Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-10-08
Nfsssrs. F4plkasr aud Bsdiagsr.

Between these two gentlemen, as between
MIR. Bolts and Judge Caskie, the main issue is
the question of secession, Mr.. Faulkner, (who,
the people should remember, was the real author
of the Fugi tive Slave law denying the right of
State to secede without responsibility to the CO.
States, and Mr.. Bednger affirming that right in
its most unqualified sense. The following article
from the Charlestown Free Press properly warns
the voters of the district of the consequences of
sanctioning Mr. Bedinger's extreme and danger
Gus opinions:
MEssRs. EDEroRs-The singular ard lamentabe
spectacle Is presented to the people OF this Congress
iona District, OF having before them, soliciting their
sntfrages, two gentlemen the only matter OF eonro-
versy between them, is the right OF state to Secede
from The Union. In other contests for political ad =
vancement the Bank, Tariff, Distribution, Sub-trea-
sury, &c. &c, have been the themes OF discussion
questions of day, which the exgencies oil
the country may require one year, and which IN the
next may beonie obsolete IDEAS Have not fallen
up on evil days? Who could have agined that IN
this enlightened distrcta could have been found
with the reckless daring to proclaim openly the ioIo"
| ing opinions:
Ict That State in the exercise offs reserved sove-
reigny, has right, in OF oppression, to secede
| from the Union.
3D. That such State was the sole and exclusive Judge
the causes which justified her in the act OF seceS-
Sd. That the Federal Government had no rghtul
authority enforce the execution oil the laws OF the
United States within the limits OF such seeding State,
after she had declared her purpose TO secede from the
| Union.
| Sueh MIR. Bedinger has proclaimed as his doctrines
doctrines which, II countenanced must in the nature
of thinss lead to the djsmen,berment Of this Union
under whose happy auspices have grown TO be the
first commercial power OF The world, and upon whose
| existence and permanency depend the happiness Of
TWEEN ty five millions oil feemen here, and the hopes
| of other millions throughout the world, who look
| ing forward with anxious hearts to the dav when the
growing influence of this nation-of this Unon-sha
break the chains of tyranny which bind the Ia
tons OF the earth.
In view, then, of the awful consequences which
must naturally flow from the prevalence of such doc
trnes in the land, should not the tocsn be sounded
summonLe the patriot hearts OF this district to the
of the country Here in Virginia, especially should
the cry be raised, No Secession, the Union ana
foreuer! Ii Virginia who gave birth TO the Union
and in every emergency when The integrity OF that
Union has been threatened by secessionsts, ct i'd
genus she has thrown herself into the breach and
arrested the mad Of anacism. Nature revolts
the idea of Virginia, the mother OF the Union, pung-
ing the dagger into the breast OF her own offspring
Let them the Union party Of the Tenth Congressional
the glorious and stripes. They have gallant
standard bearer who has spread TO the breeze and
now calls upon you to uphold let tran
before the black Banner OF Secession Let the war-cry
then be, Faulkner and the Union! And we will not see
announced in glazing capitals in the Southern Press
that piracal sheet, Great Victory-A SecesSioniSt
elected in the Valley of Vrginia--which announce-
ment you will certainly see, should Mr. Bedlnger be
elected UNIONIST.