1gEW-YOaK ERzDAy AUGUST p 1900
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the nelancholy catalogue. But there are


other considerations claiming our atten-


ton.


1t is conceded, on all hands, that Vir.


gina ls In a state of moral and political


retrocession among the states of the con-


federacy. Nor is this to be wondered at


when to the foregoing considerations it be


added that half of our population is esti-


mated IN the political scale, at but three


hfths OF It's actnal weight. We are often
uPbralded by a comparison of our condi-


ton with that nf New York and Ohio, to


which all the other States, which are ex-


empted from the curse of slavery, might


we'll be added And with shame we feel
ourselves constrained to bow to the humil-
latlng comparison. We view onr beloved
State, blessed by the God of nature with a
variety of useful and lovely capabilities
unsurpassed by those of any other country
on the globe; we view it not merely as
stationary, while her sister States are ad-
Vancing, but as positively declining. 1t
is pecul .arly the province of such states
men as compose your honorable body, to
detect the causes of the national calamity
and degradation, and to provide and ap-
ply the remedy. That the causes hereto
loss .fS-s1uensly assigned ere the true ones,
we do not believe If they have any effect,
IS possibly they may, it must be extreme
y small and partial. We humbly suggest
our belief that the slavery wich exists.
md which, with gigantic strides, is gain
ng ground amongs us, is, in truth, the
great efficient cause of the multiplied evils
which we all deplore. We cannot con-
'elve that there is any other cause suffi-
'lently operative to paralize the energy of
people SO magnanimous, to neutralize
he blessings of Providence included in
he gift of land SO happy in its soil, its
;lImate, It's minerals and its waters; and
o annul the manifold advantages of our
epublcan freedom and geographical po-
ltIon. If Virginia has already "fallen
rom her high estate" and if we have as
lgned the true canse of her fall, it is with
be utmost anxiety that we look to the
ltal termination of the scene AS we
alue our domestic happiness as our
carts yearn for the prosperity of our off
1rIng; as we pray for the guardian care
the Almighty over our country. we
arnestly enquire what shall be done to a
ert the impending ruin. The efficient
luse of our calamlties is vigorously in-
easing in magnitude and potency while
e wake and while we sleep. The out
is, for draining of a portion of this pes
ferrous population of slaves, are fast clos
g against US In the mean time our
hite people are removing in multitudes


distant regions, and those who remain
EN- destined to becom martyrs to their
We of Virginia, exposed to foreign ene-
les, to civil feuds, and to domestic insura
ctions, without the physical ability in-
spensable 'othcir own preservation. And