Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-08-25
The Mayor has appointed the following
Questions and Answers.

Questions and Answers.
In the Virginian of the l4th inst, we took
heliberty of propounding afewquestionsto
Mr.. Bocock. upon subjects involved in the
present canvass for Congress. The Repub
lican of Thursday undertakes las it says,
'not by authority,') to reply to them. In
doing SO. it very carefully omits all reply
to, and all mention of, the two following,
which, as we are a little curious in regard
to the factin each case, we take occasion to
repeat:
During the last session Of Congress Mr..
Bocock, in conjunction with a number of
other gentlemen, established a paper in
Washington city. calledAe Southern Press,
the assumed object of which was the vim
dication of Southern Rights and the pro-
lection Of Southern interests. That paper
has since openly, warmly and frequently
advocated disunion. Mr.. B. caused his
name to be published among others, re-
commencing that paper to the Southern
people, when it was first established. Has
he at any time Withdrawn that
dation2 Do not the editors Of the South
ern Press, still regard him as a friend of
their paper and approver Of theirdoctrines?
Has he ever revoked the authority given
them to publish his name, as one of the en-
dorsers of their principles Is he, or not,
a subscriber to that paper"f
"Mr. Bocock thinks heis the most proper
man to be voted for in the district, because
of his opposition to the Compromise meas
ures of the last session. He thinks Col.
Boiling is not a suitableperson to be voted
for, because he approves those measures.
Does not Mr.. B. expect to vote for Cass,
or Buchanan, or Dickinson or Douglass or
some other Compromise man, for the next
Presidency; and does he not expect to vote
for him, because Of his advocacy Of those
measures, taking Has proof conclusive that
he is true to the South 2"
We confess that we would have no
ground, for expecting answers to these
questions, (relating as they do to the pri-
vate knowledge and future purposes of
Mr.. Bocock) from the Republican, but for
the alacrity with which it has volunteered
its aid to Mr.. B. and the deep insight which
it displays into that gentleman's unuttered
thoughts and secret meaning-as for ex-
ample in the following passage Mr..
Bocock did not mean, by establishing a
"cordon Of custom houses around South
Carolina. to make war upon that State, or
destroy her with other nations,
because that would be Federal co-ertiom-
a doctrine which he repudiates; but he
meant simply" &c.
The Republican having thus shown it.
self, the keeper of the thoughts" of
Mr.. Bocock, and withal SO expert, as the
sequel may show. at giving answers, we
crave OF it some response to the foregoing.
We come now to consider thosesubjects,
upon which the oracle has spoken. The
first question, asked by the Virginian, was
in these words:-"The Democratic candi-
date for Congress in this district, objects
most s~trenuously. to the law abolishing the
Stare trade in the District Of Columbia
Did he not vote for Martin Van Buren,,
for the Presidency, who asserted the right
of Congress to abolish tie institution Of
slarery itself, within the same district"
To this, the Republican, replies as fol-
lows:
1--WE do not know whether Mr.. Boc.ck ever vo-
ted for Van Buren, or not-perhaps he did vote for
him in s40-but We do knor that Mr.. Philip A.
Boiling, wing candidate for Congress in this Dis
trict, did vote for that gentleman against Henry
Clay. the great embodiment Of whiggery: and, in
deed, it is rumored that Col. B. declared that he
had as soon vote for the d. as Clayr' Is this
sol Whether he did 80, upon the ground that he
regarded Van as good nm abolitionists As himself
was at the time, we cannot say, but think il highly
probable that he did By the why unless We are
Mistaken, Mr. Van Buren, never asserted the power
Of Congress to abolish slavery in the District Of
Columbia, while he was q candidate Of the demo-