Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-11-22
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tCarry NE Back 90 ole VirGinug,1
: How many thousands Of the recraant sons
Of the Old Dominion are singing this strain
to-day, We know not, but II wo may Judge |
from the course Of events in that "Mother OF
Presidsnta,n majority Of all the inhabitanta
must be indulging in the familiar chorus
The old Virginia Is no more, and the day OF
lis glory has gone by. al am Virglnian"
would hardly serve as passport to unusual
hotors to-day, either In this or foreign eoun-
tries. The proud head Of Virginia has been
brought low, and what will be left Of the
State after this war has done with her, will
hardly bo worth local habitation and
name on map, Months ago the proud and
aristOeratlc eastern slope was rePudiated by
the hardy mountaineers Of the west, and
they set up a government for themselves,
entirely independent Of their lordly masters
of the Atlantic coast Richmond has been
shorn Of her capitalistc honors and compell-
ed to see the despised city OF Wheeling the
seat Of the State government. Still later,
the people acknowledging allegiance to this
new provisional government resolved
with the permission Of Congress-to form an
entirely new State, taking at one huge slice
all the western counties from the parent
State. Should the consent of Congress
be obtained, the dignitaries at Richmond will
have no help for themselves and can only
gnash their teeth in rage at the spoilation o.
their pretended jurisdiction.
But Of all the terrible blows that the pride
of Letcher and his associates has received th'
last is the most crushing. The proposition
is no less than to give to Delaware the tW'
counties known as the "sastern shore o
Virginia, and to Maryland all the rest excep
what belongs to the proposed new State O
Kanawha. The liveliest Imagination coul'
not picture anything that would be NOR
terribly CALLING and withering to the pride o
the naughty old F. z. VS.. We can fancy tn
blind fury and wrath with which the blovia
ting Wise and the rascally Lescher viii reai
this dispatch, which quietly pulls the yer,
stools from under them, and disposss OF then
as eoolly as if they were cucumbers. To
howl which Richmond will give can almoa
be heard over the Alleehanies, while "Oarr.
me back to ole Virginny" will be soundin
in the hearts of all who once boasted of tn
wealth and grandeur of the Old DOninior
while they can now see nothing bat ruin, deg
relation and disgrace within her borders.
The two counties Of Northampton an
i Accomac, forming the peninsula east of tn
, Chesapeake Bay, rightfully belong, from thei
g position, to Delaware, while in ssntimer
:. they DO not blindly follow the dogmss
! Richmond. Even as We write, there comes
e report that the forces that were there in arm
3 for the rebel cause, eighteen hundred stroRI
have laid down their arms upon the spprOac
{ Of Gen. Dix's e1peditiouary force Of to'
Il thousand troops. This is not only victor
s of our arms, but it is also victory of sent
msnt. Gen. Dix's proclamation has had
good effect and brought the inhabitants
4 regard the United States Governnsnta be
ter one to live and serve under than the Col
federate conglomsrate. Beside, the mob
. stand for the Union which little Dslawa
!, has held all through the war deserves son
!, recognition By the enlargementO o. her boun
, aries.