The 4th Thursday of may.
The Central
Presbyterian gives a graphic picture of the fiendish ferocity and sanguinary and brutal threats which characterize the unprovoked in action of an innocent people.
It also adds, in reference to the election on Thursday next--
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"And soon our people have a civil as well as military duty to discharge — and that is to ratify, by such a multitude of votes as never before were cast in
Virginia, the Ordinance, which declares the
Independence of the
State, and her utter severance from the
Northern despotism which now threatens her with special vengeance?
‘--The moral effect of a vote, as nearly unanimous as possible, will be inspiriting.
Along the
Ohio border there is a horde of cringing poltroons who will vote for submission; and every man who so votes will, by the very act, do his utmost to degrade and dishonor
Virginia.
Every such voter proclaims his preference that
Virginia should be held as a conquered province, like
Maryland; that she should be used by the
Federal forces as a
point d'appui for offensive operations against her sister States of the
South; that she should become the just scorn of the
Confederate States whose troops are thronging to her defence; that she shall again place herself beneath the banner — once loved and gloried in — but rejected when it became the emblem of oppression; and not only so, but every voter against secession announces his willingness, not only to force the
State beneath the repudiated banner, but then to blot out from it the star which glitters to the sovereignty of
Virginia, and leave only the
stripe behind — expressive emblem of her degradation. "’
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