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

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Commonwealth shall be swept away by the accurs
ed flood OF madness and malignity that now surges
against her. the historian who records her fate win
reserve his lofhest flight for the chapter which
shall close the eventtul story. Not in the annals
OF that wild adventure, which on the 18th Of Nay,
papses +5s and s5t planted within
continent; not in the long and chequered record Of
her colonial history; not In her exalted devotion to
civil liberty; not in her unequalled 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 adin-
lstration; not in her unselfsh herosm on distant
border when pesee was first broken; not in her
seRsacrifcing labors to prevent the Disruption Of
the Union not in the knightly gailantry with
launched ut her weaker sisters; not in the wreath
Of honor won on every field in the late war: not in
the memory OF her matchless heroes dead, and the
illustrous but unfortunate iving-in none of these
pages, rich with the immortal glory Of her chil-
dren, will he find 80 grand theme FOR euloeium.
IS in the s record Of the sublime majesty with which
those assassins her children
For, let us remember that it was through staae
eeTeoesnee t!. @ g ITgsnsa1 g s Z as Kentucky eonyen-
that great State arose from the insignihcanca and
dependence Of 2 Virginia colony. Let us ramem-
ber that it was, likewise, through the benevolence
years before, she made hee gft to the Uni%o1 % Of
that vast empire now containing eight millions Of
souls.the Northwestern Territory y-reserving to
terms stipulate should be as freely and fuiiy en-
joyed by all; and yet with generous forethoueht
making one condition for posterity Chow it reads
Provided that the States 80 formed (out Of the
Northwestern Territory shall be dislincl Rep,4bi-
con Skdtes, AND ADMITTED MEMBERS oy TIE FEDE-
bEs6H bEsN1g Ks r& s. oFhEE FhERRGN s2ArEa AHD
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
earth, and the Wades, and Ashleys, and Went
worths, and Julians, and CoHaxes, and Howards-
Of that vast domain which Virginia
hellsh race of infamy to determine which aSaI
strlke the fercest: blow, and wound in the mosi
vital part. ss s.s Sf-.--. .'".! ~ -. !
Almost everything that she loves and prizes
whether OF person or Of right, has been torn from
her. Her territory has been parted among hel
esecutioneEs; every sentiment has been shocked
to the Union, did more for the Union, more ad
sne pa@ non more honored the Union thaI
tie crime Of fighang as her Washington did, 70,
the right which her Henry asserted and her Jeffer,
son recorded ct fselE-Sege-c-ee-t te -ehhla ..:s
with blood and 1apine, 70 be outraged and de:
And yet, the world hears no weak repinine
Even OF her physical suffering, the absolute wan
Of her people she has so little to say that in dis
pensing charity, in the distribution Of food to th,
needy, the beneficant hand passes over Virginia
ignorant Of necessities which she proudly con
ceals, to scatter the blessing on sister States
whose needs are no greater than her own.
! sympathy, as little does she attempt by serYiiit
e propidate her assassins. Exhausted witt
blows, Hampled under brutal feet the knife enter
ing her heart, her murderers offer her life an,
liberty II she viii dishonor her children, and he
reply is fonder embrace and firmer defiance,
Nor does she forget in these, perhaps, her dyin
hours, the least Of her duties, To-day: while he
executioners are divided only by disputes as to til
speediest and surest method Of destroying her
her representatives are bending their energies 4
this Capital to devise some method, at w6ateye
of endursble cost to her people, by which to dis
charge her obligations to those who, in the dn
Of her prosperity, placed their means at her die
Posal Ground down by taxation, imposed o.
clusively Tor the benefit Of those who are attamni
ing her destruction, selling her heir-looms to ra
the .mpos.s OF her oppressors, and standing O
the edge OF her political grave, she is canvasain
every expedert, considering every proposal, an
accepting any sacrifice that can be borne, in orde
that abe may leave to history an honorable nam
the repute Of duty fully dischsrRed. IL Ion
|. generous impulse, or noble sentiment, or exslte
emotion pervaded the breast Of the Northern pes
the, ;affectation OF Justice, but they are mad
mad, and with the same madness that inspired HI
! demons who slaughtered, with beastly indionii
the lovely Louise de LambaIle, because, as Il
historian tells us sae refused to take the oati
1.-The madness Of unbridled passion, Of unchecke
snccess: In this, the hour Of her most deneero1
gloom, her children may borrow some coneolati6
rom the future IN contemplating tho certain We
dict OF history, which win record her persecuto
as It commemorates those who rioted In the be-
. Grafton; and which VIII mark her grave with
, monument to Constitutional Liberty In America
: liberty which Was born Of her strength and di,
4 iWath hor extncttio Eeio'salond Esanefea.