Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-06-05
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STEPHEN II. BRANCWs FAREWELL. To HIS coUN.


TO the Editors Of tie " y Erpreu:
Although have travelled all over the globe and have
no desire to again, yet constrained TO forever
leave my beloved country. You may mourn over nav
departure but leave you with painful emotions and ap-
prehensions. would Enger and toll aud die among YOU
but your hnatcisn drives to foreign skies The no.
Die deeds OF my father aud his sres inscribed on the
civil and military archicves OF Rhode Island whose vir
tues would mmate and consscrate to the glory OF INV
whole country but your reckless tendency towards su
mon, with all it, horrors, forces aIjure my native
land and tle hallOwed tomb erected by my lam,nted f
er for the eternal repose for his immediate posterty Go
Oh, then, fanatics and devils OF all sections to your
hearts content ia your apOsacy to the living and depart
ed patriots Of your distracted aud divided country Sion
not until your wives and children run wild through sreet
aud fields OF blood and this whole land il pile Of hl.cd
ing and burning ruins. Go on We incarnate fends i'm
your bloody enterprises, until the mounds OF your fathers
are Invested oil ler fragrant NerGufc and tranpIed
10y foreign narauder, Who wildly gioat your mpeud
ing suicide. An Irresistible horde OF denagoeu.s anil
vampires, and fanatics, aud lunatics are at the
hioits oil the American patriots, and threaten then,
with stangulation and utter annistion. Go on then
ye demons OF he'll aud tear fragments the glorious Con-
suution that was created by Washington Green Jrfrr.
son. Madison, Hamilton, Warren, Franklin Adams n
ayette aud Ko.ciu-ko and noby defended %, jackson
Perry Taylor, Webster. Clay, Calhoun Harrison Cropan
Decatur (and the living Scott whose signs and tear.
and expiring neigies cOnsecrated 10 its eternal d
ration. Go then, We Shiny vuures in your ruthless
discretion OF their graves un despOdc soldiers line our
and frontiers aud stab the patriots WIN btestb
the enchanting word OF liberty Go o. saw in your IN
human -acrfge, but will fly to Switzerland in whose
deep mountain glades will strive to eace that 40.
aud reared among the gaug OF cunsuinnate fools and
knaves who level their rifles the race of nobl.
birds that have graced the American skies for nearly
hundred years TO on, then ye bastard traitors in ,our
bloody deinOlon but will 20 and live and die i'm tL.
land Of William Tell whose far posterity evince put.r
fidelity to their ancestors. than those percious
monsters whose internal madness will soon surrender tho
bones Of asngon aud jackson the despot- Europe
whose shafts they fooled, until they went down with tr
ing footsteps, into thcir immortal gfHves Farcs.I 70
crazy picidcs, farewell ye Burs aud Arnods-snd whom
you nave congned your dcujcd countfymen to all the
horrors OF anarchy and general despotism think of tie
humble adnoniIons Of who rather than behold tc
downfall oi hs beautiful andt glorious county sougbt
peace, aud succor, and naisoeum IN the mountains Of
Swizerlnnd, once tayersed by William Tell aud his gal
liant aIcefs, who created love Of liberty that has
we'd the fight OF centuries aud which can never be sui
dued by foe- without fools within It's borders Ia
my voluntary exile, will mpore God TO visit you viii
His dspsasure through the whitening your chill
dren and cir rostery to the reInOtest age for de-
uOJing the liberties Of their country which YOU sbouId
brqucath 70 them they you from your iu.1
Gus lateis whose sacred and silent ashes you dare not
visit and contemplate this fearful crisis amid the
and tranquil fotudes Of the patriotic dead lest the mem
Ory Of their heroic deeds and sacrifice should remind
Of your helsh treason, and parayze ysur hearts and
sme your worthless bodies 70 the dust and consign your
pald liver, TO undyng torture. Although these admo.
nons are Inscribed IN tones Of burning scofn yet they
emanate from bOson that goWs with love for nv be
derrd cOuf rymen. Aud my last request IT, that every
patriotic father will gather his huc flock around him at
evening shades aud read this parting sdmonion ia ,s
and feeling voice and then knee before the God Of nations
aud mpore Hin u preserve liberties with blessing
on the humble author Of This production 10 his unhappy
seeluson IN distant land. ] would write more but
gushing tears blind by vision and swell my heart With dy
ing emotions.
Aaeetiona,cly. sTEPnEN H. BRANCH.
NV IoRg, May 30, 1856.