The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-25
VIRGINIA..


One of the many reasons given for the political revou-
ton in Massachusetts, by which of aboonsts de-
eated another set that the people of the Bay State had
grown weary of being governed too much The iegis-
ature of the State had become of dependency of the
money-power Individual rights were lost sight OF and
subordnated in the eager chase aggregated and
rate wealth Charters of all kinds aud for every purpose
were asked for and obtained As natural consequence,
wide and deep chasm took place between capital and
abor-between the few and the manybeween the lender
and the borrower To crafty the progressive and the
complaining spirit of the masses the leaders of
and the leaders Of wing politics in the State embarked IN
all kinds Of outside fanaticisms but they careful not
to abolish their franchises and mmunites, or to limit
powers so important to them in their vast financial and
political operations. They willing to assist IN
abusing the South in assailng the national constiu-
ton in voting for abolionists for Congress; for these
ruurrssros dd not Interfere with themselves
that indeed rather aided them in their LEGAL schemes,
and popuarzed for time their local legislation. But
when the wing masses were undeceved and when they
that they could destroy this system of excessive and
sefegsaton they made the distinct issue Boldly
ing the abolition sentiments and shrewdly organ
izing into party every other element Of political
element from temperance down hostility to foreigners
possession of the places many years occupied by crafty
and ambitious managers We do not however for a single
moment doubt that this change change of men,
and not The reformers will not amend the
foes of their predecessors We only the
the revolution in Massachusetts, without pretending
to assume that that revolution wholesome result
But we have another for this recaptulation.
An attempt is making show that the causes
which led to the triumph of the order in Massachu-
sets operating in the State of Virginia. The idea
is wickedly absurd There two States ut
terly and instinctvely different each from the other
Virginia and Massachusetts, The is controlled
by practical and consistent devotion the sentiment
athat the world is governed too muchS the other
stimulated and aroused by opposition to that sentiment
The ideas of Virginia have entered alone into her
statutes but glow and kindle in national laws ;
speak from the Declaration of Independence sanct the
constitution and strengthen the hands Of patriots every
quarter of the Union The majority Of Massachusetts has
such ideas now and really entertained them The
Massachusetts notions of government may be gathered from
herpublc from the Quincys of the days Of the revolution
and the Wcbstes of the present generation Massachusetts,
believes in the abundant exercise of legislation II
mutpies laws in aid Of capital discards individual
erprise and governs everywhere within its bqSders Ill
would regulate everything by satnie from the drink
should the religion he should profess lis test
Of orthodoxy is the Procruscan bed When creed Is too
short it would engthen il when it is long it would
cut it down There a wise and weighty why
such practices should be destroyed and do wonder
that the Of Massachusetts, got tired of this monotouy
and escaped into party They have already shown
how insncere they in following the footsteps and re-
wing the practices they bad disayowed but this only
shows how deepseaed the disease they have vanly
attempted to cure.
But of what have the people Of Virginia grown tired
that they should listen the false and coruptng argu
men that the democracy Of that State should be over
thrown because the abolitionis Massachusetts, have
been put down by another set of abotionsts7 Why
should the cry hostility the old parties responded to
by men who had party ties be potent to awaken the
echoes Of northern fanatcism in the valleys and
tains Of the stored Old Dominion Virginia the sane
tuary of those principles which protect the individual
which elevate the States in their sovereign capacities
broadcast sense and define the inaienabe rights Of
conscience among people, wherever born What
szen Of Virginia has grown weary OF those principles
What Virginia democrat has grown tired OF remen,-
oerng Washington Henry, Jefferson, Monroe, and Mad
son Has IL become necessary in order to grace the
triumph Of party based upon hatred TO all those prin-
ples which the pecaltar groh Of the Old Dominion
signalize that act by formal reputation Of these illus