Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-11-30

rejoice at their late triumph over the freesoil 'ad
ministration party" The immense Metropolitan
Hall was crowded to overlooking The proceed
ingwore commenced by the reading aud odop-
ton OF an address. the tenor of which may be IN
ferred from the subjoined paragraph, which We
extract:
.'In reviewing these oceurrences,we shall notdo
ourselves or the facts of history the injustice To
speak with hesitation, or with any lack Of eandor
We gave to the nomination oftho present Exeeu-
tive of the United States, an earnest aud cordial
support. I'm all his previous political life he
had ayowed and sustained, as we believed the
national principle. We hailed his triumphant e.
lection a. the asoendaney and elevation of that
princple. We regarded il n earnest of the
stability. nav, indestruetbility. of our glorions
Union. We adhered to this belief, notwithstand-
ing the selection of Cabinet. cur onsly mosaic,
and strangely in contrast with the popular eXpee-
taton. because were unwilling 10 yield cher
ished confidence. and because we relied upon the
sincerity of the inaugural declarations. But
when, in this State. we saw the leaning and as-
sociations of the Cabinet. IN all the direction of
the Free Soil leaders aud their coalition allies
when il became obvious that that class of polit-
clans were their assured and confidential adv
sers-when we saw the National Democracy of
the State whose consistency aud devotion through
all the dark periods of our history aud at all times,
no man can gainsay, discarded as unworthy OF
confidence. or treated alens-when we saw
this utilization with Free-soilisn rpen into man
fest interference by Cabinet ministers IN our
State politics. in the taot approval of the acts OF
violence aud outrage by which our conventions
were sought 10 be controlled and, finally, in the
election from official stations under the Govern
ments of honored and consistent Demoernis-
when the assertion of political rights in State
affairs became ''irregnlnrity:a and consistent
politioal integrity 'insubordnaton. and when
IL. : tl,,
ment,thrown into the canvass, IN every form of IN
timidaton and appliance, We could no longer
doubt the procliyities of the Cabinet, their de
signs upon the independence and integrity OF our
people, cor the danger to all freedom of opinion,
all'uatonality of sentiment and all liberty ot
political action; If allowed Ia sweep unchcet-
ed and unresisted III their career ut attempted do
minaton. Nor could we hesitate 10 net be
came men. smarting under a sense of wrong aud
injustice. That our confidence misnppi-
ed; position misreprescntcd, aud our liberty
of opinion and action IN the state affairs invaded,
with pain and regret, will not deny; but that
we saw il with fear or in apyeraven spirit of sui
mission 10 Cabinet Interference, no man will now
assert. 1t is Noble spectacle To see u great
people sustain Government founded on justice,
administered with iiberHlitv, aud standing upon
and maintaining the principles aud nvowals by
which it invoked and obtained power; but il is far
nobler 10 witness n prompt and gallant resistance
10 n Government Nilltu iblpfaiH It's lIltnl@s re
nounees its principles, and aims to tyrannizc
over both.
Among the resolutions passed by reclamation,
was the following
Resoiped, That the late election has demonslrn-
ted that il Is the earnest wish aud conviction Of
the Democracy ofthis State that the Senate of the
United States Tor the preservation of State rights
and,fo the rebuke ot the Cabinet which hns dar.
ed 10 violate them,s should refuse to confirm the
appointment of llEMANJ. REpFIElD. rs Collector
of this Port. dalso that the President of the
United States should, for his own fame aud the
success of the Democratic party. dismiss his
present Cabinet at his earliest possible conye-
nienee.
In addition to letters received from Mr. Dick
inson Judge Bronson, Mr.. Beverly Tucker and
others whose feelings upon the subject arc vel
known, one read from Senator John i. Wei.
Ter of California concurrng heartily intho spirit
the meeting and denouncng without stint III,
party in whose interest the whole influence of tn,
administration at Washington was entlisted.-
We annex II few sentences:
! have very little knowledge of the local poll
tics of New York, but this do know that ther,
men among you aspiring 10 be leaders il
the party who Shamefully deserted rs in the gren
contest of ISIS, and whose labors resulted in til,
triumph of the Wings. II supposed that the
had acted from pure and conscientious motives
If they had left Us upon an important princp
which they really considered vital. cou,
respect them bat when am satisfied that tn
only object of the prominent actors was I,
defeat one OF the purest and albeSt men on
country has produced, merely to CRAFTY person
al malignty, must be excused from reeognizin.
them as leaders in the party to which / belong
If they had succeeded in eectiug their can,li
date upon the buffalo Platform, aud their prin
ciples had been carried out, does any one hcGey
that the Union would this day have existed
Would not secession have been ne,itnble.i If thei
policy had been adopted in the administration u
the Gov eminent! And are these men, who In
bored assiduously 10 de-nationalize, 10 demoraz
to Free-solizo the Democratic party, and ulti
mately 10 destroy the Government, now Ia be re
garded as our champions! As the oraces of tn
honest and true Democracy of Amcrical
But it is claimed that these men have repent
ed Where isrthe evidence of that repentance
Have they changed their opinions upon the ques
ton of Slavery! Are they less devoted 10 Free
Soilism than they were in ls4Sl Did not tn
Democracy occupy the ground in lS5.
which they occupied in ISIS! Are they wn;
to leave the people of the territories free and uu
trnmmelled to decide when they form a Consti
tuition, whether Slavery shall exist among ther
or notl
If they have really repcnted
after the lapse Of years has tested IFS SiHoeriiu.
willing to forgive them, but for the presen
they ought not to crowd into the front seats
These should be reserved for the true men, VIII
never failed to discharge their duty.
Commodore Stockton, ''the Paladn of Democ
racy," whose presence had been greeted by en-