Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-03-20

ceased to become such aConvention as We
advocated, we ceased to support it and
still less could we have supported con-
clave of Southern ho,spurs, the represcn-
tatives ofdisunion cliqucs, such as it turn
ed out to be, who had met together to plot
treason against the country. Such, and
such only, was our supportofthe Nashville
Convention,and thatsupport we have never
seen any cause to regret.
We confess to the charge of being a
warn Southern man" and are not aware
of suffering any abatement of devotion to
the interests of the section in which our
lot has been cast We are s'of the South
and with the South" and whatever NAV
be her fate, we claim to share it with her.
But if disaaioaism alone constitutes South
eraism, then we have mistaken our feelings
and are no Southerner
The right Of secession is question in
volvmgmany intricaciesa sand abstract points
Which cannot be properly presented in an
ordinary newspaper paragraph. Educat-
ed IN the republican school, we have been
taught to believe in the rights of the States,
and that Of secession seems to follow as a
natural consequence. We always accom-
pany the recognition of this right, however,
with the correlative obligation that it shs ~
not be exercised for light and transient
causes,but only in extreme cases, and then
only as a last resort for relief from oppres-
sion.
The last and remaining charge that, we
opposed the Compromise, we should like
to have more space to answer than we
should be exeusable here for occupying.
because 1t is fruitful theme and affords a
line opportunity Of exposing some of the
Inconsistencies of the Democracy. When
the Compromise measures were first pre-
sented we We're inclined to favour them.
though they were not acceptable; but the
protracted discussion in Congress develop
ed new facts which induced us to "cavil
in the way Of a bargain, on the ninth part
OF HAIR" We did not object to the IT,
tab and New Mexico bills, because we
gained what we claimed, the non-applica-
ton of the "Wilmot" to their organization
we never objected to the Texas boundary
bill, and certainly not to the fugitive slave
law; and the only remaining measures
which constitute the entire series of the
Compromise, are the District slavc-trade
bill, and that for the admission of Califor.
ma The last two we did not approve
though the first ofthcm is but small affai,
at best-so that our chief objection was tc
the admission of California. This we on.
posed because we wished to secure to
the South an equal participation in the en-.
joyment of the territory; but the Republi
can and Its friends had no right to object
to it because California did not comply
with the terms laid down as the law, gov.
ernlng IN the cases Of the application OF
new States for admission, by that marvel
lousy proper law-givcr, Gen. Cass, whom
the Republican was wont to swear bv.--
The Democratic party Of Virginia, IN
solemn convention assembled, pronounced
&C cafAedra, that no other power under
Heaven had theright to determine the qucs-
ton OF slavery in territory, but the peo-
pie OF that territory, in the formation of then
constitution, preparatory to admission into
the Union. This very thing California did,
Just as If she had an eye exclusively to the
doctrine promulged by the Democratic
Convention of Virginia. They are a nice
set of fellows now, after proclairning the
law, to seek to dissolve the Union because
California complied with their own terms !
Our opposition to the Compromise ceased
when it became the law,and the reader viii
see with what business we are charged as
occupying the same position as the a. o;-
fators p
mere Is a,other paper in the Chancel-
io' budget which we ought. we suppose,
to notice, inasmuch as it is styled "the
Virginan's Arithmetic" for WI ich, itscems.
the Republican has no very high respect.
After quoting part of our remarks, in
which we attempted to show thatthe Wing
candidate of this District stood better
chance for election than Mr. Bocock, our
neighbor proceeds:
"When the reader has finished laugbing over
these figures, he will please recollect in Justice to
respected contemporary of the Nirginian TINT h,
has gust come to town., and has yet completed
his gaze the sign boards along the streets lie is
evidently of his latitude"
Well, we hare just come to town, fresh
from the backwoods, with all the rustic
habits, eager curiosity, and we would fain
hope, the rustic innocence too, which char
actcrize these primitive sons of nature
when they are first ushcred into the strange
and exciting scenes Of busy and crowded
city. 1t is true we had, on one or two
occasions, ventured as far from our seclud-
ed home, as Brook Neal and Campbell G.
H., where we had an opportunity of "gaz-
ing at the signs" but then these places are
nothing, compared with the mighty town
of Lynchburg, which contains the polished
and travelled cosmopolitan, efhe Lynch
burg Republican 1T is no wonder then
that awkwardness should have attract
ed his attention, and excited his sympathy;
though it has been remarked that city
raised gentlemen, accustomed to the pol