Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-01-20
VOLUME LVI.-NUMBER 67.

children? Let us, my friends, arouse ourselves,
serpents envelope us fully in their snaky coil.
Pause little longer and it will be too late
all will be over. To delay under the hope tha.
distracted party, rent into numbericSs fac
tions, and these factions lin too many instances
led on BY unredeemed demagogueS, is the cx-
treme Of human folly, the crownins excellence
OF absolute stupidity.
Force, immediate force, is the only rock Of
our political salvation With arms in our
hands, our cohorts marsha!!ed for the deadly
conflict; and our strength consolidated by :.
united government Of the slave States, is our
only palladium. Though We DO it in sorrow
we must forget the olive branch Let us have
no more hesitation, no more hating between
two opinions. The voices Of our heroic fathers
call opon US from their graves to resist, and
warn us against deuSive peace. 1t is time
to prepare to vindicate our rights. to defend
our native land.
Let all our young men enroll their names III
volunteer corps, arm, equip, drill and be ready
for action-the soil Of Virginia has been red
dcned by the blood Of her slaughtered cili
zens-the North has reoiced in their murder.
and attempts to exalt the midnight robbcr aud
assassin who invaded our soil and slaughtered
our unoffending citizens into hero, and would
set him above Jesus Christ. We must tcac!,
them an old lesson over again-the lesson Of
an eye for all eye and Il tooth for tooth. Has
the big heart Of our Washington no ilcir TO lis
courage? Has the fiery Lee no successor =
Are VIC the foolish sons Of wise fathers, thc
coward offspring Of ofcourageouS sireS: Oh, no.
| the spirit Of our fathers still animateS their
children. We may be outnumbered, but the
race is not TO the swift, nor the battle TO the
strong God is just; let US learlcssly appeal 10
him. For one. am for the immediate union Of
the Southern States
What man is willing to set down quietly IN
der the accumulated insults and injuries that
are daily hcapcd upon US? To fauter or 10
| delay is to be destroyed. Some say, il Seward
| is elected then it will be time to act. Why
risk his election Why 60 into an election in
which, if We are successful, we claim SubmiS-
sion, and if We are beaten. mean to refuse il
Suppose we elect a sound man, can he rcmould
and ncw-create the Northern mind? No-i.
will only be putting of tho evil day, and III
crease the disparity between US and our mortal
cncuies. It is folly, that it we perpetrate
we will rue.
| Our Northern enemies are neither women
nor children, but brave and hardy men. ful! Gi
resources and strategemS, and all intensified by
| fanaticism and consceDccS educated into
false faith. To them VIC must oppose daring
and unquailing courage, resource and strate-
gem with all these qualities intensified hra
singing sense of insult and injury, by ocr
| rights outraged and soil polluted by invasion
and "a firm resolve never TO submit nor yield.
We have no time to lose, no holyday work To
perform; let US not underrate our foes, ,ior mis-:
calculate our trials, but weigh all fully ami
rise to their level, combat them and conquer
or perish. Let us act, act calmly, promptly
and resolutey. We have no day nor hour to
spare. The evil is upon us and We must yield
or fight i.