The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-02-06

ke,. while the labortng population, notwith-
standing the emigration to the West ana the
shnt our eyes TO the fact that the rapid In.
crease Of the exports Of -four and tobacco
fr,m new and more fertile soil will be con-
tinually icssentng the demand on Virginia for
her two great staples, and he forcing her, by
,he inability to pay for imports by exports, 10
provide within herself substitutes for me
Former
These important truths seem now to be re-
cognized by all. and l am happy to see, are
ahout 10 be &C ted on by the Legislature. vir-
ri MIA mus, turn her attent ton more and more
TO the diVersifcation OF her industry BY the
establishment OF manufactures, both to relieve
The surcharge OF her agriculture and TO give
it, in lieu of the glutted markets OF the world.
Tho stimulus of local markets at home, which
will difInse around their respective centres a
smiling scene Of renovated life and verdure.--
How would the system Oh absolute Tree trace,
ra,ronized by the cotton States, accord with
This condition of things In Virginiai With
one of her staples tobacco, more heavily bur-
tbened with taxation by foreign governments
than auy known production OF the earth, and
which. from the necessities of their systems OF
revenue will continue to be so burthened, ana
with rising manufacturing establishments OF
her own couid there he an act of more sui
c,aal rashness Than for Virginia TO place her.
self in a situation in which liking cotton by
andisputed prepnoderance in the councils OF
a separate Southern Confederacy, would be
enabled TO throw her ports wide open to the
and inGiscrnnlhdte ct the
ufsctures and productions of foreign coun-
tries without any regard 10 mex CistiHctiNe
and vital interests
I glance At these things to show that in the
utonta of 4 Southern confederacy, We should
have no more harmony aud concord-in some
things far less-thau III the grand con tinen ial
,.rn ,,,e dedicated by our fathers TO American
unity mace and freedom. Let us be con tent
with the noble structure which they have be-
! oneathed to us desiring neither nOeneral con.
| y.n.ion to botch il, nor sectional convention
| 10 subvsrt it, Ii evils arise from time 70 time
| and I have no disposi ion to extenuate the
| .itude of those which have fallen on us
| lei us seek remedy for them within the Y Mon
rs il is Ii i the peculiar felicity OF fedora
| ,ive Resublic like ours, as l have already re-
| marked that il affords remedies, within the
male of the constitution. Tor the defence OF the
| nuhIic liberty unknown TO any other system
| OF government.
| La, us make firm and faithful trial of these,
and they will not fail us. Let us not. upon the
! sudden appearance of a squali. or because one
| or two OF the crew have mutihied, desert our
| good shin. the Cons titution, abandon our com :
| rades and IN panic hatake ourselves to the
| crazy raft of secession, which will conduct us
| we know not whittier, amid the trackless un-
certaiutjes of the ocean. II not Wnelmed at once
| beneath it's stormy biiiows. The occasion calls
| for GOODNESS. seIf-possession, firmness-cordial
| and fraternal concert among the friends of the
Constitution and the Union everyWhere-a
calm review OF the pasta prOvldent forecasl
| to the future. And it these qualities shall bt
brought TO the crisis, RS hope and believe they
will be- we shall fl nd in the sequel, as is often
seen in. the overruling ways of Providence
that good has been educed from evil. and thai
"from the nettle, danger, has been plucked thu
flower. satety.'