Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-02-14

for Secession as States rights principle and to hate
the North and the Yankees generally really Demo
cratic doctrine. II written in the platforms
and over again. and those whose ses had preceded them
in public sta ions BY means Of such stuff aud who
living by families, generation after another, the
pubhcrN took it tor granted that what was democra
tic Shether right or wrong the true theory for them
They had all the public places made all the noise pass
ed resolutions established eating clubs and Southern
rights ASSOCIATIONS and Of course attracted most or all
all OF the weakest and most unscrupulous population in
State to their standard the bad with hope OF plum
der, the frivolous to be with what they supposed to be
the crowd And what a miserable result
L; well asked "Was ever such Opuence of preten
81 brous ht to such penury of efect:'
And yet, have no doubt, take the aggregate show,
and correct scrutiny would disclose that the dpss
compred to the 'HpOstsrs, stand ten to feeble as
the how is, as whole.
T North may be well assured that these gentry will
fight anst peace ITO the last eVremity"in fact hon
at and fair peace would be the most awful of ex-
mties TO theul-snce in all human probability the en-
tire litter will be drowned 10 the same bag. The GER
tainty OF such effect ought inspire patriotic men to
concede even more than justice mands.
Let the negro be fairly provided for and peace rigns
in Am ca The faction that produced the mischief will
be ready, politically, for the benefit Of general bank
rup law-ior the capital which they have lived for
twenv years will be entirely exhausted. What new
shiboeth, "King Cotton" may propose, remains 10 be
But the essential point ~ what will that other hut
dred and seventy thousand five hundred do; In
the respectable and patriotic people Of the North
ae Ove-ued by their rabble and fair refused
to the Souh-why let the North know that to the last
man ey are for an eternal separatOnsnd they have
been the rmes to pursue peace so war comes, they
will be the b,avest % meet It's chances.
10 Virgina "a elsewhere, the fighting counties the
last to pass warke resolutions, before has
AID wish 10 call the atten m of your readers
p-ophecy and that il that it get into trouble the
counties in every section Of the State Ost clamOrOus
tor collision will be most backward to meet the conse
queuces-and in very nearly proportion rather
disprcpCrOn, to their present eamor.
lt il among the States among the counties of par
ticuar States Old General Taylor always spoke of Ten
nessee and Kentucky as 'the lighting States"
They, with their noble mothers, Virginia and North
Carolina AMI Mirylaad, viii be the last to surrender the
Union and If Is broken up viii be the last TO knuckle
10 its foes.
They see neither submisOnists cOercionsts They
understand that our Government is formed chiefly and
primarily ideas-HoR-s submission and nOn-coer
con. LIT Sou.h Carolina aud King Cotton aud New
gland and Michigan, If they choose go ont and stay
out We get alOUg without theu-Lstter, il NAV be
With them on fair terms but better without them ii the
nion is 10 b, forever sjaked upon the issue of each
earring tor the Presidency, aud its train OF incl
nts
The question OF Union or DisunOn undoubtedly
in the hands OF the Norheru aud Eastern States Ii their
political virtue and religious chastity such that they
cannot live th in peace allowing the sin and shame
OF olr social condition. let them 60, and JOY go with
q eT. Wen work the problem OF such Confederation
to success or t,l under its ruins.
They the NORTHEASTERN States have no time to spare
T " must come down from their points Of conscience
AID come quickly or bey will be thrown overheard and
left 70 buffet tue waves they have hshed into commoon
The men of the Peace Congress know full well that
toua st-iies not to be composed on the maxms Of
the du 10 They viii look to the interests and feelings
OF the Million AMI the millions will confirm their award
aud more and better STILL they will assign their appro-
level the politicians who have brought this tre
0dou mischief the interests the happiness and II g
b pes of the American Republic
Send W from Virginia assurances Of sympathy, res
Ct aud love AID yeue-aion for the great men Who are
chsmpols OF peace and uuion-to Everett, 70 Fillmore,
20 Douglls and 10 others who reported TO be with
them-but above all TO those nObest Romans OF them
all Crittendeu, T,ler Bell Guthrie Rives and Pettigrew
men whose virtue braves a sectional inhlmmst on, and
assure them tba Virginia wi in this crisis as before
wave in the faces Of the enemies Of the Unon her az
cent and classic motto Semper Tyrannis." She will
De dragged r7gconed into measures OF violence
aud folly against her liberties and her interests.
A YIRGINIAN.