Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-04-22
col. CABELL'S ADDRESS

In laying before our readers the sulioine5 A,
dress 10 the people oil Amherst, from tie No,
their late intelligent delegate tCol. Ed. a. Cab.n
the writer Of this paragraph, who was an actor NIL,
scenes which The Colonel describes deems !,
TO say that he is fully borne GU, IN all his
and arguments by the facts TO which lie ;dys...
No true WSig, unu huenred by sinister p,o,;ra
unconquerabe prejudice., it seems to u. ,.1'
have been spectator OF the scenes in Ricbm..,
during the late Senatorial election, without us,,.
ing the course pursued that occasion h.,
ten'hs Of the Wing party Indeed. The n,.,o
that nine-tenths Of that party did nurs,o :,
course is Of lsell strong printa tacie evidence
propriety, and should remove the doubls =
who, remote from The scene of action, could '
possibility, be so well qualified as they we,e
eide whether ii WAS right or wrong; unless ID,
1t be commended that among them all there u.
ther wan, of sagacity to perceive the e,ro, -,
course, or a total destilution of princirl. 'a'
disregarded alike the suggestions Of wisdom ma =,
requirements Of honor. TO those who sr,o..''
ms op'nlon' II there be such, we lave nothn,,
say; For ore, We hold their judgment to be On
par with their liberalty-Neither will break =.
mire's back.
We have only one remark to make, in ol1,,;,.
what Col Cabell has said and it is this l.
generally admitted thai the - demonstrators
IN favor OF Wing by several leading I.oco H..
were designed to bamboozle certain sep,leme, No.
naIy of our party, who were ,riLiing to be ebo,,.1
add ultimately, by narrowing the conles, dov, !.
tween Wig and the Sub-Tteasury Candidate
secure the election of the latter The v,it...l.,
took the liberty of asking two of these Loco ros.
(Col. Watkins and Mr., WoollolkA if ,bey
nave voted iof Wing had the contest been ,bus
narrowed down aud they both promptly and in the
most emphatic language replied that Uiey ,c9a,d M,
Let US now look at the only condition nron wbioh
they ever promised to vote for a Wing. I, was ,b;,
that the Wings would abandon MIR. R,vas "a,
themselves unite upon a Wing neti he ho,,o
in mind toe, that the Wings did so uni,c alto, III;
pledge was gwen and The pledge ,cas not redeemed !,
But suppose they lad continued So to have un,,o,
upon Wing candidate ballot after ballot. Is il M,
apparent that the effect Of that concentration wonl1
have been to throw Mr., Ryes out Of the oucsiion ,o
to have narrowed down the struggle between A.
johnson Tor some other Wing aud Judge Mason,
Does any man believe, that. thus narrowed dawn
Mr.. Voolfolk, or Col. Watkins. or any other J.ooo
toco would have pieiereda Wig ITO their own man,
II there be, hers - veIy creduluus Those gen
tlemen would themselves laugh in his face. thai bc
could be so easily Judyd They will tell you that
they never would have SO voted, under such cir.
cums'ances. 1t was only by the Wings thus plo
cling themselves in the power of the Loco Focos
that the " condition" upon which the Locos promis
ed to vote for a Wing candidate could have been
complied wh-and YET, as that condition.
was complied with, they tell us themselves in words.
what they had before told by ther votes, that thev
never would have fulfilled their promise But We
OBTAINING the reader too. long from Col Cab,lr.
excellent and convincing Address: