Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-08-01
THE V5RGzNHAy.
LYNCRsU4G, AUG. L, 1881.
Mr.. BERRlGN's 3rArEMENr.

MN oAhhlEN'S 5TArEMENr.
we lay this dlspassionate aud conclusive
document before our readers This morning
document thu; tears the internal evidence a,d
'ndt"oie 'mpresf Of Ttuk, independent @ I ,he
Confirmation It derives ftom the hnherio unas.
sailed character Of The narrator, add ,hr corr.
bora Tag evidence Of MessIs. Branch and Iug.
nam we have no room tins mo ming to add
| any ihihg, by way oil comment nor indeed Ia
any usc ssary. The story is plain one and
IS told IN an unyHInished slyle. Hs who runs
may read and he WHO, reading, cannot under.
sia"d, or who, understanding II, csn sill sup-
port for the Presidency the " Roaring Lion"
who Ia tina hero OF IT, is 100 much under the
Influence Of patty spirit to he reached Ivy ar.
gnmeni, or driven from bis ground by any sct
WHICH the President might, in The " ~hrlwind
and tempest OF his passion" be mad enough
10 perpenate. IL was in aIlusion to such men
that Que of the members OF the late Cabinet
10 said 10 have remarked, that " if Grn. Jack.
son were 10 cut eff The ears OF half the crtizen,
oil Warrington. they would support his re-elsc-
tIon.' There are many Of the Jackson party,
however, who are not thus obstnatey blind.
They cannot resist the evidence going 10 show
that the Presiaen, endeaToted 10 employ his
power and patronage ia fo,cing upon society
woman rrpudated by public opinion, aud that ,
falling in this effort, he has punished all the re.
fractory individuals upon whom he could bring
~
missing them from o.!.ce. And no one who
believts this, can hesitate 10 pronounce il TO he
an act OF unqnafrh iytanny. They do SO
pronounce it, and are abandoning his ranks
soae within our own knowledge.
MIR Se1rieu's statement IS preceded hva lons
correspondence between that gentleman aud
L. Z. Blair. (Gen. J icason's Dew cduor) On
a perusal Of winch the Ieader vii not faa ia
be struck with the impuden, and insuiiing tone
OF the latter parsonage. The inpeTlinence Of
palace siares is, we arc aware, proyerLiaI and
as, III this case, tie master, like most accidental
great men, is celebrated TEL his seIf-conGait,
superoiliousness aud dogmatism, II IS mol SUI.
prising that his writing mental caugh, some
Blair and Berrien would very naturally i'm inc
that the former was man Of uHinpesc hed and
unmpeachable character. Bnd OF elevated 81 an.
dug. aud that the latter some ,ns snifcani
body, who had ofiiciously miruded hins,lf INTO
matter with which he had no concern. II
could not possibly be conceived that Blair YVES
u mere Dalgheuy sort OF ahseatufer, Who had
sold his pen and his principles to tho highest
bdder v hilsi Berrien wss an accomplished
End hosorable gentleman, standing deservedy
high in the regard of his fellow citizens. An
inversion OF the rules Of proprlety, however,
aud contempt OF decorum in social intercourse
nave been The naiu.al consequences of eieyat-
ing 10 tue Chief Magistrscy such man as
" A. Jsckson"--whn, either by accident, or
rom that sympathy which attracts congenial
minds together b as surrounded himself with
men of ,hreadbars regulations. whose talents
only serve to throw an abiding light upon their
nlalny.