The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-03-09

OF Suef3tsOu past the 00le1 source
of wealth TO Virginia has been the sale
Of her children. and the supply Of South
ern rice and cane fields. with prime la
borers warranted all the better for n.
dash of the best hood OF -AA--<osuDo-
miniess- ffer scns discovered the art of
making concuhinage profitable, and her
patriarchs only sent away their Ishmaels
for round price paid down on the nail.
Hagar staid behind to further help the
profits of the estate. The young heir
paid his debts with his yellow brothers
and cream colored sisters. unless tho
latter were held for further involution of
relationship. The widow dried her eyes.
and turned over to the hammer the rest
of the harem. The children Of ono
mother went to the halls OF legislation,
and filled posts of honor among men.
while yellow Rachel mourned her sons
and daughters Of the same paternity,
sold at the shambles, and ticketed ut
higher price because their Afric blood
was warmed with Anglo Saxon fire
Over this land Of crime. the doom has
long been gathering. Men shut their
eyes to Providence, not to see the pent
up lightnings of retribution that only
waited the signal to fall. What wonder
darkness sat upon people who only
barbaric graces- Blind to their coming
day, they drew its wrath down upon
them in the great revolt
And sorley has Virginia suffered. Her
homes are laid waste. and throughout
broad regions her pleasant places are
destroyed. The blood Of her white sons
has fearfully avenged the wrong of her
dnskier children. But what shall be the
pecuniary computation? A recent report
made 10 the rebel Congress shows that
twenty five million dollars is the recent
harsh assessment OF the war upon tho
beautiful Shenandoah alone. What un-
told other millions hiSSe gone down in
the great vortex of Virginia's ruin, and
all this for slavery. All this 0at Yir-
ginia masters might retain the right to
breed and sell their own offspring. All
this for the institution that denies mar
riage to human mothers, and assorts
young children with the Durhams and
Alderneys of the estate. He who trem-
bled for his country when he remember
ed that God was just, looked over the
hills of the Old Dominion, and his words
were those Of a sad seer. Richmond is
now fenced city, ringed round with
double lines of steel The tread Of
armies has made it's suburbs dust and
desolate heaps. Within, the iron hand
of military rule-without, frowning can
mon and the blue line of the foe getting
nearer and nearer. But most significant
of all the babel Of rebel Congress, q
fierce babble among men given up to
their own devices; the intensified pas
sions Of debates, whose sole purpose u
to save man selling the rancor and rows
that once disgraced our rescued wash
ington, swept az the rejected sediment
of our civilization to be fought over in
the last arena Of Human Chattelism.- -
The rebellion will presently die raying
mad, and, in the Old Dominion, tearing
its own flesh in demonise rage. A better
day will rise in Virginia when liberty
teiQns throughout all her borders, but it
will be above her buried past, as vineyards
have smiled and homes Of men multi.
piled above where old time cities lic
buried. The Old Dominion Of slavery
will be extinct, save in history, accursc
of God, and q warning among men that
the cries Of Coils children do not fall
on dull Chicago Tribune.