Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1848-11-30
REDWOOD, NOV. 18th, ISc.
To The Editors of the Wing:

Uhig.
REDwoop, NoV. 18th, 1856
10 The Editors of the Wing:
tienllemen-Ay attention has been called % severaI
references made by different Lpcofco papers circu-
lar signed with my name and addressed various per
suns IN Virginia, proposing vigorous a'q lhed EFFORT
TO effect full attendance of our ers at the 'a'e cleo
tlon hese very refined and delc,e geniie"eh aircl
To consider unfair proceeding ihey d" MOI, all OF
them, publish the letter. s,n'yoq copy for publ
cation as the most efftcual leans NJ ekp"slng The io
y and vindicveness Of ths VINO would make 4 false
impression about the mat".
was for three month past firmly Of opinion as am
now that a very smal'degree of confidence all that
was necessary to cay Virginia for General Taylor-
Visiting mora secons, and seeing Of the people du
ring the campain than any other man popaby in the
State foni- that opinion with the best opportunities
for making reasonable concIqsou My opinion before
the eecin as it is thai with tenth Of the
c,ntide.ce with which the Wings m4ntaned the contest
of l24 they would have carried Virginia BY handsome
MISUNDERSTANDING the six thousand majority Of
o44 against US, five hundred boards judges Of
elections all, nearly ALL against us, and the bitter dis
seniions ndusrously aud peseveIGgly kept up
ranks.
suppose il would be hard To find candid
in the State, knowing any thing Of public sentiment, who
will not say was right. Yet am sure did not meet,
ont ofmany thousand, one dozen men, whom could in
spire with the confidence felt mysef-and here
all the fear had at any about the Of Vrg
MIA.
In this state of things wrote the letter much COM
planned Of; first for my district and afterwards,
the instance Of friend, changed it to circular. did
consider it my duty t. warn the Democratic party
and. indeed, was not ali ANXIOUS they should be at
the polls
doubt exceedingly, whether in this very election the
Committees of both parties did not adopt precisely the
mode of rail- wing their respective friends If they
did not they very little eqnal the duties they un
derook.
1t can hardly be comprehended out Of our own State,
that hunITeds of Hen in every large county in Virginia
(and IN the same proportion in all the counes their
votes tor General Taylor, withou: the hope Of
his getting the vote OF Virginia, Yet such is unqueson
ably and motto riolsly the fact
Virginia Is not only Taylor State, but it is Vhig
Slate and mark the prediction when she comes give
another Vote mean in the Spring Of si9he triumph
of that party will be mpele in all the details Of the
election as has been the late victory in that ancient lea
der Of the republican States-Pent,yraiia.
. Your obedien servant
JOHN S tENDLEToN.
FRANKLIN CcuRFIIousE, Oct. 20, 1S4S.
Dear Sir; am perfectly satisfied that carry the
useless to give the details which the opinion is founded
suffice have had ample opportunities to Judge with
reasonable accuracy far all Eastern Virginia is
ed We can make at sure, by cqnfdenaily concerted
movement throughout the whole STATE and take upon
self to to friends every county y making this
Circular Letter. the following plan, which beg you to
carry out, or have carried out, your county:
On Monday the day before the election have the county
secured by active, intelligent and rusy
be engaged to that voter Of sde be place and
attend the election by this movement wEl unquestion
ably add per cent vote In the present Of the
public feeling, it is mere Likely to PROVE twenty.
Now must attend to this forthwith safe
to dc it, and do as silently possible 1t will be done
throughout tie State if the ocos do adopt the pol
cy success is absolutely certain.
JOHN s. PENDLEToN.
To Col. Thos. I. Grove, Fairfax CO., Va.