The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-19
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-, 5 ,rouNINd. NOV. 10, 1882



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-. IN. various publications tna' nav oeea
90. fr,,n FORBES correspondence, we h"a
-. ,anes OF half dozen persons menuohea,
~ arr very probably aecompiiees OF ossA-
,r.Tos,x RRows. The Constitution OF the
r-ni,esi states makes provision Tor tue arrest
~ rer.ous standing in their predicament but
che uapers and orators of the Nortn ia"gn 10
soorn the very idea of their being brought 10
trial, Nobody, not even an army, far less
N srshal of the United States, we are told,
could take GKRRfT SMITH from the midst OF
the free negroes, aud the white beasts, by
whom he is surrounded. They are prepared
a, al, times, 10 set the law at defiance, ia order
.o nrexerye him safe. We are told the same
,hins of SEWARD, and of HALE, and of Gtp-
PINGS. Indeed, the latter is SO confident that
nothing can be done with him, that he openly
vaun,s his readiness to come upon the SOIL OF
Virginia himself and set the law at defiance.
Yet. twenty five years ago, the mere attempt
of certain preachers TO talk treason from the
pulpit almost produced mob IN the very eity
where BgEcHgR, Cn.EvkR. PHILLIPS, and
scores of black rascais who have either been
liberated through the mistaken kindness of
Southern masters, or are runaway slaves,
talk as a general thing, nothing else but trea-
son. The invasion of the soil of a sovereign
State is regarded as a small matter, while the
invader is exalted into hero.
Such being the facts, and, very possibly, q
force being now upon our soil for the purpose
of prompting fresh murders, and more lex
teasive system of pillage, many people Who
one month ago. dreamed not of going out o
Yrso ipp {
know whether there is any Union at all
One of the great objects OF the Union, u has
always seemed TO us, was to secure the sepa
rate States all being sovereign, from invasion
by each other The trainers of the onstitu
ton had the case of the Greek republics Son
tinualiy before their eyes, and they faint
them everlas,ingly at war with each other
They attempted 10 form such Unionl a
would render such state OF things imposfi
ble. But they did not succeed War is opeiil,
made upon Virginia, and the Northern Statss
instead Of assisting her 10 crush the piratks
sympathize only with the latter. Among n
tina, vast population by which the free Staee
are settled, we scarcely hear single wof'
said in her favor.
In other respects, however, the effects OF III
Union are palpable enough. The exports O
Sou .hern products amount to al least Si0oUOu,
900 per annum upon an average. The North
ern States supply all the shipping, by whic
this trade is carried on. They are our ship
pers. in point of fact. OF the public revenue
two-thirds are spent among them They hay
grown rich beyond example, by manufactur
ing our cotton. Hundreds of flourishing lii
tie towns are kept alive by this staple. With
ont it. New England would become desert
The abolition of the Union would be death
her. Yet, she is the very parsonage, OF a.
others. to hate and revile us! The commerce
of Virginia alone, with the free States, Is al
most beyond calculation. They furnish n
everything we in the way of manufac
tured articles. But this mighty commerc
does not endear MS to the North, in the mos
remote degree. We are still pirates and OF
pressors denounced as such by the very me
who Trofit most largely by the facts whic
they all give in proof of our title TO these char
acters.