Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19


the Queen of England Thirty thousand
persons, it is estimated, witnessed the in
teresting ceremony, and no disturbance or
accident occurred.
The Russell Ministry has sustained a
defeat in the House OF Commons on mo-
ton relative to Property Tax. Another
Ministerial crisis is anticipated.
In France, Louis Napoleon appears to
be steadily seeking an extension OF the Elk
ecutive term.
The instruction in Portugal has been
quelled.
Russia and Austria have demanded of
the Sultan the detention Of Kossuth two
years longer. The Sultan, it is surmised,
will refuse to accedc to the demand, and
will probably invoke the aid and protection
of France and England.
We notice nothing else of Importance
by the steamer-Richmond Paper.
Our worthy contemporary Of the me
tropolitan Democratic organ is well per-
suaded that it is all right with the Democ-
racy, as far as the slavery question is con-
cerned. Every thing is sound as nut
All the difficulty is with those pestilent
Wings of the North, who will not fall into
the support of the Fugitive Slave Law.
The Democrats are all national, and al
ways have been national, and never will
be any thing else. So the Union rings the
changes on Mr.. Wade, Mr.. Seward,
and Mr.. Sumner and exults inthe idea that
the Democracy is this side up in Ohio,
New York, and Massachusetts.
Now, with regard 10 Mr.. Wade, the
evidence seems to be that he is opposed to
the Fugitive Slave law; though it is said
that he is not ultra fanatical on the subject
that he is not a political Abolitionist
Well, suppose thatthe Wings have made
Senator Of man who is opposed to the
Fugitive Slave law in Ohio, will the onion
be so kind as 10 inform us whether or not
one of the first Aboliionits who appeared
in the Senate of the u. States was not one
Mr.. Tappan, Democratic Abolition Sen
ator from this same State Of Ohio2 Mr..
Wade can be by no possibility so object
lonable man as Mr.. Tappan, unless he is
willing TO see the Union dissolved in the
effort to procure the abolition of slavery.
This Mr.. Tappan, as we remember him,
was one of the most thoroughbred and
thoroughgoing Abolitionists; a man like
your Garrisons and Birneys, and the first
specimen of such a man that ever appear
ed in the Senate. If Mr. Senator Wade is
as bad as Mr.. Tappan, we shall
never object to any ccnsure that the Union
may level at him; but we shall always con-
sider that his case is Offset by that Of Mr.
Tappan.
Then comes Mr. Seward. The Unioh
never can forgive the Wings of New York
because in past years they have acted with
Mr. Seward, and Mr.. Seward has now Ia
Ken uIna ground on the subject Of slavery.
1t is true that Mr. Seward has become SO
ultra on this point as to call down the Sc
rerest anathemas from his particular per-
;onal friends of the Courier and Enquirer
Of n. York. His opinions must have be-
come indeed extreme, before they could
have induced journal protesting such
strong personal friendship to employ terms
Of so severe condemnation as the Courier
and Enquirer has used in regard TO Sena-
tor Seward For Our own part, we are
not disposed to canvass these opinions, be-
cause 1t is many years since we have
been on such footing with the honorable
Senator as to enable us to speak our mind
IN regard to HIM without the possible sug-
gestion of an adverse personal bias. I'm
der these circumstances, we are compelled
% fall back on the structures ofthe Courier
md Enquirer, friendly journal; and, if
hese are well founded, then we have no
-eason to believe that the Union is much
'ut Of the way in attribu,ing very inprop
per purposes to Mr.. Seward. But does
he Union forget that Mr.. Seward, what
ever may have been his backslidings or
his eccentric deviations from the Wing
platform, never went the length of the
Unioa's own party and political friends in
he State of New York! Is the Inion
'eally ignorant when it talks of Mr.. Sew
lrd, that Mr.. Seward is merely Free
Ioil circumstance, when compared with
Martin Van Buren,, John Van Buren,, Ben
amin T. Butler, John A. Dix, Preston
King, the Evening Post, and the members of
he old Democratic partyin the State of n.
Y. Has the Union forgotten when Benja-
min +. Butler and Joshua r. Giddings
struck handsand embraced each other, and
'wore eternal mutual fidelity on the Buffalo
platform Why, the Union has the short
,st possible Of memories, or it imagines that
people are to be very easily misled, if it
that MIR. Seward is to be put for
ward as the head of the Free-soil move
nent in New York, to the disparagement
Of those who have an infinitely better claim
% the position.
But then there is Mr.. Sumner 1t is
Mr.. Wade, Mr.. Seward and Mr.. Sumner.
We think that the cases of the irst-named
gentlemen have been fairly offset. But
he allusion to Mr.. Sumner, in connection
with the allegation Of Wing responsibility
n the premises, is the mostlmpudent charge
Of all. Mr.. Sumner was the regularly
candidate of the Democratic
caucus, was voted for by the Democrats
N body, and was never, at any time or
uHQtl DIS d
Wing candidate for any Office or voted for
by Wing constituent. We do think that,
Of all the unblusling attempts of Demo
cracy to saddle Whiggism with objection
able par;isans, the most irnpudent is this eff
fort of the Uaioa to held the Wings of
in any wise responsible for
Mr.. Sumner. We apprehend that a man
who has never received nomination for
the humblest Office from Wing conven-
ton, and who has never been openly re-
rognised as member ofthe Wing party.
and who is elected Senator by the Demo
cratic votes, can never be proved to be so
much ola Wing as to prove to be very
serious injury to the Wing party.
These are the "instances" on which the
Union relies to show that the Democrats
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