Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-05-24
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When YOU. sir advised to submit not fer moment
TO sectional Chief Magistrate you may comprehend our
surprise TO ID you an adherent Of government quite
a, despotic IS that Of George the ILL., and bent de-
signs hostile to the liberties OF ths human race
And no. permi. me call your attention to the mode
of warfare which the people OF the North advised
TO prosecute against the unonendng women and chill
drep Of the Sou b. Il would not be resp c.ul to you,
air TO s,y that the mimiekry Of the command OF tho
U,as Glaydof BJi,o has eng ged your time too much
IN allow YOU TO look into the insane rawlings Of our enc
mica But let me tell you, that unless your Guard be
wanted 10 proec. city sginst your own ide hungry
nopusee YOU NAV A. orce disoand H. for President Davis
makes no deceptive promise, when he declares that we
seek no co. quest srandisement" We have no Id
of attacking Bufr.lo Dismiss them your Guard, and
dcc, yor attention 10 the horrid threats OF barbarous
horees who gaore the civz tion Of tho 10Th century,
and adcp the barbarian Of the middle ages Rad iTs!
the imure ssions Of Frenedn, made by tho prepara-
ton for civil in ire great city OF America, and nex
| tbe.commeuts of a Spanish 'di'or at Havana.
Then Y Courier des Flats inns laws in locking at the
amos, 10, Gus character OF the excitement OF the masses
no one would suspect that WIS cccisioned by civil
war destined to drown the ancient and common nato
ATTY in the blood OF men who were iiI now considered
br thren Wa lave Witnessed black hours in France,
| vb.re the people oe one country condemned TO
Gyh. each other but never have bahd snytbing ike
that which il occurring here There, the struggle was
accented a. an inevitable bu at the same time Ailments
BILE and terrible necessity Here it is holiday aspect
that prevails
The PrtnSd says:
"Tbe confusion which must reign in the United States,
with the calling out of the militia and the p.epsrato
for war; can scare IL 10 conceived The general disat
faction however manitests itself in thousand different
ways because the people well understood that the rfsu
of all these slcrf,s will be that the drama will ED
where il ought to have gun, with the recognition OF
the ind pendence snd nationality Of the two sections into
which The Old republic is eready divided and III concr.
sion OF treaties Of amiy aud commerce. But in the
meantime disaster is to succeed disaster without the
possbili.y OF remedy What blindness the par: o!
the Republican party and Pfesden, Lincoln !"
Contrast with these the humane the ehristidn, the
ciyzef designs of your allies Of your own aud OF other
States Of the Nvr h. Hear your friend Greedy In the
NV York T5it,Re
eve mean cor q1er them-no merely to defeat, btt
to conquer them-and we shall do this Il c
most meTci.uhy the speedily We do IT, Bu. ~hen
the rebcl0us traitors overwhelmed IN the hed ara
scattered like leaves before angry wind Il must not
be to return to peaceful and contsnsd homes They must
md porerty at their fre,s, and see prtrnion IN me
axious eyes of mothers and the rags Of children IL Is
little enough the slaves will do when master are at the
wars and to BE- idle and w.steu is the least harmful thing
r which they are likely engage themselves. There
will be little cotton raised in the Southern States this
year. and that little must pay the enhanced expenses oil
route TO market il allowed to 90 at all the price
| thereof
limited quaint is at Starvation prices. The whole coast
OF the South from the Delaware to the Rio Grande must
be solitude, from the presence OF blockidng
squadron that relief shall in to the beleagured
| people from the sea-"
Next comes the poi,shed redJubdbte candidate Tor
| the mission IN Great Britein or 10 France
The New York Courier aud Enquirer, after Threatening
tn, Border States that TRAITORS with turning their
sav against them, thus addresses the rebels on the
| lower Mississippi"
As certainly as we now write the Northwest with
spades only, protected with fs. will drown out the
whole country the lover Mis- sspy relentlessly
they p0iid drowa ont rats ia the hold Of ship. And
nothing is easer 1t them look to it then, and return
to their allegiance while it is yet in their power to do
sc."
Next is the voice 81 Senator of the Empire State
Senator Sol: ola of New York is suffered to declare
that in CERTAIN event Baltimore il to have nohing ,ft
to prove where that city stood eIcep. the granite
| column erected to commemorate the memory OF Wash
iugion; and the bullion in her banks Is to reward the
volunteers while annuity Of SIS 900 ia promised to
the maa Who shall secure the scalp Of j. isrson Davis
For a description OF Wilson's Union Zouaves, refer
to the Y Commercial and the Tribune. Lastly, ask
your special attention to the dabolica susgeson' ofte
West Chester Penn Democrat the City OF Broth
efly Love az 20 draw from its heavenly sentiments.
The Wesches:er (Pi) D,mocrH reminds the Pennsy =
vanii volunteers that fillmore "has always been cele-
brated for the beauty OF IT. wcmer that thc far were
ever the reward of the brave" and THAT beauty and
| bco'y the watchwOTd At y w Orleans.
| ght quote columns equally savage from the paid
TOR editorials Of tho piou, New York World But sir,
| [ must stop ask have you not voice to save
your Northern land from the meei miledictons OF the
civ zed nations OF the earihto avert the just curses OF
an N nded Gods TIE humane, benevoen; and upright
char ct. which entitled you to Virginia hospitality at
home and which elevated you to the rank Of princes in
Europe, demands your indignant denunca'on OF your
savage allies They threaten Va, too with the horrors OF
ssrDie and poin, us to the sad fate Of st. Domn
90 The wish is fiher 10 the thought. Its barbary
| rritaes bur il does nos slAFm
!; s ptinal write thus 10 one whom We have a.
mired loved ard honored IL il the elevated position
which you have occupied above all the people of the
Norhit is because yoI have yourself taught Us not TO
submit to tyranny and misrule it is because there msy
be yet hope that may separate yourself from the
sAvages that surround you, may yet counsel wisdom
humanity, moderation and peace, and may return TO
the principles OF liberty which you have hastily abandon
elhis us;iies the notice bestowed on you above your
fellows.
Miy ooh 1861, P0WHATAN.