Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-03-26

guIShed by the occurrence Dt any remarkable
calamity, and had no other or better record by
which to be transmitted to posterity than the
dnllan monotonolis one of its prosperity and
peace. He dreaded lest ii. should fade from the
history of the world, and be lost to the gaze and
the animadversion Of man. Sir, ii you will only
push on the controversy that now disturbs us,
from angrier to angrier tone, if you will only
settle 1t here with deliberate indignity and wrong
to one OF the parties it involves, you will soon
interweaEe with the richest and rurest national
happiness which it was ever allowed any peo-
pie on earth to enjoy, q memorial OF national
sorrow, whitening and crushing enough to have
satisfied the monster wish and The monsterheart
of Calieua himself
But, Mr.. Chairman, when pass y the col
lective parties i'll this case, and recall the partc-
ular ones ]: W hen see that my own State is as
deeply implicated i'll the trouble and the danger
OF ii as any other, and shares, to the full, with all
OF her southern collea cues, in the most painful
approximations of its issue--when see this. | turn
involuntarily, with and unaffected Difference of
spirit, and ask, What in This exigent moment to
Virginia, will Massachusetts do ?-tllat Massa-
chusetts which, i'll the designations of our early
colonial history was known as Northern Virginia.
What will Northern Virginia do. in the matter
before us for her Southern name sake and sister
Will you too q speak to her as pre- sent in her
Representatives)-w you too, forgetting all the
past, put forth hand to smite her ignominiously
upon the cheek In your own early day OF
deepest extremity and distress-fe day OF the
Boston Port Bill-when your beautiful capital
was threatened with destruction, and England
was collecting her gigantic power to sweep your
liberties away, Virginia, caring for 60 Odds and
counting IL, cost, bravely; generously; instantly
stepped forth for your delNerance. She made
the day on which The bill was to be executed the
IF
and prayer-thus implorng with one voice, the
protection and blessing of :Hearen sllron you,
and thus, through religious act, the ultimate
one of national distress, rousirg up her people
to the fullest and most startling sese Of the out
rage and the peril which awaited YOU. She call
ed upon you to stand up for your cause that it
was the true cause.-the cause of right. and free
dom, and justice that, as such, she made it her
own, and would fight it out with YOU blow by
blow; and, live or die, would give every faculty
that belonged to her of soul and body and estate
to make it good. Addressing her through the
justice of your cause and the aoonies of your
condition, YOU asked4ler for her heart She gave
! it with scarce the reservation of a throb she
gave it freely and gave it all. You called upon
her Tor her blood She took her children from
her bosom and offered them to supply it. With
her spirit with sher appreciation OF the great
principles of representative and of popular gov
eminent which your case involved, and with
her holy enthusiasm in their support, Virginia
would have been utterly lecrcant to herself il
she had done anything else or anything less than
she did.
But in all this she felt and knew that she was
more than your political ally-lnore than your
political friend She felt and knew that she
was your near, natural-bom RELATIONSHIP in
vlrtueAot 3yonr common descent but such far
more still in virtue of the higher attributes of a
congenial and kindred nature. Do not be startled
at the idea of common qualities between the A..
merican cavalier and the American roundhead
NoTE.-At this point MIR. McDowELL's hour
having expired, ,4le was about to close his re-
marks; when.he was called upon from all parts
OF the Hall, with strong emphasis, to Ego on;i-
ego on" To this request, the committee giving
itsnllnaninous consent, he proceeded:] Do not
he startled, MIR. Chairman, at the idea of a close
and near relationship between the impetuous and
naughty, but courteous colonist of Jamestown,
with his intense point of personal honor, and his
devotion to all that is stirring in the incidents OF
! life. and the stern, solemn, self-denying. almost
ascetic pilgrim of Plymouth. A proud but mis-
guided legality drives the defenders of the Stu
arts to the shores of the Chesapeake, that there
in priyation and poverty, if need be, they might
follow ont the devices of their own free will
without let or hindrance from human authority
hgion, that could rot mingle with. and that pould
not be controlled by the co1uptiors of earth
drives prosecuted but precious people to the
rocks OF Massachusetts Bay, that there. what
ever else might betide them they could pou)
out their hearts as they pleased 10 Him W HON il
was the richest of all their delights to WORSHIP
and to serve. Aheroic and unconquerable will
differently directed, is the pervasive and master
element i'll the character Of both Secondary
diferences-the difference of culture-a culture
which, inahe one case, was directed to train the
heart tor all that was gay and glad. and ANNA
ting in life-and in the other, to train 1T Hior
subdued, chastened, concentrated spirituality
these have thrown around cur ancestors a war;
GUS costume, land have long exhibited them tt
one another andtothe world in all the glare O
a pictured and dramatic contrast. But in thai
proud and lofty spirit which claims the human
will for itself, which Indignantly rerulses ever,
desire or effort TO control if, as an uwamantable
and mpious wrong-in that they We're thorough
ly and indissolubly one. The same nthis mas
ter quality, controlling in itself of all others il
was impossible for them toy be otherwise than
offended by it promptly, harmoniouslv, gloriousy
at the dawn of our national day. They were
the first, as consequence, to proclaim and tc
resist the aggrcssions of England and never
alter, even III the faintest hours of The struggle
that followed, were they absent from the duty
or the spot where their valor CT their counseis
We're required. Nourished by the same spirit
sharing as twin sisters in the struggle and the
heritage OF the same revolution, what is there in
any demand OF national faith or of constitutional
duty, or of publcanorals, which should separate
them now! What is there in these grounds
the sound andthe true grounds of national con.
dact-tnat should induce Massachusetts to dis
E>avow the rights disownthe equality, disdain the
TemoHstrances or scon the feelings and the
/ nonor OF her best strongest and her earliest
friend! What is there in the possibilities ot
sectional advantage SO precious as to- justify her
I or any other, in Fisking, efor a, single moment
ithe danger'oi incarable family discord in order
TO TO obta'nlt! It is not for us as a people or as
States, to stay the march of shat unseen and
etemalcause which sweeps over the devices and
Inc trophies OF man, and crowds whole nations
in melancholy procession, to the tomb. But Il
IS Tor us, as both, to stay the very beginnings Of
that family quarrel which never fails, whereso.