The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-01-09

canonised John BroWn-a robber, murder
err, traitor, a man who had reached as
near to perfect depravity as the infirmities
of human nature will permit-and not one
conservative could be found to interrupt or
denounce their profane orgies, that the knelL
of this Union was sounded. 1t is now dis
solved-the spell is broken, the charm is
eone-and if the North really desire such a
Union as has led us, through peace and war,
along the hitherto bright career OF our ma
tional prosperity and glory, it must be re-
united, reinstated, re-established. In the
meantime let the blind followers OF false
philanthropy, and the bigoted Pharisees OF
perverted religion, beware lest their evil
Vaccinations receil on their own heads with
dreadful retribution.
Abolition can assume as many shapes as
the tabled Proteus. At one time is assumes
the simple but attractive guise of universal
philanthropy, at another the more imposing
robe of religious enthusiasm, but, unmarked,
it is nothing bat agrarianism. The labor
ing classes at the North constitute majori-
ty. They have shown more than once that
they look with jealous eyes.upon the wealthy
andluxurious ease of their merchant masters.
Let them set the example of disregard OF
the rights of property in slaves, and they
will show their respect for the rights OF
property in all other chattels by general
division and distribution of the heaped and
OVERLOOKING treasures OF their purse-proud
princes.
Let the North, then, no longer, like the
foolish bird in the desert, hide its head in
self-illusion from the dangers that beset it
dangers intellectually greater than any
which environ US. Let them not disregard
the voice of warning by denouncing all who
tell them the truth as disunionists. l yield
to none in my veneration for the wonderful
,.eda md md n
federal government. 1t is the proudest tenn
pie which man in the fullest fruition of his
most cultivated powers has ever erected to
the Genius of Liberty. He.whowould wanton-
ly destroy or weaken it, we're an incendiary
more felonious far than he, OF old, who fired
the far.famed Ephesian fame, and he would
be handed down from generation to genera
ton with more infamous immortality. As
long as we can worship at its affairs as
equals we will bow in profound submission
to all of its ordinances. But when the
money changers aspire to take sole and ex-
elusive possession ofit,we willkick them out.
Let the alternative continue to present itself
Of inequality in the Union, or equality out
of it. and the South will not be persuaded
to abide by it though one should come to her
in the form of an angel, and with the
eloquence OF an archangel on his lips. Let
another attempt at robbery, rapine, murder
and treason be made on her soil-or let
consolidated Northern majority present, in
any other shape, the dire alternative OF dis
union or dishOnor-and Southern steel will
leap from its scabbard, and Southern hearts
bound to the field where our property, our
honor, and the sanctity lot our fresides are at
stake. We Will teach the tanatical followers
OF John Brown and all kindred foes, that
the fires which sleep in the ashes OF our
revolutionary fathers are glowing with all
their wonted tervor in the Dosoms OF their
sons
OF one thing be certain. We shall not
go to the ballot box,nor to popular meetings
nor to Legislative halls to proclaim disunlon
to our Northern enemies. They shall hear |
it in the thunder of our cannon ; they shall |
feel it in the thrust of the bayenet; they |
shall see it in the saeking of their cities;
they shall know it by the silence, more ex-
pressive than all, of extended desolation,
despair, devastation and death. In such
conflict they who fall, on either side, shall
welcome the shades that shut them from the
surrounding horrors
l must acknowledge to you, individually,
gentlemen, the too complimentary terms In
which you have been pleased to couch your
request. You will allow me to abscribe them
to the generous ardor Of youth. May your
professional life lend additional lustre to dis
which your recent action has alrea-
dy conferred on you.
Warmly and truly your friend,
LIrrLEroN TAzEwELL.
To Messrs T. G. Hill, Ala; II. V. Gray,
Va; }. M. Reyes, Miss; A. j. Stone, N. o.;
&. W. Thomas, Ga.