Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1832-08-20
LYNCHBURG. AUGUST 90. 1892.
THE CRISIS.

the tone of Judge Clayton of Geo. who, at Am
hest Court-hoaase manifested strong disposition
to continue to "dally" with the Tariff question and
more than doubted the ctpedency Of resortns
TO Notification as remedy who yet on getting
into the infected district, exclaims as if he had
been suddenly seized with the violent distemper,
he that dalies is bastard, and he that doubts Is
damned Surely, Modification is contagious, II
Cholera is not
I, was to have been hoped, however, that as Judge
Clayton when he was in Virginia, hung out the
flag of submission ne would leave his South Caro-
lima fever where he found il, and that, by the time
he reached his residence in Georgia, be- would have
been in 4 state of conyalcscence Not So how
ever and NC almost begin 10 fear that, when once
the virus of Modification mlnsles with the blood,
the reason &C the poor victim Is forever gone and
there is no hope of his recovery Look, for exam
pie, at South Carolina, n, this nomen,-presenting
to the view one vast field of unclaimed Lunatics
warning against their best interests, and aiming
deadly stab at the only truly free institutions of
! the last hope of tic world Look too, at Georgia
where III relation to this question, cqupoisc has
been heretofore maintained between her hatred Of the
general government and her adherence q MIR, Cal
houn--,he former leading her into acts Of prdtttdas
Nulllicaton-the latter into bitter dcnunciations Of
the Neory. AT length, however, the Nul''tyers who
have heretofore been quietly sleeping in her boson
dreadns the opprobum of the name, or fearing the
consequences Of the doctrine, are throwing of their
t,guse and are standing forth before the public, in
their true characters, advocates of dissolution
Of the Union and Of the erection ola Southern
coniedcracy
1 Two meetings have recently been held in Gcor-
sin, o, which the doctrines Of South Carolina,
which have heretofore found no favor in that State,
verc succe ssfuTy ,ua.nlaincd. The first meeting,
al which WIN. II Crawford ESQ. presided, was
held at Athens a, whi-h place large concou,se Of
the most distinguished citizens Of tie State had
assembled, in the capacity Of Trustees of the
Franklin Iollcsc,-At this mce,InE the doctrine OF
Modification was openly Advocated by Judge Der
fIcI Juu,c 1lhvloi' 'u't tf5 ''tcci, anu otiitis
and opposed by Gen Gl.scock, Wm II Torrance
! Judge Harris AMI othcrs.--T The meeting adjourned
| after adopting II resolution that the i" free citizens
lof Georgia will no longer submit to system OF
legislation which is arbitrary, unequal, unconstitu.
---=', go. u owl - N
| lie people of the several counties in the State IL
send Delegates to STATE Conrention(the universal
remedy for disorders in the body yolitic) to asun-
de in Medgeve on the sccord Monday il. No
vemher next invested With full power to maintain,
preserve and defend the rights and privileges OF the
free citizens Of that State" A committee OF cor
respondcncc 10 confer with the people of other
States mates connected with the common inter
cs,was also appointed consisting ofMessrs A s.
Clayton John NJ. Bcrr,en, Wrn G. Dav SON. Sanl
Rockwell. William II. Torrance, Joel Crawford
and Thomas Glasscock- From $50 10 1000 persons
arc said to have been present
Tho second meeting was held at Lexington, IN
oslcthorpc county, on the OCCASION Of public din
ney given to the members of Congress from that
State who voted agsins, the Thrift law Of the last
misunderstanding, Of course, Senator Forsyth.
and Judge Wayne of the n Off. From 1000 TO
| 800 persons are said TO have been present Nul-
fcatIon here, as at Athens seemed to be in the rs
| cendaHt; and resolutions were adopted, couchea
in the strongest and most energetic language.
To all which we nave only ia say, in the words
of the old Scotch proverb, Wifi men maun hae
their own way 1.-THE people Of Geargin q South
Carolina tired ofthe Union, and ofthe blessings
which j, Conftrs upon them in not less prodignl
ratio than upon others if they have, in the Ian
guagc Oft English lnfdc whom this country
has cherished m its bosom and warmed at its
household fires, My - be s;ung by his vperous
fangs,-wc say, if they have, in the language Of
this man. calculated the value Of The Union,' and
found that its burdens are greater than its benefits
they are right for cutting the connection. But let
them avow their design maniuIly, AID execute ii
boldly. 1t is unworthy ormcn engaged IN scheme
so pre- nan, with perious consequences, 10 disguise
their design under the false pretences they have
heretofore assumed Let them, as becomes high
minded men, discard tie doctrine OF Qualification
Us an lDSuTuity III tldtuic--dHu .1'p" 'PN
~ and above board that their design is tear down
the fabric of Union reared by the brave hearts and
strong arms of our foretathers-to cut adrit once
more on the bosterous and ieaiil ocean of unrled
cxpcrimcnt-and in d mad attempt to better their
condition. to rush from the imaginary ills of which
they complain to the certain evils that lie just
ahead Like the Jews of old, they Scem to be dc
tcrmincd on their suicidal course aod whether, like
them they invoke it or not, the curse wN fall upon
them, and their children, and their chdfcn's chill