The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-02-02
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House II he does not mend his ways. ne hao
the assurance the other day to tell the Rouse
without any circumlocution, that they were
DESTROYING the confidence OF capitalists, VINO
nigh, o,herw Use be disposed TO invest IN Viz
eioia improvements, by their inconsistent sys
TEN of legislation, which allowed no one WORK
10 become remunerative before another was
constructed which was to tap and d-ain IT.
He even went farther than this, and fell foul of
the favorite scheme Of the day, that of making
Virginia colony of Baltimore, and as if to put
the cap-stone TO his rudeness, he asked what
had become of that opposition TO subservency
to Northern cities, which so lately set the pat
.iotism Of members in blaze! OH Mr.. Flour
noy, Mr.. Flournoy, you know not what m IS
chief you have done. Are you so green as to
think tina your old-fashioned State pride will
find acceptance in these enlightened days, when
il has been discovered that the best way
to serve Virginia is TO give away every thing
she has Are you SO unfashionable-so tar
Behind the iimes-so unsophlstIcated-as TO
think that an attachment to your native State
can gain you credit with the patriotic repre-
sentatives of the city of Baltimore, with whom
you daily sit in deliberation or mingle in de-
bate 7 Do you not know that it is against all
the canons Of good breeding to put TO your
compeers questions which they cannot an
swer without blushing. Alas, sir, you must
mend your manners, if you do not wish TO be
voted as much out of date as last years al
manac.
Seriously, we rather think certain Of the de-
lepates from Baltimore must have felt little
queer under the infection of Mr.. F.'s searching
question We take the liberty of repeating it,
not that we hope 10 receive an answer, but
merely to set cur readers to thinking. What
has become of all this.oppostion TO subservien.
cy TO northern cities We have heard enough
of it, in all conscience, of late. We have
heard threats and vaants, and vaporings out
Of number. We have somet times feared that
oer patriots would turn downright flibusters,
not against Cuba and Canedo, but against
New York and Boston. The result of ii
all is, that our Legislature is giving away
the State 10 Baltimore, Northern city, hav-
ing no sympathy with US, and not affect
ing, save when it wishes to drain us, the
slightest degree Of sympathy. So systemati-
cally has this been done, that we learn it has
even been said in the House of Delegates that
Nature aud Natures God designed, from the
beginning. that our trade should 60 TO the
North "Nature and Natures God, we sup
pose, constructed the Baltimore and Wheeling
Railroad Mature and Natures God'' built
the Tennessee Railroad, and mean TO estab-
lsh the Lynchburg and Gordonsyille connec-
tion! Mature and Natures God" have not
yet built the road from the mouth Of big Sandy
TO Clarksburg, but they mean to do it. "Na
ture and Natures Gcd" have chosen Balti.
more for their residence, and that is to be the
New Jerusalem, while we are mere Gentiles
outside idolators, who do not acknowledge
lis supremacy, and cannot enter our claim for
portion of the promised blessing Hereto
fore, the reprd sentatives from Baltimore have
dwelt with great force upon her superior ener-
gy, and have claimed cur knees to her for tnat
quality alone. But now, it seems, mature and
Natures God" have declared openly for her
Our duty then, of course, is submission. We
have all this time been preparing the way far
the chosen people, as the nations between
Egypt and the Mediterranean did for the Isra-
elites. 1t is impious to resist, since such is
the will Of the Lord, and it should not be for
gotten that by resistance we may expose our
selves to the fate OF Amalek, or OF Og, King of
Bashan. The mildest treatment any of the
nations who resisted the progress ofJoshua
met with, was that Of becoming "hewers of
wood and drawers of water" to the Israelites.
We pray our conquer ,rs, in advance, not TO
award harder sentence against Virginia, and
by way of deprecating their wrath, we venture
to promise that they will find many here will
ling TO take service on sue b conditions.
MIR. Flournoy, in the excellent speech to
which W have alluded, declared that our true
policy was to build up Virginia cities. And
so it is but Virginia cities, and even the State
of Virginia itself, command but little conside-
ration in the Baltimore Convention tmisnamed
the Virginia egislature.| Baltimore oughtto
pay the public debt OF this State. When one
nation overruns and conquers another, 1t al
ways assumes its debts.s At least she ought to
pay the expenses of her own Legislature 1--WE
beg pardon; Conventon.) 1t is hard that they
should meet here TO legislate for her, and that
we should be taxed to pay for the injury they
are doing US.
PUTNAM New MosTHLY.-This Magazine
BIDS fair to occupy a position which we did
not believe possible in this country. 1t rivals
in int rest the best OF English works of the
same charac ter.
In the last No., which has been sent US by
Nash g. Woodhouse, is an article OF surpass-
ing interest. Ii is a communication from the
Rev. John HI. Hanson, clergyman of high
standing, TO the Rev. DR.. Hawks, in which he
attempts to identify the son of Louis XVI f,he
unfortunate Louis XVIII with the Rev. Flea
zerWilliams. an Episcopal clergyman. settled
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