The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-09-27
From the fredericksburg va } Netos, Sept 20.
The Vote OF Virginia.

The Vote OF Virginia.
We publish in another column extracts from
some Of our State papers speaking in confident
terms of the vote OF Virginia for ScoTT. We learn
that one of the Richmond Locoioco journals appre-
hends the same result. We are candid to admit
that we anticipate no such favorable event, and we
see good in creating such an impression. Vir-
ginia has been, and will be, 'joined to her idols"
The shackles of prejudice and ignorance are too
strong to be Embossed in day a generation.
Time is required to do the work, which will be
done at the accepted time .. t
Virginia has never yet cast Wing vote. She
has ever yet stood by the side of Maine, New
Hampshire and South Carolina who, with all the
old States of her faith, have all the time been retro
ceding. The late apportionment OF her representa-
ton in Congress is the haPpest illustration of her
principles. That shows a diminuton of her popu-
lation larger than any one of the old States The
representation Of thesVhig States have been either
stationary or increased, as illustrated in Georgia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Massachu-
sets, SC whilst the States we have named,
which have never given Wing vote, have been
shorn OF one or more OF her representatives in
Congress ...
Why is this? 1t is fact that no one can aues-
tlon. Virginia has been reduced from seventeen
TO fifteen, more than any other State in the Union.
With climate equal to any on EARTH soil the
most productive, minerals Astounding all over her
mountains and her valleys-the Chesapeake wash
ing her shores on one side, and the beautiful Ohio
ON the other-with streams (either navigable or
easily made 80 by improvement intersectng at
convenient distances her territory. Why,
peat is it that, with all these advan Virginia
Tin lcss than half century, from the first has be-
come the fourth State in the Union, and will soon
be the eighth? Can there be but one cause for it?
The autumnal sun, which now SO brilliantly illu-
mines the earth, is not more certainly the
OF light than the principles Of Locoiocoism, main
tanned by the Virginia Democracy, have been the
cause Of our decline. Wherever they have spread
ipht
trade, agriculture, manufactures, and improve
ments OF every kind and character.
Nor has the injury been confined to our Statet
Virginia ia the oldest, and had the reputation in
her early history Of being the wisest State in the
Union. She has been called the 'smother of States
and Statesmen" Her Washington, Jefferson, Mad
Taylor, &C., SC, had given her a name and influ-
ence above all her sister States. For fifty years
Virginia was looked to MOTHER and her coun-
sells needed as would be those Of afIectionate
parent They were sound and wholesome coun-
sells when given by these old men. But their day
and generation have passed, and a new race now
occupy their places. And degenerate race it ia.
But it was not our purpose when commenced
this article to say one word OF Virginia politics.
We are sick Of them Nauscated with Virginia
Democracy as illustrated in the rejection of the dis
tribution fund, the hostility to internal improve
ments, and the other numbcrless fatuties which
have hung as the nightmare around the neck of
our venerated mother, we have turned with oath-
ing from such reflections. We have only referred
10 teul now 10 snow tnat the people who nave been
guilty of these absurdies are not likely at once to
be relieved from the deluson.
To vote for General Scott would indicate too
much sanity in the old grandame, and be unlike
anything she has ever done before
But, it must be conceded. the signs are ominous.
The accounts from the West tell us Of changes
that with the usual eastern vote would give the
State. If this be true, Virginia will be for Scott.
We are confident the East will do her part There
are defections, there ever will be in all cleo
tons, but they not altogether on one side
few aspiring gentlemen, who are curling their
noses after the fleshpots, and who for some time
have been seeking suitable occasion to unite
with the Democratic party, the noisy change
lings who are proclaiming to the world their own
crude and conceed excuses. The world hears of
them, but not of those silent, rejecting men who
have become alarmed at the prospect of the sudden
elevation Of q man Who Coating bis political prin-
ciples) has exhibited qualifications for the Of
flee. They contrast the claims of the two candi-
dates. In one is a gallant, noble Virginian, who
has inscribed his name high up in the niche Of that
temple wherein is recorded the deeds of the great
and the ilustrous. The other (God save the mark)
is small that the acutest vision, aided by the
most concentrated microscope, is unable to detect
a single act which should give his claims mo-
ment's consideration for an office SO elevated.
These men have ambition for office. They have
no motive but the good of the country. They are
their counsellors, with inducements but
honest convictions of duty. They nothing
about the worlds knowing their opinions. At the
polls they will express them, and in behalf of
him who has given to the world "asstTancs that
he ,yns a man %