Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-05-14
NATIONAL AND PATRIOTIC.

The Wings Of Tenuessse have nominated for cleo
ton the present excellent Governor Neil s. Brown and
they eXpec carry the State for him very handsomely
Upon his unanimous nomination by the Wing State
Convention at Nashville. few DAYS SINCE the Cover
nor made betaddress, the substance of which appears
in the Nashville papers. Ibe following passage will
show how his Excellsncy thinks and speaks on some
Suhjecs:
lie congratulated the Wings upon their success in
the Presidential campaign, and remarked that some qes
lions had recently arsen to one Of which he would al
ude-he slavery question, arising from the acquisition
OF new territories. He said that question such as
this, he need give pedgeshe had in his birth and
education something better than pledges He was in "a
vor Of the institutions Of the South, bnt he valued the
Union above every thing else He deprecated The fana
clSm that seeks to array portion Of this glorious
Ion against another opposed to the proposition made
IN slme quarters, of non-ineTc0urse with the North in
case of the passage of The Wlmot Povs; said he acod
not giee foot Of ground Bunker HW or Saratoga or
lorhto1ra for all the land ,ces OF the Rio Gralde though
all lis hills studded ,rh gold and It's rae,s fEed
Cih Stdres He opposed those W no would DENY
the Southern people their rights in the newly acquired
territories. and thought that, in the present threatening
aspect OF things, compromise should be made but he
'coS for the UNION AT HAZARDS" for the South SO
long as ne could be consistently with the preservation Of
TIE Union, but for he Union al all erentsn
Such sentiments these find prompt response in the
heart of the American people, Every year Of our exs-
ence as nation adds to the strength Of that national
feeling which cleaves to the Republic one and ndvis-
be 1t is true there elements of alienation at work
both at the North and at the South and there appears to
ne an unusual activity in those elements Just now Fa-
natlclsn, sectional and POLITICAL blending the aspiration
OF personal ambition with the bitter prejndces arising
from interests supposed to be contraanl seems to be
moving for desperate crisis-f by any possibility
bring things TO the dignity Of crisis Some distinguish
ed amateurs of treason hive been chasing the phantom
or years with singular perseverance, and every contin-
gency has arrived except the crisis The GOOD people
have been mpored regard themselves as unullerably
Observation-Disclosures of the existence of Slavery at the
oonth or because Of the horrors, present and prospective
contained in that box of PANDORA, the Wilmot Proviso
Its painful 10 witness the misery of these disappointed
champions Of dlsuniln-prophets If run who like so
many CAssASDRAs except that CAsANDRA was a yo,uag
woman, about in agony because they are neither be-
lieved nor allowed to realize their own predictions
With happy indifference to these eforts of agitation
the great mass oflhe people attend their Business
with feeling of security in the institutions established
BY the founders # the Republic and with latent feel
ing Of devotion to the Union and the grand nationality
II has created, which like the strength Of giant is qu-
escen from the consciousness Of its own might Once
aroused by the apprehension Of danger those who had
provoked it would probably find reason to beware
Bait. finer.