The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-11
NfrRinia.

Virginia.
The snecrs of THsppErs STEVENS, and Others
of that ilk, at the course OF Virginia. pass ny
this proud old Common wealth like the baying
of ours a, the moon. We need scarcely say
that the abolition press and orators are en-
iireIy mistaken in the spirit and ieeHhg OF
ytrwinia when they attribute her vote upon
the Convention TO nnmaniy fear. We could
not descend TO notice such an insinuation, but
that the public interests are concernedin nav
ing the truth known on the subject. We fear
that this vote upon the Cops en- ton Is misun
derxtood in some quarters. On various occa-
Sims since the election, we have endeayored
10 show that the people of Virginia, in the
late ection, have decided for NIRaISIA and
the UNION, If they can have both in honor and
peace but that for Union Internationally,
not dozen men can be found in the Common
wealth. The members elect from this city, in
their speeches upon the night of the election to
which we have already referred, expressed the
true sentiment of the Commonwealth, and
that Is, to stand by the Union, if the rights of
the South can be established in it: otherwise
TO go out. As to Submissionists, il is a term
we have never approved, and, rs far as we are
Concerned, never used. We don't believe that
more than Corporars Guard of any party
can be found in Virginia who are submission
lists, in the derogatory in which that
word is sometimes employed. Men of all poll
tics in Virginia united in the determination
that the South shall have her rights, under
the present Government, or that they will
have Government In which their rights can
be obtained.
Let suggest TO THAppEUs STEVENS & Co.,
that If Virginia moves slowly she moves sure
", as the late Puritan partner of THADDErs'
JOIN BaowS, discovered to his cost. Not even
the dismal atrocity of Harper's Ferry could
provoke this proud old Commonwealth to pre-
cipitate the doom of that unparalleled mon
ster before the time req uired by law, or to
neglect any of the processes and fornalities
which the strictest letter Of the law requires
Every advantage which the law accords to the
most ordinary criminal, was extended to this
manufact urer of pixies for midnight slaughter.
Virginia counsel We're appointed for him by
the Court, and he was allowed to select and
bring on counsel of his own from other
States there was no hurrying, no rashnesS,
no in temperance of language or movement
His friends were permitted visit him in
Jail his diabolical utterances about slavery
patiently listened to the consultations oG ~
lgion rendered TO him, which, however, a.
fecting more virtue than the patriarchs aax3
apostles, he declined 10 receive from slave
holding hands. The Executive OF the State
was beseged with petitions for his pardon
men of high standing in the North, who were
no doubt implicated in the Satanic conspira-
cy, poured an avalanche of letters for pardon
upon the Governors head; some of the
conservative Northern journals insisted that
II would be bad policy to hang old BRowS
some said he was lunatic, others saint
women offered to nurse the old sinner, and
preachers prayed frantically for him day and
night Said one of the warmest friends OF the
South in the whole country, in a letter from
New York TO a distinguished gentleman Of
Richmond, " Ii Gov. WISE could only be on
the ground here and see the intense and uni
versal sentiment for old BRows's pardon, he
could make himself the next President OF the
United States by letting the old fellow co.
Virginia moved so slowly and calmly that peo-
pie at last began to say, not only in the North
but in the South, Brown Will never be hung
He will be sent TO the Penitentiary, or escape,
or be rescued and this last but for Governor
WfsB's precautions, would have occurred
Old BRoWS himself began TO be of this opinion,
and piousiy observed that God had brought
him out of greater straights before. Never
tneiess, al the proper time he was hung, and
every man arres ted with him was hung also.
Virginia was slow, but she was sure. Not
one of that vile company escaped. Even the
matchess eloqnence of VOORHEES,, and the deep
and unspeakable sympathies of every true
Eirginian with Governor WILLARD, could not
save Cook, the young and miserable dupe of
an older and deeper villain There was some
thing more terrible in the calm, deliberate and
thorough way in which Virginia washed out, to
the last drop of abolition blood, the insult to her
soil, than If she had hung up the whole party
the moment they were caught. She proved
that she did not fear them, nor their friends,
nor, for a moment doubt herself. The course
OF Virginia now, in its deliberation and dig
nifty, indicate anything the face of the
earth but purpose to compromise or sur
render the smallest of her rights.