Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-03-19
Thomas Stanhope Flonrnoy.

Thomas Stanhope Flournoy.
The Richmond Wing records lis appreciation
of the nominee for Governor in glowing and en-
thusias,io bat not overwrought terms. All who
know the subject of lis tribute feel towards and
speak OF him as the Wing does. These are it,
words of eloquent praise:
I'VE hail the nomination of Thomas Sinnhope
Fournov with pecnar md irrepressibe delight.
While we should have sustained the nomination
of any of the eminent gentlemen who were spoken
of in connection with the candidacy ot the Cover
nor-shp with all the zeal and ability in our power
vel. under all the circumstances we are disposed
to regard the selection of Flnurnhy a. the best
Rnd most available that eoull possibly have been
made He i ,ale ofthe very first men in the
Commonwealth an able mau an eloquent man,
and true man. With enlarged progressive
ideas, extensive and accurate Indignation, great
discretion. and Il judgment rare, al faalt heis
besides, one of the most telling effective and
powerful popular speakers IN the STATE. lie
j. also comparatively Young man gaUHntEen
erous lofty piit-dignifed. vel cas-, and Heees
sible-one whose appearance aud manner- arr
those Of the polished gentleman and glorious com
panion, AMI whose sympathies are all with the
peope-wha viii make hosts Of friends wler-
ever he goes. and attach the young men of the
State particularly TO him with ''hooks Of steel
lie isa Nrginian-a true Southern man--iu every
Wise. he will never make any indcicate hoasts
of either lis personal or political prowess, hnt
none will h. reader to draw the sword, and none
will WELD II with firner hand, whenever the
honor of thu State the defense Of Southern
rights may require it. lie will not, however. as
seems to he Mr.. Wise's intention, usup the law
my power Of the Commonwealth, hat he will
see that the law arc executed with promptness
and decision. He hates Northern Aboiit'oui~m
with perfect hntred; and inves the South, her
institutions and hel people, with all tbe energy
and passion of true, ehiyalron3 Southern ia
ture Upon all the questions growing out of the
one great question OF slavery, be i uptn the hub
a Southern man and Nirginian. lie j., Misc,
as respects our State policy, n drrp concerned
for the completion Of all our lending lines OF in
ternal improl ement, aud for dnusiug the bless.
ings of education as Mr.. Wise, in So far these
object, can be accomplished with due and Gun
tious regard 10 economy and the conreairnce n
the people. In word he is Just tie man for the
times, and viii make one of the sutcst GoyrrIs5rs
Virginia has ever had
rHE AMERICAN MOVEMENT is impres-ing it-eif
aud more deeply upon the minds Of our peo-
pie as great measure Of Soathorn safety. In
the Investigations to Which it his bed, the South
has discovered the soarce If power aud prrpon-
derancc to the North aud in that discovery has
tect itself The argument in laeor of the South
ern tendency cd the nnsenlcut Is not on ot de-
duction or reasoning merely. but of mathematician
demonstration. Figures which all can under
stand and none dispute, are the logic en-
ployed. We give specimen from the Penny
Post:
'Very few immigrants eonloto the south, whilst
very large majority stop in the North. North.
ern population is thus multiplied ead .conse-
quently Northern representation IN the National
councils. In 1853 there arrived in New York
365, CAB foreigners, and in 1884. 372,725, nine.
tenths of whom settled in the North The last
census shows that there are l866,g7 persons of
foreign birth in the non .savehodng. and only
375,205 in the slayehol1ing States, being about
FIVE in the former to onein the lattcr. Soc com
pendium Of census by j, d. b. De Bow. page
l15
"Gen b. F Stringfellow,a distinguished mem
Der of the Democratic party in Missouri, and for
merly Attorney General of that State and him
self an enemy of the Native American doctrines
in pamphlet entitled NEGRO Slavery no Evil"
gives some curious statistics about foreign i'm
migrants. lie shows that according To the last
census the six New England States have
about the same population as the five Southern
States, of Maryland, Virginia. North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia
lp.,. ropniai an.
New England SmIa .----.... .....-.z 72saf6
5 Southern Sl0'e-... .-... - fu III
.Ias
He also Shows that with cq1d population. tho
New England Stntr~ have I'll more iulnilies
whilst the : southern States hf,c l6..l35 more
annual birth, al thai tho natural annual in
crease by br'h i - per cent. creator in the
South tlan n IL Nor'A= illus
tamuli.. Anft1,d hiaLs
n. Eael,-a e,a, 5as533 l4s
Souhcu, 10 gbS 1853
lie also shows that II the North the deaths
are in he proportion of to Gi whilst in the South
they are 10 s., nearly 33 per cent in favor
of the slaveholding States-thus
Deaths. Rai,
n. England sts,c4 4a,36s J To I'll
Southern b 2I6 10 81
'"From these ii viii be seen that the five slave
holding States have the advantage in natural an
nual births and deaths of per cent; p in births
and 80 in deaths.-Iiow is it then that the popu-
lation of New England increases more rapidly
than that of the Southern States mentioned The
answer will at once suggest itself to every rehec-
ting mind Foreign immigration empties it's
etreBm OF paupers and conycts into the lap of
New England; where its dregs settle down to in
crease hof abolition population, and her abolition
representation i'll Congress. Abolitonists them
selves, they elect aboitonists and give the North
a prepond rance in the halls of national lepisla
ton. In tbs way the South is kept down. her
institution rlled, the voices of her representa-
tives, few and feeble, utterly disregarded