Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-07-23
Why Should any Virginia Wing Vote for Buchanan

we put TINS question: not because we Deleve there
arc dozen Wings in Virginia who will vote for Blu
chanan, but because of the efforts made by the Blu
charan press to delude them into the support OF
their "piddling" candidate. Whatever may be the
elsewhere there is aud no earthly ne
cessty for any Virginia Wing to desert his princi-
pies and his party in the present contest Let us
concede as the Democrats anusingly contend, that
Buchanan and Fremont really the competing
candidates-an idea that is absurd and stupid be-
yond degree-why should Virginia Wings be called
upon to sustain Buchanan Suppose they cast their
votes for him, what would be accomplished? Would
they make Virginia any for himy In short
do not all the Democratic papers and orators claim
Virginia for Buchanan by ten twenty, and even thir
ty thousand majority IT, then, Virginia is certain
to gvcits electoral vote to Buchanan any way what
need is there of Wings supporting himy We put
questions to all considerable and rejecting Wings
and VIC put them in all frankness invoking for them
that calm consideration which we believe they de
serve
We maintain that there would be less justification
and less in Virginia Wings voting for Bucha-
nan than any other Wings in any other State of the
Union. Their votes could not, by any possibility,
make the State whit surer for Buchanan Is it
not then the most bareaccd and villanous hypocrisy
the part Of the Democratic papers and politicians
W "c tlW " CoaA anu ueCelNe FtFytNid W nlgS
into the support of Buchanan, while in the same
breath they claim Virginia for Buchanan, toithout
their aid, by majority of twenty or thirty thou
sandy IL Virginia is entirely and absolutely safe
for their candidate how in the name of Heaven can
the votes Of Wings make it more safe? Weputitt to
all candid and rejecting men of all parties-is not
the Democratic appeal to Virginia Wings to aid in
the election of Buchanan merely gross deceit and un
blushing iinpudencey
Ii is obvious, therefore, that no Virginia Whig
admitting all that the Buchananites contend for
is under any political sectional obligation vote
for Buchanan If such persons here in Virginia de-
sire To support the Democratic nominee, they must
look out Tor other pretexts for their apostacy There
is no political necessity, of prudential
political character, to justify them in their course
Virginia is perfectly under the control and dominion
of the " Suaban Dutch" of the Tenth Legion and
will as all the Democrats in tn State, big and litde
daily assure YOU cast her electoral vote for the .ten
cent Dutch candidate Under this state of circun,-
stances, where the the necessity for any
Virginia Wing to sacrifice his political principles and
soil his personal reputation by supporting the candi
date of the fllibustering spois Democracy?
Ii would indeed be strange sight to See any man
protesting to be Vhig sustaining the vile and snea-
king slanderer of the immortal Clay To see him.
when there is no earthly political necessity resting
upon him, voting for this deiamer Of an honest man
and pure patriot, and thereby rendering him. by his
vote personal compliment If there be a Wing
IN Virginia who contemplates an act so repugnant 10
right to honor and to justice, we beg him to drop
the name he disgraces, and proclaim himself a regu
lar, full blooded LocOfoco, as he is The way some
men have of supporting Democratic men aud Demo
cratic measures and yet still styling Wings
only imnroner md hut
honest We want in political contests, not enemies
in Disguise but open and bold antagonists In
word when a man concludes to give his vote to Blu
chanan, We desire him to call himself De,nocrat-
He is then no longer Wing, and should not wear
the name for sinister purposes.
But we have no fears that any Wing in Virginia
except those with soft heads treason in their hearts
Will abandon his principles and his party in the pre-
sent crls and enlist under the banner of the Bucca
neer. We believe that all Of them, almost to n man
will be found as they nave been found in the past
ranging themselves around the honest, conservative
Constitutional standard Of Willard Fillmore Thus
believing, we invoke them to put their armor
and let their blows be felt in the present campaign
They have high and solemn duty to perform 10
themselves and to the country and we entreat them
to perform it bravey and enthusiastically. Though
the chances against in this State vet even old
virginia, ridden almost to death she is by Demo
cracy and Taxes, may be redeemed from the grasp Of
the spois-men, and restored to liberty and to honor
AT all events, let us with united and Jealous effort,
try to reclaim the old mother of us all from the hard
hands of the Buccaneers, who are ruling her to her
ruin. Bear in mind-but how you help bearing in
mind r-that the tlres this year, aud are
likely to be doubled again next year Such is the
result, to the farmers and mechanics Of Virginia Of
Locoioco misrue Tax the people till they groqn
grodH, grodn, is the motto and the battle.shout Of
modern Democracy here in the old Dominion