The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-19

Carolina there is still majority which would
hail with joy the re-establishment of the old
Union, he proclaims . falsehood which no
one knows better than himself to be false and
malicious. If the Union party, after his Proc
lamation, still held majority in any of the
now seeded States, by what process did that
majority permit the minority to force them into
the attitude of Secession? Here in Virginia
there was undoubtedly, at the time Of the
election and Of the first assembling of the
Virginia Convention, a large majority of
Union mon, and we may add, Of men as pa
triotic, intelligent and heroic, not only as any
other party in Virginia, but as any other party
in any State or community that ever existed.
That party represented the largest amount of
slave property in the Commonwealth, and
when it consented to give up Virginia to be-
come the battlefield Of civil war, gave by
that act an infallable test Of its devotion to
the cause Of Virginia. Will Mr.. LINCOLN
vouchsafe to inform the world whether
he ever heard before of party having the
power to maintain its position, voluntarily
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hazard all that makes life dear to each of its
individual members, upon the dctation of a
minority ? Moreover, Mr.. LINCOLN has him
sclf confessed to distinguished gentleman Of
Louisiana, formerly a member Of Congress
from that State, who represented to him in
strong terms the perfect unanimity of the
South, that he was we'll aware of the union of
the South, that he knew there was no longer
any Union party, but that he intended to try
the strength Of tho Government and reduce
the South to submission. The same admis-
rion was made to the same gentleman in sub
stantially the same terms by WIN. H. SEWARD.
Yet, in an Inaugural Message, prepared by
these two men, LINCOLN audaciously assumes
that which, according to the admission of Sc
WARD and himself is falsehood, as justi6ca-
ton of this infamous invasion Of the South.
II 10 not true that in Virginia, or in any
ether Southern State, a Union party any
longer exists. With the exception Of the
Northwest, and with sporadic cases else
where Of deep-seated and incurable political
and personal malignity, which would rejoice
in the overthrow of the Southern cause, and
which may b attributed rather to q general
corruption Of the heart than to any attach
,nent to the old Union, there is not man,
woman or child left in the South who does not
hold ABRAHAM LINCOLN and his Government
in utter detestation. The old Union party Of
Virginia arc foremost in the battle field, and
the strong Union counties, led of BY the noble
county Of Augusta, which Was last in leaving
the Union Gag, - long as it believed it to b
the nag Of free Government, have led the
van in the support Of Southern Independence.
If LINCOLN sends his armies to relieve the
Union men Of the South from their opprss-
scrs. 10 will meet the objects Of his sympathy
upon the threshold of his travels, giving the
best proof Of devotion to 4 cause which men
can give-thst of laying down their lives in
its defence.
What 10 true Of Virginia is true Of the whole
South. The past h buried, and the only RI
valry now known Is which shall do most and
80 farthsst in the common cause. It 10 lamen-
table to think that man sitting in the chair
once occupied by 0EoaGE WAsHIsaros should
descend to such Aagfsnt misrepresentation
He knows, none better, that the United States
can never b. again united, and that, If the
South could BE- conquered, II Is his avowed in
tension t. oblitsrats al Southern lives and
hold Us ~ conquered provinces. Can he inn
pose upon tho North tho dslusion that such .
Union - that 10 desired BY any one in the
Eosth, o. say Uuion upon any forms with
people Who have diclossd such unparalleled ms
lightly and vickedness - this war has I'M
yelled. II there were no other reason for do
string disunion, the revelation Of itself which
the North has inside in this war would Be more
thsD eulhsiert.