Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1840-02-20

posing that lie Is getting he grows Older,
and Is nov alarmed, where he would formey on.y
have been amazed Disguised. SLade,rs have
sometimes struck teuortn The souls oi men, WHO,
AZ others, would have encountered armed legons, With
OUT ihrob Of apprehension Much depends upon
ones We repeat. therefore, thai while The
argument against National Bank may be a legh-
mate Que against the Wings. Vim. Goode, Esq
has no rieht to use IL.
/ 2dly, the Sub Treasury.-Mr. Goode insists up
on !, that tins a Wing measure III 1894 AMI was
sustained by himself then as II is nov. We have
no doubt Of Mr.. Goodies cons siency, but We deny
his assumption The Sub.Treasury was supported
by few Wigs in 1894, but it repudlaled by
the great body of them. as it is now. Our files will
show that we took ground against ii at that lime
Mr.. Goode assumes that because he in 1884
aud IS now IN favor Of the SubTreasury. therefore
his support Of the Administration is right and pro-
per This may be so but il il be. Mr.. Goode
ought 10 have gone over IN September 1897, and
have deferred the movement so long asto deprive
himself Of the justification which lie miglt other
wise have found in this fact. He ought not have
been even an ImWacticabte Wing in 1889 lie
ought to have gone over as soon as NJ Var. Buren,,
instead of complying with his pledge to 'loow in
The iootstes OF his illnstrIous predecessor, took
/ Hhtg ground. Orrather, there no necessity
Tor Mr. Goode TO move at all, since Van over To
nm! And, II this defence be deemed legitimate, ii
proves lha, the Richmond Erquler has turued
/ Whig-nay that Martin Van Buren, is the leader
OF the Wing party But # ii be true that the two
great parties have changed positions without know
ing ii, while Mr.. Calhoun and "his merry men
three have alone remained =" as they were,"-6rm
and fixed as the sun, lille all others have dumped.
jun Crow,'-itis the most wonderful instance Of
wholesale metaniorphisis record Those winch
Ovid narres although the offspring of an age Of
fable, are mere every day occurrences in comparison
with il Mr. Goodc derives rs nle support, j.
seems 10 us, from the Suh-Treasuty as from a Ma
ilohal Bank, even 10 ms aspect Of Tire case. \, hen
we look al II IN another point OF view, howevef--as
| the ioundation-stone of a mammoth Government
Bank, IN lis powers formidable than corpora
private stockholders in connection with the gov
eminent, and rendered infinitely more so by its lndis
soluble alliance with the Executive power, ..area-
dy too great" we have been assured by the Rich
mond Enquirer, "for Republican eeyeInmenl''-
we say. when we look AT tins grand scheme OF Ex-
ecnuye anbliion this engine Of omnpolence, in this
point OF view, we are thuuderstruck al the faulty
"hlch can embrace this real, substantial, tangible
i Monster in order escape from The imaginary ter
rors inspired by a National Bank. which has no
necessary connection with the governments either as
an ally OF as an enemy, except for tire simple pur-
poses Of fiscal agency
3dly. Gen. Harrison, Mr. Goode tells u.s. has ex-
pressed wish that the surplus may be ropfialed
to purposes OF emancipation. provided the States
holding the slaves give then consent This is avery
Objectionable sentiment, we admit but a very harm
less one at the same t'me-seeing that the States
holding the slaves will never give their consent nm
less they ripe for Abolition and when they shall
be, u they ever are, do not believe they ever
will be, there will be no whisper Of objection. made
oy them at least 10 the means recomme ndcb to rid
them oil mat class But If this $, niment, Qhe ony
offensive one ever uttered by Gen. Harrison.) were
ten times as Objectionable il really is ought ito
be Tor an instant weighed by any candid mind in CD
position TO his invaluable and epd defence of The
South and Of slavery GU the Missouri question ? 10
his repeated declarations, SINCE that the Conduct Of
the Abononisls is unconstitutional" as well rs IN.
erpedient Is this sentiment of Gen. Harrison 50
odous, that Martin Van Buren's actual attack IN.
on the South on the Missouri question, is sooner to
be forgiven Is Gen. llarfisous declaration tina,
the hts OF the South are fenced and bedeet
around by - constitutional" provisions to be deem
ed OF less value than Van Burens declaration thai il
Is 'nerPed'ent to assaIl those rights! Surely men
mus, be blinded by party feeling when ii is neees-
sary TO ask such question.
4th. Mr.. Goode repeats the charge, that Gen.
Harrison is an old Alien and Sediion law lcderalisr,
which charge is founded upon a declaration impu.
ted 10 Mr.. Randolph, Of RoaLoke on the foo, ol
Congress We prefer looking at Gen. Harison's
history, which we shall deem of at least equal au
thcnlicny with random remark of John Randolph
VINO, II IS well known, never very deliberately weigh.
Ell his mputaiIons but whose ne was ptoyerbial
~ "a chartered liberne." If Mr.. Randolph ia 70
be cited as authority. however, we beg leave TO ask
Mr. Goode what that great but eccentric n an mean,
when, pointing 'that awful fore. finger more Terri
bic than the clnb of Hercules more dreadful lhan
the Gorgon's head" at Mr.. John c. Calhoun. he ex
CLAIMED, "Slr we are separated by a gulf as impas
sable as that between Dives and Lsz,rus 2, Did
he not refer to the ultra federalism of John c. Cal
houn, now Mr. VIM. o. Goodies great Democratic
Republican State Rights leader - Surely. if MIR
calhoun was a iederalist so late as 1924 Nh Goode
oughi not to make ii an nsuprrabe objection to
4 Cen Hanson that he was a federaist 1899. mar,
ticnariy II he has gwen evidence of chance of
oplnlOn sine that lime. nd that he has