Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-09-30

81 tx G overnor Jones. Of Tennessee.

S ExGoycrnor Jones, Of Tennessee, in
a Speech delivered before the Mercantile Con-
vcntion, at Richmond, on Wednesday the
10th Of this month, said
You have resources in Virginia to an ex-
tent sufficient, II carcfully developed, to make
you almost supreme in power, wealth and
greatness. and in all that digniGes mankind.
Yet, how many unnumbered blessings have
been rejected at your hands? What vast
and unlimited resources still lie undeyeloped
and uncared for beneath your soil | have
looked upon the past course Of Virginia with
attention, and have sometimes been filed
with pride and pleasure, but more frequently
with pity and regret have seen her sister
States passing BY her in the onward march Of
improvements, while she was standing still
/ Their motto has been onward and upward,
while Virginia was standing at case. One
| of the most potent considerations 10 nv csti-
nation connected with this course of policy
is-whether intended or motifs inevitable
tendency to cxpatriate your children. Crimes
they have not committed yet they are ban
ished from the land of their fathers Why
this state of things? Because OF the policy
which has been pursued in Virginia by which
you have refused to develop your resources
or hold inducements to your children to re-
main around the paternal altar 1t is true
! that the region Of country from which come
has no reason to complain Of this matter, be-
cause we have received the benefits of that
expatriation. But in the name Of all that is
dear to Virginia, in the name of the mothers
of Virginia, solcmnly protest this day,
against the continuance of that policy which
is daily Vanishing your sons and daughters
from your soil. You have resources enough
in Virginia, if developed. to sustain comfort
ably all the population you now have or viii
have in the next half century BE true then
to yourselves Be true to sllat destiny which
seems to be waiting your command and the
time will speedily come when your young
men will not. upon attaining maturity, ask
themselves to what section of the country
shall go in order to better myself? They
will be content with homo. They will look
around them, and seeing close at hand all the
elements of wealth all that can stimulate
the energetic and enterprising man to action
they will say the homc-feld is broad
enough, and we will stay an the land of our
fathers - lce ,eiH die and be buried Nth our
Sires
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Unite this nation as band of brothers aud
you secure the inviolability of that Constitu-
ton aud these laws The great ligaments,
then, that are to bind the North to the South,
the East to the West, are those of social and
commercial relationships We hear some
times, that this glorious Union is to be dis
solved, do not believe it TApplausc]
am no fatalist that know Of, but if am, it
is upon this subject do not believe that
this magnificent structure Of the Union, cree
ted under the guidance os Divine Providence
is to be demolished ut afea.h by s0me poor
factionist, either in the North or South -
Immense applause believe that its ex-
istence is to be perpetual and that its perpet-
uity depends upon you ard upon mc-upon
the wisdom, the virtue, and the patriotism CT
her sons and daughters 1t may best be
preserved by linking together its different
parts. Tie Tennessee with bars of iron, to
the ancient Dominion; then link Alabama to
Tennessee, Mississippi to Alabama and Flor
ida to Mississippi; thea connect all the other
States of the confederacy with these States,
with the ties of social and commercial rela.
tionships, and we may then. my countrymen,
stand out proudly and gdfiously pre- eminent
among the nations of the earth, and bid de-
fiance to the dark, Internal, and damning
spirit of discord that seeks to pervert and
destroy all that is great and good, and ven
cradle. Let us be faithful to the mighty
trusts confided to us.
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