The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-23

III
the Confederate States.
Secession is declared, but IL not yet secured |
The formal decree Is pronounced, but the |
great work still lies before us. Virginia did
not seceeie TO assume an attitude OF distrust-
I'm, Isolation I; but she seeded as a Southern
State. for causes common TO herself and the
whole South, to secure interests vital 10 four
teen States. Her people do not desire isola
ton from the South. Every whers do they
hois. the Southern flag; everywhere do they
move, feel and act as Southern men. They
will not tolerate any policy indicating dis
trust Of the South. They will not consent to
stand aloof from the gallant States of the
Gulf. They are Southern people. and not
border people. They are entirely Southern,
intas ct in cate, and not half-and- half yam
kee and Southern. They are not hybrids;
they are not mulattoes; they are not COM
pound OF Black and white Republican, of Pu-
ritan and Cavalier. The men that would
make them so, that would stamp them as
bordersrs, that would stigmatize them as mid
die men, that would put ice and distrust De-
tween them and their compatriotS In S@utn
Carolina, Alabama and Texas, Will be indig-
nantly repuoiated. Virginia has suffered
enough disgrace and damage from the men VINO
reyiie Sou tn Carolina, and abused the Sonth-
ern Confederacy while they were plotting
with LINCOLN. These men little Know the
| temper of the people whose patience they
| have exhausted The people demand an al
liancs with the Southern Confederacy, cor
| dial, com pie e and immediate; and they mean
| 10 have that alliance. They love their breth-
| rem of the Confederate States; they admire
the bravery and ga llantry that have charac-
| terized their whole conduct; they are eager
| to embrace them as brethren OF one flesh ana
| blood, rs patriots Of a common country, as
1 soldiers of a common cause and common
flag; nave ,rv .. Mont.
gomeryl Why has he delayed to make the
movement for which his heart pants2 Why
are bis soldiers lingering in the South, and are
| they not this day threatening ScorT and LIN
COLIN at Washington 1t is because he Knows
not the position Virginia wishes to occupy to-
| wards the Con federate States. 1t Is because
| Virginia so far denies that she Is Southern
State, and fingers on the border. His presence
would bring military organization complete
generalship consummate, and arms lnvlncioie
TO the aid of Virginia. 1t would remove inc
seat of war to the Pennsylvania border, ana
Richmond would not again be threatened
with destruction by contemplate steamer
In the James. Why is not Virginia at once
united with the Confederacy, and her spieh
did soldiery organized disciplined and placed
in movement, in concert and combination VIII
the splendid army Of the South?
Never was the necessity of military or
ganization moro painfully felt by people
than it is felt by Virg mia at this time. Witt
the finest material for an army to be fount
under the sun; with hosts OF young mel
burning with enthusiasm and painting Tor IN
battle; with arms and ammunition IN supply
with discipline. numbers, courage, all, an'
with an enemy near at hand, commanded D.
great Captain liable to be precipltated upoi
us at any momsnt-we are without millIaf,
organization; which wanting, the lines
army in the world would be no better than
mob, and the best ma serial which the riches
country fenld afford, but numbering tmpea1
| mentd.
The Union of Virginia with the Confede
| rated States ut once secures this organiza ton
and places the magnificent forces OF Virgins
under the best discipline and ablest general
ship of the continent. In union there /
strength, and this union of the Virginia ant
Confederate armies would give more thai
strength, would give invincibility. Wh.
/, | should Virginia drivel with Major Generals o
Yesterdays commissioning, and 1nspecto
Generals who are studying to-day for tn
, | first time the military horn books Wh.
should the success of a great cause, VIII
thousands of lives and millions of dollars, b
thus risked upon imbecility and inexperience
The Southern troops must be united unde
one organization, one head and one nag,
disaster must everywhere attend their steps
| We must have no more Pawnee alarms o
| Navy-Yard burnings. Virginia must cease n
| once to be a border State, and become a Stat
of the Con1ederacy. She is Southern in ever
instinct of her nature and every drop of he
r blood. She has no antipathies for her sister
of the gulf. She abhors and despises tn
= thought of border isolation. She will re
= ceive President DAVIS with salntes, illumina
D tions and bonf1res, and march with him
Washington, to New York, or the North POLE
if need be--a. Southern State.