The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-03
FROM CHARLESTON.


CHARLESTON, April 80, 1851.
see that the Examiner advises to let
Washing ton alone, and turn upon Cincinnati
Let the border cities alone; the border States
will manage them. Give yourselves no con-
Germ about the Southern cities, especially
Charleston, Savannah aud New Orleans. We
are wide awake all along here. We have
great General out here operating against Lin
coin and Scott-Generai Climate. Besides,
we have General Wdtchfutness and General
bravery. .
The Nirginians here are mostly old men,
Capt. Shirley Garter Turner, for many years
the noble Commander Of the d" James Adger"
steamer, from this port to New York, had
several brothers in the Navy and Army OF the
United States All have resigned but one,
and he is out of the country. Capt. Turner
belongs to the old Virginia Carriers, of Shirley,
and nobler specimen of Virginia's best blood
does not live on the green earth. His health
is bad aid his means limited, and his family,
which Is large and young, is dependent on his
daily toll. The Captain said to me yesterday,
with great emotion 'if any good man will take
care OF my wife and little ones for six months,
will be on the soil OF my old mother in forty
eight hours, 70 serve her in this extremity"
Capt Fauntleroy, of the Navy, just
signed, is an own cousin of Capt. Turner. l
know Capt. Fauntleroy we'll. A nobier Vir-
ginian don't live. When last saw him here,
about four months ago, said to him, '' Well,
Captain, what will our old State DO ~ ''She
will do right, SIR was the laeonic reply.
My own health il exceedingly bad, and /
am enfeebled daily bat never theless intend
to serve my country; if not in the camp, l
Will, to the utmost OF my ability, in some
other way. l have three grown nephews in
Virginia, to whom l have written to enlist
immediately for the war, and draw on me at
sight for all outfit, and never lay down their
arms tlll victory Is woh, or never claim me as
their relative. Cowardly or unpatIiotiC blood
has never coursed through the Veins OF my
name, and God forbid it ever shall.
brglnians, our cause Is just. We have
never done aught to the North but to enrich
a hl thka
to let us and our negroes alone. They have
ceased not 10 make aggresSlons on us daily.
We warned them year after year that If they
did not cease their unlawful crusade that we
would Withdraw from them. They did not
believe us. Seward, tor two years past, has
preac he'd all over the land his doctrine OF the
irrepresslble conflict" which, being inter-
preted, Is to take our property from US by
force of arms. They sent into your State an
armed bandit and murdered your peaceful
citizens. They harbored the Iniscreants and
rejoiced over the bloody deed. They have
stolen your property daily and insulted you
III every possible way. We bore it for the
sake OF peace until We saw that our homes
and lives were unsafe. We then peaceably
withdrew, and asked TO be permitted TO live
apart. We have exhausted every possible
means to leave and live in peace.
Seward has deceived us, by making us be-
lieye he was for peace, and that no war was
medItated, when he and Scott were preparing
10 tie us hand and foot. Virginia, III her great
heart, desired peace, and stood between the
DelIgerents for months, with the olive branch
extended. Her counseis were unheeded, and
the proc lamation of that arch scoundrel, Sc W.
ard, aidedby Nirgiuia's Benedict Arnold, went
forth to suoJugate the South. Will the young
men OF Virginia stand by and see this outrage
perpetreted2 No noI mol Then rise
young Nirginians, as one man, and vlndica te
your soil ana your ancient renown, ana drive
the invader from your soil. Your cause is
just. 1t is sacred cause. YCu act On the
defensive. God is with you, because your
cause is just. Let no craven heart be found
to poilute the SOIL OF Virginia. BE temperate
be orderly, be brave, but be invincible.
tIKGIEICS.