Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-11-29
POLITICAL ABOLITIONISM

We would most willingly decline the dscu..io,
of this dangerous element in party combination,
ifihe uncandd, insdious ard perlous course pur,n.
ed by the Richmond Enquirer and other Van Buren,
prints in the South did not compel us, in vindcaoo
not less Of ruth than ofthe character and design, nj
the Wing party in The non-slaseholding States, to
ouirageousy partial detail of facts, upon which ,hey
base their clamorous appeals TO Southern prejudi.
and apprehensions. But we have no alierna,iy.
left Facts one side must be rcbuted by fact.
on the other; SO that. if the Enquirer and its allie,
shall succeed in convincing their readers that the
South has every thing TO fear from the endanoyt
the Wings at the North, they may at the same time
that they have least nothing to hope from the
triumph of their adyersaries. We shall therefore
present to The public compendium OF such facts a,
may occasionally meet with, not for the purpose
of showing that the Northern WHY'S are untain,et
by the spirit Of ianaticism, for we have too nany
evidences that thousands Of them are, but for the pur
pose OF demonstrating that their opponents no.
less affected by the malady, and are equally Ca
ger to embark in this mad crusade against Soa,hern
rghlsa crusade less lanatlca in its origin and
infinitely chmerica in its character and more
destructive in It's consequences than that, which, in
rudcr age, carried the armed hordes Of Europe 10
the plains of Asa.
II the Enquirer and its confedera,es in this work
ofdecep,ion would act fairly in reference this deli
1e question, we should De perfectly content TO give
them the field OF, il circumstances required IT, 10
cooperate with them in u,terlng notes of warning to
the ) auth. But hen them embracing tho
Abolitlonisls oftheif own political school, and re.
joioing their success or, speaking Of them as
signal instances Of men differing upon this question
from the great body olther political associates, in tho
same breath in which they denounce and depreeae
the trium poi an Aboliiionst tho happens be
Whig,we forced 10 the conclusion that they re-
gard Abolition as dangerous only when ii threatens
to snatch the seertrc from the hands Of Martin
Van Buren,, the Missouri L. slrctionisr, whilst they
deem it a very harmless thing when it is cxerted
TO prevent the transfer oil that scepre TO the hands
Of Henry Clay, who upon the first exhibition of
tins spirit of fanatoism in the Halls of Congress,
stood forth. the champion of the South, and tho
saviour Of the Union. But 10 facts.
/. In relation to Ohio. The Richmond Enquirer
publishes the following letter:
To he Editor CIScISsArrI, Nov. 10.
" The statement that the defeat OF The Wings of
this State caused by the interference ofllle Alb
ol,rionlsls is lase.-1he Editor Of the leading Abo-
! liiion Journal IN The State is Il Wing and SO are
the gfear body oflhe Abolnlonists and they would
gladly have seen Vance again elected Governor
! They believe that he acted honestly in delivering up
! Mahan, but from mistaken sense of duty. This
have from good autho,lty-lhe bead quarters OF Abb
oluionsm. | will send WI the next PhIlanthro-
pisl, tina, you may judge for yourselI.'
Well, we hope, when the FL quirer receives tho
next Pnilanthropis" it will give its readers tho
! q, + 81,
sent us No. of tins same Phanthropist," which
is " the leading Abolition Journal in the State and
that No. expressly attributed the election OF DR..
Duncan and the defeat Of Gov. Vance TO the exer-
lions of the AbuIitionsts in favor Of the and a.
ganst the other And we have recently
tract from its columns urging most srenuonsly tho
70 lee ION of Mr.. Morris to the U. S. Senate. than
whom there is not a more violent Democrat and Alb
oiionis in tie L. States
9. New York-In the Onondaga Congressional
District the Wig CANDIDATE refused to answer the
heterogeneous of the Abolitionsis and the conse-
quence thar Cert Smith took the field openly
against linn, did the Abolition paper, the " Friend
OF Man also. Aud the remarkable circumstance is
exhibited IN the counties comprising this district,
that Bradish The (Whis) Abolition candidate
for Lieutenant Governor, beat Seward, the Wing
nt-AboItion Candidate for Governor about 600
votes, and that The Democratic candidate for Congre"
run neck and neck with Biadsh!
AgaIn-ln the Oneida Congressional District
sending two members the facts still more dec-
sve Bradish beat Seward in this county 800 votes.
and 10 the extent the two Wing candi-
dates for Congress beat by their Democratic antaeo-
nists. One Of the Wing candidates was Henry
FitzIugh, a broiher-n law of Gerul Smith and yet
Smith, in despite of old political ainlties, (for he
formerly Whig) and Of family come ction, u
sed all his influence 10 defeat him. In Il letter pub
llshed in the Friend of Man the OF the cleo
ton, Ger Smith says: "Of all the offensive let
ter have read, Flrzhughs and KIrkland's joint an
swer is positively the most offensive" And this OPP
position had its effect. Bradsh The only Wing
candidate who obtained majority in a county
which lastycar gave them upwards of 1000. be-
cause he was the only who Abolions'
Is not The inference clear, ha, there, at least, ING
AbolIlionis,s preferred Democrats TO Wings
3. NaSSachuseHS.-In this State, nearly every
leading man attached TO the Van Buren, party, IS an
Northumberland Bancroft, the collector OF INC
port Of Boston, aud Robert Rantoul aud Alexander
Ii. Everett, two Of their candidates for Congress al
the late election. avowedy And, above a''
their candidate far Gorernor, Marcus Norton, whose
letter to the An-Shvery Society will not, we hope
be less readily transferred TO the columns oil Tue
II ichmond T. uuui, hpcarse he is Democrat,