Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-03-11
Letters from MessIs. Bolts, Flournoy and
Scott, on the American Nominations

Scott, on the American Nominations
At the Ratification Meeting in Richmond, las
week, letters we're read from Messrs J. NJ. Bolts
T. s. Flournoy and Il. Z. Scott The following
extracts will show their tenor and spirit:
Mr.. Boris.
OF Mr.. Fillmore's qualifications. ] need no
say much:few men however have had better op
portunity of forming an accurate estimate OF hid
asa public man, than has fallen 10 my lot. ] serv
ed with him not only on the Committee OF Way
and Means during the arduous Sessions oi ~ nn'
42-but we were together for nearly seven months
in a committee room. ON the celebrated New Jer
sev contested election in 20 and 40; We were
on the same committees during the whole time
we served in Congress together; and commit
fee room is no bad place to find oct of what ma
terial a man Is made
Twill therefore, bear my testimony in his be-
half TO the effect tba, be isn my belief a safe
sound conservative Union man, in whose hands,
both the foreign and domestic Interests of the
country may be confded without detriment. A
man that will not forget in the administration of
the government that there is North as well as
a South; and a South as well North. A
man who will secure to us the nestimable and
inappreciable blessings of peace. 80 long AS the
integrity of the country can be preserved with
out an appeal to arms; but II war should come
would accomplish something more creditablc to
our fame and more fiattering to the pride of the
nation. than ,ras the bombardment Of Greytown.
A man who would net surround himself nor fill
the public Offices with those who had borne the
reproach of seeking the dissolution of the Union.
If any one thing was clearly demon .rated in
the last Gubernatoriai election, il was, that any
man who could command the American vote, aud
the Wing vote.outside of the American party,
could carry this State. That Mr.. Fillmore can do
this, think far more than probable. Mr. Wise
was elected by rather less than 10000 ma iorty;
he confessed in his speech, in Washington, i'm
mediately after the election, that he had rccciv-
ed 10000 Wing votes. Il believe he got nearer
l7.O0O.) but 1000 taken from his pole and ad.
dcd to NJ. Flournoy's would have given him tho
same 10000 majority that elected Mr.. Wise
But il we lose all the rest, and can rescue the
Old Dominion from the hands Of that spurious
party that has rested like night mare upon her
heaving bosom, and puralyzed her vitality, and
retarded her onward march 10 power and innu
ence and wealth; If we can held in check that
self styled democracy acknowledges no
equality Of right except among those of their
own faith, and which by a system OF unfair ntol-
Grant, oppressive, and tyrannieal Legislation, has,
in violation of every principle of democracy and
equality. boastingly and by design. effectuuly
DISTINGUISHED and trampled on every Wing and
Americana the Commonwealth, by so shaping
the legislation of the State a. TO allow them no
participation in the councils ofthe General Gov
eminent, and none that they could control in the
STATE; il by any human exertons can teach
them Il lesson. and set them example Of pay
ing proper respect to munrities we shall have
accomplished task that will entitle us to tho
thanks Of posteriiy and justify usas we wipe tho
sweat from our weaIied crows at the close Of the
pos,in exelaimng with eyultant hearts This is
glory egough for one ddyi'
As far as the general politics OF eur national
government are concerned, we should be far bet
ter off if we were moi enumerated in the ratio of
representation, a. Only serve To swell tho
strength of those WHO ara our hardest
task masters. md who not onlP withhold from us
onr JUS weight and influence IN making our own
laws, but have extended their unhaoweu sys-
tom of prescription to every officer, which their
own intoerant Legislation would enable them to
reach-and yet they boast of their democracy in
one breath aud complain OF our prescription in
the next.
With what grace can the democracy of Virginia
complain Of tyranny and oppression the part
Of the Worthwhile they reflect upon the illibrral
spirit and grinding tyranny with which they ex-
ercse their own power at home! lfthey so far
disregard the rights el mnoritos here, do they
not furnish an example. and invite the same mea-
sure of injustice on their heads, if they should
be in minority elsewherel Who am Land who
are you with your $4,000 American and 10000
Wing votes in the State, constituting fully one
halt ut the whole and what voice have in
Washington on question of peace ,oi war. of tax
alton or enue,.currency or improvement!
We are worse than mere cyphers in the gov.
are il truth the "hewers of wood
and drawers of water to an unbrded, uncen-
sed majority. under the himsy but seductive dis
yuise of democracy. Less serious cause of com
plant than we have submitted to with patience
and almost without amurmur, would produce n
revolution either in England France; for it
must be borne in mind that this is not the result
OF accident. norris ii consequent on the state of
parties, which are equally divided or nearly so,
but the effect of unconstitutional and oppressive
Legislation in laying off the districts, in dsre
gard of the popular will, without respect to neigh
borhood convenience, geographical shape or size:
and in direct violation of sworn constitutional
obligation.
vigorous and manly struggle FOR supremacy
ia both natural and Legitimate, but the history
of party waifar in the United States furnishes
no example in which victory was attended with
such total disregard of the rights of the mi
norty as is furnished by the democracy of Vir.
GINA, and yet they hypocritirally rail against
for preferring our own countrymen to those of
foreign birth. education, habits and tastes, to fill
offices of government.
Let US, then avail ourselves of this occasion to
strike for our own freedom. We can unite the
Americans and old line Wings in this State on
Mr.. Fillmore, unless they are faithless to them
selves and TO their posterity, unless they pre-
ter to submit their necks to the Calling yoke
of those whose sense of justice and sympathy are
closed against all appeals;and by such an union
we can break the chains with which our limbs
have been shackled by men whom had a right
to look upon as brothers and friends of the same
household, whose interests were identical with
our own, and with whom we are to sink or swim,
to live or die together.
Mr.. FLOURNoY.
| most cordially and fully endorse and approve
the nominations. 1t is ticket that every pat
riot In America NAV sustain withnnt the lens