Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-21

| fetal train IF reasoning. stimulated to It's con
illusions by interest. could have brought men t.
think that surety who lends his name stand
on higher grounds in point of morals, than h
who parts with his substance.
man buys, on time, from another. a horse
worth 500, ind borrows from his friend, fol
some other purpose. 500. He becomes insol'
vent. One of the creditors has parted with hi.
property-tho other with his money. to the same
amount Both have equally taken the risk-and
equally trusted to the debtors good faith and sol
yency. What sophistry can distinguish between
the cases, in point of moral obligation
Men are prone 10 measure their ideas OF moral
obligation by their feelings and their interest
and one or both of these always enlisted In
favor Of sureties. II is natural tbata man should
prefer fora stranger to suffer loss rather than bis
friend. aud it is always his interest in advance to
give pledges that such shall be the case.
The idea is now too deeply rooted into our
commercial ethics. for any hope to be entertain
ed of eradicating it by argument and its prscti
cal results are too much interviewer in our credit
system for any change TO be wrought except by
legislative interference. Deeds of trust in the
ways glanced at have become engines of legal
lied wrong. on an enormous scale sometimes
intentonal--often unntentiona The mis-
chief Is equally great, though the guilt may diff
fer.
10 concludngw we need not say that the fore
going observations have no reference to indisid-
unls or lncaliies-but 10 the policy of law. and
the morality Of eastom. 1t would be unjust to
suppose that any laxity in commercial transac-
tons in this community greater than others has
ELECTED these structures. So far ap-
priced, the equity of the relation Of debtor and
creditor is rs honorably observed here as else
where; but the general aspects Of the subject,
which only have des sned presenting, are
such as in our judgment should invoke to it the
attention Of law makers and law expounders, n
well the moral judgment of,be people
lloS. }. VI. BeRRlES on THE AMERICAN PARTY.
This ii .tingui.hed Southern state smau aud )u-
fist, whose recent letter American sm has been
bitterly assailed and grossly misrepresented by
portion Of the opposition p'css.has just address
sed communication to the Savannah Repubii-
can, reiierating the sentiments he before adyanc-
ed. and showing up his critics in no onyiabe
light In the course Of his reply the Judge takes
hopeful view Of the future Of the American par
ry. LIE cloqncnty and forcibly says:
The great and leading principle Of the Amer
lean party must and will prevail. 1t is cherished
by the majority of the Amercan people by null
tiudes who not enrolled in the order. The
collateral circumstances which decided the cleo
ton in our State, will have no influence in the
rrcat national struggle which awaits rs. They
will all he merged in the primary and vital inter
est which will then be presented, that of NATIVE
or FoREiuN domination in thi- great republic
The American party having Invested itself Of
those objectionable features, which were deemed
essential in il infancy now stands in tho strength
of its manhood To- seed jng no concealment-o openly
ay0wing lis principles- shalllng lis hosts in
the face of its opponents, and bearing aloft II
standard under which every American may rally.
inscribed with these glowing word, AMERICANS
SHALL GOVERN AMERICA.
Referring to the recent election of corservn-
tive men in Massachusetts,. the Judge says be re-
ioices 10 see il, and kails it as evidence of
more fra,crnal spirit there toward Southern men.
He thus concludes
To this awakened spirit whiei is the spirit of
freemen-of Americrn ireemeu. devoted to the
preservation of our gorus | uinn to the cnn4cr-
vatlsm of that gallant State heretofore SO illns-
truus in our national history do not fear a, u
them to stand forward in this perilou+ hour-to
Danish from III, politics of the State the distrac-
ting question Of slavery, which has strengthened
tanatici~m and rlienaed Us from each other-tp
leave 1t with all its responsibilities, where it tx
clusiyely belongs To the States in which it OK.
ists--to unite with in one grand national rf-
fort to free Us from the dominion of spoil ,menf IA
natics and the corrupt foreign influence which
snstans and supports it--lnd once moro to re-.
new, on the altar of tho constitution, our united
vows of fidelity to the Union.
In view Of the difficulties attending the Con
gressonal repre- Sentuticn If Kansas. the journal
of Commerce proposes that the House of Repre-
sentatiyes reject both Whitfield and Reeder and
send them back to the people. This would be u
Sinking of responsibility by that body which we
should be sorry TO see. The whole question re
latrs to the validity of Whitfeld's election, aud
that turns upon the authority of the Legislature
which ordered the election. Under no aspect If
the has Reedrr any claim. His pseudo ell
ection was provided for by II revolutiona ry mob