The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-16
.oFfespondencs Of the Richmond DispStch.
ROME, Floyd county, Ga, !


July 10, 1861
Oh that mine eyes were a fountain of tears
that might weep over my native Virginia
vao has had the efi'rontery and audacity NOT
tuiy TO secede from Abraham's bosom bpt has
4 'attuiy invited and "parmitted The insur-
4 irrilonary Montgomery Government 70 defi,e
4 ter pure State Capital by building its nest
Il mere, and God only knows what q brood OF
uaitoEs n may hdrch aud all this too
g without the sigh test provoeation as Nir
urls ought TO have known that Abraham's
Il can, which was registered in Heaven vou!d
lave restrained him from hurting a hair OF
hF head but, Notwithstanding his earnest
Il aah sincere assurances that he only wan ted
me seventy five thousand men called for in
b4s proclamation, OF which the Old dominion
7ss only to furnish very small proportion,
70 assist him IA taking, possessing and hold
ing the rnbic property and yet Virginia,
ftmarEahle to relate, went right off and SO.
Craed, ana then turned round aud spit in her
protector face! What base treachery and
hgrattude No wonder Abraham feels no
hgTet IN bringing her back 10 her senses.
Nanghty, naughty Virginia, thus to slip out
OF The trap just as the Western sucker"
was about TO spring the triggers on you. On /,
We mother OF States and statesmen. how could
yea 'sarye' the great American .sTycoonn
ID that way Why did you not hold on to
'he 6all until the dead fall fell, and crushed
ouI oi you every particle of those trouble
'me ana harassing elements in all Republics
Liberty ana Independence Had you done
'uiF loh might now be basking in the soft
INFLOW moonlight OF Lincolnism, and been
Il ehnTey rriieved from the perplexipg respon.
d 'iWlily OF governing yourself, as you then
ntuil nave had kind master aud protector
NHo w"eid nave relieved you from all such
VIicu'ts cares and petty annoyances Alas +.
3 Tor you, "Oli Virginuy''-vou kaadad not ,hs
n HaInhg= ct Father Abraham" and John s
aI"ie d 20 ard now you see what YOU We
3 me io-got bloody work Oh your hands, and
r. Ill 20 pay generally.
hul mere ls no use being "melan choIicn
- - 10" you have no alternative but to
( nthI III blue biazes, like your grandtathsrs
,u' me BIrlsh at Yorktown, and General
Ssoh at New Orleans; then, perhaps.
ttahheeucodIedum VIII let you crest a spell, -
y s.'bas Lohg enough To bury their dead aud
go! thelr pumpkins And who knows but
"a, 'ney may learn by that time that there
1 go, "a iact' some Omnipotent and sacred su.
4 ii"AIVy pertaining TO q State" particularly
j s %slch State as Virginia a Yankee, how
bsTt,. hr'ef could learn anything without
ihrAshed into him, and as the above
'eIy wholesome Southern Doctrine. thew
. pe saugbt II At the mouth OF the cannon
I Ioiht Of the bayonet. "Nothing should
ADD . W IN pied as la " which leads to unjust
Ab,shatnf . consequences" says the luminous
Il, Ih'auah In his recent war message. Ii that
/ I'M H.s regal standard. then he ought TO know
n- 20 ne IL an iliegi timate President. To saw
4 Ns ul the unjust and absurd conse-
rnV'e ~ which his election has led the
l@,, psaeing OF such n consnmmate fool and
~ lung PATRON in the chair of Washing
az 80 not ohiy unjust TO the gen tleman who
s.l, :. MN, bnt sHperIatiyeiy absurd I'm it,
emo, therefore, according 10 his own logic. he
80 once 10 take back that solemn oa tn
q VIII ~ Ia Heaven, ~ and secede from the
q 80 House, taking, what do thew saw
s In s ~ and all her sucker brats with him
a. t'osion, permit me to say that am
Nv ths, ".e 40 In Involuntary militia compa-
4 saoig :, ihueters twice 4 month Ia cur city,
! A.ln good old mother" wants any more
4 rom No. "a terminating the Yankee vermin
l,ns sacred soil, eli shs has to do is to
4 Joe +" a, Mh draft for our Company 10 "Old
b =, - "H4tdgy'lle, and we wilt very soon
I'd - scene of action. My word Tor il,
hears We feathers VIII fall as soon as he
~ re comm 80
LIVER yours. dear Virginia, till death.
PSI no.u, Koosy
eat knr yer companies, number nearly
llrrip,a men each, have left orr city for
% IN -, BE military spirit OF our county
W. e hghting pitch, and we will soon
.. STATE H"' now Tie banner county Of
'sylnaa," w graufyin2 TO the members of o,r
faow ,h' now stationed at Winchester m
lVpqlar lhe Rey. Mr.. Jones, the Mons And
our c,,pp pa tor OF the Presby terrain Church
b. eoc co., nds gotten the unan imous consent
. tehder e. egation, who almost idol liza him
eil L, tbs -. services to the President as Chan
ftd his es'uent lie is a mau OF property.
Fisoi,oux1.' ICES VIII be rendered entirely
tAses us ~ purely as a work Of love He
VIII bI,. On next Wednesday. and will carr
ssh.. ia TIE warmest sym na,i,iss ana -,
Our entire eom v,ni,y