Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-10-25
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THE TINES TIE RMS.



in the Lynchburg Republican
MR SUMMERS OPPOSED TO TIRE COMPROMISE The
following passage occurs in the letter OF Mr. Summers
accepting the nomination the Wing candidate for
Governor:
THE compromise measures of the last Congress
no! all acceptable to but taking them in
bination and regarding thsm together, final dust
ment OF the questions which they embrace, should
be opposed to any attempt to disturb them, or
hereafter. The Union OF the States Is quite too essen
tla the public peace and the public happiness to
have it endangered by undergoing that settlement"
We call particular attention to the language OF Mr..
Summers. "IHE COMPROMISE MEASURES OF THE LAST
CONGRESS WERE NOT AT ALL ACCEPTABLE ME, says
the Wing candidate for Governor! What say the people
OF Virginia to this language? What say the Virgin
ian OF this place. which has had all its batteries open
ed against Messrs Bocock, Powell, and Averet for
their votes against portions of tue Compromised
w nat say those Wings who gong to vote TO de
feat our late representatives IN Congress for opposing
measures which their champion for Governor now de-
clares WERE NOT ACCEPTABLE TO HIM.
Will the candid and liberal portion of the Wing party
persist in sacrificing Messrs Powell, Bocock and Ave
re for the noble stand they took in opposition por
lions ofthe Compromise, when their is virtually
endorsed by Mr.. Summers? For the sake of truth,
Justice and fair dealing, we hope not. We hope they
will perceive the into VT lch they have been led by
designing parzana aud will, on Thursday next bold
ly vote topHt down those who seeking crush
faithful representatives, for mere party purposes
We retain the Republicans Typography, its
Capitalist and Italics-what some one has apty
called 'the rhetoric ofStypes."
Now the reader will observe that Mr. Sum.
lners' language is, "The Compromise measures
were not all acceptable to me-" but the Repub-
licau, after thus quoting it, ma kes it read "The
Compromise measures were not AT all accspta.
BILE to me, and afterwards, still under quotation
marks, makes him say generally, that these mea-
sures "were not acceptable to him. We do
not know that, in all our reading of political news
papers, we have met with SO palpable peryersion
oflanquage By the insertion of the little word
s'at," Mr.. Summers meaning is entirely changed.
If he had used it, the Republican would have
been justified in saying, it does in broad terms,
that he is Opposed to the Compromises" but as
he did not use it, no such inference is war
rsnted, So far from it, that inference is expressly
precluded by Mr. Summers positive declaration
that stalking them (the Compromise measures)
in combination, and regarding them final
adjustment Of the questions aohch they embrace, he
should be opposed to any attempt to disturb them
7ow, or hersat1er." In this declaration he places
himself distinctly on the position so nohly occu-
pied by our patriotic Union Wing President,
who, in his annual message of December last,
addressed to Congress these memorable words:
"The series of measures to which have alluded are
regarded by me as settlement, in principle and sub
snnce-a final settlement-of the dangerous and ex-
citing subjects which they embraced"
"By that adjustment we have been rescued from the
wide and boundess agitation that surrounded US, and
have firm, distinct, and legal ground to upon.
And the occasion, trust will justly IN ExHoRT
ING MY coUNTRYMES TO RALLY UPON AND MAINTAIN
THAr GROUND as the best, if not the only OF
restoring peace and quiet to the country, and man.
taining invioIate the integrity Of the Union"
It Mr. Summers is an ant-Compromise man,
80 is Mr.. Fillmore and SO we may add, are we