American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-05-09
The Candidates for Congress.

We dislike to occupy an equivocal
position IN regard to the candidates be-
fore the people, for the House of Rep
rcsentatives of the United States, in
our District, and if the choice we have
made is not what was expected of us,
we prefer that our friends and the can
didatcs sl,ould know it before, rather
than after the Election,
We shall vote for VIM. M. DUN
NINGTON, of Marion county, if we
are spared to appear at the Polls on
the 28th inst. We shall 80 vote, be-
cause we were apprized, before its ap-
pcarance in public print, of Mr.. Dun
nington's letter favoring the policy of
Distribution, and having ION what we
took for good authority assurance that
no American candidate would be run
from the river counties, and knowing
that mono would be from the mountain
cour ties, We committed ourself to the
support Of Mr.. Huntington, in con-
versation with that gentleman, in which
we found him to be all that we desired
upon the main question now in agita-
ton in our State, iz:--the policy of
an equitable distribution of the pro-
cecds of the Public LANDS. Having
thus acted, and for these reasons, and
because Mr.. Huntington is good man,
an honest man, an incompatible man
possessed Of sound, practical, good
sensc-a workingman, who has earned
his bread by the sweat of his brow, and
never been an Office scekcr-who has
earned good name by his correct de-
portmont among all who know him, and
=. man who would 60 to Congress, if
elected, with fully as much, we believe
more, ability for the station than Gov.
JOS. johnson, (the Democratic peoples
man)possesscd when he entered upon his
duties as Executive Of Virginia-being
fresh from the ranks of the people, with
n sound head and an honest hcart-and
further, representing our ideas of dis
tribution, VIC determined to support
him, and now have determined SO to
state, fully and frankly to our friends,
the public, and the candidates. And,
as above remarked, If this course is not
what was expected Of US by our friends,
or those Of another candidate, We pre-
fer that they should know it nov rather
than discover it after the Election,
As to Mr.. Wolf: lie is our person
al friend--a gentleman Of talents su,
pcrior to either of the other candidates,
Clemens or Dunnington--an American,
too, in sentiment and feeling, who has
done much ycoman service for our
cause.-the advocate of Distribution,
and himself workingman Of the right
stamp. Had he been announced at an
earlier day, as fully as he has lately
been, we would have voted for him with
Il hearty good will Butnot expecting
him or any other American to take the
field from the river counties, and feel.
ing assured that Mr.. Huntington would
have no opponent but the Moundsyille
nominee in the mountain counties, VIC
assured Mr.. Dunnington Of our in
tontion to support him upon the Dis
tribution issue, and we arc unwilling
now to turn away from him and the as
surance wc gave him Of our good wish
os and support. Besides these consid.
crations, candor compels us to say that
VIC believe Mr.. Dunnington can COM
mand more Distribution Democratic
votes than can Mr.. Wolf, and that with
the undivided American vote, he would
rally "A much stronger force in opposj.
ton to Mr.. Clemens than any other