, 1859-11-17


shop keeper, whose yearly purchases, perhaps,
ue7es e1cesded tile contents Of half dozen
dry goods boxes, viii hardly cause the rivers
Of trade to run up hill. The New Yorkers are
very accommodating to tender eonsci6nces.
NEXT spring, when they come to Eli their Tenth
Legion orders for goods, they will mark the
boxes, Richmond. Va, imported direct from
Europe This will answer all purposes, in
the future. The Times mau says that "the
feeling for direct trade.is becoming universal
but the "fseIing" to buy where one can buy
cheapest and get the longest credit, is already
"unlversal" The feeling in the pocket is
just as acute in Virginia rs in New England.
Whenever little old fenced and finished Rich
mond offers 4 cheaper market aud easier
credits than the big giant New York, it will
command the trade Of the "TentA Legion" and
not before.
But the blindness Of some peoples folly is
incredible. The idea Of purchasing goods from
Abolition England in order to punish New
York, which is pro-slavery Democratic, is de-
cidedly rich, and very virginian. Has it never
parsed through the noodles Of these fire eaters,
that in the eycnt Of war with England, her
first act would be to proclaim tn, freedom Of
every slave east ssof the Alleghanies, between
the Potomac andith Rio Grande and that tie
first act Of the Virginia cl.ivalry would be, to
call Justify upon the Abolition" North to pre-
vent the wholesale emancipation! Hero comes
Vial No. 3:
It is to be feared tue North is too incredu-
lous in regard to the disuaion threats Of fhilttc
| ton, and under that feeling may be led to per-
| petrate other outrages. | would saY, candidlv
and sincerely, As the result Of snme experience
Of the true state Of feeling in Virginia, that a
cvisu1 r1y near at hand, aud that nothing eau
arrest it save discontinuance By the Abolition
| lists Of the aggressive aud unwarrnnted policy
which they hare been pursuing hitherto. II il
idle to suppose that the South will tolerate much
more. ANY idea to the contrary, if it should
encourage still further aggression, would prose
| the ruin Of this country
We confess we partakc Of the prevailing
skepticism, sin regard to the dsunion threats"
and in common with the people Of the North,
We are oblivlous Of any "outragcs" the North
has committed on the South. Wig don't the
gentleman specify some Of those abolition az
gressions" upon the rights Of tue South, instead
Of indulging in such loose erpcctorations? Was
the passage Of tile Fugitive Stare Law
Northern aggression? Was the annexation
Of Texas and its conversion into slave terrific
| r. IN Abolition outrage? Was the treacher-
/ Gus violation Of the Missouri Compromise n
Black Republican outrage? Are the piratical
f1llibustering expeditions, that hare sailed
from Southern ports, unwarranted Abolition
| forays? Perhaps the Dred Scott
decision which bellies history, tramples on law
and justice, and violates tho Constitution, is
one Of the Abolition agSsressions referred to-
But may be tits outrases OF Opposition rather
than those Of Commission, which tie "south
| will not much longer tolerate,' For instance,
must the North Withdraw its opposition to tic
passage Of slare Code for the protection Of
| Virginia negroes in free Territories? Must
the North withdraw its opposition to the re-
opening Of the African Slave trade? Must tic
North withdraw its opposition to The intEoduc
t1on Of Slavery in the FREQ States: Perhaps
fthe North would withdraw tile Free Sojle~s
from Kansas and abandon that beautiful coun-
try to tile Border Rutaans, Virginia would
consent to remain little longer in The Union.
The Virginia crisis" is said to to be ''yery
near at hand" We hope it will arrive
in tie day lime, 80 that it may be yisi-
bic to the naked eye--at least that it 1nny lie
viewed through smoked glass. We are also
Informed that il is 'seriously contemplated to
call n convention" Of the leading men, G.
Generals, Colonels and Judges, ",o consider
what is tho best course TO pursue in tic
crisis" Our advice to them would be, not to
"pursue' the "c,isis" at MI, but when they
see it coming, to break for the mountains, and
let their watcllword be, "devil take the hind
mostH