Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1861-03-29
Early Spring,

Their welcome to milder air.
The earth looks soft as if, beneath,
The SUMS increasing warmth had power;
And soon shall pierce the tender sheath
Which holds the perfect snow-drop flower.
TFrom the Mobile Register.1
will Not Receive Them.
The public mind of the country has pref
ty generally settled down to the belief that
our commissioners to Washington will not
be received in any official capacity not even
as representatives Of de facto government
Mr.. Lincoln contents himself with the
sehoolboy logic that there is no legal man
ner in which to dissolve the Union, and
therefore that the Union is not dissolved. -
Wiser men than Mr.. Lincoln have made err
rors as fatal. One of the rarest perfec-
tons of craftsmanship is the capacity Of dis
tiuguishing fact from theory us this
a rebellion ?" asked Charles x of Prince
Polignac, when the booming of guns at the
capital reached even the royal ear at Yer
sailles. ''No, sirc," replied the old diplo-
matist, cit is a revolution" And for the
difficulty of making this distinction, en-
pires have been engulfed, dynasties have
persisted. and seas of blood have been shed.
This is the blindness with which the gods
strike those they mean to destroy: this is the
reason why the independence of every new
nation had always to be written in blood
and signed in blood, and their government
cemente1 with blood.
If we hoped, and still hope, that ours
may prove an exception, it is because, so
far, our revolution has been an unprece-
denied one, to which no parallel in history
could be found, and to the progress and
end of which no maxims of historical phi
losophy could be applied. A government
believed imperishable has been suddenly
overthrow, and new one substituted,
without scarcely producing ripple on the
smooth surface Of everyday life, and with
an unanlmity and cheerful universal acqui-
escence that defes the analyst of events to
find any but Providential solution of the
mystery. Men. by nature conservative
and conservative by their predictions, their
prejudices and their interests, seemed as by
miracle to change their lifelong habits
OF thought, and the convictions which had
grown with their growth, and the change
was as spontaneous as sincere. There is
not an intelligent reader thas has not noted
this singular fact among his friends and
neighbors, if not in himself.
Here, then, we have the people of seven
sovereign States, accustomed to seifgovern-
ment, solemnly and deliberately, without
outside pressure, as without internal COM
motion, placing on the record of history
their determination to change their political
relations towards former associates and to-
wards the world at large. The last conner
in this band of States has uttered this de-
cison with singular emphasis. A Convcn-
ton of delegates was elected by the people,
not only without the authority, but despite
the active opposition of their chief magis-
trate, and the chief magistrate-so loud
was the thunder of the popular vote-has
been forced to recognize and sanction that
Convention; in the Convention the Union
had bnt seven votes out of near two hun
dred; and the people, again called to the
ballot box, ratified the verdict of the Con-
yention by sixty-fve thousand out of sew
enty-fve thousand votes. BY every prin-
ciple of government, except that of the di
vine right Of the rulers, such decision can
be revoked only by those who made it,
Has there been the faintcst indication of the
possibility of such revocation The new
Government holds undisputed sway in the
seven States, and all its important acts have
been unanimous. The annals Of mankind
show no example of similar harmony.
The wealth Of Virginia.
The Richmond Examiner has the follow
ing statistics Of the State of Virginia:
There are now in this State negroes of
the estimated value of nearly S4O0, 00O,-
600. Upon an inside estimate they yield,
in gross surplus produce, from sales of ne
groes to 60 South, $40, ZOO, 900; tobacco,
$4,000, 900; -four. 5000, 600; corn. cot
ton and other products, s. 600, O0O-a to-
tai of $2S, 600. 600. Most Of the negroes
are in cismontane, Virginia and that section
pays in taxation, of persons and personal
property, lands and lots, and Licenses, 81
100000, against 81 ,000,0 900 of transmon-
tame Virginia, or three-fourths more
though the negroes in the Valley are thrown
in to help the division in which it is assign
ed. By the assessment of 1856. the trans
montana lands are worth Sl66, 900, 900, the
eismontane $210, 100000 and pay one
fourth more tax. The annual charge against
the State for its internal improvement in
vestment is one and four ffths million, Just
above what cismontane Virginia contributes
TO the common fund. From about 1915 to
1S45, emigration to the South was great
est. In that time Virginia elnigrated some
100000 slaves; in the middle decade of the
term, 100, 600: and Notwithstanding the low
price at which, with one short interval.
slaves ruled in the three decades, and the
eonssqsent encouragement to home agricul-
ture, cismontane lands went down ia per
cent in the face Of a transmontane appre-
citation of 30 per cent comparative loss
t, Eastern Virginia of Gil per cent.
A counsellor in Detroit describes his pow
erty as follows:
When came to Detroit was in perfec
M &c +Ao c,nalles hole in my shirt was tho