Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-09-11

DINA, that could be elected to Constable's |
place, under the ne,o Consultation of Tu-
ginia eren Look at Hopkins l.. Turney,
Of Tennessee, whose address to the peo- |
pie of Tennessee, if am not greatly mis-
taken. was ranked in this portion Of Mr.. |
Bocock's district. l will not assert, that
it was under his frank, because do not
rccollect certainly that it was. but have
seen it in this district. He (Turney) was
bold and candid, and doubt not, spoke
the sentiments oft secessionists every
where. The Union loving people Of Ten
nessee, would not even elect him to the
State Senate, in the late election in that
State.
But Mr.. Bocock says, don't strike down
the man, who has stood up for the rights
of the South against the Yankees, and so
say Powell and Averett. Well gentle
men, if this were all, you ought not to be
stricken down: but is this all you have
done, or that you are willing to dol That's
the question. IF you will take the Con-
| stituton of the Union, in one hand, and the
suord in the other, when these Yankees
violate that sacred instrument, every body
ought to march under your banner; but
when the Constitution has not been viola
ted by the late compromise acts, and you
propose, as did your Nashville Conven-
ton. to secede from the Union and form a
Southern Confederacy, and give up there
by, this Constitution to these Yankees,
whether they have violated it or not, why
then, say the people ought to give you
up, and elect men who will cling to, and
fight for,if need be, the Constitutions; it being
the instrument of those who have not vio-
lated any of its provisions. Everybody
ought to understand this position.
And here | will call the attention OF
your readers, to the criticism tor argu.
ment have not heard) of Mr. Bocock,
and his special and very particular and
peculiar organ, the Lynchburg Republi-
can, (whose anti-compromise Editor used
TO rant terribly against the su6missionists
Maj Garland, Thomas Richie, and all
such, Wings or Democrats, male or fc-
male no matter who,) that Col Boiling,
had offered at the last session of the Leg.
stature, resolution declaring, that Vir-
ginla would consider the repeal of the Fug.
tive Slave Bill, "a portion Of. the compro-
mlse,) equivalent TO dissolution of the
Union. These are notthe words of the reso-
luton, but the purport. These critics ard
wiseacers, would fain make the people
believe, that Col. Boiling, was more rash
and violent disunionist than they are
Bring these smart people up to the scratch
what say you gentlemen, if the Northern
people repeal this, the most and only ben
efcial part ofthe compromise, as you say
to the South, to declaration of this sor,
by the Legislature of Virginia Come
now fyou are men. stand up like men
and say to the people, whether you would
be willing to submit to such an outrage as
this on the South, or would you as usual
be found vapouring and preaching South
Carolina nonsense, about reserved rights
State rights and all other sorts of rights
but common sense rightsl Do you dis
approve Of the course proposed by Col
Boiling, in said resolutionl If you do, tel
the people so, and then tell them what you
would have Virginia do, should Congress
repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill
| But Col. Boiling, was in favor of e.
mancipating slaves, in 1s32or 1888, and
therefore should not be trusted in 1851
Well now really this does look little ug-
lyat glance, andifitbe an objectionto Col
Boiling at all, it might be made by Wings
But for regular built, Democratic LEGO
foco, tic raise such an objection to him. is moi
only queer, but ridiculous besides. Whom
did they ever refuse to vote for, of then
own party for entertaining such opinions as
Col. Boiling then entertained Did moi
they attempt to put James Mcdowell II
the Senate Of the United States few years
since who uttered the same sentiments?-
Did they not elect him Governor of Vir
ginia? Has not Thomas Richie rallied
and marshalled them, a thousand times
since, to the field, and to victory, who
has put fire on many democratic "te7Yu-
pms back" as he called the slothful, who
was Mr.. Folks approved, and accredited
organ at Washington? He too entertain
ed and uttered the same sentiments as Col
Boiling in 1888. Did they not vote fol-
Gen. Cass for President in 1913, who
said he thanked God he was not the owner
OF a slave, nor ever expected to he, and he
prayed that he might see the day when
there would not be one in America! Good
hearings, can 1t be possible that this is the
party that quotes Col. Bolling's opinions
In 1888, to convict him of being unsafe
and unsound upon the slavery question, in
1851, when they have been voting all the
time for men for any and every office,
high and low, whose opinions upon this
subject were not only unsound in 1898,
but ever since, and they knew it too Why
these people will, if they keep on this way,
make somebody believe after IA while
perhaps that they are so very Southern in
their feelings, that an Eastern, or Northern
wind ought not to blow over them, because
1T per chance may have come from Yam
keeto~m; and if you name Fillmore to
them, IN connection with the subject of
slavery, may look out for fix certain, or
be called on TO leave, Immediately or soon
er. In their presence, you are not to re-
main many minutes in peace.
Well it is after all great party, and as
the lamented j. II. peasants once said, |
wish Chez belonged TO it or could believe
with it 4; but | should have to sacrifice
every political principle | believe to be
right, first, which never expect to do, and
thereforea gulf flows between us, as i'm
passablc as that which flowed between
Lazarus and Dives. They have in their
ranks some remarkably clever and talent
ed men, as many perhaps as any other
party, but then they have as many derna-
gogues in their ranks, as Egypt had of
frogs or flies in the days of the Philstines,
and these are they, against whom every
man should turn his face
Mr.. Bocock said when man approach
ed him protesting great friendship for him,
he began to think of his pocket, or put his
hand on 1t; and this is good general rule,