...ey have been doing for a quarter of a century — adroitly, and stealthily, and surely, winding you up in their meshes, as ever that wicked spider seduced the unsuspecting fly. "Be not deceived," Virginians — you are as yet not entirely powerless; but the time is at hand when you will be, if you do not resist manfully the tide of abolition encroachments. Virginius.