Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-09-18
The Campbell DcmOcracy-COl.
Rolling.

Boiling.
The last Republican contains the pro-
ceedings of Democratic meeting held on
the last Court day Of Campbell, which
busted itself in resolving
LIST. That hundred delegates be ap.
pointed to the State Convention, to unite
with their brethren of other portions of the
State "in perteeting all measures deemed
necessary and wise to perfect the organi-
cation of the State" &c.
End. That one hundred and two gentle
men (whose names are given be the "hun-
dred' whose appointment was resolved up
on. 3rd. A rciiera'ion of approvals and
pledges concerning Mr. Bocock ard his
course in the last Congress. 4ih That
they arc more solci,ous for his election now
than then 9Th. That the Democratic par
~ is Tie trae Union party because il has
for his guide the Constitution of the coun-
try, &c, &c.
The 9Th resolution is in these words
9th Resolved, That should look upon the cleo
ton Of Philip A. Boiling an anti-slavcrv trunph
and doubt no, ii would be hailed as such by the ab
clifton fanatics Of the North, who hold the institution
OF Slavery in the same light in which it is held bv
that gentleman
The reader will perceive that this rcso-
luton makes, without qualification, the as
scruon, that "the abolition fanatics of the
North" and Philip A. Boiling "hold the
institution of Slavery III the same light
The abolition fanatics are such men as
Tappan, Garrison, Phillips, Fred Doug
lass, Fanny Wright and others-who main
tam the right Congress toprohibit Slave
ry IN the territories Of the United States
to abolish it in the District Of c Columbia
to forbid the slave trade between the States
nay, even to abolish the institution itself,
wherever it exists within the limits of the
land-who believe that it is not only the
right, but the duty ofthe Federal Govern
ment to do these things-who think that it
is the right oi'the Fugitive Slave to take the
life Of his master-who think the Consti-
tuition requiring his remission to bondage
is "a compact with hell''-who declare
the Bible approves Slavery, the BIZ
bic is falsc-that if Jesus Christ sanction
ed 1t, he was an impostor-who disregard
all social, legal and moral obligations in
their fierce and iicndish warfare upon the
institution and the rights of those who are
concerned in it. These are the men who lin
the opinion of the Democrats of CampbelI)
hold Slavery in the same light" with Col
Boiling. And yet, perhaps, every one of
those, who SO resolved. had seen the reso-
luton offered by that gentleman in the last
Legislature ofthc State, declaring:-"Thal
Virginia looks with profound contempt up
on that reckless and lawless party at the
North known as Abolitionists, and regards
them as persons destitute of all claim to
the respect or liberation Of mankind, and
that each State owes it to its sister States
to arrest all further agitation Of the Slavery
question by them within their limits" and
another resolution offered by him, at the
same time, instructing the Senators and re-
ques,ing the Delegates in Congress from
Virginia, to resign their seats and return
home, "ln case the law, generally known
as the Fugitive Slave Law, is repealed
or if Congress shall pass any law abolish
ing Slavery in the District of Columbia, or
abohshing Slavery in, or the slave trade
between, the States" and another rcsolu-
ton declaring ,hat--"Virgina will consid-
er the repeal Of the Fugitive Slave Law
a dissolution Of the Union; aud will, in case
1t is repealed, refuse any longer to rccog-
Mise herself a member thereof" Some Of
them had not only read these resolutions,
but had heard him declare to the people of
Campbell" but two months before, that" he
was Stakeholder himself, and had been
so almost from boyhood; that his princi-
pal resource was land and negroes that
all his interests were identical with theirs"
that the people Of Cumberland county con
tanning population Of $500, of whom g.
500 were slaves and blacks, "who had
known him from his infancy amongst whom
he had been raised, who knew all his opin-
ions upon Slavery" had called upon him
last winter to represent them in the Legis
Lot ii. IL l.. l., /
ed Slavery blessing, but an evil, Con-
gress had nothing to do with it; it was
matter belonging wholly and exclusively
to the States"-,hat the speech he had
delivered in the Legislature lin 1892 was
made "just after the instruction in South
ampton, when the public mind in Virginia
was greatly excited upon the subject" but
that he STATED distinctly, in that speech, that
he had no sympathy with Garrison, and
had then declared, that he would only vote
for a law to provide funds for sending a
way such Slaves, as should be voluntarily
surrendered"
All this information, we say, some, who
participated in the Campbell meeting and
who in all personal respects are honorable
men, had before them, and yet they allow
ed it to be solemnly resolved and recorded
as their opinion, that Col. Boiling and the
abolition fanatics of the North look upon
the institution of slavery in the same light.
To what depth ofinfatuation and blindness
and injustice will not men descend, when
driven by the Fury of partizan zeal
We have given above, the opinions Of
Col. Boiling on the subject ofSlavery pro-
claimed by himself, within the last twelve