Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-10-24
Good Nc,ps from the West.

accounts of the prospects of the Wing cause IN
the Western part of the State. We Will not say
n what particular counties we are informed that
1.-The vote for the Wing ticket is likely to be large
increased (for that might give unnecessary
hints to our Democratic friends0 but we are as
sured of this, that the Wings of the East have
only to come up to their ordinary party strength,
and we shall achieve glorious triumph in De-
cember.
We appeal then, to the Wing voters of Eastern
Virginia, to come up bravely to this important
work. 1t is our honest belief that this great
Democratic State of Virginia can be made
Wing State, if Eastern Wings will it to be So
In the Presidential election of 1913, Taylor and
Fillmore obtained majorities in both the Tide
water and the Piedmont Divisions. The vote of
the State was thrown for Gen. Cass, because Of
the Democratic preponderance in the Tenth Lee
qiou, the North West and South West. That
preponderance, we believe will be overcome by
our candidates in the West itself The East
then has only to stand to its arms, and our new
government will 60 into operation under Wing
auspices. Can it be that any one Eastern Wing
will falter, or be Indifferent, with so noble a
stimulus as this to urge him to exerticn 4? The
calumnes of the Democratic press upon the dis
tinguished man at the head Of the Wing ticket
cannot shake the resolution of Wings, who know
that they are only emp Logged for the purpose of
defeating the Whig party. What higher evil
dence of loyalty to Southern interests can any
man give than was given by George w. Sum-
mers, in the State Convention, by voting for the
Al. he
strongest guaranty for the security of slave prop
erty ever engrafted upon the organic law of any
people
"The General Assembly shall not emancipate any
slave, the descendant of slave, either before or
after the birth of :sueh descendant"
Mr. Summers resides in Kanawha, the strong
est slaveholding county of the West, containing,
according to the census of 1850, 3l40 slaves with
1867 whites.
Col. Joseph Johnson, the Democratic candi-
date, native, it has been stated and not denied,
of a Northern State is a resident of Harrison
county, where thsre are only 4SS slaves, with IT,
$50 whites, or one slaps 10 thrty-sir aoh'tes.-
Which of the two men must Eastern saveho-
ders necessarily believe to be most identified with
the slavehodng interest, and most worthy of their
was in favour of a perspective emancipation law
in 1882. We answer tn at his change of opinion
on that subject is rrevocaby written upon the
new Constitution of the State, which, there is no
doubt whatever, was ratified yesterday by an over
whelming majority of the people. But to this
the reply is returned, that man who has once
entertained erroneous opinions on the subject of
slavery, can never be trusted. This is a direct
impeachment of the integrity of Mr.. Summers,
which swery man who knows his character will
repel with scorn. 1t charges Mr.. Summers, in
effect, with being willing to use his official in1u
ence in violation of the prohibition which he voted
to put into the fundamental law. But who are
they, that are now so righteous on this slavery
question? Are their own skirts clear of offence?
Have they not elected and supported James Nc
Dowell as Governor of Virginia, who acted en-
tirely with Mr.. Summers in the Legislature of
1882 Do they now even enquire what were
Col. Johnsons opinions at that period? The past
history of their candidate is SO utterly without
distinction of any sort, that he has probably es~
capped that awkward concomilant of prominence,
being placed on the record but who can doubt,
considering his local position, and the united cur
rentof public sentiment in that quarter ofthe State
in 1882, that he, like Nh s.. was for the prospec-
tive emancipation of slaves =? We do not charge
that he is now. No Wing paper has alleged that
he is unworthy Of the confidence of shareholders,
because he was probably wrong twenty years ago,
when East and West both went mad But this
charge has been brought, with the utmost malig-
nifty, against Mr. Summers for the single purpose
of electing COL Johnson. We are confident that
the Wings of the East will appreciate the object of
the assault and not permit themselves 20 fall into
the trap so arttuly set to catch them