The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-27

vsrrtmia ~ Dependency OF the Ncfss'
w. cannot conceive Of a more humsitasins
.,setacle than to see Virginia figuring Al 'he
..;, of : Northern Confederacy --the motnero i
sst.ss. and statesman performing the Offices "a
|. mental dependant, to a set OF States 80
witch her sons have ruled from the 49,
nins of the Government by their eohee"e
moral elevation and consumfna'e =.
.hip. Every day that she remains IN .ne ue
--.a,rr ...nr,.tion adds new stigma 70 'n"'
broad and brilliant escntcheon ~nish' ~.
.;~htx-ax. wears. she has borne withoot
..ain Rut il 10 not n quesuoh % e"".
and fame. or the loss of them, that VIZ afo
0oxv 10 consider her ASSOCIATION WIZ .he
North. II 10 only as to tie quesnoh VI y"
,srss,-pecuniary, material interest-tha. We
.hal, at present discuss the contingency OF her
remaining part of the Northern ooniedera-
ton. The subject 10 great enough for vol
ume, and we can only glance at the more
frowning features OF the most foroidding PIC
ture which the Virginia mind has ever ye'
been compelled TO cont template
None can deny or reject the conclusion that
the southern Con fe deracy is ''hxed TACT.
Ths States that have united to establish the
Government and Constitution Oh the eoh'
federate States of America" will never, never,
aeuce. and renew their union with section
which has deliberately repudiated Its consul
tu,ional obligations which has systemati'
caiiy insulted them in the Nationai couh'ns'
and industriousiy slandered them over the
wor,a and which has deHantly taken posses
sion Of the Government by ssctiohai .o"'
Nth ofscers pledged TO sectional hosuh'y'
md N . sectional policy OF ADMINISTRATOR H
To .nppose. III en-, that these States Will ever
renew the old connection, is to suppose THEM
a, once idiots. towards and suicides
They have gone, and they have gone ioi
axsr and there remain of the old Union
twenty seven States-seven slave te1ciuoihe
De,aware,) and twenty free. Two years o'
continuous contact with tho North VIII pro
duce stampedes which will depopulate OF lheh
slaves, Missouri, Kentucky, and maryiah@-
leaving ia the old Union but four slave States
Virginia, North Carolina, tennessee, an'
Arkansas,) and raising the NUMBER Oh iree
States TO twenty three, which Is more 'naN
three. fourths of twenty seven. but, uhue'
the Federal Constitution, three-fourths Oh I'M
States may amend ii ut VIII may pass ai
amendment, at their pleasure, einancipa'ih'
every slave in the four remaining slave STATES
in strict conformity with constitutional ior"s
Win this contingency-this certainty
staring every Virginia Shareholder III the lace
is it to be supposed that he will allow nj
slaves TO remain in the Commonwealth on
day longer than the necessary arrangement
for getting them away shall require All tn
Inducements of interest. reason ana saiety
will drive the slaves from our common
wealth and, inasmuch as the Southern Con
federacy will, in self-defence, forbid thel
coming within their borders except az immi
grants, accompanied by their masters, III
ginia will at once lose, not only her 4so 90
slaves worth four hundred millions OF do'
lars, but would also lose from quarter
half Il million, at the least, OF her mos
wealthy and valuable citizens, who woul
carry away with them all other OF thei
available wealth susceptible Of asportation-
Virginia in a condition to spare suddenly will
in the period of two years or less, i've h1ndre
millions OF her present wealth, and 4 quar- e
million at least, of her present !, los, 100 WIN
citizens Can she spare, at this period OF nc
public and private indebtedness, the labor
her half million OF slaves, from the produces
which she now levies all annual tax OF
least a million and half Of dollars a
though the slaveholdng portion of Il
State outnumbers the slavenoldng in viii
population, and would consequently pay, bI
for the slaves Of the latter, more than ha
of the annual taxation, 1t pays less than
third for the fis ures paid by each division
the State are "a follows:
Tide " ater........... .......,....Sl, ltZ,o4L
piedmont Observation-Disclosures. 972 "a.
Eastern Virginia 81, 104 1856
Valley .,.....,,...... ...,...... s523, es6
Eorthwes ..., 40a 1876
Routh wast Observation-Disclosures. 2ss, 6ls
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