Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-05-07

! toated in triumph in conflicts when the only
! aspirations Of the heroes and patriots who
poured out their blood beneath its folds were
for the honor and glory Of their country; and
have remembered how the majestic Union OF
| our fathers carried into every cline, not the
trembling terror inspired by the Roman name,
! when its eagles oerShadowed the world Out
the awe, the respect, the love which the great
| heart of the whole race accords to freedom, 70
virtue and to Justice; and | have SAID, IN my
"heart of hearts" should the South, to pre-
serve its own existence, have 10 strike down
TINT flag, her every true son would exclaiIn, IN
mournful resolution, with the great eGTd OF
Avon: This sorrows heavenly 1t strikes
where it doth love-" 1t has been present to
my mind that this great country was formed
by the compact of independent soverelgntles,
not with the right, first, Of libel, and then OF
destruction by one part of the institutions Of
| the other, but with an endorsement oil the IN
| situations Of the whole country, and an en-
| papcment of honor, and of law, in the very act
of Union. to defend these institutions to the
death. Sir, I an forced to remember how
these solemn covenants have been 1raudulentl.y
and foully repudiated by the North. low that
| pharisaical land Of every ism which degrades
man 10 a level with brutes, lntidclity, Splritu-
alism, Mornonism, Free Soil-which means to
rob g partner Of all the partnership effects
Free Speech, which, with them, is the right Of
| rank and rocking blackguardism, and atrocious
| SANDER on the South Free Love, which means
to roll back the tide Of refinement and virtue,
| for the saturnalia, the hell Of ~vileness and iii
guilty; has, in the blended spirit Of avarice and
sanaticism, not only assailed our fair fame
abroad, but our very household gods at home
They, our pseudo brothers, have sought to d.
rect upon US, in foreign lands, ''the SLOW, me
| wing finger Of ~scorn." Great names adorn OUT
Southern annals-WaShington and Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe, Carroll and Rutlsdge,
and 4 most Of others. Splendid mausoleums
mark the resting pisces of these great men, and
they have still nobler monuments in the hearts
Of their countrymcn. But the sacrilegious
effort is made to b!acken their sacred fame be-
cause they were Shareholders. Added 10 this,
it is sought to outrage the reputation and pro.
fame the sanctity Of the Social circle. Oar
very ancestors are to be libeled because they
were shareholders Sir, facts, stored in The
memory Of every gentleman in this hall, give
the lie to these atrocious ISLANDERS.
II ID AL S.tl Sb Ia gu hSF
memory, in reverting to the days OF his child.
hood, does not give him 4 thousand plea
SAINT memories of the patriarchal inStitu
ton Of the State-of the good will between
the servants and the families of their masters
-ot the many errands Of kindness on which
he has been sent to old or sick domeStics Of the
household, aud Of the scenes in which these
doneSlics would bless with their latest breath
the benevolence Of their owners? Eaise the
curtain Of the past, aud, forgetting the stern
and wasting duties Of manhood, ne is carried
back TO the time when he WAS q happy lDern,
Der of a happy family circle. Before him, in
memory. rises the aged and honorcd head and
patriarch Of the house, whose feeble steps,
whose personal goodness, whose position Of
common ancestor, commanded for him the pi.
Gus love And care Of his descendants. He re.
calls the manly form Of one whose kind words
finger forever in his meInory-who bore 10 him
the sacred name of fail er. a soft albright eye
sheds upon him its mild aud beautiful light in
pity and in love as bis youthful mother watch
es him with tenderest devotion. AS childhood
fades in the past and boyhood puts on its free
and joyous attributes, that mothers love still
e~nciTcles him like the atmosphere of a boiler
and better cline. Her tears fall upon his head
Like the dews Of Heaven. Her prayers Al.
cend to God in fond and ~ieryent aspirations
for blessings upon him even beyond the lot oil
man; and in after years amid the stirring
scenes Of life, the memory Of that mothers
counsel and that mothers love will better de-
fenG him from dishonor than q thousand briSt-
ling bayoneis. TIME rolls on, aud these
sacred FORMS depart, and he exclaims in
bitterness Of heart, al, all gone to return
no more forever. They have sought the
sanctuary OF the dead, where repose
other honored ones in whose veins once
coursed the same life blood. Green grows the
long grass and sweetly bloom the flowers
planted on their graves by the hand Of affection,
and in the starlight and sunlight glimmers
in paid lustre the monumental marble, with
the simple inscriptions Of departed worth,
With tbrobbing brow tho dcrcondan, OF .s,a.
house saws these were mine, and though dead
their pure and virtlous memories live. Bu,
!Abolitionism, that tiendish libcller, says cursed
be they for they aere Shareholders. Sir, let
US s:.Y to these oppressors Of the South, COM
promises with you are as ncught Thus far
shalt thou 60 end no farther" We demand
stern, full and exact justice cease your rs.
srults on our institutions stop your agitation
and give us peace, that peace 10 which you!
honor bound you in the compact Of Union
bo1 to the decision Of the Supreme Court
sweep from the statutes Of your States every
enactment warning on our property cease
your attacks on the laws which have establish,
60 slavery in places under the jurisdiction d
the Federal Government; confess that We came
into the Union on terms Of perfect equality
with you, and that wherever, in the common
territories, our flag floats our property has the
SAINT right TO protection that yours has re,
gard us, and let yonr legislation regard us as
equals, not tributaries, and the seeded South
may return. The Union may again stretch its
grand proportions from Maine to California,
from the Atlantic 10 the Pacific. Deny US
these, our rights, and our separation from you
is eternal.