Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-03-13
THE VIR GILMAN.
A. w. c. TERRY, EDITOR.


NOHmf II aeaVkn IOI AOWBIE8Bs
BY reference to the proceedings of the
Wing meeting of Campbell, at the Court
House on Monday last, the reader VIII be
informed that John I. Thornton Esq, Of
Prince Edward has been nominated as
the Wing candidate for Congress, in this
district
We hail this action with unaffected pleas
ure, because we regard it as no less wise
in itself, than ominous OF success. By
the repeated efforts of the Wing party of
the District to secure a suitable nomination.
much time has beenlost, which it becomes
matter ofseriousimport to regain by prompt
and efficient action. The last Farmville
Convention experimenting that the Con
gressional elections would be postponed,
declined to make nomination; but as this
reason for delay no longer exists,the Wings
Of Campbell very properly took the initia-
tory step on Monday to secure a proper
representative in the coming canvass
| That the other Counties in the District
will endorse denomination at the earliest
practicable moment, wehavenot the slight
est doubt; for Mr.. Thornton was understood
| to be the choice of most of them at the
first Conrentioa and would have received
the nomination, if, at that time, he could
have found it consistent with his private
engagements to permit his name to go be-
fore the Convention We cannot doubt
now that, he will hearken to the call which
the Partially offriends, the interest of his
party, and above all, the voice of patriot
ism, have made upon his services SO far
from experiencing any loss Of strength
from the delay in making the nomination,
his position, under the circumstances,
would entitle him to increased claims upon
the sympathy of his friends, who would
not be slow to manifest their appreciation
ofthat patriotic forgetfulness Of self, which
his acceptance will so clearly demonstrate
We repeat then that we will not entertain
the shadow ola doubt;hat, the promptings
of patriotism will constrain Mr.. Thornton
to accept the nomination to become the
standard bearer ofthe Union-men of the
District, who are burning with Impotence
to snatch the "stars and stripes" from the
dust into which the spirit of fhction would
ANONYMOUSLY hurl this time honored flag
Of the Union. This is no time for patriot
ism TO chatter with convenience. Personal
ease and comfort must be postponed to
the sterner obligations to the country. 1t
is time when the country emphatically
calls upon every patriot to do his duty !;
and Mr.. Thornton, we are sure, from the
accounts we have Of hinc, is not the . !,
to sA.--.nk from the discharge of his. We
! nave not the pleasure Of an acquaintance
with that gentleman, but happily his repu-
tation is not circumscribed by the limits of
his personal scquaintanceshiP. We re-
member to have seen, in the Richmond pa
pers two years ago, most glowing ac-
counts of his gallant bearingin the county
canvass, in which, by the force of argument
and of TRUTH combined with the pow
ers Of eloquence and Judgment allot-
ted to but few of his age, he succeed
ed in reducing the Democratic majority of
Prince Edward to the pitiful number of
topr; and this too, after an obstinately con-
tested struggle, in which the whole bate
ries of the hostile forces were brought to
bear against him.
Confidently counting then on the accep-
lance Of Mr.. Thornton, we may be excus-
ed for urging the Wings and the Union
men Of the District to give him generous
and confding support. He is fully able
to combat the arguments Of the opposition,
to expose their heresies and the horrors Of
disunion to which they lead, and will per-
severingly strive to recall the disaffected to
a sense of patriotism in which alone the
Union can find its only safe guaranty
We desire to make no high-sounding APP
peal to the passions, but if we understand
the issues that are to be presented in this
canvass, they involve practically no minor
question than the perPetuity Of the Union
itself; and surely in such a struggle, patriot
ism needs no goad to incite it to action
Here then is a common ground, on which
all who value the Union may take their pat
riotic stand Here, all past differences
may be forgotten; all heartburnings NAV
be healed; all political animosites between
friends who have been temporarily es-
tranged, may be buried in common de-
votion TO a common cause. Let us speak
frankly, for the occasion demands that we
be understood. 1t is due to us, it is due
TO the Wings Of the District to say that, we
allude to the unfortunate schisms which
have heretofore existed in the Wing ranks
\ stranger to most of the Wings, we are
alike stranger to the causes ana nature
ofthese unhappy differences, and cannot
be supposed to have a sympathy for any
faction or clique; and so we trust to avoid
the charge Of presumption, when we ask
to be permitted to indulge the hope that,
we may become the humble means of re-
calling them to sense of duty, Of patriot
ism, of forgetiulness for the past, of charity
for tie future. Weneed not remind them
that, with divided forces they can do moth
ing, whilst united and harmonious, they are
invincible. Happily for them, the Wing
nominee is in no way obnoxious to their
displeasure, by reason Of his participation
in any ofthese squabbles but he comes