Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-08-01
DisaGeetion Of the onprosnisc
Democrats.

in the Southern States, and IL is not now the
policy to make any movement likely To starle
the Democracy OF that section. But immedi.
ately that they are over, the question of re
deeming The pledges made to Mr.. Dix, in re.
gard TO the French mission. viii be decided,
and The best informed spectators on the mo
lives and policy of the Executive consider his
appointment inevitable. This will give mo
mentum 10 the movements of the National
Democrats, and We should not be surprised If
their organ al once attained position of great
influence aud power with the party. The ex-
tent of the disaffection in this State is evinced
by the recent declaration of Governor Diekin
son. that sat all times and upon all occasions
he should be found opposed TO This hybrid
Administration, and by the letter of Mr.. Tay-
lor Of our State Legislature to the editor Of
the Union, on the Champlin resolutions"
Mr. Dickinson is more confded in aud ad
mired by the democracy oil the South than any
member of their party North of the Potomac.
No man stood more CALAMITY by the rights of
the South than he did, while a member of the
Senate, and but for his noble act Of self denial
in the Baltimore Convention, there is but little
doubt that he would now be filling the place
occupied by Mr. Pierce. The declaration OF
such a man that "at all times and upon all oc
casions he should be found opposed to this
hybrid Administration" Is of The utmost sig
ni6cance in the present juncture. In the
midst of the free soilers, acquainted with all
their objects and arts, having personal cogni
zance Of the preference given 10 them by the
-, III Il, l,I. IL Ia.
should feel himself Constrained to stand "op.
posed" TO an administration. that gives its coun-
tenance and support TO faction, against which
he has been contending for years with uncon
querable and uneompromising zeal. Mr. Dick.
inson cannot be blind to the TACT that the plan
pursued by the government, Of calling into It's
service men who have opposed the laws Of
Congress-repud ated important provisions of
the constitution, and eisregnrded the rights of
one of the great sections Of the union, is moi
only wrong in irselfbut unjust TO to the nation.
al men Of the party in the North, and an out
rage upon all parties at the Soa He must
feel that such system tends To give strength
responsibility and Influence to PATTY that has
outlawed itself from ri trust or favor--tha: il
encourages dIsoy alry and sectional agitation
and increases the danger of dispnion. Seeing
and believing ttis, ii is impossible that so bold
man, as Dickinson has shown himself 10 be-
could remain silent.
When such demonstrations come to US form
the North what are VIC 10 think Of the silence
Of those Southern democrats, who but while
ago were rea&yto rcnl the Union in twain,
because of The course Of those very free soflcrs
who could not trust Mr.. Fillmore although
he steadily refused 10 permit them 20 hold Of
fce-and could not tolerate the idea of Winfield
Scott being made President, for fear that he
would confer appointments upon ttcml Gen.
Pierce was nominated and elected as natio
nal man-as an original friend OF the compro,
mise-as one who held the seces siouists of The
South and the abohGorists of the North in
equal and implacable abhorence-ond YET
the chief aim of his administ alton thus far
seems to have been to make favor with these
factions, by bestowing upon them executive
honors and emouments, 10 the exclusion of the
compromise and national men, in both sections
ofthe Union. This is d,no under the eyes OF
Southern Democrats, and YET they remain as
silent as the gravel II the South shall learn
to appreciate hereafter their superior devotion
to her interests and their exclusive champion.
ship of her rights, the lesson though costly one
may bring sufficient compensation.