Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-01-16

which you have manifested in respect the condnct OF
the Abotouss, may ask the favor OF place IN your
columns for the expression Of my views in respect to the
measures which the report recommends il can find the
time to write them out.
Very respectfully, your Obedient servant
JAMES LYONS.
TO TIE LEGISLATURES or VIRGINIA
The Southern Rights Association OF Virginia respect
fully sheweth that aggrc.sons OF the citizens of the
Northern and Eastern States upon the rights and feelings
of the Southern people have become gevous and OPP
presSive call for the in5erpOsiton of the Legisa
lures of the Southern States for the protection of their
people and we of Virginia, come forward now with our
appeals to you inerpose in behalf OF the people OF
Virginia.
In the YEAR the fanatics of the Northern and Eas-
tern States then comparatively small number led on
and smulted by politicians under the preence OF eXer
c,ing the right of petition, (which right by the Con
sttuton only Ito petition for redress OF grisyauce
claimed for the Congress Of the United States the night
abolish slavery and 10 use the National Hans Tor
the purpose Of insulting and defamng our people and
issaing and slanderug the institution OF slavery with
view 70 render OdiOus and excite the passions and
pidty OF the masses to its destruction In an evil
hour for the peace of the South and the preservation of
the Union, the politicians prevailed; the Constitution
was PARTIALLY overthrOWn, aud made more insOen by
their triumphs the fanatics have since poured iucc--
sanity their abuse upon us. They have piled
enthet upon epithet aud fa!sehood upon fisehOoi,
uutl they have iuamed the public mind Of the North
that has become almost uncomfortable and desecratug
a
secrdcd His worship with pledges OF obedience TO
commandments: from the pulpit crusade has been
preached against us saying thou shalt steal the proper
ty of the South and thou mayeSt commit murder upon
the Of it, until the politicians and the preachers,
he women and the free negroes form horrd phdlduN
lf demons who are always shouting 'steal, steal hl
,ill." Governed by that high integrity and true mo-
rtitv which teach and nations To respect the
rights OF others and loyal therefore, TO her constitutional
obligations the South has not only submitted TO those
Nl.s
soil into the cities OF the North and transferred them
al her manufactures, thereby destroying her com
merce and impoycrshing her people and strength
euing aud enrichng those who have been long, so
wautony so uunaturallv and with such savage spirit
assliliug and deuoncng her. Failing TO appreciate this
rorbearance and enormously concluding that the South
was craven because she patient band Of outlaws,
composed of Northern free negroes, and white men more
despcabe than their free negro associates led
by a man who stained by every crime utterly devoid
OF moral sense and without single quality TO com
mend i'm which not possessed by the hyena and the
wolf; and advised by Seward, Hale Wilson and Smith,
was at hst hired by puritans preachers and politicians
It the North invade soil, steal property, and
murder people and precipitatiug itself at night,
upon HarperS Ferry the first act in tue bloody drama
WIS enacted, and the first campaign in the war Of
ext,r inadon commenced
That drama has not quite closed but the scene has
changed aud the assassins who appeared in the first
act "a the representatives of deprayed fifty fill
the war cry is renewed the demons howl over their de-
uded victims from their wreched carcases the pesti-
entia OdOr arises which is TO poison air and like
the traitors of an earlier day blood the survivors
wear in blood to cOnsumnate their hesh work, A
miserable traitor expelled from the South has sold his
patry name in order deceive the creduous with the
hope OF succor from the South and bloody banner
has been unured against us which those who bear and
tho. who bought the bearers for the purpose proclaim
'he full and fixed determination to stand by die by
Thatthe will not all stand by it Some will fly
As some have ed from II when danger surrounded IT,
foreign ports and the aSyums OF the lunatc cowards
who had not courage face the foe they had challenged
10 the conflict or defend the field upon which their ban
uer waived Patriots who fly from the country which
they have sworn TO free. But know also that some
have died and We feel perfect confidence that all who
shall fight under that banner will die, if you, and the
other Southern States shall properly discharge your du
ty to Il 9 South and to yourselves.
Upon that banner is inscribed not merely decree Of
blood by actual revolution but also decree of the
nhuman prescription until that revolution is accom- pish
ed Thus they proclaim among other denuncia'ionS mo
cooperation with Shareholders in politics. No fellowship
with them in religion. No ailiaton with them in society
No patronage slavehoding merchants No guesiship
in slave waiting hotels NOfees to slave holding lawyers.
No employment TO saye-holing physicians. No audi
ence TO slaye-hOding parsons
No recognition of pro-Sayery men except IS rq lans
outlaws and criminals aud under this banner the Cover
nor Of the largest Northern State, New York. and sixty
eight Northern members of Congress, with man mer
chants and other citizens Of note have enlisted an have
subscribed their money to support it.
So monstrous so iniqutous, unnatural and cruel
warfare has never been waged before except anon
uibals The people OF this country including th fore
fathers Of these very enemies of ours cried out anst
the Government Of Great Britain and proclaimed eternal
separation from il because it employed the savage Indian
70 war against them Yet now the descendants OF hose
men, who are connected with by the ties of interest
and consan.uinty as well as by u common govern nent
war against US more irhqman than Indian ever wAged
aid WhyY Not because We Of the south Evec Vronged
hem desired to wrong them On the contrary we have
been loval to every obi CATION. We have submitted
heavy burthens and taxes build up their mahGacto
res aud patiently commerce destroyed, and our
productions deprecated because their i'm
pressed and have sent every field OF battle
aud of danger no matter where it Law, to defend their
rights and preserve their liberty while we have at all
times received them among Us with open arms and ira
ernal hospitality, and neVer in single lnst4nle Lave
endeavOred directly indirectly TO impair the Yane OF
their property or deprive them Of any portion o. H. or
disturb in anywse their social relations. And yet they
pursue US in fire and blood vowing strip US of our
property or extermuate from the land Of our fore
fathers and the homes Of our wives and children.
Was ever warfare ask again, monstrous so
iniquitous so cruel among civilized since
the Christian era? Conscious themselves of its
enormity Cgr ASSISTANTS egdssVor to cloak il under the
pretence og philanthropy Bat philanthropy IS & Yirtue
"A mild and peaceful Christian virtue, that eks
its ends by violence, in blood and crime and il isthe
most disgusting moekery aud hypocrisy to pretend that
the white is impelled by philanthropy to say his
white brother or strip him of his property for the bene
6t Of an African who is in all respects his inferior PHI
lanthropy steals, and never AssAssinaes or en-