Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-08-18

- We are authorized TO announce
Jonn N. SPEED and BowLISc CLARKE
candidates for reelection to the House OF
Delegates from the County Of Campbell.
0neseiens for Mr.. BOcock.
v The Democratic candidate, for Congress
in this district. objects most strenuous
", to the law abolishing tie Stare trade
in the District of Columbia. Did he not
vote for Martin Van Buren,. for the Presi-
dcncy, who asserted the right Of Congress
to abolish tile isstitstion Of siareyy itself
within the same district.
He quotes the opinions Of Col. Boiling
uttered in the Legislature Of Virginia In
the year 1882, as proof that the peo-
Mo Of this district cannot safely trust their
interests as shareholders to him. Did he
not vote for James Mcdowell as Cover
nor, of the State. who agreed with or went
beyond Col. Boiling, in those opinions;
thereby entrusting to him the slavcholding
interest, not Of this district only. but Of the
whole Ststei
He holds that State Of this Union has
a right upon causes to be Judged OF by IT.
self, TO withdraw from the confederacy and
! Of course being then an Independent pow
or, ii has a right to form any alliance II may
choose. If this be tie right Of State, 1t
is one which it may at any time exercise.
MANY of the citizens Of Massachusetts.
wero opposed to the last war with Great
Britain. Does Mr.. Bocock believe, that
while that war was being waged, the State
of Massachusetts could have Withdrawn
from the Union, entered into an alliance
with England and turned her arms against
the citizens Of the United Statesl
Again. it has been proposed that the
United States should purchase Cuba from
Spain, and take it into the Union as State,
as Louisiana and Florida and California
were purchased and made States Of. Ii
tho purchase were made, and hundred or
q, millions Of dollars paid for the island,
does he think that Cuba would have a
right, the day after, to withdraw from the
Union, and return to its Spanish allegiance
During the last session Of Congress Mr..
Bocock, in conjunction with number Of
other gentleman, established paper in
Washington city, called the Southern Press,
the assumed object Of which was the vim
dicarion Of Southern rights and the protec-
ton of Southern interests. That paper
has since openly, warmly and frequently
advocated disunion. Mr.. Ii. caused his
name to be published among others, re-
commencing that paper to the Southern
people, when it was first established. Has
he at any time Withdrawn that recommcn-
dationl Do not the editors Of the South
ern Press. still regard him as friend Of
their paper and approver of their doctrinesl
Has he ever revoked the authority given
them to publish his name, as one of the en-
dorsers Of their principles? Is he, or not, a
subscriber TO that paperl
Mr.. Bocock takes credit to himself, for
having voted against the notorious VIM.
J. Brown Us Speaker Of the last House of
Representatives, and refers to it as proof
Of his devotion to the South and his free
dom from party feeling. The gentleman
opposed to Mr.. Brown, at that time, was,
Mr.. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, who had
previously discharged the duties Of the
Spcak,rship,in manner not very unaccep-
table to the South, and was not, at that time,
believed to be a Free Soiler. The vote
between himself and Brown was very
close, so close indeed, that Mr. Bocock,
whose name is called rather early in the list
could not possibly have known, that his
failing to vote for him would defeat his
election. Mr.. B. believed him to be Free
Sober. and themost certain way of defeating
him, would have been to have voted for
Winthrop, whom he could not then have
known to be n Free Soler. Was he sufii
cicntly free from party feeling, and anxious
enough to defeat Free Soiler, to do that?
Mr.. Bocock thinks he is the most proper
man to be voted for inthe district, because of
his opposition to the Compromise measures
Of the last session. He thinks Col. Bol.
ling,s not a suitable person to be voted for,
because he approves those measures. Does
not Mr.. Bocock expect to vote for Cass, or
Buchanan. or Dickinson or Douglass or
some other Compromise man, for the next
Presidency, and does he not expect to
cote for them, because ETHER advocacy Of
those measures, taking it as proof condu-
sive that they are true to the Sonthl
Mr.. Bocock believes in the right of a
State to secedc from the Union, and says
If South Carolina sees sufficient reason for
Withdrawing he would say ''let her CO.,
Nevertheless, "he would establish cor
don Of custom-houses around her." Would
he defend those custom-houses. if need be,
and enforce the collection Of duties with
the bayonct; and if the Federal Govern
ment were by that means brought into COLI
sion with South Carolina, on which side |
would he be, would he go to the aid of the
Government, in doing that which he ad-
vices to be dcnc, to-wit. the establishment
Of "a Gordon of custom-houses."
MIR. bocock says, whenever man ap
Proaches HIM "boasting of his personal
honor he 'nvoiuntarily clasps his hand up
on his pocket, and when h, bo,rs
perpetually praising the Union, he is in.
elinsd to doubt his sincerity" What docs
MIR. Bocock do, when he hears a man per.
petually speaking of his devotion to the
rights and honor of the SOUTH