The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-17

gsnia Convention. With Ale Of the Erqsiser
under bis arm. containing the debates of that
assemblage, he can entertain his solitude for
many Thousands of years, with the pertlsal Of
those oracular speeches Of an assemblage bet.
ter entitled to bs called deliberative than any
the world has ever seen. IF it is possible 10
suppose tha, any future punishment can await a
man who has once read or heard the speeches
made in the Virginia Convention, we are sure
that he has only TO repeat them in the Internal
regions TO produce the effect of the riot act,
and cause general Jail delivery through all
the realms of Tophet.
The Wandering jew, who, for nearly two
thousand years, las been unable TO find rest
for the sole Of his foot, is believed to be here
looking for a vacancy in the Virginia Conven-
tion and If be il not blind AZ well az footsere,
he will not long look in vain. The Flying
Dutcaman, that most extraordinary of physi-
cal and nautical phenomena, Is believed to be
in search Of the same assemblage rs the only
chance for permanent anchorage in this
iluctusiing world, The Flying buchanan is
itself fair type of a body which Mr.. FiTz-
HUGH has happily styled 1.-The most singular
moral and intellectual phenomenon ever pre-
scented to the world 1t is only in times OF
storm that the Flying Dutchman makes his
appearance, and then the spectacle of "a
solid Dutchman moving with velocity Ma
turally causes everybody to start aside and
stand from under. The disappearance of the
supernatural vessel would be great re.
lief 10 everybody, only there is no
knowing when it will reappear The Viz
GINA Convention, the slowest of all earthly
things, in times of peace, becomes a regular
Flying Dutchman in the gales of war, dashiny
through the elemental strife, with its broad
bows, heavy srars, wide poop, and vast bot
toned crew, al d rate of speed aud spirit that
quite takes away the breath of all beholders,
Time aud change are supposed TO make
their mark upon all earthly things. There is
an end of all earthly things, even of human
tribulation and sorrow. Rejoice, yc children
of aiiiction ye subjects OF oppression; We
martyrs at the stake; We sons Of God,
who walk unknown among the sons
of men, rejoice; for all this must pass
away. If lites roses fade, its thorls,
too, must perish if spring must cease, 70 mus,
winter; if talsehood, wong and injustice
must triumph for q time, their reign is not
eternal; just ahead is IA tribunal at which
the crooked shall be made sirai sht, the wrong
righted, and innocence and virtue receive z
crown of unf;!ding honor All things here
are changing; the solid rocks become dis-
tegrated; the ri!l disappears in the river, the
river III the main, and The grand old sea itself
is converted into the coral that lays the foun-
dation of new continents and the cloud tina,
tempers the glory of the sun and WHITES and
beautiies the earth One thing alone, amid
the fuctuating flood of time, remains unchanged
and Hourishes in immortal green. 1t is the
Virginia Convention. Now and then one of
Its members may resign, or, in some other
mysterious manner, disappear; but the body
Itself, the Sovereign Power, the King can
never die The period has nearly arrived for
the third approach Of this luminous and nebu
lous member of the solar system 10 our metro
rolitan Gun. Let no one ask. What il the use
of Conventions What is the use OF comets
Why do they come, lank and shireripg, from
the rura, districts Of the universe, and having
drawn their per diem Of light and heat from
the sun. whisk their tail contemptuollsly III the
face Of the public ana disappear in ill!mitabe
space? Why There are more things in
Heaven and earth, UoRAT,o, than are dreant
of in thy philosophy Let Us rejoice that
Virginia has an cxchequer rs ineXhaUstible DIS
the sea, which c.,u be sucked by Conventions
Legislatures, railroad corporations, and war
debts, and get overflow with perennia
fountain Of public credit. Let lis rejoice that
awe have people whose cruse of oil and whose
barrel of meal fail not; whose tax-payipp
power, like the love of JULIET, is deem as the
ocean and boundless as the sky; whose should
ers are broad enough to carry the Old Man of
the Sea forever; and whose patience is so in
exhaus.ible that there is no danger that. like
STNBAD the Sailor, he will ever lay down his
aged bngthen upon the earth and mash his head
with stone