The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-13

virtue, intelligence, integrity and patriotism.
The people. themselves, are the corner tones
upon which the temple of popular liberty
must be constructed, to stand securely and
permanently. Resting ours upon these. we
need fear nothing from without or within.
With q climate unsurpassed by any on
earth, with staple productions which control
the commerce of the world, with institutions
$50 far as regards our organic and social poll
ty) in strict conformity to nature and the laws
of the Creator, whether read in the Book OF
Inspiration or the great book of manifesto
tions around us, we have all the natural ele-
ments essential to the attainment of the high
est degree of power and glory These insti-
tutions have been much assailed. 1t is our
mission to vindicate the great truth on which
they rest, and with them exhibit the highest
type OF civilization which it is possible for
human society to reach. In doing this our
policy should be marked by the desire to pre-
| serve and maintain peace with the States and
people.
If it cannot be DONE let not the fault lie at
our door. While we should make aggressons
on none we should be prepared TO rrpel those
made by others, let them come from what
quarter they may. [Applause] We ask of
| Others simply that we be let alone. and per
mitted TO look after our safety, security, and
| happiness in our own way, without moIest-
| ing or giving offence to other people.
| Let, then, peace, fraternity, and liberal COM
| lnercial relations with all the world be our
| motto. tCheers.] With these principles
| without envy towards other States in the line
| of policy they may mark out for themselves
we will invite them to generous rivalry in all
| that develops the highest of every na ton
| lApptauSe
| And now, with the best wishes to you, gen
| tlemen, and success TO our common govern
| ment, this day announced, / bid you good
| aight.
! As the speaker retired, three cheers Were
given for Hon. A. II. Stephens, of Georgia,
the first Vice President of the Confederate
States of North America
THE PROVISIONAL CAPITAL OF THE NEW con-
FEDERACY.
The city of Montgomery, the capital of
| Alabama, has assumed such sudden i'm por-
| tance as the capital OF the Southern COnfede-
racy, and the seat of the Federal operations
| of the new Government, that we give below
! a brief sketch of its locality and surroundings.
| 1t is situated on the left bank of the Alabama
river, 331 miles by water from Mobile, and is
| SS9 miles from Washington, ID. &. 1t il the
| second city in the State in respect TO trade and
| population, and is one of the most fiourishing
| inland towns of the Southern States, possess
| Ing great facilities for communication with
the surrounding country. For steamboat nav =
the Union, the largest steamers ascending 10
| this point from Mobile, The city is also the
western Termination of the Montgomery and
| West Point Railroad 1t contains several ex-
tensive iron foundries, mills, factories, large
| warehouses, numerous elegant stores and pri-
! yate residences. The cotton shipped at this
place annually amounts to about one hundred
| thousand bales. The public records were re-
| moved from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery in No
vember, 1S4T. The State House was destroyed
by fire in lS49, and another one was erected on
the same site in 1851. The present population
Of the city is not far from 200, and 1t is pro
bable that, with all it's natural advantages
the fact of its present selection the South
ern capital will soon place it i'll the first ranh
of Southern cities.
THE VOTE on SECESSION.