The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-02-28

anne credit TO be tFeinidns ahu Wncn peo-
ME fel, !, 10 be 90. Now, itseems, the peonle
of The Northwest are ready, At the bidding Of
Mr.. j. L. Slemmer, of Baltimore, or of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, to
di.membei the State. We have foreign cor.
poration within our borders, which has already
begun to rule US with rod of iron, and its
servants in the Legislature. unfortunately. are
bu, too ready to do it's bidding. Why, then,
prosecute the investigation of the Marshall af-
fair any farther? Is il not evident that, let
things be as they may, the whole business will
be voted perfectly honorable I Is il not appa-
rent, that il Virginia attempt to redress her
sell, Mr.. J. L. Slemmer, of Baltimore, will
have the State divided Our blood may boil
at the insolence of this foreign mental. but Vir-
ginia has no redress.
For eur own part, we think worse things
than the division of the State might happen. IL
the Northwest choose to sell herself TO Balti-
more, let her 20 say we. We have long felt that
her people had ceased to be Virginians-to care
for the honor or the interest OF the state. II
they are DESTROYS of bartering away even tneir
name for gold, in Gods name, say We lei MI.
J. L. Slemner, Of Baltimore, and the bei'i-
more and Ohio Railroad take them to their
arms. 1.-THE entire West is TO go along with
them. so be it. We shall not be taxed TO build
their railroads 10 Baltimore. Baltimore will
have to pay for their government, for they can
m, ao il for themselves. In the meantime,
when the terms are settled, the East will put
in her claim for the millions upon millions
that have come out of her taxpayers to furnish
the West with roads and other improvements.
~ Mr.. ABRAHAM w. VENABLE, of North
Carolina, is the greatest talker of the age. He
can out-telk any man we know. He is a very
agreeable gentleman, too, provided you do MT
want to say single word yourself and pro-
vided you don't stay in his company more than
twenty or thirty minutes. He wo'n't allow any
thing to take place without little talk-just q
a word, at least. North Carolina sent block
of marble to Washington, to be placed in the
Washington Monument. The occasion was
too good one to be allowed to escape Mr..
Venable. So he got together an audience and
formally presented the block on behalf OF North
Carolina, in speech full OF patriotism and
sentiment. Mr.. Maury, the Mayor of Wash
ington, replied to him, as in duty bound, IN
very appropriate speech. The ceremony took
place on the 22d, which made it inexpressably
delightful to Mr.. Venable. How the ceremony
was gotten up We do not know; but some men,
bers Of Congress from that State have thought /!
proper TO say that they were not present be-
cause they knew nothing of it-not having
been informed Of it by any one from North
| Carolina or anywhere else. Now We suppose
| that makes no difference with MIR. Venable.-
| Indeed, he hardly desired to waste his eio-
quence upon ears that were so familiar with ii
as those of the Congressman from North Car
DINA. He no doubt preferred to delight new
auditors with his volublity. These he got
and he don't care fig about the absence Of
others. They tell good story on him.
He was e member of the last National Demo
cratic Convention in Baltimore. One OF the
| Western delegations boosted OF bringing " 18th
them the greatest talker in the Union. The
| North Carolinians knewVenable's capacity,a and
knew how vain was the boast OF their Western
confreres. So they at once laid q wager on
| him; and the North Caroinian and the Yves
tern talker were placed in a room together
About noon they were visited, and were found
| to be talking with forty horse power-later in
the day they were found talking with very
great energy but the tongue of the North
| CoyoI;n;sn WAS increased in glibness from ex
ercise, while the western man seemed little
weary. This friends Of the parties, anxious fol
the result, entered their room at an early houl
next morning, and found the Western man sit
ting bolt upright in his chair, with his heat
thrown beck, completely dead, and Venabls
talking close to his ear, with as much energy
| as when he began