Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-10-25

community IN perecUng our lux, ana most lIIpoI
| tant one, IN long cham OF communication which Will
not stop short OF ST. Louis and which may only pause
there for awhile before resung its continuous course
| towards the Pacific Ocean.
| Accompanying the Presidents Report, there were
submitted the annual meeting OF the Stockholders,
the report Of the General Superintendent, Mr. Parker,
whose intelligent devotion to the interests OF the Com
pany has been shown in many valuable Improvements
in the conduct OF the affairs oil the Road also the Re-
port Of the Chief Engineer, Mr. Latrobe, long in the
service OF the Company and eminent throughout the
country for knowledge and skill in his profession -
Both of these Reports clear, succlnct, and highly
| interesting.
The Lynchbaug Republican, we find, holds on
to its inconsistent nd untenabe position that the
South is suffering foul degradation from the mea-
sures of Congress, whilst it fails to raise the STAN
dard of resistance We put to that paper, a few
days ago. the plain question, whether it was for
or against dis union? 1t does not answer the
| question, but resorts to an ar0idance, by falling
into the horrors at our reasons for being satisfied
with the Compromise. We do not hold ourselves
bound to plead to the new issue until the one we
! rendered has been disposed of. There can, in
truth, be no satisfactory argument, where the
parties do not know each others position. Until
the Republican proelaims itself explicitly to be
either for resisting, or for acquescng in the acts
of Congress, discussion cannot lead to any certain
conclusion. If we believed the Compromise bills
to be degrading and oppressive to the South, we
should unquestonably urge the South not to sub
NIT to them. But the role of the Republican and
other journals of similar views, seems to be, to as
sasme that no degree of oppression can rouse the
| Southern people to manly maintenance Of their
rights and this assumption is taken a sufficient
excuse for not advising them to attemptit. Such
reasoning involves insult to the South, and lamen-
table inconsistency on the part of those who re-
sort to it. We believe the people of Virginia are
this day as capable of understanding and defend
ing their honour, no matter from what quarter it
may be assailed as they were in the days of the
Revolution. The Republicans argument assumes
that they are not yet it will hardly make the
charge in so many words If the people are in
| telligent enough to know their rights" and
" knowing, dare maintain them" the proper course
of those who consider those rights subyered, is to
endeavor to convince the people that the time is
come for action. Denunciations of those who en-
terrain different opinion, are mere empty words.
The acts of Congress, called the Compromise
have raised specific and momentous issue before
the Southern States. That issue is Resistance
or Acqtescence. To such as openly declare
themselves for resistance, all must accord the
| credit of candour and consistency. We may DIFF
! fer with them radically in opinion, but we know
where they are, and can go before the people fair
| y to test the force of their arguments.
| Somewhat after the fashion of our Lynchburg
contemporary, the editor of the Petersburg NewS
disovows being disunonist, and, declaring that
his efforts " have been directed to one object: to
| concentrate public opinion in the South" ex-
presses his views in this strong, and we must say,
most unfortunate language
I'VE have failed thus far in object, and haue noap
! no hope " When the period arrives which the
Times speaks Of as that when abandonment of the
government would be proper, the South will be divi-
| died.. We haze no hope!"
Which means that the editor of the Neps has
&c no hope" that the South would under any cir
cumstances, venture to resist the Federal Govern
ment. We can only repeat that the impuation
is unworthy of gallant people, and whoever
makes it has no appreciation of Southern charac-
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