Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-11

Candidates for Congress In Virginia.
We inert the communication Of citizen OF
Virginia, over tho signature Of AIexandriA,"
suggesting the nomination Of the Hon. John
NJ. Bolts for Congress, without hesitation, as
due alike TO our esteemed correspondent and
to his distinguished nominee. We do SO, how
ever, with no purpose Of interfering with the
privilege, which belongs exclusively to our
friends in the Richmond district, Of selecting
their own candidates for their own sufifages.
If at any time, however, it were allowable for
persons outside the several districts, to feel a
deep interest in local nominations, that time is
moo, when the powerful elements Of Romanism,
Foreignism, and Forneyism, are combined
against our party, in every portion--eyery nook
and corner Of our country.
To insure success, our friends must not only
harmonize but they must select men Of ability,
Of power, and of nerve for the approaching
crisis.
Personal prejudices and personal dissensions,
should be hushed into silence by our friends
everywhere in view of the political contest be-
fore us,-a contest not for men, not for cliques,
not for favorites, but for our country and its
institutions. If animosities have hitherto ex-
listed between those, who have now met upon
common platform, let them be buried, before
wo reach the battlefield let all "Ameri-
cans" stand shoulder to shoulder, arm linked
to arm, hand grasped in hand, forming an end
less chain ofderotess to liberty and the Union
Thus, and thus only, can we overcome that
formidable army, who have sworn to defeat us,
and who would, if possible, storm the gates OF
Heaven in the effort
II is not for US to say, that the talented gen.
tleman proposed by our correspondent, Is bet
ter qualified than others who may be found in
the Richmond district, to represent our party
in Congress-, but we may say, without preju-
dice to any one else, that he is cninenty quail
fed, by his experience, his powers of debate,
his political knowledge, and his devotion to
American" principles, for that Important po-
sition, at this critical juncture in political af-
fairs.
The anti-American candidate in that dis
trict, is . gentleman Of ability, Of eloquence,
and Of great popularity, and 1t will be in vain
to oppose him with man Of common calibre.
! Nor do we doubt that our party, in the Rich
mond district, will have an eye to these con-
siderations, in selecting their champion for the
Congressional contest
Turning to the Norfolk district may we not
hope, that our party there, will find some OPP
ponent to General Millson, who, if he cannot
equal him in the art Of hair-splitting, lin the
solution Of abstruse questions oflegal science
in drawing distinctions between "tweedle-dum
and tweedle-dee, can present and vindicate
American" truths, and American" princi-
Piles, in manner comprehensive by " Ameri-
can" mindsl
And is there no hope in the Tenth Legions"
Can no man be found there who would prefer a
natire born citizen Of Virginia for Governor, to
an Irishman, fresh from the boys of Killarney
Have our friends there become reconciled to the
vote of the Hon. Mr.. Letcher, in the Virginia
Convention, placing foreigners upon an equali-
ty with native Virginians for the highest office
in the peoples gifta IF 40, then be IL So
1t affords US pleasure to say to our friends
in different sections of Virginia, and elsewhere
that there Is every prospect that our party will
elect large majority Of the members Of Con-
gress from Virginia, and that the State ticket
will succeed by many thousands If there be
union, there will be success.