The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1826-09-14

disc ussian. Our object 10 TO elicit truth,
that the people m". Judge and act under
siandIngly. Ii they preferG.n. Jack IN,
and he should be- rlect"d, W. shall. as good
t-puhI,csns, bow "a their will without re-
rlnins and not outstanding we may have
sppns-d his "l.cilon, will never unit. with
any faction afierNa ards as we fear tan ma
u, na,e dune Ia rriaiIon Ia ilr. Adams. rs
render noperati'r the measures NJ hi. adj
min'stration. Gu, motto is e" Truth, God,
and our County,
= he account # The dinner to NJ.
Clay Al Leaisbrrs. Va. occupies large
space to-day. notwithstanding the ass.r.
tions of ihs enthusiast Who conducts the
Petersburg Republican. who AYERS that in
Vrg,nia, ihe vote " III d. as one to n thou-
sand in fa,or Of Gen. Jackson. We have not
thr slightest lea : II The result. One to a
Thousand. indeed Wh,, Nj Adams left
the Gan.ln the rear mt the last election. We
actually "oed'r at the simplicity of the
+" Repub lean"
fIONS-Erpionntory comments.
Illinois. NiriOn Edwards, of" 4. b."
memory, IL is supposed, is ,lccted Govern
or OF Illinois How horribly are right and
wrong perverted 10 this world of contra
dictions aud anomalies "W hat is hon
or ? .Hrm-We announced, in our last,
that D. P. Cook, the present able and in
dependent repre- sentative from that stale,
was reelected 10 the 20ih Congress. We
fear the annnocIation war premature.-At
the last accounts, Gen. Duncan Was about
200 votes ahead Of him. Who Gen. Dun
can IS, WE know not. II is said, he was an
officer OF the army durios the late war
Did he win any laurels
tfisseuri-.Mr. Bates is certainly elect
ed 10 place of Mr.. Scott. As they are
both determined to support the admins
traton of Mr.. Adam, we have no reason
to regret the change.
characterization Jennings, a friend
of the administration. is reelected 10 Con.
gress. Oliver n. Smith il elected in place
Of Mr.. Tesl, both of the same political sen
timents rs Mr.. Jennings; and Thomas H..
Blake, a warn supporter of Nr. Adams,
IN lieu of Mr. Boon, an equally rn adj
mirer of Gen. Jackson. The west will be-
trse 10 principle!
Pennsylvania Col. VIM. Duane, the
libeller of Washington the pensioned hire
ling of Nj. Jrferson's day the abuser 4
Mr.. Madison the turn-coat of every poll.
teal era in tuns the de,otee of every
man, and Of every sect; the quondam
friend of Mr.. Richie whose quar-,
with bin, with all lis amusing ct ceterns) il
fresh in our remembrance tue clinging
knuckler To Gen. Wingfrld SCOT in
fnr. the former Editor of the Philadelphia
Aurora, remarkable alike for its talent and
its want Of principle, is brought forward
by the Jackson party in PhiladeI mia to re-
present that City Of Brotherly Lore io
the Goth Congress. o Temporal ! o mo-
res ! Two years ago, WIN. Duanc's name
was bye-word of reproach and scorn -
But, with that sagacty and forecast for
which he was always so renarkabl. ,he has
splzrd upon the turbulence of the times a.
gain 10 emerge from the deep obscurity
which hi, lnfdmy obtained. and which It
ought to have rendered perpetual TO be. A.
gam, Whit he has been all his life, the pan
der of a fiction, which employs his talents,
to further its ambitious views, While II
holds its agent in the deepest contempt
Such men will ruin any cause.
Mississippi. The returns from this State
AS far rs they have been received, give
the following result For Halle 1.-THE jack
son candidate 25o6; tor Grags"n, 2f82 ;
for Bngaman, i440 for Norton, 1851 ;
for Stockton 447. We believe all the can
d'daies excepr Halle, are friendly TO the
administration II is unfortunate that their
mutual obstinacy in holding IN to the last,
notwithstanding some one Of them was
frequently requested to retire from the con-
test, should have the effect Of giving a
wrong direction to the voice Of Mississippi,
and of electing man who las WE have be
fore bad occasion to obser,eJ is qualified
for the station neither by his natural capa-
city Or bis acquired information.
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