Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1852-09-10

The Fables Of LocOfOcOisn.
The Thousand md one stories of the Ara
Lian Nights Entertainments hive long been
reckoned without equal in the realms Of in
vention. Those wild and gorgeous visions Of n
most fertile Imagination have heretofore stood
nnapproachsd in their absolute exclusion of
fact or its sembance, and their perfect dc.
pendence on fiction. In this Inter respect, il
not in the brilliancy of its imaginings ocofooo
ism is fast making up history III ut may well
claim a comparison with its more ancient and
renowned prototype. Nor is there an en-
tire dissimilitude in the reputed origin of
the and obvious motives and objects Of
the other. OF tho first we are told that
Sultaness of the Indies, in order to avert the
execution of n threat by tho Sultan to have her
put to death, undertook the recital of these
stores. hoping thereby TO beguie him Of his
purpose, and escape or delay the doom i'm
pending over her. In this she was successful;
the vow wac revoked, and she preserved her
life. So with locofocoism. A similar fatc has
long hung over it. Destruction threatens, and
in its attempt to avoid that fate, and preserve
its existence, it's "thousand and one stories"
are echoed and reechoed over the country
But, unlike the result of the above stra,agem
its efforts @H not aUaii: for, like the might
blooming cereus" whose leaves put forth only
in the dark. and wither and die, as the light
dawns upon them, so with these ''baseless
fabrics" OF Democracy, when tho light of
truth Is she'd upon them, they dissolve and
leave not rack behind"
From the very commencement of the can.
vass,a regular system Of misrepresentation and
invention has been carried on by this party
which will prove as futile in the end. as it has
been discreditable in the beginning. The frs,
shout with which they hailed the nomination
of Franklin Pierce sounded an untrnth thro
the land. For, while they loudly proclaimed
HIM to be the very man of thor choice, and
HIM whom they preferred above all others
1t IS n notorious fact, TINT the nomination Oh
Gen. Pierce was never for one moment con
templated or desired. by single man in the
country, out of his own state, and scarcely n
sufficient numter,of those who were so rejoiced
at his nomination, to constitute a respectable
''CorporaPs Guard, knew there was such n
man In existence.
Profoundly ignorant Of his past public life
and eager TO catch upon some act in that life
distinguishing aud calculated to redeem him
from the Insignificant position he presented
upon which to urge his claims for support
for the exalted station. for which he had been
nominated, the first pretension put forth was
that he was military character-a soldier and
General. who had in foreign lane, done battle
for his country; and sraightway we had the
modest Pierce metamorphosed into military
cheitain-a heroic general, of herculean pow
err and capacity. and, as if content to rest his
whole claim for public favor on this qualii
cation, his military fame was trumpeted loudly
and proudly throughout the land But alas |
Tor Pierce, that his military career was ever
introduced; for In the sequel it has proven a
"shame" rather than "glory" to loco(oco;sm
lie might well wish to have been "deliv-
cred from his friends" for this attempt To nro.
mote his cause has but recoed upon his ow,
head. The developments brought to light by
an investigation into his military career were
by no means calculated to SUSTAIN the asser-
tons of his new friends. Such thing as des.
patches were in existence, and, among the
archives of the country, even some OF Pierces
own were found. whose revelations sorely
troubled the faithful; and when they demon
strated that Pierce's accustomed ipsignfcance
had attended him through his military life, and