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crushing enough to have satisfied the monster wish and

crushing enough have satisfied the monster wish and
the monster heart of Caligula himself
But, Mr.. Chairman, when pass by the COLLECTIVE par
ties in this case, and recall the particular ones when
see that my State deeply implicated IN the lrou-
Die and the danger OF 1t as any olhsr ana G TO ne
painful appehensions OF It's lssue-when see ms
turn nvoantary and with unaffected Difference OF spirit
and ask What in this exgent moment 10 Virginia. will
Massachusetts, do that Massachusetts which, in the
designations OF early colonial history, was known
Northern Virginia What will Northern Virginia do, In
the before us, for her southern namesake and sis
teri Will you too, Il speak to her as present in her
repre- scntatves)-w you too forgetting all the past,
put forth hand to smlte her ANONYMOUSLY upon the
cheek In your own early day of deepest extremity
and disress-he day of the Boston port bill--when
your beautiful capital was threatened with extinction,
your Liberties away, Virginia, caring for odds, and
counting no cost, bavey, generously, instantly step
ped iSh TOR your delivennee She made the day
June, l774, day OF humiliation fasting, and prayer
thus imploring, with voice, the protection and
blessing OF Heaven upon YOU and thus, through re-
lIgous act, the ultimate of national Distress rousing
up her people to the fullest and most startling OF
the outrage and the peril which awaited you She called
cause.-The cause of right, and freedom, and justice that
as such, she made 1t her own, and would hight II 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 good Addressing her through the JUS
ce of your and the agones of your condition. you
asked her for her heart She gave it: with the
reservation OF throb she gave freely and gave all
You called upon her for her blood She took her child
from her bosom and offered them TO supply it. With
her spirit, with her appreciation OF the great principles OF
representative and OF popular government which your
case involved and with her holy enthusiasm in their
support Virginia would have been utterly her.
self il she had done anything else anything less than
she did.
But in all this she felt and knew that she was more
than your political ally-more than your political friend
She felt and knew that she your near uralbon
reation-such IN virtue OF your common descent, but
such far still, in virtue of the higher attributes of
congenia and kindred nature. Do not be startled the
idea OF common qualities between the American cavalier
| and the American roundhead. [NoTE-At this point
Mr.. McDowELL's hour having expired, he about to
close his remarks, when he was called upon from all
parts of the hail. with strong emphasis, to Ego on"-go
on To this request the committee giving Its unanimous
consent, he proceeded Do not be startled, Mr.. Chair
at the idea OF close and relationship between
the impeuous and naughty but courteous colonis of
jamestown, with his intense point OF personal honor,
and his devotion to all that is stirring in the incidents OF
fe and the stern, solemn, self denying, almost ascetic
pilgrim of Plymouth proud but misguided legality
drives the defenders of the Stuarts TO the shores OF
the Chesapeake, that there, in prvaton and poverty,
own honor and their free will, without let or
hindrance from human authority pnre, exclusive,
nncompromising spirit Of religion that could not mngle
WITH and that Uod not be controlled by the corrupons
of EARTH drives prosecuted but precious people to the
rocks of Massachusetts, Bay, that there whatever else
might bede Them they could pour out their hearts they
pleased to Him whom it was the richest of all their de-
lights to worship and to serve. heroic and unconquer
able will, differently directed is the pervasve and master
the differences of cuuea culture which, in the one
case, directed to train the heart for all that gay
and glad and anmating in life and in the other, to train
it for subdued, chastened, concentrated spirituality
these have thrown around ancestors various
tune, and have long exhibited them to another and
to the world in all the glare of pictured and dramatic
contrast But in that proud and ofty spirit which claims
the human will for itself, which Indignantly repulses
every desire or effort to control it, as an unwarrant-
ly and indissoluby one. The same in this master
quality, so controlling in itself OF all Others i
impossible for them to be otherwise than blended
dawn OF our national day. Tney were the first, as
consequence to proclaim and to resist the aggressons
of England, and after, the fantng hours of
the struggle that followed, they absent ron the du
ty the spot where their valor their counses
required Nourished by the spirit, sharing twin
luton, what is there in any demand OF national faith
OF constitutional duty or of public morals, which should
the sound and the true grounds of national conducttha
should induce Massachusetts, to disavow the rights dis
own the equality, dsdain the remonsance, the
feelings an the honor of her best her strongest and her
earliest friend What is there in the possibilities of
tonal advantage precousas to justify her, any other
ia rsking, for single moment the danger of ncurable
family discord order to obtain 1t 1t is not for
people States to stay the march OF that unseen
and eternal which sweeps the devices and
the trophies OF man. and crowds whole nations, IN
melancholy procession, to the tomb But it is for u.s.
as both, to stay the very beginnings of that family
quarrel which fails, wheresoever it occurs, to
hurry onward and downward the destiny of people,
| and which strips the destiny that it hurres
of every hope that could soothe and surrounds with
every element OF utter and appalling to mark it
out from all for the shuddering the hor-
ror, and the admonon of man Shrinking from such
fate this, and from the that impel to IT,
cherish with the deeper ervor the just and the natural
hope that here in this honored temple of our
liberty, Virginia and Massachusetts, by whose hands
and whose wisdom in chief it was reared into power
will sit and worship side by side forever; that here, in
the peace of Heaven and of each other with clean hands
and pure hearts, they will always minister in public
things, doing right to ALL wrong to that here they
will carry to its brightest contamination, the llustr
GUS they have begun, comforting, cheering, sup
porting another through all the conflicts of the day.
and mitigating, should they come the commissions
iesfying for the honor of our nature to national
fidelity, which there nothing in the power of tempt
alton that could corrupt, and nothing but the power of
death that could destroy
Gentlemen, representatives OF Massachusetts, what say
you Are you agreed Your equals before the revou
ton began-your equals when it did begn-confederaed
as your equals in l777-united such in 17S7-co-
operating with you such the administration of our
common country from the declaration of independence to
operating with you with all the local rights and nsu-
tons which are objected to now-are you agreed that
what we were, and and ought to be, and must be-
we shall always continue to be- your equas-inviolably
your equals still Are you agreed to ths' If So them
in the sight of Heaven and of man, shall renew this
day compact, not OF peace only-no, no not only of
peace, grateful as that alone would bebut compact OF
Immortality for country.
AS the powers OF this government and, therefore, TO
great extent the destinies of this country nused
officially to our hands, is duty to give all vigilance
OF ear and eye and thoughtto everything that affect
them Ii is for u.s. then, to be warned by that voice that
from all the records OF all the past and comes to ad