Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-11-29
VIRGINIA.

The Baltimore American makes itself merry ut
the expense Of the Old Dominion after the follow
ing fashion:
"ViRGINA.--If tina ancient Commonwealth
should cast her seventeen votes for Taylor, it has
been surmised that the election Of the General will
be ascrbed to the said votes and that the good
pie OF the Old Dominion will plume themselves ac-
cording'y But for ourselves, speaking confden-
TALLY to our readers, do not hesitate to express
the opinion that this is mere taun,.
''lhere are many persons out Of Virginia who
delight to have fling now and then al The various
forms IN which the State pride of our neighbog ex-
hiblts itself. According To these caumniators
thorough Virgnan tide water would not admit
that any man, with the vote Of Virginia against him.
could De cons,ltutionally elected President-such
being his idea of the importance Of Virginia as DO
litical sovereignty The ,raducers further say that
this notion of the States superiority is carried So
far as to affect Virginian's ideas of Geography :;
and that If he were TO make map of the United
States the ancient Commonwealth would occupy
four iths of it, while the other portions of the u
Mon would be represented es outlying strips and
fragments, membra disecta, scattered elong the
margin OF located in tire corners. Thus the whole
North, including Pennsylvania. New York, New
England, and the Jerseys, is supposed to range a
long Mason and Dixon's line, while Maryland per-
forms the important duty of frontier guard TO pro-
tect the Potomac. The great West is a region
explored, and still traversed by Daniel Boone The
South West as lar down as the mouth of the Mis-
sssippi is vaguely confounded with Little Tennes-
see.
"Such some Of the calumnies uttered by jeal-
GUS reviers against the venerable State which has
given four presidents to tho Union and an officigl
editor 10 Mr.. Polk. But we disregard such ,aun,s,
and entertain so high opinion of the value OF
virgna's vote, notwithstanding the Tenth Legion,
that we shall hail with joy the entrance Of the Old
dominion into the ranks of the Wing States. Into
those ranks she must come-for her instincts and in
terests are conservative; and she will soon find shat
certain allies very good long they can be- con-
trolled, are very bad when they set up to be mas
ters''
Very witty all this doubt 1t is pity the
American did not think Of it all, a winter or two
ago, when 1t was trying TO get our Western trade
for the benef, of the Monumental City. Perhaps
it thought the joke would not take just about tina
time
There are very many thorough bred Virginians,
we can assure tho American, both the tide water
and elsewhere, who regret, deeply as it is posi-
BILE to be regretted, the determination oftheir State
to remain in the traces of 1.ocofocoism, and who
have not left, and will not leave, any hest effort
untried, 10 redeem her if it be within the power of
man to do it. This fling them, therefore, is gra-
tuitous and unkind. The sneers of the American
should be reserved for Locofocoism which is the
same here as in Maryaad, only, unfortunately, the
persons who profess it are numerous. To fall
upon the whole State for the sin, of portion, very
much resembles species Of justice, much in vogue
among the Indians, which teaches that where an
Indian is slain by white man, it is perfectly fair
to say the first white man that happens 10 come in
the way, whether he may have had any concera
with the murder or not. An equal number of seal ps
is supposed to strike balance, and thencefOrth the
scales Of justice hang evenly. We protest against
this wholesale system Of scalping and somahawk-
ing Richmond Whig