Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1840-02-20
SPEECH OF MR.. GooDE, of Mecktenbueg,

SPEECH OF MR.. GOODE. fMecklnburg,
On The election Of Senator
The Enquirer Of the 18Th inst. contains at length
the report Of Mr.. I'm. o. Goodies speech, delivered
in the House OF Delegates, on the ooh uli. accom-.
panied by tail as long as the speech se in The
shape ofan Appendix. which svinces but little re
search beyond The files Of that paper. in which all
The facts coIlaboraied by Mr.. Goode with such seem
ING industry. have appeared, some oflhem precisely
in their present distorted aud mangled shape, hun
dfed lmes before, t'moie or less.'J We propose
10 touch some portions Of Mr. Goodies speech, as
with the spear Of Ihurie in order to show that gen
,leman what different lights the same circumstances
may be made assume. they are viewed in spir.
II OF Stern and rigid imprtiali,y or Of green-eyed
prejudice.
We have heretofore shown that Mr.. Goodies
charge Of uliia-federaism against the Wing party
Is in itself nnlounded that, fm be true. he who
was but so lately Wing himself. and who, in the
knowledge OF the writer Of this article, twelve months
ago, attended a Wing caucus, in which he pour
na,cj his services and his sacrifices in the Wing
cause, which he then pronounced TO be dear to his
hean-he who, on that occasion, impored the
Wig party drive from its ranks himself a.
mong others who had long Tough, by their side, by
resolving TO SUI pou Wa. &. Rves for the Senate
he we say has right TO rep, zach us Wilh The
heresy. even II it BE- justly impulabe TO The Wing
patty avo"sn" pr,nciPes-eapresses no opinions
advocates no medsures-which !, did not avow, ex-
press aud advocate. when Mr.. Goode was one ofiis
recognized and ablest leaders five are ultra iede-
ralisls no,e. 50 were we then and Mr.. Goode was
pdrtak,f oil our sn But, in truth. il is Iudicrous
10 hear gentleman complaining Of the ultra federal
ism oiihe Wings, and then avosng his deter nina
ton To support again aparty which he had abandon
ed for us Observation-Disclosures party which issued the
Proclamation, confessedly the very embodiment Of
the lanl,onian creed-a party. the uniform and I'M
broken tendency Of whose measures is The apcran-
dtzement OF the Executive, and the augmentation OF
It's powers, which, at the origin Of our political Ieuds
constituted primary object of the federal leaders
Really, Mr. Goodc is jumping out of the frying pan
into The IRE: The can find clover deep" than
that into which he has nov plunged-lhe very Ser.
bonian boy OF Federalism fihe Bosios Stamp such
rs attracted Mr.. Van Buren, himself when, during the
second war of independence he opposed the re-elee-
lion to The Presidency, Of James Madison, the au-
/
know where he will look for u. In our belief thai
Is the lowest depth which has ever ye, been sound
I'd by any plummei-line. IL Mr.. Goode wished TO
escape the contamination Of federalism, therefore,
though II he could have been infected by association
with the Wings, he was long enough in their camp
10 catch the contag'on.-lhr tents ofihe P5ociama-
aonsfs, seems TO us, is the very last place in the
world to WHIT he would have fled for refuge
But, enough upon this stale and hackneye ed theme
OF which, We do not doubt, Mr.. Goode tho ght when
lie was one of us, and when he was made to sha, .
IN similar feproaches, just do now when he has
become our assalant, and Yields against us the dull
and poincss weapons which formerly "rung abuut
his own battered casque." Let us look IA h,ie min
nleIy into some ofihe specifications by which Mr..
Goode hopes 10 make good his charge and il we do
not succeed IN demonstrating their total insufficient
oy Tor that purpose, we trust shall at least show
that Mr. Goode has no right TO urge them in de.
fence OF his recent dcserlion of his late allies wbe,h-
Ell we have reference to himself alone, or to the
''enem," whom by that deserlion lie intends to
"eovcr' from assault.
ls'. The National Bank is made to stalk across the
sage decorated, as in days of yore, with hools and
horns, and other al pendages suitable for Monster
II Is remarkable, however, that MIR. Goode should
be SO much frightened by this lunct hobsobin.
seeing that he used TO laugh ii. when 1.-The enemy
was IN tbs habit of paradng il through the country.
pecedcdb BY all the aarum bells that they ud set
IN moIion-and when IL was aiire too Nh, Goode
used to know that all this show apd circumstance"
was designed for stage ,L'ect-aud he spurned alike
the trek, and the imIosters who palmed il upon
public oiedulny. huw is il, then, that he now
hopes 10 scare bearded men with this appari,,ou of a
great Monster, Of which, when alive he was one of
the allies" in lis defensive operations agans, Gen
jackson! il it be the thing he pants, he ought
TO have united with Gen. J. in crushing IT, instead
OF uniting with the Bank to crush him The Bank
may be dangerous to the public hbe,tes; but if il be-
MI Goode has no nigh, so TO say, and 10 dcnounce
ITS advocacy as political heresy of the first magni-
Jude. The success OF a National Bank was more
eett"'say dentlf-d with the triumph Of the Wing
party "hea MI Goode was one Of its leaders, than
IT is nov, when Mr. Goode is is assailant. How,
then. can he asc6bc his abandonn ent Of the Wings
TO nus cause True. he may say, he was against
the Bank then as wclas now. This may be, and
Yet our question Is unanswered. IL he was with us
"1t@'hHdnd'ng We we're Tor Bank in 1886, why
shoold lie desert us because we are for Bank (eye
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