Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-11-03

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pairing Consultation and proposing Off
GERS for Wing Club. viii report at a
meeting to be held at the Masonic Hall,
Tuesday night.
y general meeting ofthe patty and the
public is desired. Addresses may be ex-
pccied.
We ruhli'liia anuthcr column a letter from GOV.
Brown ofFlnriia, upou tie subject u D Wig Hon-
nation fof tie Presidency. III ilinls thni a on
ven;ion ou- 1t 10 assemble. and HAT thc Southern
Wings ought send delegates 10 t:--tAat rcso!u-
i"a slouldbc offered reqIring the nominee % pledge
imselfto the support oftbe Compromise measures.
End cspcci s2y Of Tie FEgHire Sioyc Lo,-: md lis
disGyproral cf any pa0i or woJifeq'ion IF t.. Il
The resolution should not be adopted h. advises tie
Southern delegate trfBdro;r from the Convention.
We have little doubt that this course viii he pursr-
cd. II accords with rrecedcuts already establish
! ed. Ia tue Wing Congressional caucns 1T the o.
rening Of the session Of 1850 il viii be remembered
TINT resolution offered plcdging the Whig party
against The W not p oy.o Ii was laid uHop the Ia
BILE by an almost naan n vote, wheroupon Mcssrs.
Toombs, stephens, and o;linrs withdrew, and went
into opposition to Genera; Taylor's administration.
The example thus sci win undoubtedly be followed.
Sucha resolution as il specified by Gov Brown viii
probnbly be Introduced I'ka riY be lone ne h n
The foregoing cxtrac, is taken from the
Tines Of New York, tie neutral paper
with abolition lcanings, lately established
in that city, BY Mr.. Raymond. lis pre-
dictions seem TO US reasonable. We
are firmly persuaded that the Wing
party in the South viii give their sup
port to no man for the next Presidcn-
cy, hose position concerning the Fugi-
tive Slave law admits ofany doubt, and a
preliminary resolution binding the Convcn-
ton to make no nomination, except Of
some one whose views have been distinct
y proclaimed, would seem the surcst and
most natural mode of attaining such an OBJ
ject.
The Wings of Virginia have already
spoken on this subject in language, the i'm
port Of which does not admit Of doubt. In
the Convention which assembled at Char
lottessille last September, it llbc rcmem-
bercd, that the following resolution was
adopted:
s. Resolved. That the Wings Of Virginia desire
co-oPcratewah their brethren of other States in
the firtherancc Of the soynd national policy which
has signaly marked the present administration,
but they cannot support for the next Presidency
any candidate whose fidelity to the Constitution
and 70 the measures Of adjustment shall not Be he,
You'd al question
In the manly performance Of the pur-
pose avowcd in this resolution, Virginia,
we have no doubt, will be sustained by all
the Southern states. Should it be deemed
necessary to offer such a resolution as we
have indicated in the national Convention,
assuming that one will be held, as a pre-
cedent condition to the cooperation of
Southern Wings, mhat ,cW be done sc;A
u? The journal. from which We quote,
thinks it will probably be rejected. Ifthe
conjecture of the Tines prove itself cor
rect, we suppose there would he an end to
all concert between the Northern ard
Southern portions Of the party. But would
it be rejected!
We think not. We believe that con
trolling part Of the Wing party in the
North are sound and conservative, in all
that relates TO the constitutional rights Of
the South. We arc confident that a large
majority of them, however much some of
them may have been opposed to particular
measures in the system of adjustment, a
dopted by the late Congress, are disposed,
now that they have become the laws Of the
land, 10 have them faithfully enforced.
But if there were not principle enough
among them, (Which VIC will not permit
ourselves to believed TO incline them to Of
fer every reasonable surety to the South,
in National Convention, VIC arc satisf-
cd that policy at lcas, would urge them to
it. No nomination, made under the inau-
spicious influence Of sectional prejudice,
could command favor even in the NORTH;
while the vote Of every Southern Wing
State would be irreirievably lost. The
North cannot afford to Disregard and drive
from them Maryland, Kentucky, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Florida ard perhaps
two or three others Of the Southern States,
whose votes might be almost certainly re.
led upon, il support Of any Why, accep-
table to them.
To these considerations may be added
the fact. that, among those distinguished
citizens whose names have been mentioned
! in connection with the Presidency, with
the remotest possibility of securing the
nomination, all except one, are known to
regard the Compromise as "a final adjust
mcnt" Of the slavery questions, and an hon
est compliance with all its provisions, the
bounden duty Of all the States. The one
exception we make is that of Gen Scott,
who we believe has not made any public
exposition of his opinions; but ii can scarce
" be doubted, that his views are the same
as those Of Fillmore. Webster, Criitenden
and Clay. Presenting that the next candi-
date for the Presidency viii bechoscn from
those, we have named, we can imagine no
sufficient reason for the North Withholding
any guarantee that the South might deem
itself entitled to, OF the nature to which we
have alluded. In any ercnt,it may be con-
sidered settled Thing. that the Wings of
Virginia will adhere inacxibly to the pur-
pose declared by their State Convention, in
the resolution we lave given.
What may be the course If action, Of
our Democratic friends we are Left with
out sufficient data to determine Their
State Convention Put forth no assurance