The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-08

OoO0 A0vtcessVOn' Ueoeft the 0HIDs
The last words Of the gallant LAwRKscI
were Don't give up the ship" The enemy
was pouring In his death dealing broadsides.
the timbers were crashing guns dismounted;
the men slaughtered like cattle irsthe sham btes
but the heroic commander, mortaily wounded
though he was. slowly breathed his brave
life away with the words, % Don't gire 10 the
ship" Let the patriots of Virginia heed this
advice. There Is no such State as Virginia,
North or South. There are no such people as
her planters anywhere. We hear daily of the
departures accomplished and In prospect of
large numbers of gentlemen with their slaves.
This is just what SEWARD & Co. desire. Let
them stick TO the old State. Let them not
sacrihce their fine estates TO the nasal and
Vulgar rufilans of Black Republica nism. Let
them stand by this glorious old Common
wealth to the last, and fight for their rights
and honor over their fathers graves. Our
neighbor of the Examiner gives some excel
lent advice in yesterdays paper. To some
extracts we invite the special attention Of our
Easter slave
I'VE shall not adjure the .lav eown er to stay for
the good Of the state Rights Party. In things
that eoncern mems money and bread II is idle 10
talk The distractions Of political oxpedienoy But
bar that all their goods ,re not slaves. They are
proprietors Of lands, Of stock, Of houses they
dasire to live in their native country because II
plsascs ali men better than any foreign country
can please exiles. They feel the natural attach
meni to the land Of nativity; and living there it
properly which residence requires them to keep
here should have value in the market, and that
esss Il
dreds of thousands Of slaves ia few mouths
The slaves cultivate the soil when they are
y predictions
amount of real property thrown on the market
must necessarily produce depreciation in its
raiue. With il VIII eolne complete siagnation OF
business, cessation Of enterprise. universal pow
erty, and decay Of all prosperity. To save their
slaves they must ruin their owp faIniles In com
mon with all those Who depend upon tho general
wealth, and bury themselves like sampson in tho
rnin which they will tumble on the heads Of the
The Rran,tn then proceeds TO show that
there is no reason for the apprehension of Vir-
ginia's remaining under Abolition SWAY,
which is producing consequences already so
serious, and menaces such 4 transloca ton Of
capital, and with it must produce such a tre-
mendoug crash of fortunes, such ruin Of the
rich, snch misery of the poor, that it lie the du
ty of every citizen who values his own securi-
ty to give attention TO the ma tier; and If their
fear be unnecessary and unfounded, to do what
lies in him TO relieve and quiet it, Itsaps:
All the young, all tho vigorous, the manly,
the Intelligent, the informed and sincere portion
of the NiTania population Is on the side of indie
pendeEce, Defencs and Resistance. The inevia-
bic course Of events oppose themselves to the
principles and plans OF submissioniets. Virginia
cannot submit. She cannot remain in the Con
fcderacy OF the North under Abolition Execu-
tive, asectiona!tzed Congress, and impotent Court.
without the defence OF the Constitution, nd it'll
out the aid OF her sisters. 1t has long been clear
to every intelig man that there can be
turn CT the seeded States. I he Northern ma
jorlty will never bate an inch; Congress ha- gone
without leaving the shade Of a compromise the
Southern Government is formed and in full func-
tloh capitalists, those seers Of all revolutions,
have proved their confidence in its stability by
Investing their money under its protection in vaet
sums great commerce has commenced; prices
OF every hing that il bought and sold have gone
up; national pride unites with interest to close
Union is no longer question OF the future. 1t is
tact of the past. The Union is dissoly cd. -
To reconstruct it there must be new Revolution
In tn Southern Confederacy. Without amend
meuts TO the Federal Constitution of the strongest
acer--without provisions for the equality
hensiye even than have yet been proposed in Flr-
GINA no intelligent man has ever believed the
seeded Confederacy could be brought back. Now
that all compromise. all adjustment, all conces-
siOns of every description have been sternIy
fused, and put entirely out of reach and hope for
ever, even the ignorant and the urintornled
forced to comprehend this terrible fact that the
Union has ceased to exist. There is more Union
to be saved. Queen Elizabeth is dead. Unionists
and DisunionistS are rs obsolete as Wings aud
Tories, Cavaliers and Houndheads The mass of
the people are slow TO comprehend this new state
Nirsinian people will be together. When the
only issue that We can now have is once
Of things, they can make but one decision -
The question now up IL not " b ether shall car
ry our property into the Territories, but whether
we shall own it Ia Virginia; not whetherw we shall
be masters OF our slaves, but whether we shall
or not be slaves ourselves; whether shall be
the citizens of an Independent State cal led Vir-
ginia, or provincial subjects of a centralized and
consolidated republic controlled by New england
republic in name despotism in TACT. The people
IN
or a Southern Union. Many would like to keep
things AS they were year ago.; but few weeks
or months will satisfy the most obtuse Of these
that no earthly power can bring back the things
that were, Some uickfters win make for a mid
die ground called the Central Confederacy, and
endeavor to lead OF the State that lunar terri
! tory; but they Will soon give II up themselves,
from the palpable certainty that hen people al
to do SO to some purpose, aud for good. The VIII q
question will be narrow ed down TO this-will Vir-
! glna go with the Southern States, or stay with
! the Northern States 7 That question must be au
/ swered, that choice must be made for actual
to ea q w not
there can De no doub; but that all Virginiars, ex-
cepta little clique impotent traitors and obscure
Aholiti onists, whom the majority can convince
in their own way,-will elect for the South -
suppos ng this State to be selfish and abject ~
Seward believes interest Is too imperative to per-
init esitation. Choice for the North would be
pecunlary disaster, compared to which tho erie es
81 81 and 81 were as the explosion Of two blad-
ders to the bursting ola cannon for then the
slaves and their masters. too won ID go, grad
uaily. but al at once, and all properly would
come down from dollars to cents, and there re
main. Choice for the South would give security
to wealth once, and an immediate commerce
| that would NIL this State with m oney To remain
with the orth, the Border States must accept the
plac, aud condition ef sublugated provinces, from
whom revenue will be collected by Government
In which they have no voice, by laws in whose
CT. alton they have no part Uniting with III,
South, Virginia would at once becom the export
no tolerable port south Of Hampton Roads-anc
take her legitimate P ace Us the acknowledged
bead Of all her natural comrades"
As to the absurd notion that, in the event o
joining the Southern Confederacy, slavery in
Virginia would no longer have the protection
of the Federal Government, the Examiner re
marks that 1t shall not insult the understand
Ing Of the Virginian planter by explaining t.
him that though we shall lose LIScoLN's aid
there will yet be Central Government IL
the land, and the sole difference in tn.
amount of its protection and his own safet,
then and now will be the difference between
| that to be afforded by a Government alto
gether in the hands of Abolitionists and tina
which will be given by Government alto
gether in the hands of Shareholders. Tn
Southern Union will consist Of slave State
alone. Its institutions and interests will b
homogeneous. All the laws will be mad
with one aim-the protection of Southern
people and property. Its Admins trato
will no longer be the elect of Shareholders an
Aboitionists together, leaning to side
afraid Of the other but, chosen by one PEG
pie he will be bound to use every title o
power in his hand, for their cole safety. TIL
nr1ny and navy, the police and the courts
viii then work but one way, and all the pro
lection that earthly power can afford vii
then be surely given to the negro and his mas
J oirf. 1lan tor ha Is
10 wait. Nothing can hurt him here but tn