162 VIRGINIA. 



Finally, it is no objection to the reroplinn of the name Viririnia, 

 that it has already been appropriated to a state. The state of Virginia 

 and the United States of Virginia would be easily distinguishable, and 

 no inconvenience would result. "A Virginian" would be none the less 

 a Virginian because he was an inhabitant of tliat state. Nor should we 

 think that the inhabitants of the other states would feel insulted by re- 

 ceiving a general designation around which cluster the most glorious re- 

 collections of our republic. Further, we think that this name would be 

 a kind of talisman, a word of mighty power to exorcise the foul fiend 

 of disunion, and to bring together and keep tosfether those who, we 

 trust, will ever have "one country and one destiny," whether they live 

 upon the granite hills of the North, or the sunny plains of the South, 

 from Maine to Louisiana, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



We conclude with the following passage from old Purchas, which, 

 though rather long, we think worth copying both for its beauty and for 

 its bearing upon ourargument : 



'-Leauing New-France, let vs draw neerer the Sunne to New-Britaine, 

 whose Virgin soile not yet polluted with Spaniards lust, by our late Vir- 

 gin-Mother, was iustly called Virginia. Whether shall I here begin 

 with Elogies or Elegies ? Whether shall I warble sweet Carols in praise 

 of thy lonely Face, thou fairest of Virgins, which from our other Bri- 

 taine World, hath wonne thee Wooers and Suters, not such as Leander, 

 whose loues the Poets haue blazed for swimming ouer the Straits be- 

 twixt Sestos and Abydus, to his louely Hero ; but, which for thy sake, 

 haue forsaken their Mother-Earth, encountred the most tempestuous 

 forces of the Ayre, and so often ploughed vp JYeptunes Plaines, furrow- 

 ing angrie Ocean, and that to make thee of a ruder Virgin, not a wanton 

 Minion, but an honest and Christian Wife ? Or shall I change ray ac- 

 cent, and plaine me (for I know not of whom, to whom, to complaine) 

 of those disaduentures, which these thy louely Louers haue sustained 

 in seeking thy loue ; What enuie, I know not, whether of Nature, will- 

 ing to reserue this Nymph for the treasurie of her owne loue, testified 

 by the many and continuall presents of a temperate Clymate, fruitful! 

 Soile, fresh and faire streames, sweet and wholesome Ayre, except neere 

 the shore (as if her iealous policie had prohibited forraine Suters :) or 

 of the Sauage Inhabitants, vnworthy to embrace with their rustike armes 

 so sweete a bosome, and to some conceiued indignitie, that some Pa- 

 rents should thither send their most vnruly Sonnes, and that our Bri- 

 tannia should make her Virginian lap to be the voider, for her lewder 

 and more disordered Inhabitants, whose ill parts haue made distasteful! 

 those kinder offices of other our Britainc Worthies, which else had 



