The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-02-18

MUD mr. Ihty might and they Woi1ld
ave orgaed. in reply, that. # the federal
ATTY wer. extinct, Their pens aud heir
| foices had mainly contributed IN produce
| this result aud that the fact that In, re-
pnhlieans had achieved victory over lheir
| ancient and implaCahe foes, was no reason
that one portion of the conquerors, which
| bad endured comparatively but little of the
heat and burden of the batile,r should
overlook, in the moment of triumph, that
portion which stood the brnnt of the con
| Illct, and which never shook with doubt nr
fear, and never wayered from the orthodox
creed no matter how few lis numbers
They might, too, have urged, that, now,
the North was entitled to the honor of fur.
nishing A President, If il could point To one
of lis citizens, whose talents were of the
frat order--w hose long experience in pub
lie life qualified him for the performance Of
lis mnltfarious Il important duties-whose
private character was without bemlsh-
and whose Official career. so far from being
marked with amy act OF ilegrant wrong
had been one of UNMARRIED Usefulness TO his
country, and of brilliant aud lasting renown
To himself. They might have told us that
competitors rqualled him in all these res
poets, did not surpass him. Sending him
forth, therefore, with no more than equal
personal claims, they might have backed
them by those Of their section Of country,
and have contended that this consideration
should turn the scale in their favor. Indeed,
it was thus Contendpd With irresistible
force-and it was mainly the conviction of
the justice Of this plea, and the consldera-
tons connected with it, that al first Undue
ed u- 10 avow our preference for the dis
tinguished statesman of the north. Our
habits, our feelings, our prejudices were all
Jirgiaian; but we had yet stronger at
.aehment to our national institutions; aud
We were more anxious to secure their per
manency than to administer to the tempo
rary qualification of state pride. Our op
position t. the other candidates was not
founded upon personal hostlhty-we did
not oppose them because we were not
proud that our country could offer at once
SO many citizens capable of filing It's first
offce--nor because "wr loved them less :;
but because we loved Rome morep If the
policy of the North aud South is 80 essen
TALLY different AS some imagine, IL 10 our
duty, AZ we cannot asslmllate II, 10 lessen
the consequences which grow out OF that
difference, by mutual furbearance and mn
tual concessions, and to knit together our
interests, feelings and hopes, ~ citizens of
A common country, whose fathers fought
aud BLEED in II common cause. Were not
the plains of the North dreut he'd with
| sollheln blood in the war of the revoniion2
md are not many Of the heroic people Of
thu North, who persisted in the same great
contest, Wondering in southern graves i?
If ne can point to Yorktown, can they not
polnt 10 Lexmgtoa, Bunker Hill aud sara
toga? Aud shall zoe, torgelful of their Ia
51rs, aud careless about the perpetuIty
of the fabric reared bN their salor and WIS
dom hesin thus early to sap its foundation
by permitting sectional ptcjudlces, which
ar Too otteu iucOusdrratell adopted, but
not the less dangerously cherished, 10 con-
troi our conduct in the decision Of great
national qaestlous Forbid 1t, every prin-
aple OF patriotism