The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-27
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rectntly tahen "Trip inlO tne interior OF lr.
gnia, has become thoroughly satisfied there
exists no foundation whatever for the impres
sion sought to be made by the Ricmond disun
ion newspapers, that considerable change in
favor Of their very bad cause has occurred in
that State since the late election of members to
their current State Convention. According to
their statements the Old Dominion is all ablaze
for immediate secession. The Star says:
Our observation was principally in the very
county IN which the change in favor Of disunion
Is represented to have been greatest, wherein
we could not hear of single citizen who, being
for the Union at the date Of the Convention
election, is now for placing Virginia under the
usurpation of the oigarchy--not one. On the
contrary, we found the people very generally
utterly amazed, incensed ard disguised at the
atrocity of that usurpation as developed by the
means taken to confirm il 10 power-the entire
abrogation of popular rights in the seeded
States, and the wholesale misrepresentation Of
the purpose and policy Of the Government of
the United States towards the South, made
plain in its conduct since the fourth of March.
We found no man there with whom we cor
vcrsed upon the subject who now fails to realize
that the question which Virginia is to decide
is whether she will give up the assurance Of
the continuance of all the rights, privileges,
liberties and blessings which her people have
enjoyed through the Government of the United
States up to this time, for the questionable
condition of citizenship under the despotism of
Rhett, Spratt, Cobb, Toombs & Co. Not
man of them entertained the idea so industri.
ously sought Of late to be injected into the
Virginia popular mind that the policy Of the
present Administration is an aggressive one
upon the South. The result is, that the cause
OF the Union is far stronger at this moment
there than previous to the fourth of March,
when the course of the present Government to-
wards the South was uncertain, and was being
most effectively misrepresented
In speaking of the change which the Rich
mond Wing has recently undergone, the Star
remarks that the disunion leaders in Richmond
Va. in order TO silence the only Union paper
in that city, have bought up the balance of
power i'll the stock of the Richmond Wing, a
joint stock concern, and have voted the editor
MIR. Ridgaway, a staunch Unionist, out of his
position. To-day it is to come out for disunon
The Unionists of the Legislature and Conven-
tion have, however, promptly raised $4,000 to
start new Union journal there, with Ridg-
away at its head, and ere the end of the week
will doubtless have raised $4,000 more for it
(the sum required to give it fair start), and
will also have secured it subscription list
paying $4,000 per annum. Subscriptions
were made to it in Alexandria alone Yesterday
to the extent of eight hundred dollars for the
first year. The Wing has been sustained alone
by the Union party of the State and the
change of its colors will instantly strip it of its
late fiourlShing business, when it will have to
share the meager patronage of disunionism,
now starving the Enquirer and Examiner 1t
is clear to our mind that from the first week of
its publication three-fourths Of the business of
the Wing will be transferred to the new Rich
mond Union journal, which will speak the sen
timents OF those who have patronized the Wing
up to this time.
The same paper thinks the Virginia Con-
gressional election, which comes off on the
fourth Monday of next month May-wil re-
suit in Union victory which will end the dis
union battle in all the border saveholding
States pas peradventure, unless in the mean
while the Administration here may perpetrate
some gross and grievous blunder in its course
towards them the border States) and the States
now suffering under the despotism of an oil
garchy. As We see no reason whatever to be-
lieve thatany such faux pas will be perpetrated,
we feel confident that the Virginia election in
its results will not only satisfy all the world,
here to their present allegiance, but will also
instantly strip the olgarchy of their hopes of
seducng those States to submit themselves to
their despotism, and at the same time prove the
signal for the organization of powerful parties
in the seeded States in favor of their return
under the Government of the United States.-
As matters now stand in Virginia the disun-
iOnists are certain of electing bat a single
member of the next Congress. Out of the
whole twelve the Unionists are certain of seven,
and their chances of success in the other four
are two to one. We know what we write in
making this declaration. This calculation can
not possibly prove faacious, unless the Gov
ernment here may spoil its denouement by
accommodating its coercion supporters with
the abandonment of its peace poicy-which
we are very sure will not be done. Under ex-
isting circumstances, therefore, the country may
expect to see Virginia represented in the next
Congress by an almost unbroken delegation
who, in swearing to support the Constitution
of the United States, will observe the oath in
good faith, standing by and maintaining through
good and evil report the integrity and suprem-
acy of the Government.
The Linneus (Missouri) Press thus describes
a very common class OF individuals
We know q secession editor in this State
who last Fall confessed that he never saw a
negro till he was nearly a man grown and that
the sight Of the negro nearly scared him to
DEATH Yet that same editor is now calling
Southern men Abolitonists. He out-does
Yancey in secession talk yet he has not
blood relative on earth that is not a rank rad
ical AbolitOnst
The number of persons killed and wounded
in Texas by the Indians, during the past three
months, is estimated at 470.
The Union men Of Nashville are talking of
running John Bell for Congress. The Louis
vile Journal is delighted with the idea, and
thinks that with John j. Crittenden and John
Bell in the House of Representatives the people
of the United States may rely upon having
their rights, their interests and their honor pow
erfnlly indicated aud sustained in that body.
a correspondent, who writes to the St.
Louis Republican from Austin, on the 25th /
ultimo, pictures melancholy state of affairs
IN Texas. We quote an extract from his letter: |
"A despotism is upon the people. The |
usual consequences have followed. Trade par
alyzed, money out of the question: many people |
feeling insecure in liberty and estate, and seek
ing new homes, the United States army driven
off. our frontier exposed, our internal improve |
ments and the cause of education arrested. /
No man can see the end. You ask me if the
people cannot be aroused? Look at the state
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