The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-01
Corresro ndence the Richmond Dispatch.
Letter from Mfssissfppf


vtekssuRa, March %, 1861.
The Mississippi State Convention meets to-
day at jackson, upon the call of Its President,
for the purpose OF acting npon the per'nanent
Cons titu ton adopted at Montgomery for the
government of the Confederate States Of the
South. Three States have already ratified 1t,
and this will do likewise In the course of this
week. or the next at farthest No doubt the
Submission papers will send mp TO Heaven ~
will never reach there y cry against the as
sumption OF the several State Conventions for
acting upon the question without reference to
vote of the people. l beg these learned
sources to inform the public whether the Con-
s;itution of the late Union was submitted to a
vote of the people in a single Statei II they
do not know, certainly can inform them that
Conventions OF the separate States, aud not
the people direct, adopted that Constitution.
BE assured that If the sentiment of the people
Of the other States interested Is but the half
we'll represented as is that of this State, 1t
would be no act of love on their part TO now
ask them to do what they have delegated to
faithful exponen's the power 10 do for them
In the Convention of Louisiana there were
but seven dissenting votes TO the ratiiieatlon
OF the Constitution, and several OF these We're
given upon grounds not ut all pertinent 10
the question. My reason for speaking oil this
matter is to show how utterly absurd Ii Is LOT
those living in the Border States to longer en-
terrain the idea of reconstruction. These peo-
pile say, and say rightly that the time OF dif-
ference between them and the North is not
the imaginary line of Mason and Dixon. but
is one drawn by the Deity, through the very
hearts of the people themselves, OF the two
sectione, making them different in almost
every thing, language included. 1t is then
the question, trecons trrction impossibtel-
(Which side will Virginia take?'' She may
prescribe Federal nostrGms, through the Union
Doctors OF the Convention, until doomsday,
but the disease of disupon has assumed
chronic turn which will defy any remedy
that can now ba administered for it. There
can be union, it is true, but it must and
will De a union of the South, let the
political quacks al Mechanics Hall do what
they may, to the contrary Notwithstanding
There is vitality still left in the Old Dominion,
and IL will not he long, in my opinion, before
| il is seen in the upheaying of the masses,
who, sloE 10 move, will prove they would
| rather be the equals Of Southern brothers
! than the sia.es OF Yankee mas ters. There is
| hardly circumstance of importance csn-
/ corning Virginia politics not familiarity known
| in the South, so much interested are the PEG
pie in what is going on in that State. Indeed,
| the cid mother seems stin greatly loved and
| yenerlted by these, her expatriated children,
| who believe that the cycle OF her glory is not
! yet complete. They contend, however. that
/ she vii! not and cannot be unmindful of the
! high destiny which awaits her rs the head OF
| The family of Confederate States. In my
f! heart Of hearts pray that she may not disap-
/ point not only these people, but those noble
| and hhel ~ loving children of the old mother
| WAC, like the gallant King of France, of cid,
| prAferdeath to such dishonor AS political in
| tericrity imposes upon them. ARLINGTON.