Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-07-22
SCENE AT THE BURIAL GROUND.
GRLELEY'S VIEWS.


ihe illlWlh9 IS ff0fdCe tfeeicYS view uf Zen lay
10y death aud lis probable consequences:
Syracuse Tuesday. July 10, 1850
The FIRST news OF Gen. Taylot's Illness reached this
city last evening; and when saw the despatch Of SIX
O'Clock announcing that his life desp,ired Of knew
that the was al hand. 1t was o this morning
befde his death known here. and tho general
81 ON bespoke the common consciousness of National
di-a.ter. Oar Free School Convention, though large
has been held as il under pail, and must be to The
end.
neyersp Ike nor wrote 10 Gen Taylor, nor sought
his acquaintance in any way To the extent Of my
bly and industry, opposed intle last his selection
the Wing candidate for President believed thai his
education and political knowle gc were not such as that
ollce required aud that Consequence of his
selection would bean Inflammation OF the youthful ras
slon for military achievement and renown which is one
# the chief pers Of our Republic That he was pa,ri
otlc brave, upright and naturally sagacious, did
doubt; that hi, heart generous, kind and true who
ever doubied3 That he has done better President
than was anticipated is, think, very general convi :
lion. Peace 10 the ashes. honor to the memory of the
jns and good man
lie has been taken from at fearful crisis in our
na,ion 'his'oy-a crisis which he was pre- emineny fit
ted and seemed providentially desgnaeJ brave and
muster. For months disunun has been be,oh;,g ito
plots in the National Metropolis and quietly weaving its
tratorous webs over the South and Southwest There
are sixty men to-day in Congress who to live
der no government not devoted To the extension and
ratification Of human slavery and dcsparng of shaping
on the dissolution ofhe Union and the formation Of a
Sonlhem Cnnfrdeacy m lis ruins Tho only man. at
lhu mention Of whose namc they qnaIled, chary
fnylnr lie was their chief antagonist no less by in
siinci than position. \ Shareholder himself he vet
held that slavery could ghtfully be- and ought n
10 be. extended 10 realms. sdie Of The nation
through almost his who. active lie, knowing himself
honoed aud beloved by the nation he loved the Union
with iafsency and single hearted devotion which it is
but inst 10 the officers of onr Army and Navy To say is
] tuain II
and publication, he would have poured out his blood
with joy; and well the poflcrs knew it, They dreaded
more his personal opposition To their contemplated foray
On New Mexico than all the forces which the govern
men, can muster there they knew that single Proca-
nation bearing his signature. and dcnouncing the en-
Payment of force against New Mexico by Texas woull
paaze their Efforts to raise troops hroug bout the South
while To the New Mexicans themselves
"Ono blast upon thai bualr horn
Were worth five thousand menn
! That Proclamation was anNiousy and hopefnlly cx
pec'ing, and would not long have expected in vain but
Tor this most unlocked for catas,ophy God is above all
Yet TO our human apprehension it that there ne
was time since " ashngton's first the death of a
President would have been appalling calamity. Il
viii be mercy scarcely less than miracle the horrors
OF civil war shall yet be averted.
Mr.. Fillmore ia wise and pure Recommendations
conservative and devoted to tho public veal His
knowledge Of public afias is far extensive and com
rete than Gen. iaylors; his PRINCIPLES e,uojlv sound
National and henehcen Yet the difference IN pnwer and
position between an elected and substituted President
Is mmense and the difficulties of the Presidential s,,,ou
have been featuly increased and complicated by The
change Men who dare not wag their tongues against
Gen Taylor will asSal Mr. Fillmore as traitor and vol,
ms impeachment within six months for doing precisely as
They hno'r Gen Taylor would have done if still living
he new President deserves and should receive the heart
fr sympathy aud supp Of every parint and esnecia
ly of every Wig. That he will nohly sustain his ne,
responsibilities and he well ancd in their DISCHARGE
must be the ieven' hope oi every generous heart as j.