The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-09-02
THE DAILY DISPATCH


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Tursaay aIsrpisx, September ,, 1885.
ssuthera Independence.
EXAMPLE or OUR YoREF ATHERs.
The southern press has often invoked the souh-
arm PEOPLE, a. tho most direct and only prac',eA'
road to Southern Independence. to cease oaylns
az the North any thing that the South can ~ pos
ability manufacture for ITSELF This was ss course
pursued by the men who established 'ne ,nuspen,
dcnce Of the United States. The A"eI'e~AAs :,
that day mot only denied themselves .ne .u.u,y -
tea, but Virginia, Connecticut, Mafy'An'' -.
Island. &c. formed "Solema LeaS"e an" wv
.,n, b,ndns themselves TO suspend all eommei
,n,.r,our,e with Great Britain until full res
,o,.,,on ~ the Charter Rights Of the Colonies
III. n,ov,s,ous OF tho league applied to every
ao..,,n,ion of British goods, wares or merensh'
a,., ana the members not only promised nov 70
h,x .,v Of these. but to break of ell trade WIN
4, ,er.ons "rho, preferrins their own private IN
..,..,. IN the salvation Of their now Perisning
country. shau continue to import goods OF dreA,
Britain, or shall purchase OF those VINO 90 'mP'',
To show still further tho temper ofmcn who are'h
and tho example which the South must foi-
tor n she would be free and ndspendenf we ask ~
,en,ion TO the course which Virginia In pss'ic"'"'
pursued. for the purpose of inducing Great Britain
10 pause in her unconstitutional ana assfeS'''o
career towards the colonies. We have no" oe'0'o
u.s. In . Newspaper Of the time, the proceedinss f
"a very full Meeting of Delegates from the uin.-'
ent Counties In the Colony and Dominion oil VIZ
ginia, begun In wilIiamsburgh the LIST day OF Aa'
oust in the wear of our Lord, 1774 and continued
by several adjournments, to Saturday, the ON Oh
tbo fol As9OctAtt0n
was mani! mously resolved upon and agreed TO
We have not room for the proceedings In iuii' o''
give the substance. After recountlng 'he sgsie'
sive acts of Great Britain and protesting agsia''
any intention to interrupt the peace gooa oroe,
and allegiance of the Colony, they promise most
solemnly as follows LIST Not directly, or indirect
". to import from Great Britain, or from any OF
her colonies or from any place, any British gooos
wares, merchandise, or manufactures hor " pui'
chase such articles, so imported, of any person.
Cd No. to import, nor purchase aay slaves
imported from any place.
3D. Not to import tea, nor use, nor suner IL 10 Dc
used in their families.
4th II the Boston people should be compelled to
pay the East India Company for destroying any
tea. not to purchase or import any British East
India commodity whatever.
5th' Unless American grievances are redresseo
before the 10th of August IT'S, not direc'iy OF u
directly, to export tobacco, or any other article
whatever to Great Britain, nor to sell such article
to others with design Of putting 1t in their pow or
to export It, And In order the more effectually to
carry the resolution into effect, the meeting recon
mend to tho inhahitantsof Virginia to refrain from
the cultivation of tobacco much as conveniently
may be- and in lieu thereof cultivate all such arti
Giles a. may form q proper basis for manufactures
of all sorts.
9th. To improve the breed Of sheep and to IN
crease their number to the utmost extent.
7th That the merchants and other vendors OF
goods and merchandise within Virginia. ought not
to take advantage OF the scarcity of goods that may
be accustomed by the Association. and that II any OF
them shall do 50, no one ought to deal with them;
provided, that il exchange should rise, such ad-
vance may be made In the prices of goods, as
shall be approved BY the committee OF each
county.
9th. In order to distinguish friendly merchants
from those who are otherwise, not to deal with any
merchant or trader who will not sign the Associa-
ton, and all who will not comply with the terms OF
the Association to be considered inimical to this
country.
9th. To regard In the same light any person or
persons who shall export tobacco or any other
commodity to Great Britain
These articles of agroemont were signed by q
HUNDRED AND EIGHT of the leading gentlemen OF
Virginia, embracing such names IS George Wash
iugtsn, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, X. Fl
Lee p. Randolph and others, prominent in tho
History of Virginia and the Revolution Now, II
the South Is In earnest bore Is the course marked
out ny the greatest men Of the country, here Is a
model sanetihsd by the wisdom Of her Washing.
ton, Jefferson, Henry, &c, and recommended both
nv experIence and common sense If the South
wishes to bring the North 10 Its senses let it
take the resolutions Of the Williamsburg meeting
of August 1st, 1774, and apply them to the North.
With one or two exceptions, they might be adopt
cd Just a. they stand only substituting The nams
Of the FREQ States for that of Great Britain These
Williamsburg resolutions more strkingy illustrate
the self4sacrifcing and determined spirit Of the
patriots Of that day. than their most splsxdd mil
itary achievements. Not only did they refuse to
buy of England, but they would not even export
their great staple, tobacco. They were ready 10
give up comforts, ease wealth to change the very
PURSUITS to which they were accustomed; to sur.
render their favorite agriculture for manufacture
to give up the culture of tobacco and take to tho
manufactures and the raising Of sheep; to well
come hardship, poverty, and every distast0fu
thing but dishenor, that they might vindicate the
rights of their country. Have the Southern States
degeneratedf With twenty times the provoca-
ton which lead to the Virginia Association Of
l774. have they the self sacrifice to adopt similar
ground Without calling upon them to prohibit
expor,ation, or to give up the culture Of any sta
ple are they capable Of refusing to buy articles Of
Northern manufactured We fear that the blood
of l774 10 vastly diluted. The people of the South
SO far from exhibiting their love ofindependence by
such unfsiling marks those Of 1774, buy every
thing Of their enemies nothing Of their friends
Aboli,ionists make their shoes their clothing their
hats, their bonnets, their chairs, tables. knives
forks, hoes, rakes, spades, ploughs, harrows,
brooms, uekets.-everyt thing, in q word. that we
use In our houses, our workshops, or upon our
farms We buy our books of the came gentry, ed
ueAte our children At their schools, 60 there even
for pleasure and recreation. At this very moment
the Northern watering places are crowded with
southern pleasure seekers, and Southern gold
flows In broad stream Into tho bosom Of . Free
Soil community. When the South shows itself
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