Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-05-07

carried us thus far through the present war winning
for us the admiration esteem and friendship Oh all
endom 1t would be profanity 10 change IT, we
want not military desposm, kings nobles nor an es
tablished church We Tories, not only in feeling,
sentiment and opinion. but Tories by blood ana
inheritance Virginia Maryland and the Caronas
coonized the rest of the South; and those states
where settled by cavaliers, which was the nrst
name which the Tories bore. More than hali OF Eng
land was imbued with puritanism and sided with
Cromwell against the crown Virginia and Maryland,
the then Southern colonies were conservative aud
sided with the crown Virginia has been truly inde-
pendent during but twelve years OF her history. For
ten years after the beheading Of Charles she was
self governed free and independent and she has again
been free aud independence for the last two years.
Outside pressure will combine with inside necessity
(saveryl TO make us conservative and to perpetuate
our Confederacy and our State institutions. We must
cling together in order to be always prepared to resist
not only to resist the rapacty and fanatcsm Of the
North but to make head, if necessary against the abo
ition Vaccinations of the rest of Chrstendom. Con-
seryaves by blood, feeling, choice and necessity,
may well hope and expect that our Coniederacy will be
of long and glorious Duration
We should cherish and cultivate the friendship Of the
English Tory party for that friendship not accden
tai or affected but proceeds from in pot
cal doctrine and blood relationship for descend
ed from the Tory stock
Let us beware the Wings, for they are much imbued
with the wild Utopanism of Locke, and the Red Repub
llcan socialism OIL france. Iney SIfOnE
tendency to radcalsm and deshuctveness and, like
the Yankees, to set the world TO rights They
not Conservatives
We will bid our adieu to the reader by quoting
most eloquent, graphic and prophetic passage about
America from Mr.. Carlyle, promising that his Anarchy
Plus, street constable, strictly applies to the North
and most of Southern Europe, where socialism, COM
munism agrariansm divorce, free love- and all kinds of
radcaism and destrucyeness prevail but not all TO
the South which is emnenty cOnserTative-has Eng
fish laws institutions and government Except ia name
aud healthy English Tory Ieelings prejudces and opin
ions. With us the tendency is to more and stricter
governments with the North and the of the WORLD
towards anarchy, no government at all This
fact is the subject Of Mr. Caryles Latter-Day Pam
phlets-which we commend to the reader as the best
poem and the best politicophosophca treatise in the
English language
81 ioresee too, that long before the waste lands are
full the very street constable, on these poor terms
will have become impossible. Without waste lands as
" here in Europe do not see how he could con-
" tuue possible many weeks Cease to brag TO me of
" America, and its model institutions, and constitutions
To men in their sleep there is nothing granted in this
" world, nothing, or as good as nothing, to who
sit idly balotboxing on the graves of their heroic
ancestors, saying, IL is well-iJ is Welt Corn and
" bacon are granted, not very sublime boon, on
" such conditions, boon, however, that on such
" conditions, cannot last! No: America, too,
will have to strain its energies In quite other fashion
tnan tnsi 10 crack It's slneWS, and all but break It's
heart the rest OF have had to do in thousand
fold, wreste with the Pythons and mud-demons be-
fore il become habitaGion for the Gods. Amsr-
cas- battle is yet TO fght and We sorrowful but moth
"a ing doubling, will wish her strength for il. New
Spiritual Pythons-plenty of them; enormous Mega
" therions, as ugly ever were born of mud, loom
large and hdlous out of the twilight future on Ameri
" ca and SHE wW haze her opn agony and her oicn
"victOrybu other terms than she is yet aware Of
Hitherto she but pows and hammers in very sue
cessiul manner hitherto, in despite of her roast
goose with apple sauce she is not much Roast
goose with apple sauce for the poorest man. Well
surely that somethng-thanks to your respect for
the street constable, and to your continents OF fertile
waste land, but that il it could continue is by
no means enough that Is not even an instalment Of
" what will be required Of you. Ny friend, brag
" not yet Of our American Cousins Their quantity Of
cotton, industry and resources, believe to be almost
unspeakable; but | can, by no means, worship the
like Of them. What great human soul, what thought
what great noble thing that could worship or ad
mire, has yet been produced there? None; the
American Cousins have yet done none of these things
"'What have they done?' Growls Smemangers, tired
Of the subject, they have doubled their population
every twenty years. They have begotten, with a ra
"pidty beyond recorded example, eighteen millions of
the greatest 5ors ever seen in this world before That
" hitherto is their feat in history And so we leave
them for the present, and cannot predict the
of Democracy this side the Atlantic, from their
" example"