Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-03
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and common cause Virginia did make In
that seven years. war for freedom. ~
No blow had been aimed at the rights OF
Virginia-she was more secure in the favor
of England's sovereign than any of the
other colonies-her charter, the Constitn-
tion granted to her, two hundred years
older than the Constitution of the Unite d
States, gave her and her people the greatest
| freedom then voIchsafed by monarch to
man, but Massachusetts,, her sister colony,
was in peril, its rights were invaded, and
Virginia entered the Revolutionary war, to
avenge the wrongs and to protect the peo-
pie of Massachusetts, from the encroach-
ments of power.
To make the war, the clouds of which
betokened the storm then lowering around
Bunker Hill and Lexington, soon lighted
up with the flash of rifles from men In
deadly strife, more systematic-to force
portion of the other eleven colonies who
held back in that hour of dread peril to
liberty and to life, the more effective
Virginia invited the Thirteen Colonies to
send delegates to Congress, where the
Colonies united, by their delegates, in
Colonial Congress assembled, might better
act for the public good. The call of Vir-
ginia was responded to, and thus ,oas the
Union formed which gave birth to the Re-
public and made the Colonies free and ir-
| dependent States. That Union, thus
formed, was never broken, until the Massa-
chusetts men in Congress, giving the lie to
the assertion that the Union could not be
| broken-by their acts, branding as false
all that the war had decided to be true,
disrupted it by making Georgia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, and Virgins,
members of the Union which fought the
war of independence, conquered provinces
and no longer States of the Union.
In thus accomplishing what misproud
and ambitious men in the South had failed
to do, the right of secession, the Radical
party, it was fortunate for the country, was
not in power when the struggle for inde-
pendence ended. Then, if Virginia
had been left out in the cold, the united
Colonies would have been but so many feeble
Republics, or else have relapsed into mon
arches. The war had left vast debt,
due, but unpaid. to the soldiers, and no
funds or other property wherewithal
to settle it. Virginia then owned
dominion in the West, larger than all the
German Principalities, many times larger
| than England, Ireland and Scotland com
bined, which as gracious gift and through
| patriotism alone, she gave TO save the Union
/ by paying its debts, and in that hour of its
| trau hrin ~
the war were about fading away, that glo-
rious gift of Virginia saved the Union, by
saving its honor and enabling it to pay its
debts. How fortunate It is, that New Eng
land, and New England Congressman from
other States, the carpet baggers included,
did not live in that day of peril, for if Vir,
ginia had then been forced out OF the
Union, she would have taken with her
the territory now forming the States of the
Northwest, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and other States, and parts
of States, the soil and the sovereignty, OF
which was her own property, and the union
of these States have died of death and dis
thanks to kind Providence, the making OF
Virginia and ether States conquered
Province, by Radical votes in Congress
when the votes of the White Boys in Blue,
delivered at the cannon's mouth, and in
the deadly volley of >musketry, and at
the bayonet's point had decided other
wise-was deferred, until the land Virginia
gave to the Union was sold, and the debts
due her Revolutionary soldiers and to her
other cred itors were paid, and the Union
which Virginia formed on the 9Th of Sep
tember, IVA, consisting of twelve Colonies,
saved in the hour when the Colonies had
achieved their independence, but had no
m oney to carry on the Government they
had just formed. s. ras
Poor old Virginia! The State that gave
WAsHIN GToN to the command of the army,
and his fame and that of JEFFERSON
world, that formed the first Union
and saved the Republic when else it
had been rent into fragments, within
whose borders is the spot where the war of
independence ended by the surrender of
Yorktown, on the bank of whose noblest
river the tomb of WASHINGTON is situate,
and upon one of whose noble hills the dust
of the author of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence reposes, is not now in the Union,
has no rights under the Constitution,
but is, instead of proud State,
but conquered province, ruled by negroes
and carpet baggers and by Radical Con-
gress. Lost to the Union, lost to the Re-
public, lost to the country, struck down by
the mad ambition of Massachusetts to rule
"a State whose turbulent majority, like
him of old, the first Radical of whom we
read, who would rather rule in He'll than
serve in Heaven, the old Dominion State is
blotted from the Union-hawked at and
killed, as sometimes the eagle is by NOUS
ing owl. .,lt to -a45 y .--,. .-- ,ftr.lr
In the better days of the Republic, when
honesty was the rule among public men,
and dishonesty the exception-when the
people of the Republic were taught in the
hour of trouble and of danger to cling to
the Constitution as the " shipwrecked mari
ner clings to his plank, when darkness and
the tempest closes around him." of tha
State, thus blotted from the Union, it could
be truly said: aslHt ,4i-
1 None knew her but to love her
None na ned her butt praise"
Read it in she orkshops.