Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-08-28

and their numbers reduced by disease,
Hope long deferred had made the heart
sick, and they began to embrace the
horrible alternative Of surrender, when
10 the martial music of Gen. Camp,
bells forces was heard in the distance,
and soon the inspiring air was distin-
tipeaished, as it swelled upon the glad |
breeze,
1.-THE Campbclls are coming,
q, hot q, hol
Onward pressed the weary host; soon
their bauucrs pictured against the sky |
the red symbol Of England's power
that power which explores the world to
avcngc one wronged chld--and when
they came the besiegers were scattered
before their gittering blades like pest.
lenco before the boar frost. With nerve
and muscle wrought to hopes high
pitch, the tamishod sons of Albion
climbed the ramparts and leapcd into
the arms of their deiivercrs.
How like the garrison of Lucknow
are the people of Virginia to-day. One
after another the strongholds Of Ten
nessec, the Carolinas, the Empire State
of Georgia, a labama, Louisiana and
Florida, have fallen before the mad
sirocco of Radicalism Around the
foundation of our State temple the
angry surge beats, and we are are, to
all intcnts, besicged by an enemy who
knows no virtue and no pity. The
God-Hke attribute Of mercy it loathes
as it does the pearl of justice. 1t has
tasted of the blood of power, and we
cannot appeaso it, 1t has rioted upon
spoil, and, being drunk with excess, it
stops its cars to the voice of prayer, and
would spit upon that blue robe Of ON.
impotence it calls Heaven They have
violated and defled the virtue of our
sister States, aud left them uncovered
to the gaze of mankind We are truly
helpless i'll ourselves; our affairs are in
the dust, and the foul feuds Of the pit
have crawled across our door.stops and
left the slime Of their dishouor in our
sunny homes. The evil spirit of dis
cord between races, WHICH had been
socially adjusted and were happy, tells
by its turbulence whore they have been.
But the awful decree of impotence and
exhaustion conironts us. We have
called for friends. and the echo Of their
cannon alone replied, No compasSion-
ate Lovitc turned aside from the worlds
highway to assist us. Unless deliver,
ance can come from without we have
no hope But the nations Of the world
saw Carthage destroyed, aud looked on
in curious wonder when the Son of Goo
was crucifed. They saw the dying agony
of Poland, aud beheld the tortured deatl
Of Hungry; and schooicd in the memory
Of tradition, they have euriously looked
upon the evil which we have suffered
and by their acquieScence failed to nc
quit themselves of those great wrongs
with which radicals of all ages hav
piled the track of time.
But at last we have hope. The brigh
banner of Seymour is seen streaming
over the hills of New York The bugl
notes Of Blair echo in the vast plain
of Missouri. A mighty host, which II
man can now number, is marching 1
save alike its own honor and the libei
ties Of surrendered people. \ rev,
luton, like unto mighty east wine
and born Of God, has grown from n
incipiency We cannot date, until it hI
broken up the great deep of Nortbcr
apathy, and shaken the very throne
their power On tac page Of America
civil contests, no SUDDEN uprising If ii
people has ever promised to bc 50 swec'
ing in its triumph. II bchooyes our pc,
pie to be circumspect in their dcmoau
us the hour Of their dehyorouce draw
nigh. Let there be no premature den
oustrations Of joy. Let us look on Il
approach of the victorious Democrat
multitude with the calm dignity of CO.
sciuus rcctimao Nor would we &
eagerly acknowledge and participate
the farce Of asserting our right to paru
suffrage, which is worthless TO us v
can certainly accept the privilege Of !
sisting 10 the last efficient man the 70
aGront offered US in the proposed co
stituuon But defiant and soit.assert
suffrage on the Sd day Of next NoycI
Der would damage the prospects of o
friends, aud be placing ourselves in
false attitude. We should depryc.
such a step, The responsibility of 81
cess rests upon the true people o. {
North, and well are they promising
acquit themselves uobly Aud wh
that good hour shall come, one of d
most painful hut solemn duties viii
to hurl into the pit of scorn the mj1l
scopic ycrmiu bogot,eu in the dead O.
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