Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-02-08
LYNCHBURG lIRGINIAN.
THURSDAY MORNING. .FEBY. :, 1855.



Mr.. Henry NJ Price. of Nicholas, who acted
as the Secretary the meeting, in that county
which appointed delegates TO the Stanton Con
vention. and who is said to be "a prominent
Democrat" has addressed letter To the Rich
mond Wing protesting that the rote of Nicholas
was thrown for Mr.. Wise an violation of insiruc-
tions-that his nomination not desired by
the West and was effected by fraud to which
numbers of the Western people will not submit
Mr.. Price is compelled 10 avail himself Il Wing
paper to make known these facts. because he has
been denied access TO democratic Journals. We
give a portion of his communication:
VIZ. the Secretary of said meeting-ond IN
connection with others. appointed r. attend said
couvention--it being the impression that con-"
do SO. In ease of not attending. ia" secfrtuN
was requested 10 appoint some suitable alternate
which was done, bs a copy OF the proceedings
duly authenticated. being sent 10 VIM SMITH
Esq. ef Greenhrier who, bye the bye, was our
choice for Lieut.. Governor. | had been appoint
ed as alternate from several counties, that would
not have IA stained Mr.. Wise. From sickness
I could not attend "a | much desired. The nolni-
nation of Mr.. Wise was a fraud-to say the least
Of it-bronght about by the improper reception
of the votes of alternaies. Mr.. Wise was not tho
choice of the re"ple 81 the West.
"A fraud has beer perpetrated upon US nnd
we viii not submit. Other counties know have
been equally misreprescntrdi VII" Is to h'nnr'
1t is currently reported here. that Mr.. kcnna, of
ka. promised the Democratic vote ot the W est
to Mr.. Wise, aud TINT be Is TO hr sustained Tor
United State> senator l. this 50 E.! II SO, ~
Ttmpor0t u Hores :" Whit are his antcco-
dents, While at college in Cincinnati remrm
Der man OF that name. N an abolitionists' II
SPEAKER one night WHEN the souiherners raised
l. l. Il. } Ilat IA hp -
il unfortunately happens that Mr.. kenna don't
himself know how the Democrats N has OtrH
county will vote. Not oil Tor Wise by sight.
/, there any truth in the above statesmen ]
think il can he proved.
~. B.-Neither the Examiner or Enquirer
shall .'rnuzzle Us when fraud has been prrpc-
,rnted upon IT,. II is hard We must publish our
grievances in the Wing" 7.
1t will be remembered thM Mr.. Wise, II his
speech here. disdained 10 oti,r any other voucher
of his democracy than that he han been 'Jdirfy
nominated by democratic convention For
politician of his anteeedente, who refused to
make ANY reeantationz, whatever that struck
us as being very insufficient voucher-but
when even that is taken away from him. we do
not see by what remaining authority MIR. Wise
claim the support of the democratic party,
conclusions Of Mr. Price. in lis own vigorous
and emphatic why. Il snys: - pom the concur
rent evidence of hundreds Of Democrats them
selves. we undertake To say that the fraud per
retrated by the .Siaunton Convention IN .he nom.
nation of Mr.. Wise is without any parallel in
the history of party conventions in this State,
out of it. Perhaps n third of the counties there
represented were represented by proxies, who
knew more of the sentiments, wishes, and
preferences of the people Of said counties, than
the man in the moon. Aud yet, most of thc>r
proxies voted for Henry y. Mise, many of them
knowing and acknowledging at the time, that
they not rejecting the will of the people
whose rights they thus proiligately trlcd with
and trampled under foot. Others, again, who
were duly appointed delegates TO stanton, who
attended, and participated in ITS deliberations,
cast the votes of their counties for Mr. Wise,
aware the while, and in sone instances, we learn,
openly contrasting that he not the choice of
their constituents. So, take II all IN all, we
know of no BODY of men that ever assembled
anywhere in this country, who 50 fatty and in
sultngly outraged and defied the popular sontl-
ment of their party. Mr.. Wise's nomination was
be, ond doubt the grossest and most inexeusablc
fraud ever practiced at my time or at any plncc
and the Democrats of Virginia feel and know
that such is tho fact, and, we mistake them
greatly, if they will not be .ound Indignantly re-
pudiating it at the polls"