Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-04-15
An Appeal to the Jyhics of Virginia,

The dsv OF battle approaches. These Ire
quen and necessarily recurring party fights. are We know
ourselves feel painful and Disgusting to those
whose thoughts turned pesce But they are the
necessary condition Of Republican Liberty, and alter al
the storm OF Liberty preferable the calm OF Despousn
the sailor finds thousand times more delightful to os
tossed the mountain with the incessan and eS-
citing cry "s hands deck than be lazy rolled from
side to side by the undulaiions OF a dead calm!
Our state this world it, and intended TO DO, proba
tionay and struggling from beginning to end No blessing
no distinction accorded condition by Providence
Cor worth possession il it be go won) WITH
care, labor, effort and vigilance and LIBERTY
the rst and greatest of all human blessings, LIBERTY
above ALL be achieved by heroic effort and the blood
martyrs and be preserved by anxious and unrem
ting effort and eternal vigilance
Let not the Republican citizen complain then, il he is
continually called into the political arena combat fol-
Law and Liberty Ii be so, he must be content
for himself and his postey sink under the chains forged
by despots the still CALLING chains OF debased and
unprincplcd Demagogues lie 10 threatened on the one
hand by the tyranny OF single MASTER on the other by the
yet insupporabe tyranny OF moos let loose by anar
chy. He who live and die FREE must sleep on
his arms. He be u vidette all the time-prePared
both to watch ard TO comba, for his rights.
Let there be gumbng then because OF the frequent
recurrence OF political They cannot be avoided
unless the coed citizen prepared TO surrender his coun
try aud government the control OF the last men in II
whom he would with political power IL is the price
OF Republican liberty.
1t the pacific, The quiet the order loving citizens Of
the Republic that address ourselves claim from hep
particularly, the prompt exercise Of what only their
right but a most hig and mperious duty We beg them
reflect, that scarcely the of Jacobnism
and Agraranism, which from the beginning OF history
have inundated and overwhelmed every Republic be stad
by all the resistance opposed them by the enlightened and
the order loving and every spacious the
OF dwelling principles from year year and almost from
day day How then they be successfully resisted If
the pacific and the moderate, retire from the field fagued
with the frequency Of the combat, Disguised with per-
pelual defeat.
No! good friends and true Republicans. You must
sist and vanquish this dsase for contest this tendency
despair. Ii unmany and unworthy Of you. II is cow.
ardy REIMBURSEMENT Of the blessings which Providence has
valor and watchfulness.
In the peculiar condition Of this young and great country.
the retirement OF the moderate, he VICE. the good the we'll
meaning from participation political struggles. would be
attended by consequences Instantly end fearuy fatal
Demogogism the frantic, the unprincipled, would
seize the helm and purposey guide the ship Of State freight
ed with the fortunes Of the human upon the breakers
Whist have they losc and what have they gain by
universal wreck.
We then appeal 10 the caei. the old the moderate. the
dsinterssfsd, to appear aud help the Wings this
jus: approaching Law aud order Liberty and
ight their objects