The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-01-09
RICHMoND, Dec. 23rd, 1853.
MIR. TAzEWELL's LETTER.

MIR. TAzEWELL's LETTER.
RICHMOND, Dec. 26th, 1859.
Gentlemen Il have made an effort to
comply with your request, but lind 1t impos-
sible My address to me Students at the
College on Friday evening was almost en-
tirely, extemporaneous,a land cannot recall it.
| must therefore, content myself, though but
q poor return for the honor they have done
by making my acknowledgements to you in
this wise.
Though | had but recently renowned all.
participation in the current politics of the
day, could not iorego the opportunity you
gave me of endeavoring to strike il possible
a chord of deep enthusiasm in hearts already
strung with dey otion to the South. Nor can
my share in your meeting be deemed de-
parture from my resolution. am con-
sentative of the strictest sect, and as resolute
in my party politics as ever, but upon the
momentous questions which now agitate the
whole country, there is no party In the
South. Partial interest and feelings are sus.
pended, the spirits of the body re-collected
at the heart, and we are awaiting with pain
full solicitude, but without one throb of dis
may, the discharge, or the dispersion, of
that black and muttering war-cloud which
hangs upon the Northern horizon. Gen
tlemen,. nothing has happened, recently,
more likely to cause or contribute to cause,
a dispersion of that cloud than the fact that
you, two hundred and sixty seven enlighten-
ed Young men, have been driven by your
native sympathies to quit the ioetid politi-
cal atmosphere Of Philadelphia, and to
bid adieu forever to the city of Brotherly
Hate.
/ have not the presumption, gentlemen, to
imagine it in my power to a1d anything to
those considerations which have induced
your exodus. The cause speaks for itself; it
excites feelings which words cannot express.
10 say that welcome you back to our own
dear native South, is too tame. Gentlemen,
there is not in all the broad extent of this
cold Dominion" Virginian, worthy of the
name, who does not feel his heart swell with
in him at the proud thought that the spiri-
ted Young men of the South are at length
dsgasted away from Northern schools, and
that they are at length resolved to inaugu-
rate the intellectual, as their fathers have
resolved to establish the material, indepen-
dence of their native country. Ii you wish
t., know the true sentiments Of this people,
90 not to politicians, but go to the people
themselves. There is not house in this city
(unless it is inhabited by fresh Yankee)
where you would not be embraced with open
arms and ardent hearts, ready to share with
YOU their warmest Inequalities. | say
fresh Yankees, because alter they have been
here long enough to find out what negro
is and what white man ought to be, North
erners by birth are almost all of them as
true to the South as Southerners them
selves.)
Gentlemen, not only approve your course,
| admire you for it, honor and thank you
for it. Even in a selfish point OF view, In
your future professional prospects, Tel! you
now that the fact of being one OF the glorious,
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confer more distinction and give you more
vantage ground than could the "lmprima-
tur" of the most learned medical university
the world ever saw. | wish was one OF
YOU. | wish so not only for weighty person
al reasons urged by me the other night, but
because this movement OF yours will rebound
immensely to the advantage OF the South by
contributing to build up her medical schools
at once, and thus rendering her independent
of the North in that, as she should be in ev-
erythlng and because it is well calculated
to convince the terrapin-like conservatives
of the North that it is time for them to be
doing something more to satisfy the South
than holding mass meetings and shouting ho-
zannas to the Union. lift shall convince
them that actions, not words are what we
want-that they must hurl from the places
of power and dignity in the State the vile
Abolition incumbents who now occupy and
disgrace them-if they become convinced by
this and like movements that they must
overthrow the Black Republican party, or
we must go out of the Union, you will have
entitled yourselves to their gratitude as well
as ours. l think that such action as yours
is calculated to produce consummation so
devoutly to be wished for. know nothing
about medicine, gentlemen. ! never saw
but one body dissected in my life, and then
g.: hut I knouy annuUh ahout anatomy
to tell you where the heart of Yankee is.
1t is in his pocket. The blow you have struck
has fallen upon that heart, and it will be fol-
lowed by others calculated to bring Conser-
yatiyes, as they call themselves, to their
senses. and cause them, if necessary, to fight
bodily. man to man, the miserable party |
which threatens to run riot with their interg
est az well as ours. We have had to fight |
them ON our own soil. Are not they who |
beoat. and bred, and fed, and nursed, and |
raised, and educated, and taught, and armed, |
the miserable crew, more bound than we, in
morality, and in Justice, to light them-to
exterminate them if necessary, from their
soil.
AS for the pseu9o-patriotic p@ans they
chant to the Union, they are OF no more use
than singing psalms to dead horse. AS iar
as feelings are concerned, the Union is al
ready dissolved, and nothing now remains
out its form. The Union was dissolved, If
lot before, ON the day and hour when John
Browns atrocities were received at the
Worth with shrieks of delight from the Black
and with silence on the part
II the selfstyled Conservatives more signih- I
ant than those shrieks--for it betokened
ther indifference or fear. 1t was on the
lay and hour when the republicans, emula-
ing the Egyptians who embalm the most