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Show UOEDUCK.. 38 as rent a bore as a 1-· (f I sh~H bccomo ' g , rl lectures f)l1C cll-111~ \.lll~, ·fi: • 1 COXC011h) " lO 1· • a ~npm eu. },...ankce protessol , . ·, (f nd-nothing.'' ahl·nyR, about ev ·:·ythL:~l~ T>iek:. Papn, I l~ave not " Breathe a wlnle, U . Ambler this monung, _ancl tol(1 von th:tt I f':-tW J\I.l. ~ o-d·ry. 'I'he carnage J ;,· , 1th n l ... ~ " · r'ted. hin1 to (ltHC ,1 11 be here ROOll. Jn' ' 1 . and he s ,_on . has been sent for llln ( 1 t . Onr v nerablc p:-tstor f• · t dau rr t CL · lU " I an1 glad o l ' o "r n1n~t retn::un al is alwnys a w·c 1c om e ,O., 'uestn. _~D. oou not rcft.L se. yo. u dine with him, gentlcme ·. aml yon must enJOY know the good old clergym,m, .. Iu. s soc1. et Y· " . · t'ttion but I">., l1 1 n cr ' \Vlt11 :Fitr.hugh accepte(11 ~l.e lnv\t... ancl took hiH lc~we. a polite apology, dec :med w~~ 'reRum eel, l< itzhugh vVhen the con ver.~:-ttlon ... said- . . Doctor l1"'airf.'lx, that you " It gratifies n1c to ln fer' ·hould dissolve , . . .. · cd ,vhen " re s think the tHne has n~uv 'th the North." l. t' l connection \Vl . !?'' our IJO l lCU Q 1' n. in scce:;SlOll · "vVhat! follo'v South :wo ln " C erta.i n1 y ·" "No." "No~" " Never·." 1 ot1r as so· "You amaze me. \Von1 c1 you I)l'O ong 'OU have just de· c1. at1. on \V'lt h such communlLles as J picted ~, . book of surgery that to "I have not r~ad m ~ny . for tooth-ache." . cu-3 oif the heac1 lS a safe Cnl e t if the North 1~ "Do yon think, then, that to en o ~ 1 s th t2" to cut off tho head 1 t ~e on. . elling a metaphor. "No . you are too hteral ln sp S thern States. But sec'e ssion \V.l ll b. e f at al_ to thne d tohne n where W·ln The North \vill subjugate them, a be your retne(1 Y < ·2 " ROEBUCK. 39 "How can such a prople, fighting for ind"pcndcnce, be conqn red? Thc\y 'voultl he ext rmi-~1:1tecl first. S<·c how their· patriotic zral alrea lr bum. wlth martial fire. J\hnr Jll<'n p:mt fOr war with the North." "I have hearcl such men talk. They will scn•c a~ light-\l·oocl to kindle a revolution, but we hall ne ··l n1ore durable fuel to keep it up. The Sonth is not t:tna tical, or malignant, or corrnp t like the r orth, b n t, what i' worRe in view of Sllch a conflict, it i~ weak. It is we:1k jnKt where many irnngine it is strong. Bcsi<les the obvionH cli~parity or number.· and material bctn'ecn the N ort.h ancl South, consider that vou " 'ould link Virginia with St:tto · that mn~t fltil her in a long ancl exhanst.ivn war. One of them h:t' a gentry and no p 'ople; another, a people an<lno gerltry, and a thinl, neither people nor gentry-neither body nor ~pirit. The Y8ry vieo. · of the Yankees wi!l contribute to their cruel sncet\:-;s in sneh au enterpri: e as the eouqucst and plunder of the South. Thillk you I would provoke a hor·dc of Northam barLarians to overrun Virg-inia \vith lire U.Il<l swo1·d '?" "Shall we, then, submit to oppr·ession through fear '? The Northern States, as you have described thrm, are unfit associates of a Common wealth like Virginia. They ha vc repeated I y n nllifi c<l the Ia w , and broken the Federal compact in points e 'seutial to our security. By a pen·crsiou of constitutional forms they have seizcrl the common government with an avowed design of '"TGtiting its trcincndons power:j to their aggmn~lizemeut and our oppre ·sion. The wrongs they hnvo perpetrated would justify 'varmuch more simple separation. The danger that we shall lose all the rights of our States if we acquiesce |