Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-01-30
LINUHDunG ,inGiNiAN.
TUESDAY MORNING. .JAN'Y 30, 1855.
The Condition and Chances Of Parties in Viz


misruled Virginia needs only concentration Il
become irresistible. Unless accounts are enor
mously exaggerated, the secessions from the Dem
ocratic organization leave it in a hopeless minor.
ity--not only in the State at large, but in major
itv of the counties and districts. Whatever dis.
agreements ofopinion on political subjects may
exist among those who constitute the Opposition,
they are united by common dissat sfaction with
the policy and management of the dominant par
ty, and driven into cooperation by the abuse OF
its organs. orators aud candidates. Mr.. WISE
AMI the democratic press make the overthrow
aud demolition of Know Nothingsm almost the
sole object of this canvass An inevitable con
sequence will be that wherever the movements OF
the democratic organization are seem the Know
Nothings will throw themselves into opposition
and the Wings, equally intent on defeating these
movements, will take position by the side OF the
Know Nothings and unite their arms against the
mutual enemy.
The first aud best effect of this combination
will be to thwart the attempt the Richmond Re
eeney to make Henry A. Wise Governor 1t
will be fatal blow to the usurped power and i'll
disguised craft of that central clique, which for
years has controlled the elections and monopol
lied the offices of the State
Next in order Of Importance will follow the de-
feat Of many of tihe delegation in congress all
of whom except GOV. Smith, who discarded, eau
Gus aud defed organization, hold their seats by the
will Of the managers and in accordance with the
established order Of things Nearly all the districts
are closely enough divided to place the balance Of
power in the hands of the new party. That pow
err though not necessarily exercised in all cases
against democratic men, must, as we have shown,
be brought to bear against tha democratic arraug
ments, now existing. Take for example this Con
eressiona district The present incumbent holds
his seat in accordance with that established sys-
tenn, and by the Continuance of that party organi-
cation, which it is one of the objects of Know
nothingism TO break down Any attempt to sub
stitute another representative for him, even
though he should be a democrat will be denounc-
ed as treason, and resisted by the whole force of
the old party organization. Know nothing de-
mocracv aud established democracy thus come
into direct collision. The democratic press
no where sustain Know nothing democrat with
out stutlfying itself III it's advocacy OF Mr.. Nise.
The Know nothings will have, therefore, TO look
for encouragement and support 70 the wing party
and the whig press, who equally interested
with them in breaking down the democratic oil
garohy Mr.. Booock holds his seat by the votes
ofa few hundred maiority--a majority not be-
ginning to approximate, we presume, the mum
Der of Democrats who have separated themselves
from the organization. All, therefore, necessa-
ry to produce his defeat, and the defeat, through
him, Of the established system, will be tho pre-
sentation of a candidate on whom the Opposition
can unite. If Mr.. Bocock, seeing this, should
unite himself with the Know nothing order, aud
attempt by coup de main to hold his seat, he
in effect declares against Mr.. Wise, and will
bring down on his head the thunders Of the de
mocratic orgun7 What we have sad of this dis
trict is for the purpose of illustration only, and
will apply as we'll to the Amherst district aud
nearly all the others.
We need not apply this reasoning, in detail
to the counties. The rule and the application
are precisely the with them, aud with the
Senatorial districts, with the Congressional
Wherever a democrat holds seat, in any one of
them, he holds il as part of :he established reg
ulations, and in obedience to the wishes of that
party which stands inveteratey arrayed against
Know Nothingism and il will be the policy and
duty of the Know Nothings To oppose his re cleo
ton, if they would bring in now regime, aud AN
era of reform. The case stands simply thus: The
Oligarchy have matters now arranged 10 suit
themselves. The Know Nothiugs are not suits
fed with that arrangement, and are DESTROYS of
overthrowing it. In this desire the Wings sym
pathise with them. Cooperation is tho logical
consequence, and success the sure result.
It was this view of the condition of parties that
prompted us, in a late issue, to congratulate the
people of Virginia upon the approaching over
throw Of the political managers, placc-hunters
and spoilsmen of the State. Their days are mum
bered, and their doom is sealed. They have rio-
ted in power, and in the ruthless prescription of
their fellow citizens, until THE PEOPLE have rs-
en- in offended majcsty,aganst them. Locofoco-
ism has caught the distant muiterings Of their
ayengng wrath, and is striving in vain, to drown
them by its old abolition uproar. power that
has the might of genuine muscle, and the vaor of
true courage.is not to be intimdated. Young Her
cules was preserved by II hGllaJaoo-end the
din and clamor of atfrghted Locofocosm will
only arouse the spirit of the young giant that is
stalking to destroy it.
We might, if we were not too mercful, enjoy
quiet laugh at the present condition of our
cient enemy. Democratic editors and orators have
amused themselves much of late by humorous in
quiries and romantic conclusions concerning the
fortunes of the Wing party. Over and often we
have heard that it had abandoned its principles
was divided, scattered, drowned in Know Moth
ipgism dead and buried. We have had it's bio
graphy and obituary, its natal hymn and epitaph.
These are pleasant occupations for inventive
minds. and have afforded no little entertainment