Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-04-04
LyNcuHURG, APRIL 4, 1880.
THE LOCO FoCo ADDRESS.

suit 10 WILL the au mentaon OF tie number Of eir
party. by bringing within It's foIds, black spirits
aud white, blue spirits and grey
Their first object seems to be TO induce tie Con
seryati,cs to regard the Sub Treasury scheme as a
measure of so little practical importance, as that
notwithstanding the terrific picture drawn OF lis ten
denotes by the Richmond Enquirer in 1887, they may
very consistently support the Administration, which
seems to have s'aked its Claims 10 popular favor up
omit success or defeat. Their second object is to
persuade the ub-Treasney Wigs that it is aques,
ton Of such vital interest," that they, though con-
curing with the Administration upon other point
should for the accidental coincidence ofscntiments
forget all their serious and just grounds OF opposi
ton to Mr.. Van Durcn, and receive the bdpiisnia
rite Of initiation into the newly .iolmod " Democratic
Republican state Rights Church. One Of these
positions Of course the Threats Of the other
IF Gen. Gordon ard his little band have been caught
by tie latter argument, surely Mr.. Rives and his
friends cannot permit the former to have any weight
If the Sub Treasury Wings attracted to tie Ad
minisiiaion by what they deem the beauties OF lis
proposed financial system, the Conservatives, on the
other hand should be rcpelled by What they regard
its determines Soihai, in catching Jack they ought
PROFESSIONALLY to lose jill. We shall not, however,
comment upon the ludlefous position in which the
Loco Foco Convention is presented by thus throwing
then Janus-faoed argument into alternative form.
statement of il is as iorcible any Illustration
can make it. The writer Of the Address doubtless
supposed that by throwing the first argument in front,
and lacking the last the tail the could be for
gotten before the other could be read. Or perhaps
he was eager for the formation of the i" coalition"
hat,y he nd IL, N,tl,
tina, he had forgotten, when he made his bid for the
recruits that he was furnishing full justifca.
ton Of those honest Conservatives who refuse TO
sink or swim" with an Administration whose mea-
sures they have over and often asserted will put
njeopady both he prosperity and the liberty of their
country.
And, by the way. TO put this matter in clear
light, aud thereby to 81 ow that the "snk or SWIM
Conservatives have placed themselves ia a most awk-
ward and ridiculous dilemma, We will SUPPOSE case
that, again aud again defeated In his efforts to force
the Sub Treasury scheme upon areluctant PEOPLE
Mr.. Van Buien should be induced to fall back npen
National Banh as, in lis oplon, the only safe and
practicable means Of conducting the financial opera
tons oil the govern alent alleging, rs hn Tow alleae
that "'he State Bank sy.tsm has been tiled, and
,,as lalled' We nope our Democratic friends will
no, smile at this supposton; for assure them
that though does not seem be very proba-
bic, yet that it is very far from being ssible-for
hostile as Nj. Van Buren, may be to National
Bank. he is not whit more decidedly so than lie
was TO The Sub Treasury Of which he is now such
uncompromsing advocate hen it was first broach-
ed by Gen. Gordon, Tor Fanny Wright, VIC forget
! which. )-WelI: suppose Mr.. Van Buleu should re-
commend the Incorporation Of National Bank /:
what in that case should those gentlemen do, who
have denounced that institution, not only as cons-
| tutional, but also as
:" A Monster. of such hideous mien,
- That. to be hated needs but 10 be seen ~
Patriotism, as well as com non honesty says tLat
they would be bouud TO oppose an Administration
thus lalthless to its pledges and unprncipled in lis
conduct. But The sink OF swim" gentlemen would
reason very differently. They would say, that, con-
curing in sentiment with the Administration on 9th
err subjects, Republican would desert it mere.
~ because of difference of opinion upon this sin
gle point They would say, Brother Democrats
you believe tie Bank 10 he unconstitutoual-you
believe that lis Incorporation would be dangerous
I" the liberties OF the counIry-tLat it is raising up
great Money King in the person of Nick b ddle
potent enough not only 10 influence and control The
whole financial concerns OF the whole country but
TO overawe and set at defiance the government itself
but nevertheless, Martin Van Buren, is the " Demo.
cratic Republican State Rights" caudidate-the
anoinied successor oil the Hero OF the Herniiare
the chosen Of the Baltimore Convention-,he
" Northern man with Southern princples'-and
how can yc hesitate TO "sink or swim" with hun,
be his measures right rwloog constitutional or un-
+ adj
county his is the sum and substance Of the ar
gnmett now urged upon the Independent Conserya.
uves, by those gentlemen who, believing that the
Snb,Preasury scheme is Inconsistent with a linn
tied Executive and guarded Exchcquer," are
nevertheless prepared TO sustain the Administration
which manllests determined spnt TO force il upon
the county! We can imagine no argument mo,e
utterly snbveisTe of every thing like principles
none, which carried 10 its legitimate results would
more certainly convert popular election into a So
Tenn iarce-For of what value is the ri pht be non,
PIE 10 set IN Judgment annually upon the conduct of
their public servants, it, instead OF judging the Tree
oy lis fruit, they look only lis name What Con.
seivatise. who believes, thai, If the Sub-Trcasn,y
scheme IS adopted shall be cursed with an nm
Hmtted Erecutrc, (Which is but auohe, term, c
Desiosn,-and that our Treasury will be "exnos
eh TO the plund Of a hundred lands where ouIv one
can now reach it, as the Globe said would he tho
case when Gen. Gordon first broachcd this scheme