The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-02-25
IiiE- NIRGINIAN.
BYNCHBuRG, FEBRUARY IS, 1895

bYNClIBuRG, FEBRUARY IS, 1875.
II We are authorised to announce Doctor
JAMES SAUNDERS as a candidate 10 rep,
resent the Senatorial district composed of the
counties OF Campbell, Bedford and Bucking-
han, in the Legislature ot Virginia
.sSs.-
TIE PRESIDENTIAL C0ATEST.-No. Q.
In our ist No. we treated this subject
ACKNOWLEDGMENT broughtinto view those
great national considerations by which we
conceived public opinion should have been
formed in relation 10 il. We referred ~ the
all ceutending aud bancful influence of sec.
tio,lat feelings and prejudices, which were
employed al such powerful engine ndIf-
ierently by the parlIzans of each candi
date, To procure the success of Hts lHdlNI-
dual, and TO defeat the election of hat-
and " hlch ii behoyes the American people
10 crush in the germ, if they value their
! free institutions, and are anxious for their
stability. lis our intention now to eonsi-
der 1t prospecttUeiy-and to extend Our
views beyond the next Presidential term,
and the individual who has been called 10
ill the Office. " Principal, non hOmtneS,"
shall be kept solely in view.
William Lowudes, Henry Clay, VIM. II,
Craw ford and John Quincy Adams, at an
early period after the second inauguratonof
| hir. Monroe, were brought forward by
then respective friends as candidates for
The, 10 be, "vacant slippers" 10 these
were subsequently added John c. Calhoun
aud Andrew jackson. The lamented
death of Mr.. Lowndes, alike an ornament
10 human nature and his county, and the
Withdrawal of Mr.. Calhoun, left the re-
manning four in the field of competition
each having among his supporters frag
nents Of the Republican and of the federal
parties, which seem 10 hav. been strangely
dismemeered, and to have become sudden
y hurled from their peculiar orbits into a
miraculous brotherhood. 1t became evi
dent, from the first agitation Of the conflict,
therefore, that II Was no logger n contest,
as III 1896, between two rival, aud, in point
ot numbers, nearly equal parties, which re
Inlred OF individuals the abandonment of
their personal Feelings aud partialities, in
order to wrest from the dominant party
tile sctptre of power, or 10 keep it In the
hands " hch ali eady ~ielde6 ii. A profess
rd to belong to the same party-to be guided
by the same prlnciples-to have the same
great ends in view, aud To aim At the ac-
compiishnent Of those ends by the pursuit
Of the same means. If the orthodoxy of
one was questioned aud even denied
by his opponents, such wac the case with
ali--at least in lhe sense In which that
term i. taken by the Virginia politicians
Il, indeed. that Candidate who was evident
ls the taso,lte of Nirglnia,G who was pro
nouncrd by the guardians OF our political
putty to approximate nearer IL the Jeter
sonlan standard than any other, ofthem,r as
admlited by these same mento have" hluts
On his cscutcheon.' Is it wonderful that
tlnse" bots" should have been pr darker
b"e, and assumed more serious aspect, to
those whose prcdisposilion to prefer ano
ther might perhaps have rendered them
insensIblc 10 Mr.. CrawiUrd's merits Might
II not, too, 5rthe same with regard Ia the o
iher Candidates and their opponents ? Nav
1t not be, that those terrible "hydras and
sOrgOns' Hhlch always associated them
sel,e, with tlle name of adams, in The dis
tempered negotiations of his enemies,
we're HUtlns more, ~ truth, than small
aud ,a5iSnis"aut b{ciS," with which but
tGw politicians, indeed, have been indebted,
who have passed such long life in the
public service? Let him Who is without
fault cast the first stont.' For our own
| parts, having partali,ies Iikeother men, we
expressed the feelings which they dictated !;
and while we are glad that our choice has
been that also Of the representatives Of the
people, we should lave known how to sub
| nit without murmur, if their decision
had been different believing that the mo-
| raj elect of II silent arquiesceuce in that
decision viii produce more beneficial re
suits on popular feeling at hume and public
opinion abroad, than all the turbulence Of
hot headed parlizans and disappointed
demagognes.
The effect Of Mr.. Cravfprd's election
would have been to give ii sanction To a
dangerous principr--oue which was crra
ted IN The infancy Of the existence of the
republican party, aud res,rt To which
could onty hdve been justified by tire pecu
liar natGre of the crisis. 1t would have
been giving the l!te pr,nciptr 10 Il measure
winch eR,ctnally wrests from the people
the elective power, and PLACES it in the
hands at body unknc~u To the constiu
lon. 1t il! he unprecedented at once that
We a!Iude 10 the practice OF Congressional
canc"aslng. Ii we are here met by the AS
sertlon that the fears entertained Of the fl
tufe influence of this system on the desll
MES ct the republic are merely ideal and
tancituh lnasmuch AS the nominations of
caucus are not binding upon the people, we
ietort that they are thea useless. The di
lemna presents 1.-TWO horns," and the ad
Yocates Of the measure may choose either.
II II be an useless parade Of strength, and
intended 10 show of only rs such, why re
sort To IT at all ? Why is i, if il hr thus, and
thus on y,interded To operate, that the ad
hesIon OF whole party is claimed to It's
mandates, upon the ground thatltisa mea