Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-11-18
THE VIREINIAy.
LYNCHBURG, NOV. Is, 1880.

ted 10 the next Congress from Massachusetts
and while We certainly regret thatte consented
TO serve in that capacity, that regret does not
arise from The fact that in so doing ne ha. de-
graded either himself or his country. No man
mot even an ex-presiient--csn be degraded
by appearing on the aoor Of Congress as the
representative of fee people. As well may
it be said. indeed, that Gen. Washington dis.
graced himself by accepting a commission in
the army, alter his retirement from the Presi-
dency-or that Mr.. Monroe did, BY sitting on
the bench OF, Loudoun, as a County Magis
trate--or Mr.. Madison, by serving in the State
. Convention -or Mr.. Jefferson, by acting as
Rector of the University. The truth u.s. it is
highly creditabe to those who have filed the
highest Offices of the country, TO yield TO the
solicitations OF the people TO serve them in less
dienifed stations. Having no longer any am
bifton to crafty, they can be influenced solely
by wish TO render 10 their country all The
service in their power. " Ambition should be
made OF sterner stuff No: we regret that
MIR. Adams has consented 10 serve, only be
cause. unfortunately, some men obtain seats in
Congress who possess neither talent magnani-
IN ty nor decency, aud who make up for their
deficiency in these qualities by n double stock
Of impu1ence and brutality. And these men,
in order to become head walters at the White
Honse---forenost among the palace slaves
will lose no opportunity of assailing him. with
vulgar aud coarse and unfeeing illusions to hi,
father, and to the thous nd exploded calunnes
inver ted against his own nd minis In
deed, Duff Green his already minated, in the
columns of the j." Government Official" that
such will be the course pursued towards MIR.
Adams aud, while it regrets that John Ran
dolph will not be there TO play the inquisilor
and torturer, assigns the dirty vocation TO Gen.
Root Of New York. man to whom even Geo.
Kremer might read lectures on sobriety. Mr..
Adams, however, knows how TO fend of and 10
| give blow for blow. with interest, as one Jona-
I than Russell can testify. Rut wa hope he Will
he careful whom he strikes aud tina, he will MOI
.ondescend to notice the terriers & fee who may
be set on TO bark nj his hc's. Let him rather
say to them, ss Uncle Toby said 10 the fy that
had annoyed him. as he put him out al the
window, " 60 poor ID, there's no m enough
/ in the world for both thee and me-"
Dead for Ducat 1.-The Nullif, ers,
finding that the naked doctrine for which they
commended, WAS too rank even for a South Car
| olins sun 10 mature, sndeavored to carry their
point by putting the question TO the people AZ
the polls. in another and less nauseonS shape.
They know that even arsenic may be so disgu.
sed by n MIXTURE with agreeable potions, that
people will swallow without being aware oil
the deadly nature OF the draught-and they
therefore endeavored TO deceive the honest
portion Of the community. by saying. We do
not nou con end for the right Of a State gov
ernmen, to nnlhfy and repeal a law OF Coo
sress hut we only ask you to vote for Con-
ven,iou, that We NAV submit, tie momentous
question TO thai body for decision we'll
knowing that il the, had succeeded IN this
,tratagcm, they would ultin ately have carried
their point. Like the English government, al
er the Revolution of 1853. which waged war
agains, France, osicnsibiy for the " prsserva-
lion of the Protestant Religion = but. in truth,
las Goblet remarks " FOR the protection OF
The Church estate. that the sIas-
ncrs,ed state ofthe English mind against the
Cath olics, a, that period. would sustain the
government in any attempt which promised 10
exnrpate every vestige Of Popery from the
realm while. ifihe objec, of enrichins the
Clergy had been ayo~ed, the people would
| sooner have turned their swords against those
who had put them into their hands than a
gains, a foreign power There IS nothing Ike
a;,c,;si,g adj US measures in smooth and art
mi terms. Yet, the Nvll'lyers, with oil 'hei'
cu,,in, have been defeated at nome we neea
M, fear there ore. thai their dot'r'nes W'n'"kf
roo, any where else. So Car fromit, indeed
,bev must sink into deserved contempt wher-
ever the subject is Examined rthou' pre- ''cs
Ar M,1i.on's letter has doubtless already pro
duced an extensive change in South Cafoi'ha
AZ we'll as elsewhere and could the aF''cie IN
% Nor,h American Rsviet0 be as generally ais
so,;,o,sd iii il unfortunately too long for publ
cation in the newspapersO we venture 10 pre"'e'
IN many men who have been seduced oy the
fal,acious and specious reasoning OF the oo''"-
eru.rs. into an adoption OF their .''rcsy. would
10 as,on;,bed at the magnitude OF the error n'o
which they have been lei. They would !" rum
60. that i, is nothing more nor less than tho
Hartford Convention doctrine, ihfO''"eo up
anew by men as dlscon''n'ed as tue "e"'e'S
oe,e., famous body, with far less reason 10 Jus
tity that discomfort.
/, is with pleasure that we refer 10 ono III
,,,,c. If the mower Of truth over mn hones'
mind. The editor ofthe Huntsville A'aoa''')
:. Democrat" some three or four months ago
declared himself in favor of the Nuii'hca'''"