Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1844-08-12
TIE p,sc,,ss,os on TUESDAY LAST.

Messrs Edliurs-I desig6 IN This COMMUNICATION" W
give YOU a detailed accongt TT the dlscussun between
| u..srs Vincent Wiirhrr and Adalphns ID. Read, IN
this place, On Tuesday last. Mr.. Niirher connenced
The discus The par OF the Wings, about hall Pas
o'cock III the aernoop, by speech ot two hunrs. ~
which he evnced much power aud added greatly I'd ms
already extended reputation and fame as statesman and
debaier Every argument with the iJre OF steam
engine against sftaws, crushing them 10 atoms Eve
nv sentence like the welI-drecied VI experienced
sp6rs did execution aud our opponents. wounded
lo The quick wrilbed under the gaia. fire To which
truth and justice always rAp0se item, aud from which
they shrink a creature neither bird nor
beast dues from the beams of amerdiaD sun;or, IN the
words Of Intelligent genileuian present. his argu-
msns reminded me Of athletic mechanic, clipping
off The IL OF sparrows with broad axe" lie briefly
touched pom all heln,orian questions vi the day.
ag.d them with a masters mind, and utterly demolsh
ed every argument have heard In lasur of the
nexaiion OF Texas. e,ef immediately remotely. lie
Was listened with great attention, and responded 10
with enthusiastic applause.
i Mr.. Wilcher's Two hours having expired, Mr.. Read
annunced that, Mr. Witcer had torn The Democrat
c party u rags expected that he should gather up
the fragments, put them ogether and build II up again.
which he promised do alter supper. This may hay
been his expectation. ard perhaps that of his party or
they would not have had the teiueny 10 have thrown
The gauntlet, relying who has recently entered
the political arena wrtsller to sustain weak and
sinking cause. with reason, truth and justice all opposed
10 him. hut IT he supposed that IN this opinion of his pow
The larger portion ot The audience which he address
sed himself, concured, he relied much upon their
friendship or their sympahes. II would have required
tar stouter champion than Mr. Read vndicale the NAL
Practices aud 10 sustain the offensive and numerous men
OF his party, which signally rebuked and
condemned by the American people, in the election Of
| 1910.
But let see how the gentleman fulfilled his prom
ise ! will pass over his exorduin which wa 9 address,
ed principally TO the ladies' who had been invited by the
"Lynchburg Young Mems Clay Club, :" BY remarkipg
Mai his appeal to them for the annexation Of Texas
proved as unavailng as he acknowledged all his former
appeals had been on different forum. Although il NAV
be true that the ladies' favor of per
sc. yet ii is equally certain that they are psed to
annexation en- masse. Next came an apology Of s,ne
eight or len minutes in ltngh which seemed IN me n
he designed 10 spin cut his speech To such length as
would consume the lime which he was To occupy He
then commenced the discussion Of the great questions f
the Bank, the Tariff and Texas; h,undered lrm This IN
tlat and from that TO this, without shelving any bDg
save hct Mr.. Clay, Mr. Polk and himself very nearly
agreed upon the principles Of Tariff and he seemed
t, be opposed to Mr. Clay for no other reason. thai |
could gather from his speech, than that Mr. CLAW once
made speech against Bank Of the United States.
aud that IN 1911 that gentleman held the same opinion
IN that subject that Mr.. Read dor 5 now Though Viz.
H. was particularly dcerse 10 enter upon dry and alb
s,ruSe argument Of the constitutionay of Bank vet
he did nevertheless pronounce, cattedra such an in
sitniion unconstitutional and nphaniy quoted sin
gle sentence OF letter from Mr. Jefferson to Mr. Gall
latin to subsanliaie his ipse d!ri in reply to refer
WHICH MI w llcner hdt Incidentally made. in
connection with the subject Mr. Jetlersoa's sanction
of The establishment Of branch of that institution at
New Orleans. Mr. Wiicher had also referred to a Mad
isOn, Jackson, and TO use his own words uur own
,mm,r,, W,sSnington," two Of whom bore conspcu
part in the lornallou W. ""veTnmen'-One pres
ded over the convention which formed Inc coHsituon
the other took an active part IN its formation aud ,o
adoption; and the third from whom Mr. Read and
his party derive all their anti Bank notions sad while
he was President and that 100 in the very message We
long the charter Of the 'monster' ," that if The Ex
ecutve had been consulted applied TO- he would hav
furnished bill. which would have obviacd all d. iicn
ties and thereby have avoided the death stroke from
his veto. But did not suit Mr.. Reads Convenience
quite 81 well 10 say any thing about these facts
lie genIlensn made a long argument to prove that
Gen. Harrison had formed opinion rrpecby Bank,
or If he had the Why's ianurant OF that opinion.
II he succeeded IN proving this position, he has
ted The ocooco papers and orators of wllfu msreprese
a.lon on that subject in le4O for their papers then
ed and every Iocotoco mouth was filled with the cry
of . Bank Bank :, Bank ~ freely admit, as
enthusiastic Wing thea. saw many extracts
o'n seerres said 10 have been delivered by Gen. Har
nson. which were, yankee would say "a eele kin
der" Too Banhsh for me; for had actually heard
much Of It's enorses and bhody deeds. tina. actually
became somewhat shiliishas to the ''nonster" But
urer judgmen and reflection have satisfied my mind
ha, the old gentleman is harmless Of body and
cannot. # he Were disposed, do us any mischief.
Mr.. Head seemed TO TeJoec that, the Wings had
termed Gen. Harrison a second Washington it was i'm
possible that Mr. Clay could be more than ,hird-hut
he did not show, even attempt To show, that Mr.
Polk had meriied the honor Of being termed even the
hundredth or thousandth.
But the burden Vi Mr. X g song,-U beg his pardon
music shocks the delicate OF his parry ,)te bur
den OF his speech the annexation Of Texas prove
The expedicncy of which he hlt,ered from Texas To
France, from France TO Algers, from Anglers to Eu
gland, and from England the doninons 81 The Great
Mogu lie showed tina, France had forcibIy annexed
Algers to her donnions and that England had grasped
a part of the dominion Of the Great Nogu from which
he drew the logical deduction that right Just aud
proper that should annex Texas TO our Union i
Why because her people are brave and valiant, and
have suffered much to maintain her Independence thus
far: therefore the Lone starr should be incorporated
with The stars and stripes OF glorious Union. Does
he not know that the Poles and Greeks brave and
noble ace-and that they too have suffered much in de-
lending the liberties Of their respective countriesl And
VIII he pretend TO say that this is sufficient reason
why we should throw fostering around them
= take them under our proecion-and say that they
shall be free, in despite Of Russia and Turkeyl
Such. Messrs Editors 10 the zeal of the Locos to &C
qne Texas that they have measuraby abandoned eve.
days is hat they In favor Of "Pok Dallas and Tex
the North they say il will hasten uaiusrsal emancpa.
tence 9 sarery Capt. Tyler tells US that Texas is so
ger and tina, if do receive her. she will put her
self under the protection ot England. Mr. Read, on
the other hand, SAYS. she destined be great nation
and IT not admitted into the Union will in time become
a powerful rival Republic; and that Republics cannot
/ erist cOnguOHS 10 each other The S,uth Car,l,.