Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-03-28

the fallen condition OF the Old Dominlun'--
warns Western Virginia ol tho awful catastrophe
and, upliitcd upon his high horse Of Abolition
ism, makes this very warning to demonstrate tho
ruinous effects of slavery upon tho counties in
which the largcs, aud most complete trial Off
has been made
She her chlld upon rock
And shflekci toHi .sartnl accents WI d. .
Com" down YOU slut wa know yon bad nj ant'r
Anu then slavery is compared with porhicous
drug. of which large doses kill while "smnller
ones sickcn nnk dcblae in lcss degree; and he
goes on 10 give multiinrous and pnorilc compar-
sons and examples Whnnrah, Nrginia's loyal
son. and Democratic nominee for Governor.
He rushcs ahead, Hero she goes. thcrc she
goes =" AMI, ns he sways and swings from side
to side, the Democratic nominee FOR Governor of
Virginia now pitches into and worries, to his
hearts content, the glorious old State Of Ken
tuckN-a. glorious She, ls-c,aek" hsre regular-bult
anti.sla,ery wagon whip ut Tennessee, as he
sta,eS alou. and cXalting to the skies abolition
Ohio. and preaching ur, IN behalf oi Missouri.
with hcr sparse ~ny" population. the gcnihs {"
universal emaucluntion, before W hlch her smal
amount oi sn,cs must crolnug, give way aud van
ish after his grand flourish, lac >lnps MARYLAND
with hi stnlwar nrm right oyer the filth nib
turns the slaves II her cid tilewater shores into
"l"eu~ts, Ike the locuss of Egypt and tells US
rs how they have eaten mp hearlN every green
thing ."-h,r upper counties and tho city Of Bal.
hv ''tlc vniiying influence Of her Tree ncighbnr.
= nnsvlranin y Pour the pitch tar nnl nrpcn-
tine upon tie "l".oIation Of slavery" thon hon
est John Hide We Your diminished heads. We
Garrisous an t'frrrl,s an! Gi3 'ing+rs 10 il
yc virginia p,m5rrn 5 sta T., to ,"nr party.
ii you have 10 swallow nt"at,t, lot7 md all,
crosswi.c What lo ,our lid aud lcst inter
c,ts AMI the glory and hotet It IT, good old
Commonwealth weigh compared T." p";'N. sr'rcsa
compared to the other d--ns YOU u Let II you
don't swallow nulllnms ut the addua ol tic
leaders o Your pariyI
Then follows Long rgmarolo OF tLu,steal in
arcuracic. nul nonsensc sheer Il. nscnso--to
prove. from the days Of ancient Rome down to the
present period, thu runous AMI rs hating teudcn-
ccs and Consequences OF slave s. md the vast con.
trast in favor Of free States, al lrrr labor, over
slave laln' And the steam gHtfins up about this
time t. many degrees above lcfcr heat, our rnPt
seer. like the devils in the swrdr ui cd, rushinE
hradluug inio the SEA. runs c'r.,t away with him-
srlc-an Gr-t On Ptrnassu.' l,llv heights he
soars, then ~ the a 10 from h!3 airy tour hr
stoope- AMI II. he rimbes from earth below To
clouds above and iA"k n.an--thu- he ,liscnnrscth
US III ~ changed" lc saws. "wuu,d bc the
scene -atcry ah,lishel l-''our dc4olntr moun-
tains "uljl,ucd with II ck' and ten thousand
now sil,u hooks AND dr!l~. vpe;l with H." songs
uf liberty The mountain uymph, sweet liberty !!
They who keep slaves rrunat keep Sheep
What fnll wa. there, Oh, my c'untrymen -
They who kccr sln>cs cannot keep shrep: the
occupation requires care hut what do slaves
care poor vr,t hos! what 'Loud mako them
care - Il yor hear thai. yc lAthIul slaves, hap,
nv and crnttc,trl. hapnicr than NIL YOUR race
cnancipatcd or bern free
We cannot fllpw regularly all the loathsome
abolition tiradc If this would he Governor of Nir-
ginia. As he stalks ulnng npun his abolition
stills, hc >1rcn i himself lk" tho hen TINT sat
upon tn" frty cry, it was allotted to her to hatch
instcaI If The lozrn that nli reasonable hens pre-
icr--nnd he s.nl'els far and wide thirk aud thin
and through al history. his anathemas mnrnnathN
upon that hiGc US PLAGUE If slavery, md bm,k
dcsolation he makes war against--and with Il
zeal and fury ,"f erthusa worthy ol Peter
the Hermit, a.d tie days 81 the Crusader.
Hi. slap o the city of Eic!Inoud-that this
democratic caol,da'e for Governor of Virginia
wanted, and ,nlcmnlv proposed. TO carry over to
Sauntoa--'hr capital. houses water power. and all
"horse, foo, and Dragons -shol ID cn,ile him to
the e,crlnsi tpg thanks of Richmond. for nrpus.
ing her fr'an he fatal efhnrgy md teaching her
her ADVANTAGES and what she ought to be. Trnc
ing it all lHc, to slavery, he tells You. people of
Virginia '14t "ihis Richmond in Old Virginia.
the mothcrof States -dirandmother' in another
place lie ,PS her in dersiou-"Ihis same Rich
n,onl tie metropolis of Virginia, has fewer man
ufarturc, than a thirl rate New England town
am my 'ltn barren hills Of Mnssachusctts!'--
"Audh' played upon his harp of thousand
strings"
Then honest ,Tohn-the mllh,odel, regular
built true sprited, Virginia patriot. thn, is ready
to be made t,ovrrn"r of Virginia any inr day Of
the year. nr rainy day either dcscnnts nnl houn-
dcrS and founders and Observation-Disclosures like
the diving pprruisc over his Pandpra's box of sln-
very-''tbc la.ue" and 'desoaton" OF slavery"
worse than var ptstienee and famine; WORSE
than tcrrlblr icspo,s and heavy taxes and he
descanis rs with ''the music of the spheres" over
I
slavery hcilg nol shed. And he takes by the gills
again his nyp,ite Richmond, that he was once
about 10 rui into the fceches pockets OF Staunton
stands aghast ut the strange phenomena
which he makes her to present-''iewer manuinc-
lures There than in third rate town on the
barren bills # Massachusetts '--nvokcs his ic-
l,w-itzcus to ponder on the cause and rushing
alon. furious aud harem scarcm: "Dr /, enlarge
the question. saws hc what must ynu think has
caused Nirginians in general to neglect th,ir SUI
peratyc advantages for manufacturing industry
to disregard the evident lug. sti"ns Of nature
pointing ont to them this irightil source Of pop
ulaton, wealth and comfort" !" ihe Governor
was clearly becoming quite obiuscated, ns
well ns rampant and phrenzied but manifestly
lie meant to say that manufacturing industry"
that was the sourre Of population. wealth and
comfort, was in irightfuly ruinous condition in
this great "slavery-ridden' metropolis. And he
tells Richmond rs well rs Virginia at large, that
she had huggel to her bosom the plague and DESC
laton of slavery until she had doomed herself to
ruin and decay and eers her as zone whose
hand like the base Judean, threw pearl away
richer than all his tribe - Richmond need hard
lv be reminded, after all this rhndomontade, that
she is one OF tho most powerful manufacturing
cities in the Union Where are ber immense
Flour and Tobacco manufactures; her iron,
and other manufactures .--amounting to an nE-
gregate probably of moro than ten millions Of