The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-07-28

Latst angus an herba-
a snake is in The graes

Toast, drank 10 Richmond at the late Gel
Vhration
Our fellow citizen B w. Leigh: may his
genuine republican principles, his splendid Ia.
Tents and fearless Independence of character
he rewarded by his election to the vacant seat
in the Senate of the United States"
OF all the toaats we remember to have
seen, iudlcrous, grave, sentimental, cleo
tianeering, htefary or political, the toast a
toresld, to use a country phrase, takes the
rag of the bush. In Uino ~reritns, "there is
truth in wine," we learn from an cid adage
but no Ndage ever said that there was wis
dom in ones caps. We are at some loss Ia
know whether this toast was Intended AS
we feel very much disposed to take it IN
mere Jrst: Ii It were drank with that de
Sign, we are prevented by our distance
from relishlns the joke-and if meant as a
grave annuncIation of Mr.. Leigh as a can
didate for the vacancy alluded to, then We
are still less disposed to be satisfied with
the purpose.
This mode Of nomination is certainly e.
q4lvocdl IN its character, aud therefore bet
ter fitted to the case ia whoa it is now dp-
piled. 1.-THE public either cannot or will not
take th, hint, which some one chooses
thus to throw ont ut Il wine table, that Mr..
Leigh is qualified To fill the station in cues
ton, then il passes as u current Joke and
Mr.. Leigh is retained in good keeping Cor
a more an>piclous occasions. From the DC
me III Which this Transaction was laid, we
entertain a lively hope. that the suggestion
Of Nj. Lrish's capacity TO aspire TO the Sc
material dignity, viii be remembered no
more, but like a thousand other subjects
winch are toasted into immortal obiiAi ion,
it viii live and die only, inter pocuta,
That Mr.. Leigh is tOrmentrd by . very
uneasy ambition, we doubt not-but the
day IL not yet coine in Virginia, When.
" ambition is virtue" If this gentleman
may be regarded as fairly toasted into nom
'natton Tor the vacant chair in our Senate
'ial delegation, we would say, emphat:ealIy,
and every republican in Virginia will res
pond to the assertion, that benjamin ".
Letgh IS 40! The a for such a place.
Though 1t has been the misfortune of this
country, To witness the nbliteration of those
lines by which principles were once fixed,
ana men and measures were to be known !:
though many acts of oblivion have passed.
and many a wolf has crept. into the politi-
cal fold under a false gui.e-yet the lights
are not 50 far cx~tinguished as to blind the
people to Theoretical defects and practical
errors OF those who seek to win their conf-
dence. AS to the genuine republican pTin-
apes Of Mr.. Leigh, we challenge proof of
ms fact -arrd until he or his paneg, rist af-
i"rd 1t, the public will iemain sceptical quo-
adhoc. Ofhis splendid talents, il becomes
as not TO speak. Talents, ow-a day, are
literally what Cobbttt's mangel Worried
was a few years since--never was word So
banded, hacknied, and perverted before
Every body is endowed with some rar.
anu peculiar talent which like the drug of
a in"nntebank is the sovereign, infa,lible
SPECIFIC. But when we come 10 select from
tue ample field of wisdom, experience and