The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-21
Deo Yindfce.

Commonwealth shall be swept away by the aceurs
ed food of madness and malignity that now surges
against her. the historian who records her fate will
reserve his loftiest fight for the chapter which
of that wild adventure, which on the 18th Of May,
two hundred and sixty years ago, planted within
her borders the first English settlement on the
continent; not in the long and chequered record OF
civil liberty; not in her unequaned contributions to
the Independence of the colonies; not in her un-
approached labors in founding the government;
not in her unmatched share in it's glorious admin
stration; not in her unselfsh heroism on distant
border when peace was first broken; not in her
self sacrificing labors to prevent the disruption Of
the Union not in the knightly gallantry with
which she barred her breast to receive the SHAFT
launched at her weaker sisters; not in the WEeath
Of honor won every field in the late war; not in
the memory Of her matchless heroes dead, and the
ilustrious but unfortunate livingin none Of these
pages rich with the immortal glory Of her chill
dren, will he find 80 grand o theme for eulog!um,
as in the record Of the sublime majesty with which
to-day she receives the stabs Of her assassns-
those assassins her children =:
For, let us remember that it was through sshe
6eneootence OF Tirginia," :" as Kentucky conven-
ton affirmed on the 18th Of December, 1889, that
that great State arose from the nsignifcance and
dependence Of o Virginia colony. Let us romem-
the royal munifcence Of Vrginia-that, eight
wears before she made free gift to the Union Of
that vast empire now containing eight millions OF
souls-the Northwestern Territory reserving to
terms stipuate should be- as freely md fully en-
joyed by all; and yet with generous forethought
making one condition for posterity (how it reads
in these day y:
Northwestern Territory shall be distinct Republi
can States, AND ADMITTED MEMBERS OF THE FEDEr
RAL UNION, HAVING THE SAME RIGHTS OF SOW
EREIGNrY u, FREEDOM AND INDEPEN-
Thus it was that Virginia guarded the rights Of
dawn Of the Union, equality for the coming people
| of Ohio Indiana, Illinois and their sister Com
monwealths And yet Kentucky will stand idly by
while her benevolent mother is stricken to the
earth and the Wades and Ashleys, and Went
worths, and Julans, and Colfaxes, and Howards-
representatives of that vast domain which Virginia
Welded to make the Union great-are running q
hellish race of infamy to determine which shall
strike the fercest blow, and wound in the most
vital part.
| Almost everything that she loves and prizes,
whether Of person or Of right, has been torn from
her. Her territory has been parted among her
executioners; every sentiment has been shocked,
every sensblity wounded, and she, who gave more
to the Union, did more for the Union, moro ad-
vanced the Union, more honored the Union, than
any-almost than al-her sisters is delivered for
the crime of fighting as her Washington did, for
the right which her Henry asserted and her Jeter-
son recorded of fseR-government to o rabble mad
with blood and raplne, to be outraged and de-
stroyed at their pleasure.
| And vet tho world hears no weak repining'
Even of her physical suffering, the absolute want
of her people, she has so little to say that in dis
pensng charity in the distribution of food to the
ignorant Of necessities which she proudly con-
ceals, to scatter the blessing on sister States,
whose needs arc no greater than her own.
And if she makes no claims on the world for
sympathy, as little does she attempt by servility
to propitiate her assassins. Exhausted with
blows, trampled under brutal feet the knife enter
ing her heart, her murderers offer her life and
liberty if she will dishonor her children, and her
reply is fonder embrace and frmer defiance.
enst Of her daes T
eXecutioners divided only by disputes to the
speediest and surest method of destroying her,
her representatives arc bending their energies IN
this Capital to devise some method, at whatever
of cndurable cost to her people, by which to dis
charge her obligations to those who, in the day
of her prosperity, placed their means at her dis.
posal. Ground down by taxation, imposed ex.
clusiyely for the benefit Of those who are attempt
the imposts of her oppressors, and standing or
the edge of her political grave, she is canvassine
every eSpedient, considering every proposal, ane
accepting any sacrifice that can be borne, in orde
that she may losve to history an honorable name
the ropute Of duty fully discharged. If ont
generous impulse, or noble sentiment, or exalted
emotion perYaded the breast OF the Northern peo
pie, this spectacle would abash them into at lens
the affectation of justice, but they are mad-as
mad, and with the same madness that inspired thu
demons who slaughtered, with beastly indignity
the lovely Louise lie Lamballe, because, as th'
historian tells us, sshe refused to take the oath
) the madness of unbridled passion Of unchecked
success. In this, the hour Of her most dangerou
gloom, her children may borrow some consolato,
from the future, in contemplating the certain YER
dict OF history, which will record her prosecutor
f as it commentaries those who rioted in the bes
blood Of Frarce-only with amazement and exc
Grafton; and which will mark her grave with
monument to Constitutional Liberty in America
l liberty which was born of her strength and die
With her exit tion,-Ricltn1ond Examiner,