New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-15
VIRGINIA, BY A VIRGINIAN.
Revision of the Constitution-Slavery--
union, &c.


union, &c.
Correspondence Of The Tribune.
RITcHETowS, Monday, July /.
was much pleased in reading communication
10 a late number of The Tribune. from your cor
respondent H. g. on the appearance of Old Vir'
GINA, &c truly that land Of buried greatness.
could not repress the blush, yet felt proud that
was Virginian. blushed because of the truth,
but felt proud that was Of the soil Of Washing
ton and Henry, proud that Virginia is even now
preparing to shake off the incubus that STILES her
energies" proud that she iS on the eve OF great
civil revelation in her State policy, proud in the
anticipation of her future, proud that the Conven
ton in the representation from the western portion
Of the State will be composed Of men Of industry,
energy and intelligence; that they will be guided
by liberal and wise policy, aud engraft upoa her
Constitution all the elements necessary to restore
her to her pristine greatness, and take her position
in the great march Of human improvement. should
your h. q. visit the western portion OF the state,
he would End q very different state OF things, Ger
tainly as different possible under the same legs
lation. Instead Of the chimney OF some old man
sion crumbing and fretting away IN the storms
and rains Of.HeRven, and the "unpruned apple
tree shedding alike it's frat and It's tjllage upon
the earth he would find q combination Of industry
energy and intelligence at work, and gladdened
smile upon the face Of Nature. Altho1Sn we are
forced into Convention by our Eastern brethren
uoon the Hback basis" with majority OF seven.
teen against the West, yet we anticipate much
A liebt is beginning 10 dawn upon the benlghtsd
porto15 Of the Old Dominion and you viii lind by
The election for delegates that men OF energy and
ability will be selected, men who know wnaE We
want-who know our rights and knowing, dare
maintain them We will march up to the polls
Int ,ra nav. n
daring m he free We will show 20 the world
that we are determined and united that the fires
of Republican liberty that burned so brightly upon
the affairs of Virginia in 70 are rekndllng that
her sons are animated with the spirits OF her Illus
trious dead who so sterny bstted for Republican
liberty in the infant days OF our Republic; that her
% hurled greatness" Is now bursting the veil OF
Cimmerian darkness that has hung 50 long in her
akv. behting the greensward Of earth with accu.
m1lating penury and crime that she is now merg.
ing from her long black night of political darkness
into the glorious sunshine OF Constitutional liberty
and will come forth redeemed and dlsenthraled by
the formation and adoption OF liberal and enlght-
ened Constitution. Her transit will indeed be gl0
rious Although the institution OF Slavery Tor half
century has sat like the cormorant oil old by the
forbidden tree tempting the fair fame OF our Stste,
CRYING disuniOn 10 interdicted knowledge, aud
screaming Liberty over the shackles o. Slavery
and although it may yet remain fixed for time
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distant day, Virginia will make ali the restitution
in her power aRd stand forth In beauty like pure
and spotless virgin at the Hymenial altar, decked
in garland Of conscious integrity, with al eye SIN
gle to the perpetuity Of our glorious Union. Much
has been said about oisunion, bat so long as the
disaaected in the old States can have vent by emit
grafton, there can be no danger Of dlsunioni new
States will spring up in the South and South West,
under Constitutions adapted to their own peculiar
notions of things and come into the compact salts
fed. Ave- new States will spring up until the
stars and stripes Of the Anglo Saxon American viii
have shsdoged the sun Of Anahuac and waved in
their pride Of place on the extremity Of Cape
Horn. The union OF the States is Indispensable,
and Old Virginia will be the last in the category to
break the compact Rather than dsmembsr, she
would see the institution ofSlavery Northern Abo-
ltionists Southern abstractonists and their satel-
lites. sunk in the most profound oblivion. Virginia
will stand to the compact until the armament shall
roll toeether as q scroll. Dsunion never is her
motto. now. hencelorth and forever. When the hu-
man race shall have filed their destiny, when the
Empires of the Eastern Hemisphere shall have
crnmbled into dust, when the constellation OF our
Couederacy shall be fading away, the star OF Vir-
eizia will lipger in the horizon when her c0neder
all disaDnaaFai J. Il. Z.