THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SAM, IN VIRGINIA.
BY A VIRGINIAN. "Yet have they many baits and guileful spells to inveigle and invite the unwary sense."RICHMOND: PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR. A. MORRIS.
1856.ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1856, BY A. MORRIS, IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA.
TO
THE DEMOCRATS OF VIRGINIA;
THE DEMOCRATS OF THE SOUTH;
AND TO
NATIONAL DEMOCRATS,
WHEREVER FOUND WITHIN THE BROAD LIMITS OF
THIS NATION,
THIS VOLUME
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
BY THE
AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
THIS little volume now goes forth to the public. Take it. Deal with, it as it deserves. If it proves to be acceptable, the author will be gratified. But if public opinion shall decide against it, he will attribute the fault to the book, not to its readers. Though whatever may be its fate, he will feel the pleasing consciousness (of which he cannot be robbed) that the volume is written with the hope of doing good—good to "the cause" for which he writes—the Democratic cause of Virginia, and the Union. He (in common with his Democratic brethren) regards Know Nothingism as absolutely dangerous to the well being of our institutions; and if, in his picture of "THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SAM IN VIRGINIA," he shall bring one single Virginian from the error of his ways, to the light and truth of Democracy, then, his effort has not been wholly in vain.
