Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-26
THE VIRGINIAN.
a. W. c. TERRY. EDITOR.
LrxcnBuno, MAY 20, 1851.

In NCHAD " ABHs MA - 1904
LYNcmBuRo, MAY 20, 1851.
To tie Editor Of The Tuginiar:
SrR Your paper Of this day contains
an editorial article in which it is asserted,
as fact, about which you shear" there is
no doubt, that have adopted the address
ofthe Editor Of the Bedford Sentinel as
Platform, and that Ihave circulated large
numbers of it throughout my District
This information leads you to assert further
that, l had pinned my faith to the Editors
Sleeve" &c.
Allow me to say that. both of these as
ser;ions, in all their extent, are positively
untrue.
For months past, the Editor of the Sen
tincl has assailed me bitterly and reckless
ly. The emanations of that paPer,in some
portions of my District, are widely circu-
lated. The Editor of the Lynchburg Re-
publican, in replying to his articles and in
vindcaiion ofmy course upon the Com
promise" quoted from his views, as set
forth in his circular to the people of Bed
ford in June last. The names Of the prom
inent Wings of Bedford were attached to
this circular, but the Editor Of the Repub-
lican having been accused of garbling, his
paper OF May LIST contained the circular
entire with an editorial comment in these
words:-
The Red Land District.
WING TESTIMONY In FAVOR OF MR.. POW
MISE.
On the first page of this mornings paper, will be
found IN erfenso the Circular addressed the peo
pie of Bedford in June last, by the present editor
Of the Bedford Sentinel. To some, it may seem
that we are giving too much prominence and inpor-
tance to the views Of the editor of the Sentinel hav
ing heretofore frequently referred to them; and IN
trinscally. such is the fact; for while respect his
views. respect the views of others of our
Of the press, should certainly not
dwell upon them to the extent have done but for
the collateral circumstances which surround them.
Its to be recoected, that the Sentinel is the home
organ ofthe Wing candidate for Congress in the Red
land District Mr. Goggin, and that it is zealously
and bitterly laboring with the latter gentleman, to
array public opinion against the democratic cendi-
date, Mr. Powell the avowed ground that Mr..
p's opposition to a portion of the "Compromise" of
the last session congress- and especially his vote
against the Texas boundary bill, renders him mimi
cal TO the preservation Of the Union-or, in other
words, makes him a diSuaioaist.
Such being the ground of Wing opposition TO
Mr.. Powell and such the war cry of his political
enemies in the approaching canvass, consider
the enemy routed and the victory won. when are
enabled to present the candid and thinking
of the Red Land District, the clear, positive and
indubitable evidence continued in the circular on
our first page that in June last, the editor of Mr..
Gogein's home organ. if not Mr.. Goggin himself, oc-
cuped, upon the compromise, identicay the same
ground. and for identicay the reasons, which
Mr.. Powell and others of his colleagues occupied,
and which caused them to maintain their consistent
opposition to that measure to the end.
For these reasons, we shall continue to keep be-
fore the people Of the Red Land District, at short
intervals from the present time until the close OF
the elections the views of the editor ofthe Sentinel
in opposition to the go called compromise. and
which he has changed and shifted, are bound to
believe, from the merest party considerations imag-
nabe.
Upon examination of the aforesaid Circular. il
will he that the views of the editor Of the Sen
tnel upon the slavery question correctly summed
up as follows:
lat. That he was opposed tc the compromise bu,
'reIkaps his objections of its features were
insurmouutable, 'but to that Sin relation to Texas
to which his.oblections were ''insurmountable."
I'd. That if he had been a representative in Con.
sress in place of Mr.. Powell, the Texas boundary
biil-oppostion to which are now told involved
disunioii-would have met his ..uncompromising
opposition it met the uncompromising opposi-
ton of Mr.. Powc.s
Sd. That he was opposed to "surrenderng the
line OF the Missouri Compromise" and maintain
ed, like Powell, Bococl AID Averett, tina. that line
should, in justice, be extended through to the Pa
ciiic, and made perpetual
4th. That he was opposed to the admission of
California into the Union as she was because shc
had been hurriedly and informally erected into a
free soil State, and that the only ground On which
he would consent to abandon his opposion either ia
to that measure, to the surrender of the Missouri
Compromise. was, that four States should be cary
ed out of the territory of Texas to be admitted in.
to the Union when their population would justify
it, with the express provision thot ''as it was then
slave soil. they should all be slare Sfafes not sub
ject to the application of the Wilmot Proviso"
9Th. That he did not believe the Wilmot Proviso
dead, but only lullcd into mere slumber and
bound with a cord to be broken like gossamcr a,
the first blast of the abolition trumpet.
9th. That the Compromise was n complcte
SURRENDER OF RIGHT on the part Of the
South, for which she got NOTHING" save tim,
Texas was gracously permitted to remain ..where
the resolutions of annexation left her.
9TH. That while the South gained noikiny" by the
Compromise, she might "iose, for by some such sud-
den movement that in California one or more nj
the subdivisions of Texas might be erected INTO
Free Soil States"
Sih That he had 10 faith in the pcr.nancncy o,
any settlement of the slavery question, lust rs
Messrs Powell, Bocock and Averett had no faith
IN the rermancncy Of any settlement of it-tha,
those who had openly disrcgarded the spirit Of
one compromise, would not regard anotLcr longer
than interest or force cor1pcs thcm"-that Tho
north was net to be restrained by the provisions
OF compromise the obligations of patriotism.
9TH That he believed the North would continue
to Insult and annoy until the question was f.
nay disposed Of, either by the rclinquishnient of
all our rights, or dissolution o. the Union inst
what MD. Powell and his colleagues believed.
such, people tho Red Land District. were the
views hcld OF the compromise, and of our .'putri-
etc northern brethren" by the editor Of the home
organ OF Mr.. Goggin, in June last and we rcsper,.
tuly submit it to the reader to say. if those view
were not as ultra southern those held bv Mr. Pow.
ell and wh'ch caused him to oppose portions of the
Comrrymisc Could Any Southern man have Ia
ken stronger ground against t4a Compromise OF
have rePosed less filth in the Yankees. tlian did
this seii-same editor Of the Bedford Sentinel who.
snre 1t has become important in the estimation ot
ms party to defeat democrat and elect wing has
shifted his position, and is now engaged in an Of
a. T. JIM 'iie Puoii' ilhu dehIhst MI Row.
ei4 as dlsunlonist, because OF his adherence to
vows which the editor himself entertained in June
copy OF the Circular in question wax sent (per-
maps by the author himselD TO Mr. Powell. then in
US pace IN the House of Representatives and Mr..
L. Mas no doubt happy to find that the views of the
editor ai the Sentinel, the Wing organ in the strong
Wing comfy of Bedford, together with the large
number of 'ensiblc and leading Wings of the same
county (amotg them Mr.. Coggin himselO whose
names were appended thereto and who, (from any,
thing contained in the circular to the contrary ap
proved and endorsed the views it set fortht-we
say Mr. I. was no doubt highly grati6od to find,
thnt the views of these gentlemen fully coiaeided
with his own opinions previously formed. He mus,