Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-01-23
The Wars Of the Democracy.

tStc WIN NttSbtHt tAe pioStsSS W euS WI 'set't
the Danube and the Black STA, us TO have
hooked the not less envonun1ed and malignant
contest. raging in the ranks of the many
headed and muntudinous democracy. While
New Ycrk was the theatre of the conflict, we en-
deavored to keep readers acquainted with its
history-since then, it has been transferred Ia
another field. and now the din of battle is heard
aroes,d the very gates Of thecapitol. A fewese-
nng's since, Ex-Governor Foote, of Mississippi,
awaited himself of social honor, bestowed upon
him by some friends in Washington. TO relieve
his bosom of some bitter thoughts.that have been
cankering there, until we can easily believe, IN
less be had thrown them oil. their corrosion would
have poisoned him. Behold how dark and viru-
lent the current of his political feelings;
tell YOU, my friends, none but the Union dem
ocrats Of Mississippi ever dared to read the nan-
gural. You might with much reason expect
to find the devil himself in the corn r of fence
on solne cold frosty morning. rrnding the Scrip
lures of Almighty Godf iis own ediiioation,
10 fluid any man holding Office in the State of Mis-
sippi reading the Presidents inaugural 10 pub
lie audience.
Ihave been the object of.e malignant attnek from
the administration, and no one ever heard me
complain of il in public before. The Attorney
General of the L nifed Sintes, whom | never
wronced, caused 10 be telegraphcd TO my State
in the mds. Of perous contest then pending IN
which was n party concerned. at the expense ~
some seventy five dollars, "a dispatch intended 10
defeat me. lLaughtcr.) Nes- Il was the Ia
nous Massachusetts dispatch from the Attorney
General which was autographed Ia Mississippi
aud published there before it ever reached Mass
achuseits. | never complained of it. felt ton
much contempt for the man Ia notice IT. |
scorned to notice II, and in Mississippi
ever heard me refer TO it before And here the
UaioR new sralrr--the owner himself an honest
man, bat edited in part by iIpes5ilers IN part Ivy
seeessionists--o slonstrt1n horreHdEm among
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. its whole power against mo
and my friends who with me. With this
sort Of thing going on against u.s. with the full
weight of executive patronage pressing u IN the
dust, what did we del We never uttered a com7
plant, and have net yet alluded 10 it in the
State of Mississippi. might he authorized To
lkcu the nine and ten thousand valiant Union
democrats IN MISSISSIPPI, who voted for the com
promise measures Of 1850 To- those seven thous-
and noble men in the oldrn time who would not
bow the knee 10 Baal
1--WE love Dickinson; We honor Bronson: we
respect and love Douglas, Cass, and all the Nor
thern moral heroes who fought 50 vtllantly for
oar right la former days and we love and respect
Fillmore, too, and all the high spirited wings who
have fought, shoulder to shoulder, the butte of
the South against such fearful odds In the late
Senatorial election in Mississippi ii was given out
that the Secretary of War was in the field open
ly for months say his name was attached to
the head of a newspaper which read for months.
/ say that a series of numbers were most impn-
IDENTITY addressed to the Legislature by his nc
knowledged organ in Vioksburg, urging his claims
the Legislature. say that his opponent was
denounced indignantly say that heard there
from a respectable, worthy and illustrous gentle
man, that he wrote letter TO the Legislature
pressing his own claims most indclicatcly.
he. =. !. H.. l...f Il.
date under circumstances degrading TO him.
lie is beaten candidate, and that's an end OF
him. Let him hang to the office here as
long as he Let him give countenance To
free soil nominations as long as he pleases. He
ia dead man. As polite an he can never
rise. | can tel him and his friends that he il
beaten shamefully, and he stands condemned be-
cause be dared to write that letter IN regard 10
the appointments in n. York. II is because he i
aman who is believed to have compromised with
the Tree soilers of the country for his own ad-
yancemeDt, that he stands now u defeated can
didate Tor the Senate Let him make the most OF
It, Oh We gallant men of the North, some OF
whom lifted your eloquent voices to-day III the
halls of Congress--ye gallant men of the North
who have dared TO defend the Southern rights and
constitution, rejoice that III the fierce conflict VI
will be sustained by your Southern brethren
told you at first my for conserving IL
be here might. Is il not So My friends will
not charge the President with lad motives
think he is a man of keen sense and nice discern
ment. God grant that his once generous heart
may open itself 10 all the noble impulses of his
nature God grant that he may in time the
mischief into which he has plunged the people
God CT ant that he may not sleep in the pres
dental mansion as james the Second slept in thu
Inonarchcal palace of London, till the popune,
drove him forth to some distant corner of the
land"
1t is known too that Mr.. Maurice demo
cratic member from New York. has presente,
resolutions in the House of Representatives en-
quiring if any and what legislation is necessar,
to restrain cabinet officers (such, for example, a
Guthrie. Gushing and Davis from interfering il
State elections. That resolution has not We
been disposed of and if not abstracted from tn
House by some Legislative hocus- pocus, will Civ
rise to wool-pulling of the most enlivenn,
character.
Mike Walsh, the great unwashed, and chief q
sub-terraneans, has but recently INDUCED in
display of Five Points dialectcs, alike edifyin,
and appropriate to the bear garden in which h
disports himself. The very brief summar,
of his speech, which have seen, is thckl,
peppered with such expressions as hollow heart
ed set,' desperate and disloyal Wings" ..n
sane abolitonists" sore headed negroes
''hearts and purposes as back as the faces of tn
negroes they We're deluding,' &c. Mike though
the time for the Hards to speak out chad NOR
than fully come" They had borne, he said, tn
most fragrant wrongs and prosecutions iron
those who have been elevated above them. an
who he repretfed tn saw have sbamafull,, ,,;o l..