Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-04-01
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10 tls Whig votsrs Of Stafford County,


Captain wH. BARBSR having been selected as
the Wing Candidate to represent you in the next
Legislature, il behooves YOU and all, to present
yourselves at the polls his election. This
done, you know his success is eeriain-the least
apathy on your part. renders the success Of MIR
Tlcdgman, his opponent, no less certain. Long eI-
pereneo ,cs,hes that the rARrr in Stafford, is gov
orned aud directed by leaders, seine ftp OF whom
have a potential influence, and whose industry and
.xertions in elections, never slumber. Relying on
this description OF power. and the apathy and dis
ooid OF the Wings, they are careless whom they
may selee, Of their own par nor is j, indeed OF
great consequence to the good Of the public party
dictum TO them, is the Jaws of the Meies and
Persians. The writer does not mean to detract
from the merits Of Mr. Hedgman, as gentleman OF
great worth. by ns,ituting comparison with Capt.
Barber as a man OF practical business usefulness.
II will be allowed that Mr. Hedgman possesses fine
natural endowments, and that he has had the bene-
III % a hue education, and that his incna,ions
pute and vduous; but II is true, that such - the
versatility, and tho peculiar structure oi his mind,
that il is doubted he has been able TO confnc his
reflections TO any one subject, for ten minutes ut
time for 20 years: so remarkable is it. that it has
given 10 very laughablc stories of absence
OF mind. Now, however worthy such man may
be; however honest and pure his designs may be
~ rests rs DISCRIMINATION Tor grave and conSldc-
rate Legislator; and vital, he is a violent partzan
In Captain Barber, you have a man of fnc intelli-
goncc, of active business habits, of enlarged and
LIBERAL views Of public policy, and withal, Wing
of no doubtful character, whose universal acq usin-
tAnee in the county, makes him familiar with your
local wants.
Is il no, time that such men should b, chosen as
your Representatives To what condition has
Vircinia-ontc proud Vrginia-been reduced nv
the faction OF Loco Focoism7 Not content with
reducing her high standing the mother OF States
men, by continued fruit.ess and mperlinenI inter-
needing with the National Legislation, and the NO.
ccssarv neglect of the domestic concerns of the State
they have, to crown all other misdoinss, denied to
Virginia the receipt OF her Just portion Of the pro-
cecds Of the public lands TO Oe distributed according
% an net OF Congress; and which, as n mater OF
necessity, will be handed over 10 the accepting
States; and this done, too, solely feed the foul
appetite of party, and at time when your State is
under pccuuiary distress, TO relieve her Of which,
your taxes must be greatly augmented. IL is fairly
estimated, that this fund, to which orc entitled
by justice and the laws Of the land, would in ten
give education 10 every poor boy and girl in
Nirsinil, and expel from your homes every tax
gitnerer. Was ever Faction so factious7 Fellow |
Cuzsns, i; IS time to drive such men from your |
coniicnce. CALI then, on every resident voter OF |
Stafford, TO come to the rescue. l call on every |
constitutional voter in the adjacent countless TO come
10 the polls, and exercise the privileges secured to
them bv the Constitution. From Culpeper, Fau-
quier Orange, King George, Spoitsy lvania, and
IRON Richmond County, come to the polls, and you
viii the services OF able and most faithful
Delegate, in the person Of Captain Barber. Heed
not the croaking about foreign vote carrying the
cecion-the right is Us much yours the resident
vo,efs-you are as deeply concerned in the issue as
they are.
To the polls, then-let no voter be absent. now
warn YOU that | knoio your adversares are pre-
pairing TO 10 the very thing they so loudly condemn
IN you Give day TO ail in saving your State ,
f.on foul misrule. FAUQUIER.
MARCH 2S, 1912.