Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-11-30

sovereign States-and with them the whole property Of
the country-depreciaed to an incacuabe amount-the
peaceful pursuits and social intercourse OF thirty millions
Of people interrupted; st more deporabe than all this
determined, nay, virtual disruption Of the Union; and
many of the Southern States Virginia among them,
ing though in immediate anticipation OF civil war
Such the fruits already gathered or rapidly maturing
of the great triumph Of the enemies Of the COnst
tuition and the Unon the peace the safety and the
happiness Of their country achieved at time OF une1am-
Pied unbounded prosperity and bghting the brightest
prospects with which Heaven blessed favored pea
pie.
Is not moustrous to think of IT, that all these peris
and all this evil have been brought upon by handful
Of crafty politicians and their crazy followers scarce
numbering tyhe of those whose ruin they rapidly
accomplishing
The South cannot hope to escape wholly unscathed.-
But slight indeed-if true to self-must be its injuries
compared with the punishment divine justice will infct
upon the plotters Of ruin They have sowed the
| wind aud already they reaping the whirlsind.-
Upon their heads upon the land of their sires and
their sons will fall the fury OF the storm they have in-
| voked upon The South-wth super abundant sup
ply OF food and raiment out Of which, not Southern
" Free Labor" only, but Southern Slavery, may draw
without STINT while, CALLING reflection, Northern Free
Labor which commiseraes the condition OF the poor
African is pershng for the necessaries Of fe-With
means to command by its industry from foreign
nations every article Il needs Of better quality and
cheaper price than those forced upon by its Northern
alles-Wth products Indispensable TO the world, and
commanding ready sae-@ith a brave and intelligent
people who inherit The love Of liberty and Of selgovern-
mentthe South can have nothing ask from its North
ern friends but their friendship nothing look for with
concern from its Northern enemies but the methOdcal
madness of their picked "AssAssINs" aud the painful
necessity OF making them martyrs.
And what Is our ofeuce for which these our envous
adyers ries to ruin u.s. would mady destroy themselves
and hazard the welfare of mihonss They do not APP
provs our domestic institutions They cannot accept our
system of ethics
You shall ransack the history Of the world; you may
find religious crusades; Of rivalry, OF ambition, OF
conquest of revenge but ceaseess aggressons by ma
ton compel its allies TO change domestic regulations
merely political and exclusively internal puritanical
prtence OF superior morality, reserved for the EZRA
| of the worlds greatest progress Commissioned by
Haven ia obedience TO its newly discovered law, they
mus! wade through blood if need be- to redress mighty
wrong-a horld crime which Heaven had sanctioned, if
not ejoned from the days of Noah and compel US to
| adopt their system Of ethcs
Cardinal Re,z tells US that he was forced thousand
times 20 make this rehecton-that "erInpies Of times
pas. move men beyond comparison more than those Of
tber oOn times" He doubled "phethsr Cdliguids horse
BEING made consu-A far less mischievous odious ruler
by the way than Northern masters would put over
us" would havs surprised so much as zoe imagine
Nothing is true and the reason seems obvious -
Examples viewed with amazement by those removed by
time or distance from the scene little surprise those
among whom they obtain, because usually the public
mind has been long familiar with the from whence
they have naturally flowed may have been reasonably
expected. Hence with whatever emotions we OF this
day aud generation may regard the passing events I'M
martial poserity must wonder the unheard Of inso
lence-he long medated tyranny Of or Northern con-
federates aud the Spartan herosm ard devotion Of the
sons Of the Palmetto State, pledged TO resist the
hosts who threaten TO invade their rights and their homes
though GU numbering the army OF Xerxes, and more
| " bdrJdrOs"
Garry back your thoughts to the day when your IA
theirs signed the bond of Union. Remember the warn
ings Of your Henry aud the patriot statesmen who, With
him. would have dashed the poisoned OF Federal OPP
preston and Northern domination from your lips. They
knew not the fatal Of its deadly ingredients. They
dreamed Of no such iniquty your
allies against you. They met too by the delusiVe
assurance that their fears and suspicious we're ground
less that all the safeguards they could desire would be
read " accorded that contrary TO all experience power
Tor once would be forbeariug and just-rusted 10 the
hands of friends and neghbor or should j; be abused
or perverted could be resumed under express stipulation
accompanying its grant. Thus quoted, meagre mejo
iy of our State Convention-after inserting tue a-sul-
fcng condition OF eventual resumption, unwtngly put
their seal 10 the compact which now told has as-
tened upon irrsvocdby aud forever, the letters OF
Northern domination. And now-insuted and trampled
upon-compelled at enormous cost to protect your
hearths and your tesdes from your phghted friends -
your fiintest hint Of wish TO withdraw your neck'
from their yoke-is Treason! Rebellion The allegiance
Won owe alone TO Virginia, which you dare not deny
while she continues soveregn-which she did
| could transfers. claimed by those Who eau have no
claim unless recognized masters as well as yours
Do YOU not know and feel that il the present political
relations of the States had been fOreseeu-f light
from Heaven had suddenly exhibited to our State Con-
venuon glimpse of what now witness and endure
the mortal hatred the execrabe degus aud murderous
deeds of our friends aud brethren oil the North, they
would have pied the compact Of Union indignantly
beneath their feet, cOnsigning their country 10
dishonor aud vassaagey Aud now, Nheu these evils
upon u.s. Virginia threatened with the LASH of the
Northern whip if she dare resist-Eay If she but claim
10 withdraw in peace from the ceaseess and iathess
| saults of her coniedeTates.
But thank Heaven the destinies of Virginia not
vet in the hands of external enemies, Of the rene
gades who would give them aid aud comfort Ii thrown
upon her resources she defend herself against
thema These idle vauntngs the last resource obtf
fed and qu4ing adversates The time is at hand when
their menaces be put TO the test Unhappy through
their morbid temper and facious meddling the States
are at length brought to attitude OF direct hostility
Threats OF aggression met by thres OF resistance
Force it attempted will be repeled BY force. Force
for whay Against whomy Sovereign States, keep them
united not by the sken bands Of friendship Affection
but by the grip Of iron fetters By threats of the bayo
net and the halter No: States may be subjugsted
crushed by force. But friendship or affection can
| never be eXtorted even by the rack ITSELF. That
South Carolina will secede, soon "a the policy OF
the Black Republicans shall be indHgTdted or before
the most skeptical of that party cannot now doubt
possible that the other Southern States the greater
part Of them may suspend that final step the last per-
haps the sole refuge from Northern oppresson-to oeI
onoe more OF compromise aud dehnitve settlement
II there be the viH on the part Of our assSants TO con-
tinue our alliance there is doubt Gay TO effect i
on terms Just 10 themselves aud honorable to all parties
Let them not deude themselves by the belief that any
threats or even promises will satisfy the South; any
patched up, temporsIng compromise dependent on the
will or pleasure the pigbted faith OF Northern
majority The Southern people are too ef5cua1y rous
eli TO be inundated By threats. The menace OF force
will but hasten Disuni0n They have been made too sen
sble by their experience Of Black Republican jus
ce and clemency, to repose faith in any promises OIL
pledges from that quarter They must have more eflec
ual guarantees-a sdcal change if not in the temper
their allies all events in the organic Law Of the Fede
raj Undergraduates stronger than the repeal of NULL
flying statutes which may at their discretion be reenacted
10 rob us of our properly and put lives and liberty
the mercy Of Republican mob n Republican
iury-stronger than the assurances Of Lincoln, ant
his supporters, of his kind intentions aud TO:
bearance No sovereign State, conscious Of its owl
dignity or alive TO the rights and interests of its people
can trust those rights and interests the ssfkeepBl
or control Of any foreign external power. Among
sovereign States no such relation be tolerated q
that of supremacy and sUbordindiOn-Ruer aud Ruled
The principle is equality dmong equals. Let them gV
us tfat-Which they cannot in justice refuse equality
in the passage of Legislative equality in IN
administration Of The EJeeutiue poiocrs; equality IN tn
common propsrty. Let them accord these the bash
Of renewed compact. Let them eleclually enforce
the existing constitutional guarantees for the delivery
frqiges from labor and from justice and tor the Proee
lion of tie States against inUdsoN-from every quarte
and the South will doubtless extend TO them again Il
right hand Of fellowship. The Union rested upon h'
pillars of equality and justice, may ye. stand for centu
ries EstO perpetual
Unless this or something equivalent shall be done, i
needs gift of prophecy to predict that the sacred