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. ' ? " -t REMARKS Of GOV. H. A. Wl A Democratic meeting *? held in 1 mood on the 20th of Soptembor, ] 4>- tnd ww addressed in a moat able iu: by KdBttT G. Soott, Esq., and Wigs. A oorrespoudent of tho Mew Herald furnishes that paper with * si of the prooeedinga of tho meeting, following ie hie report of Gov. Wise ^ marks,Governor Wiso was then called for all parte of the hall. For a whi) trremed to disregard tho calls, ar.ti gotten nearly as far an the door, or iruy out, but tho calls for "Wiae, W came still thundering frouTevevy pj tho hall, aod he at length yielded, took his position at a remote point the platform, ronJvrir.g it somewhat cult for tho reporter to hear some ret at the close of his sentences. After applause had subsided, he said: President, if thfs was an ordinary pol can vase?if wo were not standing the very brink of the most terrib revolutions?if I was not standing in position that I am, charged with trust, hound by your obligations, cl< with your power?not only respot to my God, to my country and to m hat officially bound by a judicial or I would delight, sir, to address assembly to ulgbt. The ordinary < I could caluily touch; tbo ordinar; guruonts, i>ro and con, as parties contended heretofore, I'could weigh c , and not distrust myself; but I say to * that ss the chief magistrate of this > I do not foci that I can nntioipato oo events, which cast their shadows t ? ' thorn. None of tbc old issues di me in times like those?about old stale differences on mere party posi There is a? weight at this moment r< upon the minds of serious mon, whi oppressive. Yon havo heard of thai time which had tried naeu'a souls 1 arc coining, and arc near upon us, \ will agaiu try who are men, wh? tri flora', and who are traitors. (Kui - astic oheers.) You, whoee mindi _ oc< upied in the way of ordinary bus may talk and- feel as usual ah Presidential election; yon are not calh as I am, to think and Joel about no else but the business of the State safetytof her people, and you maj sooth? danger* around us as I do, bo * - w * it is not so much your' province aa , to look ahead and' ask, ((Whnli|coi and what shall be done for the Cc: wealth?" though that, as patriots, is concern as well as tn iae. But as fu very mo.ucni, every uour sluiusc?i hour, beeaose the srnaii hours are 1 fiom sle-jptothink?I say every mo is oceapied in reflecting what niusl s Governor of Virginia do in the co v * J j contingency. I feel that it is no tira trifle with, no time to hesitate, ao< r: * no time to rashly anticipate anytl i or to say lightly what ahali be done. TU >?At Mietinrlorelenfl tsva < I L w WW imcuMNtv *?vauu uio^ ni. j.r All u these vesponsibilitiea era, let no . do me the injustice to suppose that J ? . eta moment like this, skulking from % responsibility. (Enthusiastic obeer*. * ' * not suppose that I regret you hare pi r me where 1 may be oailed opon iu border State flmt to aot You may found?and would to God you had f ?a stronger man to loan upon; but , ae l am, pbyaieally, mentally, and moi I thank God that law where 1 am* that I am with you, prepared for woni (Cheers.) I need your swift . - ' aed eyewy roan weed* that of hie neigl bat if the worst come-, to the wont, i the thunder, and the lighting, and V' norm must rage,, I nay I shall ??< 'Wjjfc iy t without A*r (Y.uthuaiaetio iheare.) terns are presented to oa, and we ha ehoous those which are moat favomb our interest*. &nh perty ?ov in faid holds out eertaia tenor, and AUMiiMl aith n?i, dtilitt >M?On I say, if there U ? conaereativw party fioatsln rrtty State af the Oonftdan that party is the great I>^ocrt&|l 4 (Utd ofcae*.) Oa the eow peace, safety, preapdty, pogrsej^j as we hat* bean jjolng for more that > ?oty years. Bat on the other ha?td, i gtoua* swell of foektietero, sot in thai ;- . -jyX Sy */> . '.?v Vv5i ' : ,}' % -A\ Tr'M 1G1 X XX Jul LSfi.. thiUdSi, I say, combiuad In the w- 5 dich- P6^*1**? **m, whioh I deaou,oa* u da- tl 1856. moQiSIB' "h*ll prevail against Democracy, a inner knows the question fearfblly arises, > what will wo do? To cecido this will not ti York depend *P?n one or two. This puts the b cetoh ,u'8ttm ai, of the election in its proper light, ? 1pj|o end whilst I foel the gloom of the reepon- i' .g r9 sible position in whioh I am placed, I map * console myself, sir, and Ido, that 1 am bat 8 ^ an humble State executive officer?that I tl k will be but tnioib*nrial. I shall have to e ^ obey orders?^legislative orders, convent!- a onal orders. I have more toaster* than n \ ^ ouc. Your organised legislative and judi- i< ISO' eisl pwwcr may control n?o; but above all, t <rl that whioh is abo/e legislative, judioial, _ and czeeutive power?the constitutional fl0in powor of the people?may control me. I d am glad that I have these groat instruments t narks ^ defend u,c against the woight and pre*- t sure of that responsibility whioh in now so , t ^r" heavy and may be so muoh greater in the 1 itical .. . luture. o U^?" About a year ago, or a little more, I u warned you of that black, insidious, mid- ( 1 Ih0 night order, which stalked thin State with | d vour its dark lantern, and which deceived many ( P jthed jj0n0flt mintjt;d men, bat none of ita lead- j ? isibL crs?j warned you of the fact that Know ! *1 Nothingism would terminate in deinoniain o to distract the South, and to fuso in the ? North. I atn not going to debate the que*- i S 0f)lt8 tion here to night, who is right or who ? ' Rr is wrong. God forbid that I should i o *J'1ve ever debate the question who is right * or who is wrong, North or South, or 0 ^ou* which is the assailant of the other?? f wite, g.^ ^ or p should knock me * m,nR down or spit in my face, I would as ! '' 'c,or soon debate with him the question, who ( sturb began the quarrel ? If you ask me . a . 11 whether the North is assailing the South ' c or rtw ww, 1 tell you there is one ? , ^ ,c piece of inherent evidence that beats 0 t ^ t tho rocord of evidence out of sight.? ! * Hmoe * wou'^ not g one P^ce inherent 8 which testfc,0,1J ^or *nt"n8'c evidence r in the world. Let me illustrate what I ~ mean. A party of twelve men are sworn r to try the fact whether A. assaulted B., 0 or B. assaulted A. There are uo wit- * ^ ^ nesses present, if you please, bufc the c j ^ parties themselves. They are alone j' 1 itiiK nanlt nf li/ii* am 4KA t ** vMvta V?MVI VII vuv uigunojy iHUl, ( ^ from their own oiuuus, } ou Schi'u iiuii ' the subject matter of the controversy c ' n? is a piece of property?a bank note, or 8 anything ?which is owned and ' ' possessed by the one, and which the F other desired to take away. Now, in-' r dependent of ell positive proof, which , *?Ur of tho two, in the nature of the case, j ^ ' was to bo the assailant?he who had the i 8 thing, or he who had it not ? Th? pes 1' sessor had only to remain at peace in I > merit , ... order to continue in quiet possession.? 0 1 . ? Tho assailant had to be him who had r n""? not the possession, and who desired to 0 'a take it away from him who lawfully held * it t ^IU^' Well, now, ao it is with tho North ' and the Sooth- The South baa proper- 8 road. |y jn * property known to the ' WMn flaws, a possession which is fortified by l ,tn' ? quadruple tier of laws?Federid Con* *' thin imitation and Pod oral statutes* Stuto * ) ^ Constitutions and 8tate statutes?and 1 it has l ights belonging to that property <( equally reoognised and fortified; and n have property and those rights the North * outi?'i Jeeiree to abolish', to take away and to dea. * such 1 jroy The 8outh d; sires to be let aloe?? J io bs left to quiet, lawful possession; and n ' an,i the North Is be ?t upon disturbing and des- n troyiog the quiet pusaeasioa and enjoyment * of that property Which, in the nature ? hbor; 0f the ease, is bound to bo the assailant f 0 ^ Ue whose eery interest and policy Is paaoe, * or the other, who ha* no other mode of { ' !l suoeest hut aggression? What, among The rise and Just men, ought to be the verdict? 1 re h> Why, that the man with the hank note V t? to ?ngbt to be allowed safely to walk the 8 ^,e highway with it in his poeket, and his law- ? ll)* fbl property ought not to tempt any ore to- ' eeP^ assail him fix it* possession. (Cheers.) *?nd * If ft the Sen! a ought to be let alone, end sc *> power ought, without law and against law, ' ?and to attempt to abolish sad destroy improper- i * QJ-r- ty in slaves. And the fact proves Uaeif, ( rty* that the party whioh would abolish and 1 ^ t destroy ihe property fa neoesmuily the pas- 1 ty whieh must epasn the party whivh pea- * '* ?*' 1 Somen U Attempt not to abolish the toE**?fajgsl right* sod pees a?ions, end there will * to* fettw**: But the* is war, sadthe a*> 1 of eostreveesy Ss jftepevty wfcieh 1* I iswfeli* the doe and wMeh the other 1 - "I destroy; end the war iteelf, ft* euehl? Show, who itthe wmaant * 1 mam 11 rmamsnrsr mstmawwHasiM WOTrtS' '/V'*r 1? 1? YVfl^ tT sU JC4 ?*?Jt5L uil ill ? i'.i?" g "ow need not tell oe, th*o, wb4*ouHbc EJN he Missouri Compromise, or wbo voted pea gainst it. t know ibis about It, that the' of bl limouri restriction was the first propoei- seoti ion made that slave property should not ding e enjoyed; that the Compromise was, that' Bazi I should not apply to the State of Missouri ex pi a particular, but that the restriction should the I pply to all territory North of the line pf 6? SC, without an equivalent South of j ^ hat line; that the restriction which await* OU3 d the right* of property without ooinpen- and alion was no compromise, that there was Ban o constitutional power to press it, and that. 8jte ts repeal restores tho Constitution aa the rue compact between the parties. ,n < (Cheers,) , . agai I know, moreover, Mr. Prcaidont, that our emonism is complaining, hypocritically, flc^v hat the peaceful rights of property, and ^ ho penccfel settlements of the people upon WlJI, lie publio lands of Kansas arc assailed?a nioi 'erritory not yet aeoveroignty,but nmeru say reature of sovereignty, with no other guar. J^e ntee of government than an orgnnic act of ''' Congress. While they complain that bor. er ruffians are assailing persons and pro- hon crty in Kansas, Black ltcpublican ruffians had re mailing persons and property every ay and every hour,within the sucred limiUi (^ f the sovereign State of Virginia, all ,jot long a line of nine hundred tnilor of her ? ^pe< oundary and frontier. Virginia was sovor- tn\y'\ ign before tho Union began?she b one fthe old thirteen origiuoi States, who? *eu< mo ( ince indopondcncc, have been the eroators f sovereignties?who created sovereignties arKj o bo equal, not to bo superior to themsel-1 turl es. She asks only for equality out of her ' hints. Oaly for peaoo within her limits, f c< Enthusiastic oheers.) She has every guarntee of Origtr.al right, of sovereignty, of g|n| Destitution* and of laws; and yet a black met Kjwer without her limits, snumw to say, or 1 nd does say, and porsists in saying, that Qp lave property shall not bo peaceably and r^( afely enjoyed within tho limits whi :h she \Vi1 oserved frjra her original vast proportions woe ?thnL t)m oomti^^tinn mil laws shjll nnt ' eign anywhere in reapeet to these right* n the aubject of slavery. You might as n<x, rell owu a thousand dollars floating on a ft v hip on the Ohio river, as to own a Aleve of a rorth a thousand dollars on tho banka of |^u hat stream in the limiuse Virginia. Is this l r o be borne miseh longer? If Kansas may j Qj lotuplain of he? wrongs, may Virginia net ftje< till more complain? If sympathy if roused not *>r rights in the Territory, may we not be 'or rardoned for having -sympathies for oar own ights in a State? (Fnthuaiaatio cheers,) ?j. <j Now what is the issue?the alternative? i0 , >Vith civil war raging in Kansas about an i is very and its rights; with a Black He pub- ga'' Lean mob ?11 th>i ix<we*s of the "aI1 ? ' r o)d overeign State of California, and impria- uU< ning Supreme Jodgaa; with incendiary the evolution attempted iu the popular branoh ehe f Congress, and for a time, aye, for a sea- r0* ion of Congreaa xucceaeful, and within hree votea of being finally suceesful; njftJ rith the blaok knight, with visor duwn tending astride the limits of Virginia,and whi orbidding and pre senting the reign of law bet or tho protection of property and for safety n our limits. la thb state of thing*, rith these magazines ready to explode, anj| rith theao burning ploughshares under our roil eet, whilst the strength of Fillmore is othing, whilst the old Whig party is die- ?** r???c4, whilst but two antagonisms arc left, * the whole bene is slavery or abolition Veuiont or Buchanan, Democracy or De. ? toeiasn?tell me, whether the iasnos are j ot terrible, for sheer seeticjalism to rear black flag in sixteen States of the Union I k nly, where there is a numerical majority urn f a paeple without a tie or association (3* rith the property to be protected, aed wbeu ^ i dares not raise its standard m the other uo; flee n State* for ftar of their penal laws? oici Ticy are firarfal issues^ they arc issues of a g eario or war?of eifB war, of blood, die- n?' ittioa and ^eath. (Tremendous oheers.) u,<j' % to tel) <ue Wm should submit to ths sloe j ,j,fl ion of a Black Republican, oudor eiro um- tig taneos like these, when the election would {T* re an open, overt proclamation of public Prc rcr, is to toll me that Virginia and her ^ burteea sister slave State* are already mot ubjugated aud d?graded~~(cfc eon)?that Kr he Southern people are without spirit and sod rith out purpose to defend the rights they ^ M A t.. . i- _'t ? Jjpn ?. *a 105"! iw,w (^ |>W.?o In Ofc*H?*toirc, Kanawha wuclj, l}|4 p ymt I wmuiikj tk* Im ?o* hat A*t &** was Vying IftO.a %Tgfci to tfHi fuard agi** *? ??apo of fegtl&v* Jffl H talc* that? *?# * fe ti*;*? rfrway *, H&* *7 m?ik #^bU^fe?m a>onj^. ^ . !' " % ' * jft?i?-4' putivc power of the federal government, will y us it U, should be pgt into the Hand* }p^r < laoV Republicanism, by ? ptoscriptlto wh ji ionalisoj. for the Tory purpose of inri?- Bach ;our property in our very homes, st the Statei irdoTor fivaSY Itoeohc'r, rational minds by th jet tts to wilt,and submit s moment, if iug U trust of that power shall be confided to keep onisin for such a purnopo/ (Cbceru.) own , uld John C. Frdaont be thtia clooted by , h rtpirhl:f !'/"" ir1".'"0" mra j"*1 ,afPot your rights, would you dare trust hi in aa his party after tbe proclamation they aotior a made,after the blood they have shed ed. r tbe losfcs add burthens they hare ( gntj ady imposed!! (Loud cheers.) 1 know ^ what yon will do, for we have enomios mr midst, wboui it behoves uato guard W|" ) nst with no icss vigilance those beyond didat limits; and we have men who set them- to be es up for the only true eonsesvutlves, 0B ]U1 \ nre wolves in sheep's clothing?<uou . . > pre:end to be for Fillmore, but who \ * . Id throw up their caps if John 0. Fre- tityn it wore elected. I do not hesitate to on tli that I believe there are uinny voters in u# I j State of Virginia ready to 'follow the voan ler of a party in this town who made that, ^ era bio speech at the African church, in jf J$u treason to bis state his kindred nnd bin 0fBjg to, which be openly publishes. I wish he teen battling for Fillmore alone; but , nej?| effect of his blows is to tond to tho J jn tj1( _r * r:ti l . . . i%ju" vi rrcmwiv. nuiuuiu ? u? Btllfui liglit compared with Fremont. (Chocrs.,* j mean I only known what the rent intent of thu > him. )oh was, but|T have no hesitation in j keen ing that I regard John Minor I3otts as from ?rly heedless of that speech, whether it1 j0 se, Is to eleot Fillmore or Fremont, so de- j ning :racy would be defeated. It is more a , only moot thsnit it a Fillmore speech. 1 |s cje iortakc to say to tins agitator and dis. ler of our peace and unity among our- erV os, that there is a Mayor in this city, trn>n itmuonwcalth's attorney, and a grand ' }{e j, ft and he had better look to tbo clauses j (jon> ho penal statutes of the code of Vir- 1 a me ia, which impose fine and imprison-, hean it for the offence of speaking, writing (Che [>ubKahlngi mntter tending to impair i Hlm|l value of property in slaves. Draw i the indictment?summon n venire? erect 1 the statutes?introduce the offensive tC(j j I mot proviso speech made here a few g^ti ka iiro in the African uhnwh. a fit ! i ? o- ? ' - ? anu rum for itt Black Republicanism. Vft(j0 c both in evidence to prove hi- eon | ions and the */%uHtni<nu of guilt or in-, airea ence; and he could not be convicted, sorac rould be because lie would avail himself wron ome technical and formal defence. (En siaitio cheera.) Ispenk tuoro us n cit- t i?mere as a slaveholder?more as a ( them man, feeling deeply on this sab- js jn i, than as one iearaed to the technical rutj0 I of the '.aw, when I say, that if he baa hoiat violated the whole spirit of the laws j ;n the protection of slave property. (Loud jjje<>, era.) He has furoi^iied arguments und ying eriea to tho Now York Herald and 1 ^ h'?ne) and he he# raised a black flag ^ aur very midst. A speech like tbia? , fl offence like this?criea to Heaven a Oft one who ought to havo let his right id forget ita cunning, and his tongue ive to the roof of hia e*o?Jthj before be ' ired treason to the hearth and home of ()f mother who bore him. (Tremendous . , era.) Rousing at the call of the State, r when every loyal spirit is plannning o^C( the public good?when the bravest ids are raised to strike for Virginia- -if inly lurking in our midat, one be found w^a1 is to hie trust, his honor and bis home, ?^ 9,soorulng sanctions human and divine, < rays hia country and hia State to her J i, end tells eternal honor for eternal ^ i me, justice then reddens into wrath, I ilninnniltf fkn nnlnril mnnniiid ^ ^ , ? - -?I p.'"--"! -1! f>le which will restoro social order sod . istate the laws. (Enthutiurtic cheers.) ' j Worst of traitors is tb> traitor to his n ivo land. (Cheers.) He is i traitor to mankind, who in a cause, cann Vhat down the course of time will tire the Thei cwU, Jdaw not upon the ttxbtainir of the skj. * hei tfsavehiseonotrjr. (Tromeodous cheers.) saba [ love the I'oiou of the State better whal n any Black liepublicau does. (Cheera.) demi now of but one thing worse than dis. to b< ion?but one, and that is dishonor. ! at ei ithiudastie spp'laoee.) I have asid it | of tl II repeat a ihocsana times; k is with 'and Union of the States ee it is with the , then en of matri mooy? a good tuso, ?. good i aolvt sen, a good looraKet, a good hut band,! Noil ood father, will beer anything, bear ' or" beer ever,--el) exeept ono thing. The j The meat his henor is toeehed bjr a pin's { see i at, ha will bnvst the bonds of union, as } Kno burning wythea were banted by the and orons limbs of the yet unsborn Nasarite. olaig emendoos cheers ) I believe, and here <4t#t! olaint it to you in Am capital of the cttrm Ja ' - .Ll.t T - M lO. - 1 1_ At UTW wnwa X ? ? wwwwnii UUI-- ui ?I or, (hat tbt 90*4 oocoorratiro, iha Hon * patriotic thing jou <*? Jo to pro- to b< ra tbio Uaion, with alt iU bkaainga? ed o t they ar? ^mawnblo and inaome. ioc'u te-- i*to, oooviaoc, ia aw? ^a^troag mait M of ??pr?>loa Owhflj, aarioooly, that m\yt with lb# pnpuw of nioa who know J ,tha < (* flgfc* Mi daru maintain thaw ?/<m vines thaoo Northern demon* and th. th? 4 ifftta in jour toidrt, thai you will ad not! r dUAotfar. Ant ^oa w>? ?bwU to bftat *dMnw?Vb?i ritt Wifi ooiwiWitto fcsjfthor pa dad by MNB #*b?UwialiMi. i<*t1 .uiu analas ?mtirrr--1 OooriftM thorn of in (3 nV<GSr p?M ? ??j LI>. L-l; fcll till , Jl 111 oil convince thorn? I am w?inng Tor 1 jrJera (Loud choert.) 1 Want you to our solves first,what you will do. If antn is elected Presideut of tho U. ? here will be no aggression upon us e government,and you will have noth> do. You have only to go on and the peace?sit still under your vine and fig tree, and all will remain j aiid united, and your blessing?so [government protection aud executive i arc concerned?will be left uurnarr-; At all events we shall liavo a respite. | msiastic npplause.) it the fearful alternative is* what rou <lo if the Black Republican cattle is elected? If Buchanan is not elected, God grant that Fillmore, 1 ; is a man of patriotism and prin?for I take great pleasure in tes lg to liirt being a good man, though ie subject of slavery an abolitionist, know him to bo from nearly eleven i service with him in Congress?I jlod grant that he may bo elected chanun is not. But, sir, he is out jht in this race. He will serve to act and divide neighbor from ibor in the Pouth, ana to fuse foes e North. His name will servo to isome bad men who roally do not i an honest, 6o?? fide support to (Loud cheers.) It will serve to off some good men and divide them I the Democracy, though I am glad e that the best of them are beginto concede that Democracy is the ; hopo of safety. Bat, if Fremont! ctod, is it a wrong, they will ask, ! one man is elected instead of anoth- j (Never will I soy that that is a g. Fremont is nothing. (Cheers.) a less than nothiu3 in my estima(Euthusia*tic cheers.) He is but ro personation of Black Repubism, the bearer of tho black flag, ers.) The question will not be, Fremont reign over you and me? t will be, shall the black flag be od, shall the higher law be execui>y the President of the United js over tho reign of the Constitution the laws? Shall property be in* il with*impunity? Yes, you will liundrc<l? that will say?-they begin idv to aay, uOh! wait!?wait for ! overt act?wait for hitn to do some g!" Tell me, will any person en ming feelings of self-respect, huv he spirit and courage of a man, to prepare for war whilst its cloud the horizon, until after the dcolftn cf war is made? Toll me if the ing of the Black Republican flag 0 hands of an adventurer, boru itlmately in a neighboring State, 1 ill-begotten in this very city?tell f the hoisting of the Black flag over U.. U 1 i a J -i ' - i/jr d jrrencuinan 8 uwurn, WfUISl rms of oiril war are already ela?his oot to be deemed an overt r,ot a declaration of war? Well, sir, will not only bear the cry, wait, , and that too in the sacred name ic Union?that ran onlv U tn??l suction now?thoy will My wait, , wait, not only in the sacred name insorvatMin, which they are orushbut they will go farther. My id (Mr. Scott) asked this evening Southern man would dare to take 5 under Fremont? I tell him, tn&n man?I can lay my hnger upon i, that will say. "Oh! you will alum to take office, because we will * to protect your rights!" Thoy hare us wait that they may have privilege ef holding office. If yon tit to tne election of Fremont, you prove what Seward and Burlingame i said, to be true?that the ?South lot be kicked out of the vUnion. re will be no limit to aggression, ro will be an unlimited, aegruding sission. In this state of things t do we sec? The farce of legersin played by parties, pretemFing ? opposed to each other, every day, rery contention, and every meeting is people?pretending to quarrel then fusing?-those that style tselvee old-line Whigs calling them's the "other" party, and the Knowtings calling themselves the *'tothnatty. (Laughter and cheers.) Whigs hold a Convention, and you t fell of know Nothings; and the w Nothings bold a Convention, you see it full of Whigs; and they a to bo the "other" party the her" party, according to the ctr.k:U ?i... -i* - nmw, n 11HD HV KM IVRDg ie North and distracting the South, rfoag are you, Sooth era people, > honoyf^gled. cooled, and cheatat of your*rights and peace aad il aaffcy, by this sort of tarerd*it 1 belie**; confidently beltore, the God of nationshas an eye orer iestiniea of thia land, and that the of the people ?iQ he opened before Itv ftf riMttitn ?? ' *1- ? * -:>l fo ftttowri to tirik* blow* of i ?poo tbe Cfeimtitwtio*. *mA oVniyvoWftatt in iar i?4i?eriin]ftate . (Lota cbrvr%) t MM *jmJ truo* tbot wo i&?ll V **ved from ?wb +; Ji,r : ; he ifr a demon; he is guilty ot the sit of ?uin; he is the #orst of murderers? * fratricide, who would, Without suffioi ent cause, light the tlame? of civil war ButM Rather than wear dishonored chains, Or follow captives at the tropbicd car. Give us again the wild nets of our woods, And the fierce freedom of our great forefathers (Tremendous cheering.) I would preacl peace. I would vote for peace?peace and honor. (Cheers.) Look up to heaven, or, turning, look dowu upon the earth of our nutive land, and ask yourselves, j yourselves the answer to the question ! whioh ia everlastingly oceuring to tne what will you do if this proclamation of wnr is made? Do y>-u ask tne what 1 w?il I do? 1 say to you that I reserve my answer lor the present Considering the question delii viteiv. ''il uy, and being well fort; tied : the ti? u.'ht. I deliberately t? vou, t wid 'o whatever you will back (tie in, to save or to die. (Tremendous applause.) [ am making no threats. 1 will renieeibct the oath I have taken to preserve the constitution and defend the ri??ni ?i me people?l will fight for tlietn,. If [ must fight, to auve, not to destroy. (Enthusiastic applause.) War is a tcrri- ^ a ble thing, and wo nil havo to reinemhr^? thot if it begins, it will not only be North against the South; it will be a civi^^j j war of neighborhoods for liberty against deepotisro-f ieht agniust power. (Cheers.) j Our cneniiea will remenber, that if they hare a iniuority in Virginia, wc Inve a minority in Now England, New York and Ohio, and everywhere North. If they have their fifty or sixty thousand left them in the State of Virginia, in ovary Northern State we have huudreds of tbouianJ of arms that are with us. (Tremendous cheers) You have more than your own power at home. The saddest reflection to mc is,, that in such a crisis there will be found many traitors among us. But if we may have enough to do with these few at borne, the Black Republicans have enough to do with the thousands that are still left in the Northern Slates, to battle for the Cuinu and the rights of all (Tremendous chcern ) Virgiuia has not depopulated bersvif without souie return of the bread she has caston the waters. Then; is many a heart in every State of ihu Union thai has gone froui the home of a Virginia family; many an aria that was conceived in the wutnb of a Virgin* mother that will, when the dogs of war are let slip, be mint,' .n vindication of ber rights. (Loud cheers.) Wa have friends across the water too, as well ? f as foes, who will cry havoc in such s war. (Cheers.) What they consider our very weakness we will prove to be our strength. With a proper knowledge of military dis. iplins. 1 will Drove that uur faithful slave*. 1 ft. can and will robel that Black Republicans and their traitorous allien, who uiay invade ua. These remarks were hailed with vocifer ous cheers. The meeting then separated, it being within a few minutes of 12 o'clock. 8AM HOUSTON'S LETTER. The Galveston Civilian says of Sam Houaloii's late letter abont the 1'residency Whilst we fipret tho present position of Oeu- Houston on all other account*, we cannot bin hope hie influence uiay benefit flH the country by diverting from the support of Fremont a potlior of the anti Nebraska neo of the North, and thua improving the chaneos of Buchanan and Breckinridge." We have long sinoo ceased to Indulge the hope of anything fr>tn Sam Houston. urt? - u:_ .?? ? ?HNJ| IWVIII^ UM tend ep against the whole Democratic, party tod denounce the national platform aa humbug, and ha friendly mipporter* aa koavea, we think it ia time So ceaac treating the gentleman with ao ruach ami. able ooortcay. Sana Honatoa a influence ia not to be forged or eosrted. lie haa done hie wotrt t> injure the Democratic | party, and ha now indirecUy aids Fremont | by oatting npon our people to anctain Mr. : Ft 1 more. If Houston haa any indcnco 1 wi4? Fremont men, ha ia oevtninly a dan' getoua friend npon whom to rely In thin i aaafaae. Mia effort in, huwater, fen carry the doobtfral democratic State* for Mr. Fill mora. Ia thia erent, U ia alee* that the tee** might eland a ohaaee of ffrfo* into the Heme of Kepieaaetut^ and if Mr, HetMfW# IflCMMta# SH SWr < .hart nt jggjlitefe* a. m,M,.-> U i M?t< stn ?vwt Fremont tfwM bt ?ImM.