The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-11
Corr..pondepce Of the Richmond Dispatch

Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch. |
Parade Of Folenteers-Pubiic Msefin9-Blend- |
ing Of Parttes-Tntense Eathnsiasm-Rais- |
ing the Flag orthe Confederate Stntes-Odce-
Hofders-Hdmpfonians Going Sonth, &c. Dc
HAMPTON, April eth, 1881.
This has been a gala day in our village
Three volunteer companies were on parade,
| tho 'Wythe Rifles" Capt. Willis, the tWash
ington Artillery Capt Smith, and the cold
| Dominion Dragoons,'' Capt Phillips, named
| respectively in honor of our great countyman.
| George Wythe; the great leader Of secession
| in 10, George Washington. who yindicaied
the right of self government BY the sTord
| and our "good old State" who, frst OF the
| thirteen Colonies, seeded alone from a union
with tyranny, on the 18th May. 17!6, and who
| will yet establish her claim to lead the van of
| freedoms hosts. Names are things, and In the
| above selection the careful observer will see
| reflec ted the spirit of the men who compose
| their ranks and should the despot at Wash
| ington let loose his myrmidons to enslave q
| gallant people, be assured that they will do
| no dishonor to the place of thoir nativity,
| where the first gun of the Revolution was
| fred.
| After the parade was over in response to
call for meeting of the Friends of the
Southern Union" )" the real soeereigns Of the
| land assembled in large numbers, in the
| Court House. The meeting was organized by
calling Gary S. Jones, Esq, to the Chair, and
| appointing Thomas Latimer as Secretary,
both Old Line Wings, who were never known
TO give Democratic vote. The Chairman,
| (who, by the way, was recently put down, in
his absence, among list Of delegates ap-
| pointed by a small gathering of "Conserva-
tives," (?l the Saturday before, after haping
| positirely refused to preside Orer their meet
tng,) having eloquenIly explained the object
which convened the dense mass Of people be-
fore him, stating that he had BEEN a Union
man until that msshapen monster who now
occupies the seat once graced by . Washing
ton, Jefferson, and others OF Nirginla's sons,
| had intimated, en- route TO Washington, and
boldly and unblushingly announced in his In
augural, that bloody programme which would
enslave and devastate those
"Pleiades of the Earth
thu seven sisters of the Confederate States,
| a committee, consisting Of prominent gentle
men OF both the old dead parties, unanimously
| reported resolu tions, which were unanimous
ly adopted by the meeting, affirming the right
| and duty of the State to dissolve the unholy
alliance which now binds her to a Northern
Abolition Union, and declaring that, needing
alike " the instincts OF self-preservation, the
sugges tions of interest, and the demands of
honor" she should seek shelter beneath the
| Rgis of her own sovereignty, and unite her
destiny with that heroic band led on by Sou n
| Carolina, the Thermopyl1 IF Freedom Dur
ing the absence of the committee, Baker F.
Lee, Jr., Esq, responded to a call in his usual
feiicitous and eloquent manner; and when it
, WAS announced, during the progress OF the
meeting, that the fight had commenced at
Sumter, the enthusiasm was intense and the
applause deafening.
As soon as the meeting adjourned, the crowd
ton of a secession pole and flag, the latter of
which was made by the fair fingers Of the
lairest of Hamptons daughters. / hear th It
il is in contemplat tion to erect one on q larger
t scale, next Saturday, as this, gotten up on
the spur of The OCCASION is not commensurate
: with the spirit of those who had it in charge,
nor of the people. Wild hurrahs and volleys
of musketry greeted it, rs il flung its folds to
the breeze;
''And many an eye danced to see
. That banner in the sky"
The welkn rang with loud calls for
! "Hope." "Hops,' to which that sweetest OF
Virginia poets gracefully responded. Messrs.
Tabb, Willis, and Lee, We're subsequently
q called upon, and clothing 'thoushts that
breathe" in words that burn" they pledged
themselves to the work of placing the star OF
Virginia on its azure folds. May their efforts
be successful For,
''Tis the Flag of the South, which shall forever
. To liqat us TO Freedom, and Glory again.
1 The guillotine has already commenced its
work in the decaptation of incumbents OF
t Federal Office, and the appointment of Union t?)
1 | men to fill their places. Bat one vacancy eX-
| listed. occasoned by the Iesigna ton of j ohm
t B. Cary, Esq, as Surveyor of the Port, who
a | declining to retain office under Black Kepub-
: | lcan ruler, resigned before the 4th March. /,
: | is fair to presume that those who have sought
: the crumbs of Federal office from Salmon Z
Chase, of Writ memory. have cted upon the
o principle that "to the victors belong the
: spoils" But day of reckoning win surely
| come, when those in Virginia who seek affili
alton with the Black Republicans, and theiI
a ''aders and ;ibettors,' viii be consigned te
= merited oblivion, if not Cbloquy. 1t is under
: stood that there are other patriots who are
: willing 10 serve our masters in Washington
l. | for consideration.
# To reconcile us to this state of things VT
:. have been told that Mas Abe will be ICON
: seryative" in his admins tration that he il
F.: going to evacuate Fort Sumter (because h.
o can't hold it any longer J and that there ha:
= been q tremendous reaction in popular senti-
i | ment in some municipal elections in the
v Northern States. Among the various indica
If tions of pacific intentions, we recognize Ih'
Y appointment TO the Premiership of that dis
:: ringushed conservative, ''Brother Seward,
r. whose whole life, from the time of his con
o troyersy with Gov. Gilmer in lS40, TO the Ell
l dorSatiOn of the Helper Book, and his speech
e at St. Paul, Mime sofa, has been one illustri
= GUS series OF disinterested friendship and fra
T. ternal affection for the South We see TIT
manifestation of this same brotherly feeling
lr in the appointment of Chas. Francis Adam.
If and VIM. l.. Day ton, bot defeated candidate
of the Black Republicans for the Vice Presi
+ dency of the United States, to the most i'm
n portant foreign missions, those of St. Jane
and St. Cloud. 1t is not less evident, in tn,
le judicious selection of that celebrated philan
t. thropist, Joshua Z. Giddings, rs Consul
"A ! General at the Canada terminus of the under
t. ground railroad, and of the yalOrous Burlin
j. game as Minister to the Court of Victo
m Emanuel, to say nothing of the Red Republi
can, SchnrZ, lis that his name y the Whit
j. Republican,, IL suppose may call him,
It Cassius NJ. Clay, and the elect ton of that by
IF hrid, Hannibal Hamlin, to preside over tn
lr deliberations of body once graced by til
le presence of Davis, and Toombs, and
" Benjamin, and which yet embraces among it
members n Hunter and Mason, Clingma
|. and Il Breckinridge Were other evidenc
,p | wanting, we could find it in the recent elec
- ton OF a Sherman, an endOrser OF Helper
!. and Wilmot, the original Proviso mcn, t
!. seats in the same body. The pous LUyejoy
l. and the terrible Hickman, the martyr Sun.
s. ner and the Natick Cohler, the yellow Doug
- | las mot the black and the flial descendant {
re the canonized John Brown, all boast of Nom
l. bership in this eminently conservative an
,e | pacific Administration OF which the fugi itiv
RI Lincoln is the recognized head. What
n | party Isn't 1t glorious to be in full fellow
A. ship with such a party, and TO be calle
v: brethren" by such honorable specimens c
ID dignitied humanity, Verify, they are '' a
q honorable men,"
s. Oh, Virginia. Mother of Empires how tn
N blush of shame tingles my cheek I writ
a, these lines. Ii you will submit to abolitio
,e rule, tear down your glorious "Sic Sempe
Tyrdnnis," and raze the battlements of York
g.. town; let "time's effacing finger wipe on
- the record OF your earlier history let deca
W and ruin be written Mount Vernon an
~ your Henry and your Nelson let your chi
| dren, already oStraciZed from all offices
o' trust, except at the price OF disloyalty,
8, baEished from the homes and graves of thei
IN fathers, and then granting them some "swee
| obliyious antidote,' let them die in humilis
y tion and obscurity, while all Yankeedom shal
squat and trade upon thy lovely plains, tn
quiet valleys, and thy mountain SUBMITS.
s. hut, it cannot be
h heI Must we but 9eep o or days more blest!
81 Must but Uush OrR FATHERS BLEp !
n Earth render back from out thy breast,
m A remnant Of our Spartan dead
is OF the three hundred, grant but three,
MT To make new Thermopyl&"