Kansas weekly herald. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan. Territory [Kan.]) 1854-1858, 1855-07-07
From the Pennsylvania.
Glorious OLd VsErgSasS<x.


Glorious Otd Virginia. :
| Doubly has She earned the title of the
fssMother of Heroes, Patriots and Statesmen. .
While her generous and devoted Democ-
rocy survives, Treason may shake her
bloody hand over the rest of the Union,
only to fall paralysed, when it is waved in
Threatening gesture over soil which has
never been polluted by the gore from her
/ reeking fingers. All hail to the noble
bosom against which the treacherous
blows of skulking foemen rebound with
violence to the assailant. Our appeal to
her has not been f:uitless. Always first
In the list of States, she now towers above
them in all her pride of place: Too in
telGgent to be lured from their love of con-
i stitutional freedom, her gallant Democra-
ey have stayed the desolating tread of
Know Nothingism, and it is now doomed
to perish of the innate corruption which
| has long been fostering In its organization.
Ever true to her high calling as the iust
umpire between her sister States, faction
loses its vigor when it approaches the soil
which holds the remains of Washington
and Jefferson, and shrivels into nothing
ness before the remembrance of their aus
tire patriotism. The Democracy of an
archy starves before the holy altar of civil
and religious liberty, reared in Virginia
for mans loftiest rights, and guarded by
the ever waving swords of Justice and Rea-
son. Back to the murkey den of its in
eeption, the foul Spirit of Prejudice has
been driven by Virginia's manly sons, and
reeling under the strokes of freeman, too
brave to be frightened at the hideous as
pect of prowling antagonist, and too gen.
erous to forsake the foster brethren of her
household, uninvited to her table by the
Fathers Of our Constitution, that soulless
Monster now staggers to its destruction.
The peurlle boast that the conquest of Vir-
ginia, the whole South would weld to the
degrading embrace of Know Nothingism,
has only paralysed the tongue that uttered
the foul aspersion upon Virginia's heroic
virtue.
| While examining the returns from our
pre-eminent midland Sister, the band Of
music which the would-be Know Nothing
| Organ in our vicinity has kept in motion
for en- hour or two, suddenly ceased its
Joyous notes, and was silent for the re-
mainder of the hight. What silenced its
premature melody7 Did the more patri-
otic sound from Rockingham and Shenan-
| doah, together with the whole of South
| Eastern Virginia, drown the voice of their
instruments Or did Roland's horn, as
its echoes reverberated through Il e gorges
of the Alleghanies, and foated in warlike
accents over the vallies of our State,
frighten the I" foul birds of night from
| their croaking chorus? While we are
penning this article the members of the
Secret Order are fleeing to their Lodge
Rooms to seek consolation from each Others
folly. Degraded miscreants,- had they
not read that Mount Vernon holds the
| ashes of Washington, and that the author
of the Declaration sleeps beneath the tomb
of Monticello :! Blinded by their ignor-
ance, and debased by their prejudices, had
they never learned that Patrick Henry's
voice had penetrated into every tenement
in Virginia, and rendered loyal to the con-
stitution all her Democratic son'sz Aye
sneak away to your coverts at the voice Of
Virginia's chivalrous children, ye spotted
lepers, for that voice carries a dagger to
your prospects; but hulnanizing sound
to agonizing liberty. Immortal Virginia
the Vestal Virgins were not purer in
| their lives, in the days of their greatest
purity, than you in your political creed
Who dare now say, that Treason can sever
| this noble Union, whether it comes from
the mad fanaticism of Abolitionlsm, or
the lawless violence OF misguided mob?
To Virginia, her Sisters can appeal with
safety, because Justice, Honor, Valor, and
Magnanimity, are the jewels which adorn
| her coronet. Her position is indeed to be
envied-but it is such envy as the good of
every cline and creed alone can feel
Virginia has stricken the Monster of Know
Nothingism to the earth, and it is now
writhing in Its agonies. Let our Sisters
farther South emulate hervirtuous bearing,
and aid in resigning the carcase of the
beast to the grave of its putridity. Vir-
ginia is safe against every effort of the
| unholy combinations. Look at the returns
under our telegraphie head, and then
thank heaven that Virtue still lives in our
land.
Why THE WEDDING-RING IS PLACED ON
THE FOURTH FINeER.-We have remarked
on the vulgar error of vein going from
the fourth finger Of the left hand to the
heart. tits said by SwiAburn, ard others,
that therefore it became the wedding fin