Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-10-01

lie MAY luis ~ ''''''f WV w.
Ae once sraced the bench il would become his du-
nv. were they brought before him, 10 visit with con-
siicn punishment. il is astonishing to What an ex-
tent custom and association blunt and almost dead
IN the moral sense in mere party-men, But we
did not, we confess, expect that the editor of the
Richmond Enquirer would volunteer his services TO
re currency TO the vilest imputations upon those
: 3lom he knows, by common icpute at least, to be
rndeserying Of them, if not entitled to a very diher-
cnt treatment at the hands of honest aud weil-brcd
Gen. Ofhim VIC expected better things"
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Ahbana.-The last Huntsville Advocate OBJ
serves :. The late election in Alabama, we have
reason to believe, has resulted in opposition TO the
sub. Treasury scheme of finance, and. so far as
.ha, is a test, in opposition to the leading measure
of Mr.. Van Buren's administration" 1t admits
aha, a naioriiy is also opposed to a No,ronai Bank,
and adds: " Public sentiment in this State is steadi
ly progressing and settling down against the mea-
sures of Mr.. Van Bmen, who, without the aid and
influence of The great Nulhier, would even now be
arlt almost withoal friends among the pcople-The
Office holders and %spols-men adhere to him Of
eourse-that is their VOCATION"
1T is worthy of remark, that the only one of the
five members elect from Madison county, Alabama,
to the State Legislature. in favor of the Sub-Trci-
sury scheme, is Judge VIM. Smith, formerly of
South Carolina. who, it seems, after being driven
from that Stale by the prosecutions OF Mr.. Calhoun
and his parasites. is now once mere pulling in the
same traces with his vindictiye enemy. Truly, poll
tics do make one acquainted with strange bed fell
lows. In 1924, when Mr.. Calhoun was a federal
list of the Ilamillonian school, Judge Smith WAS OPP
posed and tuncd out OF the Sena,e, by the Calhoun
faction, because he WAS a friend Of Wn. IL. Craw-
ford, and belonged to the Virginia State Rights
party. Ia l~629.30, When Calhoun abandoned
his federal doctrines, aud etnbr iced the hetesy Of
Notification, thereby running Car ahead of tie old
State Rights school, Judge Smith, who still stood
upon his old principles, was 50 yiu,cntly prosecuted by
this same Calhoun faction, that he was absolutely
compelled TO leave the State. because he WIS not G.
nough of a State Rights mao! Aud now, he and
the Calhoun faction are working together in advo-
eating the Treasury Bank. as the tue State Rights
doctrine-tluugh Mr.. Calhoun aud Judge Smith
both claim TO have " abandoned no principle, changed
no OPINION during the whole time within which
they have been thus alternately opposing aud aiding
each other Both have been standing still, though
the antipodes are now standing slouldert to shoulder !
Can any one explain tins p~ilenomenon =!
Southern Liierarq Nesscac cr.-The October Nun
her of this able Pe,iodicai is already upon our Ia
Die. Its leading article is a paper of surprising
ability, and at this moment Of engtossing public in
aeres,-one which I'VE would commend to the sober
and careful perpssl of,he Abolitionists Of both hem
isphercs-we refer TO the " Memoir on Slavery, read
tOetorc the South Carolina Society Cor the advance
uinent Of Leaning, By Judge Harper, of that State.
We are glad 10 see "Oliver Oldschool,' one ofthe
earliest, as he is one Of the best correspondents of the
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ways well stored with arrows, with which he . shoots
folly as 1t aies,"-and there is enough Oft, in all con-
,science, fyirg about, nowadays. to poin; the
satire Of a Juveial, II there were a Juyenal amongst
US
we have also , Letter from Malta 10 the Editor,
asbounding with Interesting description and plquant
~accdote a Review OF Judge Halls Notes ON the
Western States; a biographical sketch of George
II. Morris, Esq. the elegant Poet Editor OF the New
York Mirror, amons the Prose altices-and among
tthc Original Poetry, 9 the Mourner Comiorted,'
by Mrs. Sisourney " B,nco. or the Tenant of the
Spring, a legend Of the White Sulphur written by
n gentleman during the last season. at the rcqucs,
nf a l. ,dy, who wondered why SO celebrated a re
sion had not produced a romance - Lines TO tho
memory of Mrs. Eliza Ann White,' by Eliza Of
y Maine, one of our sweetest Ministries &c. &c. &c.
Again we would reco amend the Messenger to
the patronage of the Virginia public. 1t isa work
which they should cherish with peculiar %iondness,
rs the first of the kind which has ever taken firm root
in our soil, and vindicated US from the charge Of in
,tellectual apathy and dullness.
c. The reader will find the ID No. from TIT
Charlottesville Jeffersonian Republican, on the Prin
.c'pies and Policy of the Conservatives, in this NOR
.nlngs paper. While there are some assumptions it
1t, and arguments thercupon. to which we do not as
sent, we have neither room. time nor Disposition, a
present, TO indicate or to comment upon the points o.
difference between the writer and ourselves. Its
Closing paragraph, too. indicates tina. ii may be here