The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-12-14
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Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.
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Fovay, Re.
FREpKRIcKsBuRo, Tuesday, Dec 18TH
l am here, in this good old town--this fn-
tsAed town. as those who attempt TO untier-
value 1t say--this fnished town, as a writer in
the Dispatch last spring said, in a very differ
ent sense; finished In hospitality, finished In
the arts that make life pleasant finished in
high breeding, finished in gentiemanty courte-
sy. finished in all that was wont, OF old, to
reader Virginia famous among her peers. The
virtues which distinguished our fathers, are
waxing faint III the great cities; in this little
town they retain all their primi ii We in tensity.
II is type of 's0id Virginia" in It's best days
a miniature of the tsOld Dominion such as
she was when her giants everywhere stood
forth to give the world assurance of what she
could produce.
And is she not in some respects the same
Old Virginia that she was in days of yore
think she never gave more evident proof OF
her being still "this unterrifed Common
wealth" " than she has done OF late. Mark the
facts. Old John Brown, the marauder, had been
driving his trade of horse and negro stealingal-
most unrebuked upon the borders of the great
STATE OF Missouri. On one occasion, he made
an inroad upon that State, slew a STAKEHOLDER.
drove off his cattle, stole his horses, and de-
libcrateiy and In defiance of the Marshal, car
ried all his slaves, twelve in number through
The free States into Canada. But no sooner
did he touclafDid VirginiH than he raised a
storm which 6yerwhelmed aim, and RACES on,
as though it N~dld never subside. 1t was
like striking upon huge bell. Every part of
III vlprate0 under the impact IL was ike at
tacking a nest of hornets. Every iahabitant
forgot his own private griefs, and turned at
once upon the assaiant of their common
home. 1t is vain for the abolitionists 10 i'm
agine that John Brown has struck great
blow for the emancipation of the slaves of the
South. Such thing was simply impossible
before. He has merely rendered ass urance
doubiy sure, and ciinched the nail of slavery.
Let not regret the foray of Old Joha
Brown, how much soeyer we may deplore the
blood he split. 1t was the greatest God-send
that ever happened. 1t pointed out the deep
gulf that yawned beneath us. 1t betrayed a
conspiracy startling in its development, and
extensive in its ramifications beyond any
thing that was ever dreamed of. 1t was
necessary TO bring the whole South TO
the lock-step. Hereafter it will marchS4h
solid column, looking neither to the right nor
the left, and but for this discovery, such might t
not have been the case Honor, then, to Old
John Brown. He has done more good to the
cause of slavery than all the resolutions, pro-
tests, and practical legislation the whole South
has ever done or ever could do. Not the leas I
good thing he has done is the clear view he
has given us of the feeling entertained towards
us by those whom We are wont to call our
brethren OF the North.
1t is not worth while to tell me that the
solid men of the North are all in our favor
1t is not worth while to say that the fanatics
are a small sect. They are evidently the gov
erning power in the North. The solid men
are nobody. T.