Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1841-11-22

tai al W estrlH .uihr,a niay Al lntee.niy IN lei
crenee Ia tie state Of public sentiment in the Fast
Nhaleyoraey he onr individual opnion iar example oi
the forrietN otrermtng our slave population 10 cNert
larti.n oflhe political pawst ottte Commonweath,-
any nsaro tin o,ltef taxable rropety--3e think it u
Iuc, when this vital interest 81 die South is ssslilcd
r N abroad, n make element Of nterm dissension
The people ei the anSmontano counties would te among
The Inst to resist ANY attempt, the part o the non
SaeehoIing States, 10 dnest the Southern members Of
the eontGeiacyo the power in the national councils
conferred upon Them by that provision Of The federal con
sltntan ~ which slaves recognized in the double re-
hon Of persons a3d property. Butt the principle upon
which this provision rests le attacked at home how can
successfully defend it, when il is assailed from a
bread, assaulted ii will be- whenever opportunity oers
II las not loen long ago, since John q. Adrms declared
that, although he would assent 10 act by which the
pledged ith Of his frotathers to this great principle of
compromise between the slave holding aud savehod
ing States should he yolaed,-yet if the bargain were
To be made over agan-ii new compact of Union
about to be formed if the federal constitution should in
his day up for revision and amendment, he would
resist, unto the DEATH any recognition Of the right Of
the SOUTH while caimin" her slaves property. 10 rep
reservation in the federal councils Of two-fths Of that
property persons There is difference, we know,
in the two caa,sthc State governments being founded
the law 81 social compact, which recognizes individual
equality; while The general government Is compact he
tween soveregntios in which personal rights suhord
nateto and merged III. these of the State But natcsln
isblinl to thems Obvious distinctions and
rled To LOOK at things as they and to beinuenced, III
oar ultimate decisions, more by the law Of selfpreserva
ton than by considerations of mere political equality, in
which, after all, perhaps there is but little of practical
injustice orinury involved 10 the complaining party and
even essof benefit the other. While therefore, we
do not mean say that the people Of the West have
lust grounds Of complaint that their complaints
consistently with higher and imperative obligations,
rressc,,-ee mist express the opinion that their
movement is i'll timed. and that their efforts will there
fore prove :; arve-so far least as ii depends upon
legislative action. What ultcror measures Of redress
they av have in view, in order as Mr. Stephenson cx-
presses it to command their Just share in the legisa-
tive councils of the State, do not know. We are
not of any ''peaccabe' remedy other than Lewis
lively organized action-we do not believe that any o
tcr possibly be efficient, if the constitution re-
cognzts the right TO to itbut sure we are that
the great majority of the people of the Western
counties will refuse TO unite in any of violence by
Wlich the good ''Old Dominion, Of which we say as
Cowper said Of Fnsland,-
'EWth all thy faults love thee still
Shall be sundcred in twain, and we shall realize the
dca Of that poet, that
s.Riountains interposcd, make enemies of nations,
'W Which had else been tricndsand like kindred drops,
Glad mingled into enc"