Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-08

| breathe aud spread. and what influence TO exert
| on the sectional passions or the national seDti-
ments of our country, have had occasion to
read something Of their spoken and written ex-
| hortatons. this inauguration eloquence of sec
| tionalism. | and think comprehend it, And what
work do they make oft! Yes; what With
| what impression of your country, your whole
| country-that is the true test If party platform
and party appeal-do you rise from reading
| this exhoriaionl What lesson of duty TO all,
and the claims of all; and of love TO oil has 1t
taught youl Does not our America seem TO lose
her form, her color. her vesture. as you read!
Does not the magic of the metamorphoss come
10 her! Her spirits faint her blooming cheeks
assume q pallid tint, and scarce her form re-
mains Does it not seem as il one half OF the
map were blotted out. or rolled up forever from
your oyel Are you not looking with perplexity
and pain. your spirits. as in a dream, all bound
upon a different, another, and a smaller native
landl Where do you find in this body of dis
course one single recollection that North aud
South compose a common country. to which
our most pious affections due and our whole
service engaged Where, beneath this logic and
this rhetoric of sectionalism, do you feel one
throb Of heart capacous of our whole America!
Tho deep. full, burning tide ef American feeling
so hard to counterfeit, so hard to chill, does 1t
once gladden. aud glorify this inauguration ora
tory and these Inauguration ceremonies Is 1t
the South are an arstocracy to be "abhorred"
and avoided" that they are insidious and dan
gerous; that they undermining our Republic,
and are Mt all hazards to be resisted! Do they
not inaugurate the new party on the basis OF re-
eiprocal hate and reciprocal fear of section TO
sectionl Here this sharp and stern logic OF one
of the orators: "Arstocracy, through all hazards
is TO be abhorred and avoided. But privileged
class are sure to become. nay, are an aristocracy
al no tbprn W
tonal Constitution make the Shareholders priv
LEGGED class. They are. therefore an arstocracy
to be albion red and avoided" Such is the pierre
ing KEY note of his speech. To this he sets his
whole music of ds cord. To this he would set
the whole music of thenext Presidential canvass.
To this the tens Of thousands OF the free States
are to march "Abhor' and "ayoid' the aris.
tocracy of tho South Organize to do it the
better They are insdious and dangerous; they
are undermining republican liberty. March TO
defend il Ay, march, were it over the burning
mass or by the light which the tossing wave of
the lake casts pale and dreadful.
And now we will close our notice Of this speech
with a single extract more which is emnenty IL
Illustrative of the conservative, national and pat
riotic views and principles Of the orator:
1T is nothing to be ascribcd to the necessi
ties of national situation aud the opportunities of
national glory; nothing to the sober, collected
judgment of the people of all the nations; moth
ing to the foresight of some great men-liko
Jefferson and John Quincy Adams-who loved
not slavery nor the expansion of the area of sla
very but who did love their country, dearly and
wisely and knew that that evil would be more
than compensated by The exceeding good; moth
ing to dlused vehement nationality, grave.
ambitious. and copious of mighty strength,
burning to try itself against the resistance of
foreign contact, and finding on its west and
southwest border equal lorco to hold it baok
nothing to the blindness of mere party tactics
and the power ct n popular Administration
nothing to the love of glory aud contention and
danger which flames aud rcycls in the adolescent
national heart l7it all mere and sheer negro
herdng and negro selling that has done this.
more than this l. nothing 10 be ascribed To
the influence of northern aggression against sla-
very, provoking by an eternal war Southern
rally for its defence and propagation! Have
these great readers Of our history forgotten tint
ms far back a. lSIlj US l5jl the press, some in
fuentul portion of the press "i II large political
party at the North, began To dcnounee the cleo
ton md reelection of Jefferson a n triumph of
the slave power; the acquisition Of Louisiana,
that absolute necessity ut our peace, how much
moro of our greatness. as another triumph OF the
slave party; that this form of sectionaIism nj
ready nssuiled the slave representation of the
Constitution and tried 10 strike it out that it
bore its part, large part IN influencing New
England 10 the measures Of the Hartford Con
vention; that hushcd to silence by the irryid
food of nationality which swept the country Mt
the close of war; breathing into US the full FIRST
inspiration Of American life, it awoke again Oh
the application of Missouri for admission; that,
senced once more by that adjustment, few
years later it took on he more virulent type of
Abolitionsm, and from that moment helped on
by the general progress of the age, it has never
ceased for an hour to make war ON the institu-
tions of the South, to assail the motives and
raign the conscience of the Shareholder. TO teach
To "abhor' aud To avoid him. and denounce the
Union as compact with hell l. it not possible
that party of VIVA. they call the aggressive
spirit of slavery may be reaction against our
own aggression -