Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-06-08
:, virginia. There she stands.

o:o1 IUabster, once the great, glorious, though
-, conservative and impersonation Of the
state. proudly exclaimed in his place in the
80 &c the Union, " Massachusetts there she
dol look at her!" and with all his faults she was
ro,5 of him. and he of her, but how fallen Is sne
now from her high estate-ruled by the lowest OF
+bo low. and the vilest of the vile LOOK at ner
ain and arEere does she stand-WheTe did she stand
even before the mighty heart of Webster had ceased
10 heat But look at old Virginia, there she Stands
the great the noble the invncible land OF Washing
ton and Jefferson the home of constitutional liberty,
and genuine Republican States Rights Democracy,the
GREAT old mother of Sates-still she stands faithful
amid the aithless becoming on the South, pointing
out the road of safety for the Southern people warn
ing them against northern sms and northern tanat-
cism-rolling back as she has always rolled BACK
their swelling tides, and refusing to be deceived no
matter how the deceiver might disguise himself
Ave, look at old Virginia, there she STANDS ard Inc
South will stand with her, conservative, constitution
al, unfanatical placing her foot upon the neck OF
tvrants and yrannies, her noble escutcheon pro-
claims, and on no ruthless or more truculent
tyrant did she place her foot than ST did on inc
Oath of May, 1855. Look al Know Nothing MasSa-
chusetts and Democratic Virginia, and let the voters
ofthe South-let the men-the citizens OF the coun-
try choose between degraded Massachusetts, and noble
old Virginia. and 10 make their election with Whom
thew will stard-with Virginia, in good old States
Rights Southern rights Democracy, or with oegra-
ded Know Nothing Abolition Massachusetts,
Every truculent, time-serVng politician every
shackely good nothing popularity THINKS
it safe game to join in the outcry against FRANKLIN
Pierce and his administration, and for mat very Te@
son. if for no other, feel that Franklin Plerces
administration must, upon the whole, have been high
minded, honorable and national The denuncatlons
of the interested and unprncped are about as strong
endorsements as the praises of the good and deserv
ing. We don't know-nay, we hardly think thai
Franklin Pierce would accept a second nomination
but we do say that if he keeps as he has started
we are for him against the field. That he has made
slight errors in appointments, we are willing TO ad
NIT. Perhaps he has appointed Dick where ne ought
to have appointed Tom, or Tom where he ought &c
have appointed Harry; but if these things mainly
affect the said Tom, Dick Harry, while the great
principles which undere his policy affect the whole
people of the country, and that policy has been al
that Southern men have ght to ask for
The more the isms go up, the farther are they
bound to 20 down. The mere they attack Democ
racy, the frmer ought Democrats to adhere TO thu
good old party and its good old principles, and thu
more bitterly they attack true Democratic men, the
more faithfully ought to stick up to and supper
them The man who acts time-serving, tempo
rarv policy in defeat not to be trusted or promoted
in victory-he is not the true grit. Massachusetts
stands rebuked in the presence of Virgnia--Fanai
cism pales before Constitutional liberty and Demo
cratic Conservatism The " floating capital ponti
clans" may as well hang their harps upon the viii
lows---the people Of the South have found then
ou-their vocation is at an end, and their abuse il
the greatest compliment they can bestow.