Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-08-13
LIBERTY, Aug Ilth. 1859.

LIBERTY, Aug 11th. 1859.
DEAR SIR In yesterdays Vrginlan is
published an editorial of yours which is in,en-
ded 10 appear In the Sentinel Of to morrow, in
which you say that certain matters that appear.
ed IN Your editorial of last week In relation TO
the Judicial election in this Circuit, were made
on the authority ofmyself and other gentlemen
present NJ The last Franklin Court. And in
the editorial in the Virginian this statement
occurs AFTER getting there Ito Franklin
C"urr) "Co Wingheld informs us that his
suspicious were soon excited hy the behavior of
several Democrats who, having repeatedly
before solicited HIM 10 become candidate and
pledged nun Their support, now approached
HIM and regretted their inability 10 vote for
HMM consequence Of the turn affairs had late
y taken The prominence given to my name
IN the editorial alluded TO leads me to notice
an lnaccnracy which you fell into, no doubt,
from the brief and hurried conversation we had
upon The suhlecf. on my return from Franklin
Court-not that | deemed it a matter Of much
Importance IN relation to your editorial for
the glst and main object OF that seems to be in
tended to expose Mr.. Weddings proceedings
with the democrats of this county, but as my
name has beer vouched " ilh Others. Ilwaut, SO
far as anything may be supposed to rest on nv
authority. for the exact state he facts TO an
pear
In the conversation alluded to, it is very tue
that did state that my suspicious were excited
on the morning of the first day of the Court.
IN consequence OF the conduct of some of the
Democrats; but not from the diect cornmun
cation of any of them TO me- as YOU seem from
your editorial, To have understood.
learned on tll+t morning from some of nv
trends " no had communicated th democrats
protesting to be friendly to my election, that
they had learned from those democrats that an
effort !" as being made by some OF the promi
nent nen of the party to make the election
turn upon party politics. but they (the demo
Gratis who so informed my frends) did no,
think 1t would succeed Bat in The evening,
these same democrats informed my friends
with whom they had communicated in the
morning, that the movers OF The scheme had
succeeded in making u party question, and
some oi them stated that they were ,rry for
1t, for they wished or had Intended to have
voted tor me: while others las understood)
stated that they did not wish it TO have been
So but now they were obhged to cote far fheir
party, without stating whom they would have
preferred If they had been left untrammelcd.
MS was about tho substance of what was
stated by me in the conversation alluded TO, and
!" which you douttle Inexperienced me,
and supposed these things occurred with nv
sell instead of being Communicated to me by
others. AS ID the fact of there being am un.
derstandlng between the prominent men of The
democratic party and determination among
them to make 1t party question so far as they
could, do not mean to he understood as rest
ing that alone upon the opinion Or inform alton
ct others-for heard it from democrats nv
self
But there was no democrat (as you seem to
have supposedly who had previously pledged
himself tome and them after the party organ.
ization had been effected, came 10 me and re.
GREETED his inability to vote for me in conse
quenco Of it.