Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1852-04-19
WING State Convention.


| ting one hundred and nine counties, after a
two days session, in which it transacted
its important business wisely and harmoni-
ously. has adjourned, and its members
have returned to their private stations and
duties. As yet. we have not detailed
account of its proceedings, but enough
has reached US, to indicate the spirit and
assure us Of the discretion, with which its
deliberations were conducted How strik-
ing and pleasing the contrast with that
motley and discordant assembly, that pre-
ceded 1.-THE first, from its commence
ment to its close. a storm of confusion, dis
cord, denunciation,-a Babel scene of dis
order, wrangling and strife. ending in tho
construction of platform. full of trap
doors and triggers, and designed to catch
game ofevery stripe and feather-the other
a dignifed, patriotic and fraternal consul
tation upon the great interests ofthe coun-
try and the people, ending in frank and
manly avowal of those principles and mea-
sures of policy. upon which they were uni
ted as party land by the practical enforce
ment of which they believed the public
welfare would be most promoted. The
resolutions adopted by the Wing conven-
ton command, in every line and letter, our
heartest approval. They constitute po-
ltical creed. to which we Subscribe with
our whole mind and our whole heart. We
joyfully and proudly confess our conf
dence in the men, the motives and the
measures, by whom and for which, those
resolutions were promulgated, as the faith
and aims and ends of the Wing party Of
Virgina. With regard to the Compro-
mise measures of the last Congress, that
great device of national security and
Southern satisfaction, we cannot too high
Iy applaud the elevated and patriotic po-
sition taken by the Convention. 1t brings
out in holder relief the ominous silence OF
the late democratic Convention, silence
not ominous, merely, now, but alarmingly
significant, since the late votes of more than
half the democratic representatives Of Vir-
ginia in Congress, against the fnality of
those measures. Unless we have greatly
mistaken the character of the people of
Virginia, their devotion to the Union, and
their disposition to uphold the laws of the
country, these occurrences will arouse
them to a fuller perception than they yet
have had of the dangerous, destructive and
disorgauizing tendency of democratic doc
trines, on the one hand, and the sound and
conservative influence of Wing principles,
on the other. Moderate men, who regard
obedience to law, and the protection of
the Union, as objects paramount to all par
ty allegiance, cannot remain content with
a refusal to acknowledge the one, and pro-
mote and provide for the other.
But we are keeping the reader longer
than we intended, from the admirable re
solutions of the Conventions:
/. Resolved, That we regard the acts
of Congress, commonly known as the
Compromise. as final settlement and ad
justment Of the questions insolvedin them.
and we will consider any attempt to dis
turb them as blow aimed at the peace Of
the country and the integrity fthe Union,
2. That we approve the administration
Of President Fillmore; believing that by
his wisdom, evinced in the conduct Of our
National Affairs amidst embarrassing diff.
fculties. his loyalty to the Constitution, his
frmness in the maintenance of the laws
and hisjus regard for the rights Of the
States, he has eminently fulfilled our ex-
pectations, and justly entitled himself to
our continued confidence and support.
3. That we prefer Willard Fillmore as a
candidate for the Presidency over all 9th
err persons who have been proposed for
that high station, and if he shall be nomina.
ted by the Wing National Convention, the
Wings of Virginia will give him their
cordial support.
a. That the Wings of Virginia will
give the like cordial support to any
other true Wing who may become
the nominee of that Convention, who
has stood by and does stand by the
Compromise. out and out, and re-
CARDS it and stands by it with unalterable
determination as final settlement and ad-
justment ofthe measures involved in it.
S. That the wise maxims of Washing
ton respecting the foreign policy of this
country, which have been practically illus
trated in the Administration of President
Fillmore, ought ever to guide the federal
government in its intercourse with foreign
nations.
6. That the public lands are the common
property of all the States that such dis
position should be made of them as will
enure equally to the benefit of all,and that
an equitable apportionment of them in kind
or like distribution of the proceeds of
their sales among all the States, is not only
clearly within the constitutional power Of
Congress, but is the wiscst and most right
full disposition that can be made of the
common fund.
Z. That whilst we are opposed, as to a
Tariff, to excessive duties, and, as to In
ternal Improvements, to lavish appropri-
atoms, we are content, by a judicious ar
rangement of duties necessary for an eco
nomical administration of the government,
to encourage our domestic industry, and