Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-11-03
THE GAZETTE.
Gen. Blair on Old Virginia.
rru EsDAY EVENING. nov. 5


In his speech at New York last week, Gen.
Blair thus referred to the treatment of Viz
GINA by the Radicals
There is one point to which would draw
the attention of my tellow,oitizens, here espe-
ciaIly. The old State of Virginia, the moth So
who has given to the Republic so many of its
great and exalted aud inustrious statesmen,
who has given Its most exalted President-this
State is now excluded from voting for Presi-
dent of the United States-excluded by Con.
gressional act and deniedthe privilege of voting
for another citizen of this country as President
of the United States; and simply because she
refused to degrade herselt-refused to humble
herself at the feet of her own slaves.
A voice / II hope she never Will y :.
General Blair-l hope so, too. Applause. |
This noble old State, whose son, Mr.. Jefferson,
wrote the Declaration of Independence Iap-
plause Il whose other other greater son, Geo..
Washington, vindicated that Deelaratlon !;
whose sons, Patrick Henry and Richard Henry
Lee, inspired the people to fight the battles OF
the Revolution, and at the end OF the ReVolu-
zion donated 10 the Government (then weak
and feeble eenfederaey) that wide and broad do
main at the West, known as the Northwestern
territory, gave it to our country to pay its debts
to the soldiers who fought and won the War OF
independence. i Applause. And, my fellow
citizens, not only did; the State of irginia give
this vast empires now peopled with 10, 900, 900
white people, and constituting six large and
magnificent States mot only did she give the
sell upon which so many Furnishing cities are
now built, but she also authorized her son
Thomas Jefferson, to give with the soil the
ordinance of 1857, with clause In it dedlca-
ting it to white men and freemen forever ap-
plause guarding the Northwest AID the.
young empires that their foresight told them
would rise In shat eountryg Guarding them from
that caBker, that was gna%lng at her Vltals.
And now that these young States have grown
lnto empires, containing ten millions of white
people, what do We see Their Senator's and
Representatives turning upon the old State
whose bounty gaVo them alt that made their
prosperity, their wealth, and their power; turn
ing upon the children aud descendants OF those
whose foresight guarded them against the evil
and curse of negro slavery turning upon her
and ensaying the children OF Virginia upon
her own soil, in repayment of her noble bounty
to the young Republic and to the great North
west 1t is tome as if children had turned up,
on and were strangiDg their mother. It'll a
paricidal aet--an act against which the whole
world will rise up and cry out shame. l do
not believe that in the history OF politics, In
IN the history OF nations, anything equal IN IN
gratitude to that has ever been known-that
these men should be now enslaved by these
who were made what they are by the bounty OF
Old Virginia that the sons of Virginia; that
the sons Of Virginia on her soil should be
asked and compelled to take the chains which
they have stripped from the limbs OF the ne
gro, and to allow those negroes to lord 1t over
them at their homes, at their birthplaces, be-
side the graves Of Washington and Jefferson.
lCheers. .., $500. t.,, -