests Of unprincpled po
Icy and victorious ambition!-(see Harrison speech
on presentation Of the grey brd)-yet we have the
stripes and stars representing the sovereignty OF the
Statcs-and the Eagle of country his protective
attitude, the emblem Of equal rights to al-and with
these we will conquer Brooke, Marshall, Mononga-
lia Wood, probably Tyler, will come in solid phalanx,
and return shot for shot with the armed NEUTRAL en-
sconced in his castle of Castle Hill The mighty ener-
gy of free, unterrifed and unbougM Northwestern
Virginia is aroused
(From Lcuis County,
"WEsroN, April I'd, 1910.
GAS passed through Bath and Pocahontas, on my
way home, and converscd with several resPecta.
BILE citizens of those countless all OF whom appeared
certain of the election of Col Bird of Bath and Bur
ner of Pocahonas
ssln this and Braxton counties, Jackson, the late
delepate, and COL McWhorter, the only candl
dates The Wings are making the most desperate ef
forts ever known in this region before TOR the COL,
but we shall beat them in this county My only fear
s in Brnxton: McWhorter has been practising law in
The courts of that county for the last three four
years and believe, is very popular-and Jackson s
acquaintance is but limited; but large majority of the
people are decidedly Democratic, and only want wax
up to see their way clear; this done, and
they will pursue the Republican track. The Superior
Court sits there week after next and interest must
be attended TO-
From what have heard, the prospects OF Neal, the
Democratic candidate in Wood county, are fatterng
and Fishers, also, Of Mason and Jackson"
Extract Of letter from respectable citizen Of The s"rfare'
"-7pra 5M.-Our friends in the Northwest are IN
fine spirits and good condition. know well that gal !