The Van Buren press., 1861-09-18
From Virginia.

From Virginia.
We are permitted to make the following
extract FROM private letter to citizen OF
this city. from friend in Virginia
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&c Altar all, our chief hope is in God.
Whether our men and resources be many
or few, II our cause is not founded in ulti-
mate Justice, and God Is not on our side, we
must fail, Cor the race is not to the swift, nor
the battleto the strong for God setteth
up one, and pulleth down another and
there is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor
counsel against the Lord. The house is
prepared against the day of battle, but safe
fy Is Of he Lord How any ole, not
drunken. can deny the right Of the South,
under the cifcumstances, to rescind the COM
pact which thsy formed with the North
eighty Yeas ago, is more than / can con-
ceive. When we consider that the North
hos hah;tually broken that compact ever
since its adoption. in the particular mos:
essential and most insisted on by the South
at its format:on-that for the last thirty
years they have maintained organizations
for the more successful violation of this
compact, which organizations have been
known to the public authorities, and eithe,
approved, or counivcd at by them-that
during the last ten years, no loss than thir-
teen of the Northern States. parties to this
compaetk have enacted lars Tor the express
protection of their citizens in their systemat-
ic viofakS0n of it, against all liabilities to
the UQa1 States, and that even not few
of thsifR legislators, ministers OF Justice,
ministers of the Gospel, and others high
in position and authority, have participat-
cd in, or approved of, their measures-that
the South have. for thirty years, been per-
secuted. maligned, and loaded with the
most disgraceful epithets. denounced as bar
barlans, nnchristian, and guilty of the IN ost
abominable and shameless wickedness
which should debar them from connection
with the family of God and all this has
been pushed to such an extent as to disturb
the harmony of families, social intercourse
to cmbarrass and seriously obstruct the
transaction OF business, and actually to dis
member into sectional parties, both branch
es of the Church of Christ, which former
ly embraced the entire country that the
North has, for years, with increasing depen-
dencc, clamored for separation from the
South as from body of corruption, con
taminating. despicable and abhorred and
that petitions and ceremonials have been re-
peatedly addressed to their Congress to Sc
cure this result-that they have organized
and enthroned in power, a party pledged to
carry out their policy against the Sou.h,
whose President pleads the authority OF
their party platform over the Constitution
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he has repeatedly violated by hrs and theil
confession, and finally, that the South after
IeXhausting all the means which wise, pro-
found, patriotic, Jealous and indeiatigable
diplomacy could suggest, to preserve the
Union, by securing a wholesome return ia
the letter and spirit of the Constitution and
a guaranty of their just rights under it,
were persistently repulsed and foiled in
their magnanlmous etlorts-were uncom
promisingiy met with the stern conditions OF
the sectional party platform, mingled with
humillatiag menaces of war and subjuga-
tion, till they were finally silenced by Lin
coins war proclamation, and call for an
army and navy to coerce Us into submission
to his party rule-when we consider these
things-t4ese astonishing facts, unparalleled
for a,rocitk in the history Of civilization
who can aoubt the right, nay. the solemn
and imperative duty of the South to sundcr
the once sacred, but now ignominious COM
pact, cast off the serviie yoke. and appeal
to the God OF battles for the defence of hel
rights
1.-The above is a short method with
the aboiitionists, a n,aituns ia parro, but it
covers the ground, and makes a strong case
an argument of facts which cannot be
answered or set aside. 1t might, perhaps,
be better stated. have written hurriedy,
but will risk it, as it stands, against all
the abolitionists outside of purgatory inclu.
ding Ward Beecher and Wendell Phillips
whether IN or out Of that precinct"
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