Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-10-30
Mr.. Summers mad the Bankrupt
LAW.

The Western Nirginlan, the Democrauc
journal of Kanawha, comedies, as we learn
from the Richmond Republican, that Mr..
Summers did not vote for the Bankrupt
Law. He was absent at the time. The
Vrgnian would have us suppose, says the
Republican, that he, and other gentlemen
who were absent, lodged the vote. We
have seen no proof which would warrant
such an opinion. Gentlemen may be alb
sent from Congress or the Legislature
from necessity, or from accident, and from
many other reasons, besides desiring to
dodge a vote. This charge of voting for
the Bankrupt law being exploded by the
candid confession ofa Democratic paper,
we wait with some curiosity to see what
will be the next count in the democratic
indictment.
II We have heretofore laid before
our readers many glowing tributes to the
private and public worth of our candidate
for the ChiefMagistracy of Virginia, from
the journals of other States, showing how
widely and favorably Geo. w. Summers
is known to the people of this whole coun-
try.
We knew that his reputation was ma
tional, but we did not know how universal
an interest,in his success, would be awaken
ed by his nomination. How different his
standings how different his capacities
from that of his competitor. In what
other States, andhow narrowly in his own,
is Col. johnson known +?
But our object was merely to introduce
the following article from the North Caro-
lima Star:
The letter ofthe Hon. Geo. w. Sum-
mers, accepting the Wing nomination for
the Office Of Governor of Virginia, is a no.
BILE production. 1t speaks so much, to our
notion, on the exciting topic of the times,
that we cannot refrain from presenting the
subjoined extract to our readers, which,
we are confident, will meet a hearty re-
spouse from the whole Wing party in North
Carolina.
Free from the violence of ov~er-wrought
indignation, Mr.. Summers calmly, firmly,
and frankly assumes the true position,
which every Southern man ought to occu-
Ply. He takes his stand upon the platform
laid down by the nominating Convention,
that whilst the Federal Constitution should
be cherished as the strongest safeguard of
our liberty and strength, its guarantees
must be sacredly observed, Sin the ample
spirit of fraternal kindness aud good faith
in which the Union itself had its origin"
The compromise measures were not all
acceptable to him, but taking them all "to-
gethcr, as final adjustment of the ques-
tons which they embrace" he SHOULD be
opposed to any attempt to disturb them,
now or hereafter" He d~isapproves the
imprudent violence manifested by a por-
ton ofthc Southern people, and sternly
d%enounccs as more ~inexcusablc the higher
lavish, the opposition and open resistance
to the fugitive slave law by a portion of
the Northern people. The substance of
the platform is, acquiesence in the Compro-
mise for the sake of the Union, and the
peace and the harmony Of the States; CO.
operation with Northern Wings only on
the condition that they support for the
Presidency a man who is sound on the
slavery question beyond all doubt sub
mission to the Compromise only on the
condition that the fugitive slave law is
faithfully executed by the Northern States;
and determined resistance to all further n.y.
gressions.
Here, then, is an impregnablc position,
which challenges the approval evcn of the
Democracy of our State, who are begin
ming to see things in their proper light, since
the smoke and dust of the late contest have
passed away. 1t is the position of North
Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Geor-
gia, all Of whom have just proclaimed it at
the ballot-box; and it is doubtless the posi-
ton Of every Southern State, with the en-
ception of South Carolina, and she will
probably o o join the brigh: cluster of
Southern Stars, determined together for
everto shine in the same sphere and with
the light given them by the instrument by
which they were created, or assume to-
gether a new position and new relations,
whenever that instrument shall be hope
lessly broken!
Ertract. from Mr.. Summers, Letter
ain relation to the great questions which
now occupy, to some extent, the public
mind, and which are calculated to affect
the tranquility and integrity of our federal
Union, | need only say, that my own SEN
timents and opinions are in accordance
with the resolutions adopted by the Con-
v%ention. whose organ you are. While |
regard the Constitution of the United
States, "as the strongest and surcst safe
guard ofthe liberty and happiness of the
American people," in order to be efficient
ly protective. its guara mites must be car
RED out and executed, not -grudsingly, but
in the ample spirit offraternal kindness
and good faith, in which the Union itself
had its origiu. That constitution will
cease to be of any value, when a distem-
Pered fanaticism shall be permitted to cs-
cape the obligations of its direct provisions
by invoking the bchest ola "higher law"
1.-The compromise measures of the last
Congress We're not all acceptable to me.
but taking them in combination, and re-
garding them together, as a final adjust
ment of the questions which they embrace,
l should be opposed to any attempt to dis
turb them, now or hereafter. The Union
OF the States is quite too essential to the
public peace and public happiness, to
have 1t endangered by undoing that set
Element.
81 have not been able TO perceive any
thing in the measures alluded to, that can
justify the determined hostility. which has
been manifested by a portion ofthe south
ern people, or which can excuse their
threats and attempts to dissolve the Union.
More excusable still, is the opposition and
open resistance. by a portion of the peo-
pie of the north, to the execution Of the
fugitive slave law; a law enacted in pur-
suance ola plain and positive provision Of