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The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
trade which he will with alacrity open with the Government de facto of the Gulf States, and in which, of cotton alone, four millions of his people, in one way or another, find occupation and support. These are matters to be reflected on. They cannot be set aside and ignored by cries of Peace! Peace! from the demagogues at Washington and elsewhere. The manner in which the South has been trifled with by the Northern representatives in their pride of power and the rudeness of their insolence, has brought the question of settlement to this — shall we not say? --hopless state of postponement and impracticability. But after all, do not events force upon our minds the impressive language of the inspired patriot, Patrick Henry, in the Convention which ratified the Constitution in this State: "But I ask again, where is the example that a Government was amended by those who instituted it? Where is the instance of the errors of a Government rectified by those who adopted them?"
The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Church Burnt. (search)
s set up that there is a co-relative right on the part of the other thirty-two to separate themselves from the one, is, to his mind, an incomprehensible and logical absurdity. I say, if the sovereign people of Virginia voted themselves, their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honors, into a union with twelve other States that might become a consolidated government, which might tyrannize over them and jeopardize their dearest interests — as some of her inspired sons, and among them Patrick Henry, foresaw — if, I say, she did this, without reserving to themselves any other means of resuming their independent sovereignty, but by begging and praying like the people of Ireland supplicating the British Parliament--to my mind, they were guilty of an incomprehensible act of voluntary enslavement. Mr. Botts will not take upon trust the work of Yancey, Rhett, Pickens, Toombs, and Davis. I say to Mr. Botts, that he has called over the names of true Southern men, who do not go about e