Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-08-25

trlcts, and Stanly il elected besides: but /
don't think he said much about il. in his last
Mondays paper.
These secession anti-submission, and
Southern Press men. seem To be very hard
to believe that large majority Of the peo-
pie OF all the states Of the Union, except
perhaps South Carolina. are against seces-
sion: that they prefer contcnding for their
rights, in the Union, to out of It. Some
how or other, an idea has got into these gen.
tlemen's heads. that they are very great
men. none ever like them in America be-
fore, certainly, and thatby vaporing, threat
| ming secession and other dangerous things,
they will bring all the States, and people
to their terms. and if they cannot succeed
in this. then out of the Union they go "by
Jose." And if they do not happen to want to
go out just sosc. why if you question their
right to do so and that peaceably too. you
will fight on your hands,righl off, They
bristle up and talk loud and big, about a
Southern Confederacy. but press them to
know how many states viii secede and
join them in it, and they can only point to
one State as being certain, and that is poor
old South Carolina. A South Carolina con-
federacy! If old Genl. Jackson was living
and now president, / doubt verv much
whether any body would talk much about
secession. even in South Carolina. The old
hero would nodoubt threaten them with the
halter, and execute his threat too, if they
attempted to secede. But here recollect
that Mr.. Bocock gives new definition to
,f
sion. He, if understand him, makes it the
most peaceable and harmless thing a man
could do. All man or state has to
do, is ito use trite phrase) to bundle up
their bag oftricks, all that belongs to them,
and walk right out, like boarder from a
tavern, and no body has a right to forbid
it. Well this certainly does look very
harmless, and wonder that South Carroll
ma should have been talking about it for
the last 20 years, when it is SO easy
for her TO get out of the Union. Now
if she thinks she has the right to do
it, she knows very well, that there are
great many people who think differently,
and some fuss must grow out of it.
But Mr.. Bocock defines a secessionist
not to be disunionist, and whoever
charges him with being one is false, and
a coward besides. confess never studi-
ed South Carolina metaphysics enough to
know the difference, practically carried out
| suppose he has. suppose if State
were to peaceably secede from the Union.
without any opposition on the part Of the
General Government, that then she and all
her citizens who claimed allegiance to her,
would be disunionists, tout of the Union) SO
far as the balance Of the States were con-
cerned. but perhaps the States remaining
together, ,could be tie disuaion States, and
the one seeding, ,could be the Ua,on State
1t is very well l thought of this, for it GER
tainly presents two sides to the question,
and your readers must decide for them
selves, who would be the disunionist in the
supposed case. All! but says Mr.. Bocock
in reply to Col. Boiling, if you send the
American troops into South Carolina to
whip her into the Union, where will be the
gallant Q uitman, and the gallant Davis of
Mississippi in that contest l really can't
answer that question. but can tell him
where think @ uitman will and ought to
be after the election for Governor is over in
Mississippi. l think he will be in private
life. / believe the gallant and indefatiga-
bic. democratic Union Candidate, General
Foote, will beat him, and l am sorry Mr..
Bocock or Col. Boiling one, did not tell
the people, that this contest in Mississippi
for Governor, and also in Georgia, was
real old fashioned pitch battle, between de-
mocrats; no wing in the field; a secession
list or disunionist, on one side, and com
promise or Union man on the other, in both
States. The gallant Cobb, in Georgia.
Mr.. Bocock's Speaker of the last House of
Representatives, who voted for nearly all
the Comprimise measures. which Mr.. Boz
cock opposes. and so did Foote. such is
the all absorbing interest, that the people
ofthose States feel in this question of Sc
cession and disunion, as a matter of course
(Mr. Bocock's opinion to the contrary not
withstanding) that all other questions are
merged in this. Wings and Democrats are
fighting the battles of Union, under its own
flag. led on blythe gallant Foote in the one,
and the gallant Cobb, in the other; while
the gallant Quitman, and the gallant Nc
Donald, with their friends, are fighting
under the the secession, disunion, anti
compromise, anti-submission flag. Yes,
and if there had been bold spirits e.
nough in Virginia among the scces-
sionists, the Quitman and Mcdonald flag
would have been hosted here too, and the
word acquiesce never would have been
pronounced by any Of them. But Virginia
did not send delegates enough to the Nash
vile Convention, for them. They became
frightened, and presently we hear them, and
see them changed from anti-subnission, to
acquiescers, 81 don't like the Compromise it
is cheat fraud disgrace" but still as
how, we will acqxiesce in it. mother words
l want your vote: if you are a Compro-
mise man. l am acquiescer, so there is no
difference between us. Oh! such stuff to
feed grown folks on.