The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1826-08-28
LYNCHBURG, AUGUST ss, 1896.
Extract ola Letter, ,oritten bg a Student nj


lent chemical and philosophical apparatus !:
nur old friend. Hill''rd, has just been on 10
open about 5000 "ell selected volumes :
our bulldogs, Hhich rival the Parihenon
and the Psnlheon, (lhe glories of Arhcns
and Rome, are now nearly completed, &
the institution has nothing 10 do hui to bur
~ on in its career OF usefulness and glo-
ry. This place is bright, redeeming
spot in Virginia. Our Law Professor, Mr..
Lomax, has arrived and entered on the du-
ties of his chair. He delivered his intro
ductory lecture TO a crowded audience and
gave very general satisfaction. II was
really one of the best lectures have ever
heard. His splendid dlction, learning and
first rate abilities, and have no doubt, that
he will do credit TO himself and be an Or
nament to the Institution"
Local Jealousies."- III is really sur
prizing with what facility some person.
catch at the utterance of every sem
timent calculated TO lessen the mpoi :
lance or to question the supremacy, in
the slightest degree, of u certain portion oil
these United States, while their Sensible
ties are completely dormant when this
favored spot manlfests similar spirit
towards other sections of the Union.
Does member of Congress, from non
siaveholding State, if ne be fa, nrably dis
posed tow ards the present adminIstr alton,
strike rather more ha. shl, upon this ten
der chord than necessity would seem to
| a NJ A.,
ances are made for the influence If long
cherished prejudice, for education, for ha-
bit, or for custom but forthwith attempts
are made TO inf 4me our feelings and to "a
rouse our se0sibilitles to the highest pitch,
and all the tprrors of a servle war are
giowingly depicted as the consequence of
the inludcous interference of these Wild
enthusiasts in question of eere local con-
Germ Does an influential citizen of state
which is benefited by the operation of the
| ubiquitous, unjust, partial and ruinou.
Tariff system, as ut present established,
| advocate the claims to the Presidency of a
Statesman whose views are supposed to
accord with the policy favorable To the
| interests of that State Then, are We
told, that such local feelings ought to be
suppressed--the dying admonitlons of the
" Father of his County" are displayed
before our eyes with pompous solemnity-
we are told that the Constitution itself
| was the work of compro Dise a compro-
mise Of interests as well as feelings-and
| that, without this spirit is cherished and
maintained in our legislation, we may as
well at once tear the parchment 20 atoms,
& scatter its fragments TO the four winds Of
! Heaven. Now, we do not intend to OBJ
ject to the entire reprobation ofevery thing
like that sectional spirit which would build
up one portion of the Union on the ruins of
another. Such a spirit is illiberal and un
ljust-anti-p patriotic and absurd and we
viii cordially unite in scouting from the
public couoclls Of the country, every man
who may be SO contracted and Illiberai in
| his sentiments as to be influenced by il.
| But, in the name Of common justice, let
| US view this matter with impartial eyes
let US not reserve all our anathemas for
those whose views differ from our own.
while similar spirit, because an oppo-
site direction IS gwen TO II, IS cherished
by ourselves. More than ALL let not the
generous sentiments ola ajority of the
enlightene aud infacntial portion Of our
Eastern and Western brethren be forgot
ten, or merged in the wild vagaries of the
nconsiderate few who sometimes "shoot
madly from their spheres" Ii appeals
are occasionally made to sectional pride
in support of Mr.. Aaams-if we are some
times told that the interests Of certain por-
tons of country will be subserved by his
election, in preference to that ola Southern
man-if occasional references are made to
that delicate question which has so frequent
" been called, and which WE fear will uti
mately, from the inconsiderate zeal OF one
party and the indignant denunciatlons of
the other, prove, torch of discord-they
who make them may plead the sanction
of our own conduct, in eKtenuatlon If not
in justification of themselves. Is 1t not
every day said noU, as it was said of Mr..
Craw ford, when he stood before the ma
ton u candidate for its highest honor, that
the people of the South s. South west ought
t. prefer Gen Jackson to Mi.Adams: And
why ? Is IT because Gen. Jackson is "A
more enlightened statesman a more ac-
complished jurist ? more profound CT
william? a better and rlper scholar p? No;
for in all these respects, Mr.. Adams is IN
fntely superior TO Gen. J.ck.on. Is 1t
because Gen Jackson is mur. honest
man than Mr.. Adams No; for here
they ale conirssedly equal. Are we to
look, then, to the political principles of
Gen. Jackson, or to the course of policy
he would pursue, to account for this pre-
ference? We cannot perceive, in this re-
spect, the slightest distinction between the
two. If Mr.. Adams is Iatitudlnarian in
his construction of the constitution, Gen.
jackson is also. II Mr.. Adams is 10 favor
of the existing Tariff system, so is Gen.
Jackson. If Mr.. Adams is the friend Of
South American Independence, and. as
the\best means Of concentrating that e.
vent beyond the possibility of chanrc Or
change, rs we'll as to settle and establish
several important principles of information
al law, is disposed to unite with those Re
publics In the Congress of Panama, so is
Gen. Jackson. So that whetherve regard