Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-10-08
THE VHHaGINEAN.
LyNCHBURG. OCToBERs. 1929.

LYNCHBURG. OCTOBERs. 1879.
Chaacerg Could've have seen letter from
Chancellor Taylor TO the Marshal, dated the LIST
INST by which we learn that his health is much
improved. He Intends 10 leave home to-mor-
row. and 10 open his Court in this place neat
Honda,. He will stay until the business be-
tore him shall be completed.
Cor. CHESS last No. of" Rsiro,pects, &c
We cannot find terms sufficiently strong TO ex'
press the indignation We felt on perusing the
oh No. of " Retrospects, &c. IN the Rich
nond Enquirer of the Cd inst. II is known
Al these Nos are from the pen OF The hodTy
rnior. who, by the same unacconoiahIe and
al deluslon which elevated Jackson 10 the
Presidency of The United States, was called
from the retirement TO which public contempt
aud scorn, in lis justice, had long since driven
i'm, IN preside over the deslinies of this an
ciant CommGnweallh--toh I'll an Office which,
lnt ii was foully disgraced by has occupancy,
mad always been bestowed on the most wor-
by of its cilizeos.
The dotard, Qor charity may asc'ibe his
reasonable production TO any other motive
han such an one as would place him on a level
aith Aaron Burr, and render his name infa-
nous TO all poserity,l the do'ard openly al
rocates the disoiuti0a vt tie Uni0n-an event,
the bare mention OF which has heretofore been
seriously and sincerely deprecated. Not only
does he advocate the dissolution of the Union,
but he parcels il off into four divisions, with all
The selfcompacency Of victorious monarch
at the head of his armed leg ions, defining The
boundaries OF conquered Empires or al a drve-
ling IDIOT, amused with breaking toys, lr@m
which his disiempered fancy anticipates grand
and brilliant results. Poor crach.brained skel
eton of former greatness Miserable wreck of
a mind which, in its ,isor, adorned the halls Of
legislation Why did his friends drag him
from the obscurity which partially shrouded
his bassne "a, and rendered his opinions com
paraiisey innoxious, and which, il it had been,
as il ought 10 have been, eternal, might have
publicanism Why did they, in the phren1y
OF heated party spirit place BIN in situation
where the mbeciiy Of mind impaired by
age, and the malice of heart filled with envy,
spleen and " all unchariabIeness" could no
longer be property urged in e1tenuation of his
conduct Why did they permit their Jackson,
ism to blind them TO his total uuGness for the
Chief Magisuacy of PATRIOTIC " Old Pirginia,"
the devotion OF whose sons TO The Onion has
been so proverba that they have been
compared to the Roma Graceful Did they
not know that, having been himself disappoin,-
ed in his soaring ambition TO be Poniifer Mar
linus, he would not hesitate 10 compass h,a
ven earth and hell, in order to crush the fab
tic erected after 50 many years Of toll, and
suffering, aud bioodshed, and anxiety, by The
Fathers of the Revolution Were they vision.
ary enough 10 believe that returning honols
would repair the rayages that disease, and the
exercise of all the worst passions OF our nature
aud restore the discretion for which he had
been formerly celebrated Or were they mad
enough to behave that the mantle Of Jackson.
ism would conceal his treason and protect the
trmior 7 Time, which has shown, thai, 1.-THE,
entertained the frs, opinion, they have been
mos wofuly mistaken, will we hope, also
show that the IL estimate OF the disposi' ion OF
the people of this Commonwealth is equally
erroneous. We shall be much mistaken il the
10th No. of His Excel'ency's Retrospecis" do
not prove the final grave Of reputation hich,
once before blasted, had been, by the aid OF
political quaokery, partially mended. Procee-
ding, as il does, from the chief Executive Of.
fcer ofthe commonwealth, Git matters not that
II is in his unofficial capacity,l We conceive
that il will be incumbent upon the next Legis.
idture to declare that the sentiments expressed
by Coy. Giles are not sanctioned by the people
at large and that they regard their utteiance
with feelings of indignation and adherence.
In case Of a dissolution of The Union, which
he is so anxious to see effected, Gov. Giles
throws the " sir New England States, incln-
ding Vermont into the first division ;-"New
York, New Jersey, and perhaps Pennsy Ivania,
Delaware and Marylani," into the second
Kentucky, Ohio. Indiana aud Illinois into the
hrd and Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi.
Missouri, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, aud
North and South Carolina into the fourth The
,wo irs, named divisions he argues, would be
rirals of Gu ent Britain, and would be serious
" injured by dissolution. The third division,
he thinks, wond be neither rival nor custo-
mrr of that power, Isl, because it is too insula-
ted in its geographical position. and secondly,
because, in country where general suffrage
is exercised, the people exh aust too much time
in discussing politics ever TO become opera.
lives" in manufacturing establishments !! (This
is truly reason worthy of the old genleman's
grandmother The fourth division, lin which