Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-05-31
LYNCHBURG VIPGiNiAN.
THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 81, 1855.

THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 81, 1855.
When it is asserted that the existence of the
Federal Union is this day imperiled, perhap:
more than at any previous period of our his
tory. there is no one. We presume. that has giver
the subject a moments thought, who will hesitate
to confess the truth of the proposition. Again
when il is asserted that the agitation of the cues
ton of slavery, commencing at the North and
extending TO the South. Is the main and only
cause of that peril and further, that the hume.
rica superiority Of the people Of the North. rem
dering them the more dangerous and daring in
their aggressions on the South, has been brought
about and is nou maintained by foreign imn-
grafton. the propositions advanced equally
clear and equally irrefutahe with the one at first
submitted. And as regards Immigration, an cx.
animation Of the census reports viii show, that
Sipce 1900, the pro rafe increase of the white
- uaton in the Northern States over the South
orn States has been very nearly five millions;
thus impressing us most sensbywith the fact that
that increase has not only been from foreign lands,
6uffhaf it's aoe The raSt balance o poicer uhieA
IS orsfShddo,ciHg the South and THREATENING the
uifimste, II not the speedy dissolution Of our
blessed Union.
Now, what it behooves men Of oyery party to
do in this emergency towards staying result
disastrous. would seem to us a plajn as the dan
gers by which we ars threatened Il : 10 dis
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w.r5 noon III. ba.is # tho I.nio, or1 ,Lo.n.
preu.cy a.. the constitution and the Inv. s,cl
party, IN it, incentjon and spiri, We holioye ,b
American party to be. and hence the co,dinl en-.
operation which Ne have given them. and hence
the 60 operation, ms We IRE per.na,lr2 they have
received from seventy or eighty thousand If the
people If Virginia Ii II nov the.aulx -emhlnncr
of party reaching from the North IN the south
and embracing boti sections. md btcrand vim.
dicfiye as have been The assault. unen II Inv tLr
Democratic party in iugua and Abolitionists
in the E"rth-and proud mud defiant MS arc the
rciaiclsea Of each ol tbc-c tars over its pntml
defeat in This STATE, We trust It viii still be undo
TERED, and will rally ogain for The fight in tho
strength OF conscious rghl' and IN III" behef Of /
'"' hha' triumph "i great and z o'la7- mission. /.
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I'm, nu,,rr. TIM, sacre,.,;,. G,,lrio ,.rl.I,n5
md Da,i, are now absent from tbe scat If Gov
eminent The lnltcr Jeff ON satorday morning
on a brief visit 10 his home in Ali,.i>,jppi md
Adiutaut General Cooper has been appointed
Acting Secretary of War during bis absence Mr.
Guthrie is expected 10 be at his post agnin in
about two weeks
DrAru on Or Corprry,y : K,xa Dr.
r,oor,o,.,S KIM M, ,,,,5,,.t,l,o N,iio.l STAFF
Of the Russian army. died Mt kerteh on the END
of Apri. after ten DAYS Hines. with The tvpbus
fever. He was the son of the late Col W. :.
King. Of the Charleston Courier.
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)ententiary for fraud upon the United Slatcs
PENSION office.
A Yo,xa GtRI. MrVDrprn.A girl apod IL
daughter of James D. Thornton. a well known
,i,;zen of Sumpter comfy. Ala. was recently,
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QUICK "ofk.- ne Washington sentinel says
Rat on SUNDAY The 2'th' German IN tl~t city
aw country woman OF his Tor the hrst time IN
rs HE and before night was married to her.
Ca1lroRNIA.-A letter from California says
Lo CT, 10 L,rloroJ ,,;, l. ,.,,,,,lo
ion i 50 snall that they consume but liftlc. md
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's' '''ue' sun '"' e'' i'''' - nv" u ~ ~ -
taste. The writer s'ys hey can produce Tor 'N
oortator, but that farming lands are held so high,
N account of taxes, interest and labor that
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