Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1855-06-02
Glorious Old Virginia

Doubly has she earned the title of the "Molh.
or oil Heroes, and Patriots and Statesmen"
While her generous aud devoted Democracy
survives, Treason may shake her bloody hand
over the rest oil the Union, only 10 TALL patalyzd
when II 10 waved in thfealning geetufe over
soil which has lever been polluted with the
gore from her r.tkirg fingers. All hail TO the
noble bosom against wh.ch the treacherous blows
Of a SIX ukug foeman rebound with vioencs to
the assailaEl. Our appeal to her has MT been
Iruitess. Always first in The list of States, she
now towers;abo them all in her pride of
place. Too intelligent to be lured from their
love of Constitutional freedom, her gallant
Democracy have sayei the desolating tread Of
Know Nothngisnl, aud it is how doomed TO
perish of The innate corruption which has long
been fostering in its organization. Ever true
to her high calling as the just umpire between
her sister States faction loses lis vlgor when it
approaches the soil which helds the remains of
Washington and Jeflerson and shrivels into
nolhlnausss before the circumference Of then
austere patriotism. The Demon OF Anarchy
s!arves before the holy alter of civil and reli9.
ious liberty. reared in Virginia fur The protec.
ton OF mans Ioitiest rights, and guarded by The
ever waving swords of Justice and Reason.
Back.to the murkey den ct ils inception; the
foul spirit! Of Pfejrdice has been driven by Viz
gltsla's ,many sons,aud feeling under the strokes
OF reenan, 100 generous aad loo brave to be
irig htened al the hdeous aspect of a prov ling
antagonist, and too generous to forsake the 0s.
ter brethdren of her household, invited TO her
table by the Fathers Of our Constitution, hat
soalless Monster now stargers TO its destruc-
tor. The peurile boast thai with the conquest
OF Virginia, the whole South would yield to
the degrading embrace oil Know Nothinesm,
has only paralyz@d the tongue that uttered
the lou. dispersion upon Firginia's heroic vr.
Tue.
While examining the returns from out pre-.
emia Ell midland Slater, The baud Of music which
the wonld-te Know Nothing Organ liz our vi
oniiy, has kept in motion Tor an hour or two,
suddenly ceased its inyous notes. aud was silent
fer the remainder OF the night. What silenceo
is premature melcly2 Did the mere patriotic
sound froni Rockingham and Shenandoah logetl :
er with the whole of South Eastern Virginia,
drown the voice of their insirnments Or did
Roland horn, as ils echoes revsrberated tn oueh
the gorges oil the Allegahes, and aoated in war
/ like accents over the vallies of our State,
frlehten the " foul bids Of night from tn ir
croakng choruss While we ale penning his
! article, The members Of secret Order are he o
| TO their Lodge Rooms 10 seek consolation from
| each others folly. Degraded mscrean,s, had
thay not read that Mount Vernon holds The ash.
es Of Washington. and that the Author of The
Declaration sleeps beneath the tsmb al Mon
tieello? Blinded BY their ignorance, and de,
based by their prejadices, bad they never learn
ed that Patrick Henry S voice had penetrated IN.
TO every tenement in Virginia, and rendered
loyal TO the Constitution all her Democratic
sons' Aye,--sneak away to your covers
at the voice Of Vreinia's chivalrons children
ye, spotted lerers, Tor thu. Voice carries dag
ger TO your prospects; bal hamauz,ng sound