Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-04-11
INSTRUMENTATION.

There is no wish more universal among the people ct
Virginia than that the present state Of suspense shall
ease and that whatever settlement Of the national diff
feultes may take place shall be settlement satisfactory
aud final No mere temporary expedieut to serve for
the moment-no patchwork, fragile and unsubsantial;
but something real and enduring clear, dstuc. and IN
equivocal-aud which will restore peace and content to
the whole country and revive confidence and fraerna
feeling among an the members Of the old Union This
il the desire Of the Virginia people They crave such an
aiius.ment-lor they wish to be delivered for all tine
fon the apprehension Of the possibility Of having to live
through another FIVE months ike those they have Just
endured No settlement that falls short Of electing
,,tis Reconstruction will meet their views They
not feel safe in Northern Couiederacy, while perma-
peptly severed from their Southern sisters Mr.. Scott
of Fluquer gave expression to the general conviction
on this point when be declared that if the North would
give Us carte 6acbs ard let Us write own terms
We could not safely separate fortunes from those
Of the southern States We are linked by many and
too vas, interests with those States ever to live apart
from them We are kindred by blood, our social insti-
buttons are the samc-al our most profitable Trade Is
h them. and we possess four hundred millions Of prop
erty the value ii not existence Of which, depends upon
the prosperity Of and our free intercourse with, the Cot
ion States.
ANY adjustment therefore to be complete aud salts
factory TO Yr-irlugs, be satisfactory 10 al the States
and must construct the Union. I, Is be denied
shat there az, vas. d.ades in the way Of such
s.ruc.on Tie Cotton States profess themselves salts
fed with the Independent position they have taken, and
indsposed to reunion with the Northern States any
terms whatever The Northern States their part ap-
pear quite as ayerse as5oetug with the South on
FERNS Of equality aud seem % be organizing rapidly for
var To deal successfully with such impractcaJles is
she task In view Of all the dE,ades there are stout
hearted and Jrla.bcartei vgiaaus who 10 despair
Thev base their hopes on tbe conviction that the inter
es Of all 10 Union IS paramount and trausccuiaat,
and Gle concessions 20 be made by the North small,
ina. success mus, attend their efforts az reconstruction.
Mere concessions In .he shape Of amendments to the
Coastldo', guaranteeing equality Of rights to all the
sa,es aad he Of seilprotec-oa TO the. weaker
section they argue and argue truly involve no substan
tal sacrac. on tie par, OF the North aad could only
De refused from design and desire to sullg.te tie
South.
To won, out this scheme Of reconstruction engages at
this time the thoughts and hc ,a,rts Of the
servatve members Of the Virginia Convention. That
all would rejoice in their sue,,s, dos7 not admi, of
doubt But many have los. all hope and deem "a use
less to make another eovt. UalccSiy the from
Washington indicate that the apprehensious Of the last
are more likely 20 be realized than the hopes o the FIRST
few DAYS trust will dispaic the uncertainty, aud
enable us to form conjecture OF our future destiny.
On the word Of one man, our fate dopeuds-tis humi
iating 70 have 10 admit i.but il is not the less true,
and Mo r,llst Wal. ti that word is spoken