Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-12-01
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" The Western Champiou. :"

The worst symptom disclosed by the pending can
vass in Virginia, Is that OF sectional animosiy, II
was hoped and believed, that in the reformed con-
stuon, our state had found balm for this disease
which has so long preyed upon her system and para
lyzed her energies. The amended constitution, cx-
tending suffrage and equalsing representation, TO
some extent mig CHIT be expected effect partial re-
medy for this worst OF Ills. Vain hope !-worthless
expectation The very first election under the new
organic law "opens the old sore and exhibits the ran
OF sections in all Its yrulence-so tar, at least,
eastern jealousy eastern hauteur and eastern yindc-
tiveness can exhibit themselves
Judging from the tone of certain presses beyond the
mountains it is their settled purpose to PROSTATE Mr.
Summers, at any cost Why? Not because of in
competency not because Of dsloyaIty, not beca use
of danger be Appended from his election-neither
Of these grounds are assumed IN their reckless efforts
to defeat him. What then, is the real cause of so
much violence and bitterness in the they wage
upon his unsullied character? 1t needs but glance
their hostility. Every column teens with incentives
to prescribe George w. Summers, because he was
the Western Champion in the reform Convention p
Such is their object-such their motive. They seek
10 strike him down, because he was the brave leader
of the Western Delegates and the intrepid defender
of Western interests in that stale council
Let them succeed in their design, and what will be
the result? Why. having .prostrated the gall t
champion OF the West, it will become easy task to
trample under foot those OF her sons who have less
strength to resist the assault If George w. Summers
must be cast down, because OF his position on the
slavery question in 1882, what Western Vrgnian
stand If that ordeal is erected where, West of he
Blue Ridge, is the statesman OF prominence who may
pass its fires unscathed! These are questions which it
behooves every OF the West ponder and consider
If they allow their chief to fail before the Storm Of
sectional anmosity by which he is assailed the same
destiny will await every favorlte among their fellow
citiz MS No one need doubt designs palpable-
The East means to prescribe all whose advocacy OF
our rights and interests has awakened her jealousy
or foiIed her grasp at power She seeks TO revenge
herself in detail and by piece meal
George W. Summers Is the FIRST to ieel her ire, be-
cause most prominent in advancing her recent dis
comftnre His bold stand in the Convention his dar
Ing consistency and undying devotion 10 the West
these have drawn down upon his head all the fury OF
this sectional onslaught. And how do his foes at
tempt to effect his Overthrowl BY gong back twenty
years in OR history and unfolding The records of
crisis in which the state was panlc-sticken by the
then recent seryie insnrrecnoh These records show
that G. W Summers lanes 81. Mc DOVE Thomas
ticians East and West, Wings aud Democrats advo-
Gated gradual emancipation! Such Is the fact, and
has been, curing the whole PERIOD IN which some OF
the above named gentlemen were the recipients OF
honors and em0umens at the hands OF those who are
row raising The hue and cry against the Western
Champion, on this score OF Aboluonism 10 such
lengths may inconsistency be extended!
Will the Westsand alo # and allow his chosen cham
MON and avore statesman Is sink before the storm?
Will she suffer him to be cried down, without an effort
to rescue his fair fame from calumny and ignomlny?
Will she permit his enemies and her enemies to triumph
10 this crusade of proscrponl MOI II the West be not
lost to gratitude and ohyious OF noble services, she
will turn upon The fierce essaianis of her favroiie
and repe the malgn attacks upon his character. Nay.
if she be not reerean herself she will crush at their
inception the insidous Vaccinations TO undermine her
prosperity. Mr.. Summers Is true aud loyal Vrgia>
ian, thong sen OF the West. His high souled patri
otism embraces the welfare of the entire comrnCn-
cath in its scope and purposes; yet having espoused
the of right and achieved the victory, he is made
the object OF especial hatred by those poen-
,aes who have so long abused the power They so un-
Justly exercised. Western Vfgnians.-sueh being
The position OF your and Candidate, will you lei
hem be oorne down by the blast OF sectional luminosity
that hows around them? We await your response.