Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-30
An OlSan out of Tune

and after the good old Virginia custom, enquire
about the health of their families. We have M
terms to make with those who would triae will
or trade upon the rights of the isouih,pnder what
ever pressure of want or cnpidity, and we ua-
hesitatingiy pronounce the course ut the Organ,
false 10 the covenant at Philadelphia, aningonis
tic to the position Of Virginia and The South
and deserving the apprehension, as 1t viii meet
the repu liation, of oil who regard the 18th Sec
ton of the National Platform embracing the
terms of fair. constitstona and final settle
x,en, of sectional questions. We feel ourselves
warranted in speaking for Virginia, because Vir
ginia has spoken for herself in formal and un-
conditional ratification and endorsement Of ihe
I2,n section Most.f pct all the Southern States
have done tue same. On ilnt basis. and that
only. they are willing to be associated and TO
Cooperate with Northern men. and they have
no affinity nor lot with any who do not stand up
on it. We do not know by what authority the
Organ speaks. We recognize no organsbp in
it, The position il takes is one which the Pbila-
delphia Convention though urged and Emporium
ed fm days refused To take. More than that, it
is asLirkipg Of the most VITAL pressing and mo
mentous issue. now ar ever before tho county
for its decision. Thai we do no, mi-represent
the Organ. we cite the following passageir proof:
We hold Ito he an sndemabe proposition that
a national party cannot be formed in this coun-
try. If an attempt be made 10 eoerce it, members
to surrender their views and opinions upon local
or sectional questions. the regulation of which
forms 40 part Of the legitimate purposes of any
national party Difference 81 opinion upon such
local and sectional qacstions must be Tolerated,
IL we understand and have rightly expressed
the purposes Of the American purity, it VAS not
formed either NTH ritn 10 fnSiart or 10 e@fsdn.
chise the A(ricaa race. Its mission does not re
qure nor justify any interference with The domes-
tic relations or peculiar institutions of the nd.
viet y States. rs action is directed to the con-
troll Of our national Legislation, rs the means Of
success in its national purpose its aims objects,
and principles nre national, ana, rot sect, nal.
No subject or question purely local or sectional
lies within the scope Of its Legitimate purposes.
We regard the institution of involuntary serv-
tude, now existing in the Southern States of this
Union, as local and not sectional m.iter,-''a
subject for the liberation Of difference of
opinion by the citizen Of the Northern mud South
crn States, and AS one which has no righiful
place in the platform Of the American party"
We should rejoice il our friends Of the North
could stand upon the 18th plank of the Philadcl-
phia Platform aud be sustained by their con slit
uents. We are satisfied that they cannot do it.
and that any attempt Ia force them to take that
position would result in destroying the American
party aud in continuing in power the present dy.
nasty for anotherterm.
The 18th section gns net declaration on the
abstract question of slavery, MS the Organ seems
to consider--but on the constitutional right of
the Shareholder to hold lis property in security,
and enjoy it without moesta,ion. 1t does not CO.
cree those who subscribe TO il to Surrender their
views upon local sectional qucstions-but
guarantees to the STAKEHOLDER tho enforcement o {
all the muniments of property that the consti-
tuition and the laws furnish, and provides that
neither be,as an individual, nor the State of which
be is acitzen. shall be reduced to an inequality
with other citizens or States, on account of the
existence Of slavery. difference Of opinion"
on the abstract question of slavery is tolerated"
But there can be no liberation Of such a differ
ence as permits the people Of the North to keep
up a perpetual ferment and excitement. 10 the in
jury If the laveholder's rights and,o the insult
Of his feeiings-nor can there be any difference
tolerated upon the question whether the slave
holder has right to recover his property when it
escapes or is stolen from hm-nor upon the
question neither he has n right TO go with
his property into any territory of the Uni
ted States open to settlement, and have an equal
voice with others in declaring what sort of gov.
eminent and institutions shall be established
there Certainly, the American party was not
formed either to zen slave enfranchise the AZ
4 L Z
imperative and inevitable questions winch have
resulted from the presence Of that race among us
then Il is not party which answers the demands
of the times. or meets the wants of the South
It folly to say that ''its aims, objects and
principles ore national, and not sectional
upon another with IMMUNITY. It cannot be
national and overlook tho rights of any section,
state or individual The.error of the Organ lies
inits failure to distir guish between what is sec
tional question and II sectional right hence i.
concludes that: ''no subject or question purely
local or sectional lies within the scope of its
(the American party's} legitimate purposes. ~
If these questions, as is precisely the case with
those under discussion. involve rights under the
constitution appertaining to one party. and the
disregard and infraction Of those rights by other
parties, they ale obliged to lie within thu scope
Of any political creed or association, which as
sumes to provide for and take care of the inter
ests of the whole country-and to the extent tina,
any party falls short in this particular, it fails to
be national. But the Organ is satisfied that "oul
friends of the North" cannot stand Gpon the l2tl
section and be sustained by their constituents
and ..that any attempt to force them to take tina
position would result in destroying the Ameri
can party" If this were so. for ourselves, W
should be prepared to Say. let it be destroyed