Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-07-03

avert our faces, 1t we please, writes an
cloaucnt South Caroliuian on his return from
the north few weeks ago but there it is
Tho dark and growing evil is at our doors
and meet the question we must at no dis
rant day. God only knows what it Is the
part Of wise men to do on that momentous
and appalling subject
The disease Is deep scated-il is at the
hearts corc-it is consuming. and has all
along been consuming our vitals. What
Is to be donea Oh my God don't know,
but something must be Done Yes some.
lining must be done. audit is the part of no
honest man to deny it-of no true Press 70
affect to concealit. When this dark popu-
lation Is growing upon US, when every
csnsus is but gathering its appalling num-
beers upon us; when our sister States are
closing their doors upon our blacks for
sale; when this favorite land Of all this con-
iinent for soil and climate and situation
combined might become sort of garden
spot, il it were worked by the hands of
white men, can we, sit quietly. fold our
arms and say to each other, "Well, well,
this thing will not come to the worst in our
day. Is this to act
like wise mcni Heaven knows we are no
fanatics; but something must be done
Means sure but gradual, systematical, but
direct, ought to be adopted for reducing
the mass Of evil which is pressing upon the
South, and will still more press upon her
the longer it is put of.
We say now in the utmost sincerity Of our
hearts. that our wisest men cannot give
too much Of their attention to this subject,
nor can they give il too soon." Such then
was the iocsin voice Of the great leader of
the Democratic party, urging the Legisla-
,ure to prompt and decisive action. But
10 use the language Of distinguished gen
tlcman Of that day:
"This is a bye-gone transaction. 1t &C.
CURED twenty years ago. 1t was then in
accordance to very great extent at least
with the public sentiment Of Virginia as
developed by petitions and memorials, by
public proceedings in many Of the counties
and by the public Press. Since that time
state Of things has taken place which has
indefinitely postponed all consideration Of
every such topic in Virginia. 1t was a
movement in accordance with the public
sentiment of past period not Of the pre-
sent, and you might just as properly. have
gone back to the days Of Jefferson and
Wythc and Patrick Henry and George
Mason and show what were their opinions
in reference to the question Of slavery and
what were the plans by which they pro-
posed to get rid of it,"
Well now fcllow-citizcn CT this Con-
grcssional district we have endeavoured to
exhibit 10 you the true state of the position
Of Col. Philip A. Boiling the Wing can
didate for this Congressional district in
1881. who is charged by men holding high
position in the Democratic ranks as being
an "abolitionist" We ask you to read
for Yourselves, we have confidence in your
Judgment and intelligence and we ask you,
,f you intend to see such injustice practiced.
The men who make the charges, dread
his appearance before the people with
ThomasS. Bocock. They well know that
unless Col Boiling can be slandered and
villifed with success, that their candidate
will not only be unmasked and riddled bes
fore the people, but will be spurned from
the position he has occupied because he
has in that position acted only as dis
unonist could act, and spoken only as a
follower Of John. G. Calhoun could speak.
And here let me say that the same men
who make charges against Col Boiling,
because of his course in the Legislature in
1881, twenty years ago, are the same men
who would tomorrow rejoice over the
election of George w. Thompson in the
Wheeling district, who approved of the
. Southampton instruction and said:
THAT the noble blacks only wanted sue
cess to crown their efforts with glory
Their blood will call for vengeance" And
this man George w. Thompson. the de-
mocratic party tried to place in the chair Of
LIST Auditor over the able and honest Heath
They are the same men who charged Gen.
Taylor with being an aboltionist, with his
300 slaves, and pursued that noble old man
and tried patriot, with such n strain Of a
busc and malignity, that when the old war
rior fell into his tomb, the voice of SANDER
had scarcely died upon the breeze. But
why shall we attempt to defend such a tai
cnted, fearless and patriotic man as Philip
A. Boiling. All who know him, know him
to be true to the South in feeling and in
tercst, all these attacks that are made up
on him are for effect, without any regard
to truth and reason. Just see what a motley
crowd comes up to the help of infallible
Tommy" First comes the Southern
Rights Association with their windy reso-
lutions of "doing this, and not doing that,
then comes the Richmond Examiner with
ats flashes of putrid fire, echoed back by
ahe groans Of the Republican as the editor
sails up with full supply of"ballast.' Then
comes the "Bocock Democratic influence"
of the district, withits clerks, congressman,
would be Judge &c. Then comes up
"the pomp and circumstance of war" the
Hon. Thos S. Bocock himself, with his
fancy speeches, riding under tricolord
flag that reads on one side Union, Union,
while on the other side we read blind devo-
ton to the Union, &c, and last fall we see
the Democracy of Appomattox. from the
croakers to the broken down politicians,
upon whose brows we find the withercd
leaves ofbrief Legislative honors. Theseare
the opponents of Philip A. Boiling, this is
the frightiul clan that is to be seen NOV
ing about. ere the idcs of October. But
why need we aliudc TO this battalion of
modern democracy. Philip A. Boiling
will scatter them from his path bidding de-
fiancc to their ISLANDERS. and by the flashes
Of his eloquence and the vigor of his intel
lect, sending terror to their already divided
and distracted band. He will be found
standing upon the ramparts of the Union.
not coalescing with fanatics to dissolve the
Union. or with South Carolina to lay her
restless hands upon the strong bulwarks of
the Constitution and Liberties of the peo-
pie, but on the contrary he will be found
true to the South and true to the Union,
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