Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-11-17

Woonaa0a8v Roknnn8 s......0sr As Acoo
TIE Busaoa Cssvses. IN for1)w days. wss an
alb and valssi organ q the Wig pasty. Con
dsesea, = Il va. and i stu. Aith great ability.
Il ssssirsd national rsp1tasioa - Journal dis
siaxuisAsd for moderation. for conservatism, and
fse lAithfal adherence 70 the ancient Wing faith,
ssdsksSa why zsdisions.
Bah II laAs. change has como over "the spirit
of ~ dream" q the venerable Courier. For
semsspsesahissd rsssou. that paper has conceived
. urs;ndies ari,nst the doctrines Of the American
psss5. Apparently oblivions of the fact that
xssficanisn is, in truth, . part Of the old Wing
c,sea. md dat % far from the two being antsgo-
r,uia thev ere In fact natural allies" the Con.
; r;se Asftsys bitter hostility TO tho American
r.,tv. which NJ can reconcile neither with its
nrOfse,ed Whie faith nor with the principles of
sbstsss right sad justice.
Nor Il shis IN. Hurried, perhaps. by tho ex-
cess Il IL seal against Americanism, into an open
alliencs with the Democratic opposition it seems
To have become imbued with many Of the radical
dcksns which have Of late rendered the very
name II Democracy thing that oaends the con-
ssrsasiyo Sentiment Of the whole country. IL 1t
b true SAat svil communications have. insensibly,
delsssrious eject, we can account upon this, but
upon no other hypothesis, for the following extra
ordinarv declaration that the Boston Courier has
lately made:
"The decent men who have been connected
With that organisation, Tho American party
ought to leave il at once and surely they have
but little motive to remain with body winch
counts but ii 900 votes out OF 30 many IN the
commonwealth"
The declaration contained in tho last clause
of the abovc paragraph would not have
surprised Us in . professedly Democratic
sheet-for II Is one Of tho leading doctrines of that
party that minoritics have rights, and in tact
have no business 10 be minorites at all. Holding,
~ they do. the "ror poputi, ror DEL dogma, they
sudssvor always to absorb minorites by an appeal
to their timidity and their selashness We do
confess, however, to an extraordinary sensation OF
surprise at seeing such doctrine advanced IN n
journal which Processes the conservative and IN
dependent spirit Of the old Wing party.
The idea that men who believe themselves right
must Weld because they are few in numbers =
The idea that opposition must be made to the
excessss Of the dominant faction, because such
opposition is at present useless! We have heard
much Of radical democracy in our day-hut radi-
cal democracy such us this, coming too from an
old Whie paper, il bowshot beyond anything we
have before encountered from professcdly con-
servatye source.
II it lie fruitle.s for eleven thousand men to
contend against the victorious forces of the Repub-
cans, il IL equally NO for the Democratic Opposi-
ton to do the same thing-for, practically. the
latter accomplish no more than tho former. Docs
the Courier counsel the Democracy of Massachu-
sets to surrender their Opposition to the dominant
partyi Not at all But the "motiye" to remain
in the Democratic party Of Massachusetts, is, prae-
tically, no stronger than tho motive" ~ remain
in the American. The one is equally inefficient
with the other in coutesting with the dominant
party the political control Of the State.
But. we would like to enquire when was it that
Wing was ever Influenced by such "motives" as
the Courier suggcstsf We have been Wings all
our liyss--are Wings still. We have as Wings,
always denied the Democratic dogma that MAORI
ties are necessarily right. We have had, in Nir-
ginia, motive enough Heaven knows, to sur
render our Opposition to Democracy, if VIC had
been influenced by the trnitessness Of Opposition
for we have never gained victory in the State.
Would the Courier counsel a surrender on our part
to the dominant party of our State, simply because
We are like the American party of Massachusetts,
in q hopeless minority Mt present. ii this be
Wing doctrine, we must confess the Courier and
ourselves have been educated in different schools
of the Wing faith.
No. We have never subscribed the ''vox populi
vox del" doctrine. We believe maori,ics, mr. mat
ter Of what party, in democratic government,
are more apt to DO wrong than to be right. II
minorties always yielded, there would never be
chance FIR Introducing reform. Their only hope
is to hold the faith, the trust that argument
and reason will finally prevail over ignorance and
passion.
As Wings. We acknowledge the divinity of
neither monarch nor people. On the contrary,
we regard the tyranny Of the populace as the most
degrading and desposic tyranny ofall. AsWhiss,
we occupy the independent and isolated position
of being supremacy indifferent to the caprces of
popular passion. We rejoice if its impulses in
cline to our side-but we will not bulge IN inch
to propitiate II. Nor will we worship the false
God Of the majority. Everything, believing him
self to BE- right should maintain his position Of
opposition 70 Democracy only the more firmly
when he sees himself abandoned By the tmd and
the selfish. The idea advanced by the Courier,
that party, because Of it's insignifcance of num-
bers, should surrender it's standard, we protest
against - violation Of the cardinal doctrine Of
the Wing creed.
We are glad to see that there is one Democratic
organ in Virginia that repudiates oil suspicion of
sympathy with Stephen A. Douglas. Tho Blue
Ridge Republican does GOT mnoe its words. but
denounces the treachery Of Douglas in the follow
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