Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-08-16
The oubsrnatoriSl Kisction.

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Though not Interested, eiibsf personally OF po
lisically. in the great Dsnoerasic Gubcrnatcrial
iabrogiio now prevailing throughout tie C.mmon
wealth, we nevertheless deem it proper to take a
survey Of the Asld and to note the Positions and
determine the chances, far can. Of the
Respective contestants for Gu~rnatorinl honor..
We do this the more cheerful. we have M
candidate Of our own as yet-and, iikc everybody
else who has no bushes, Of his own to attend to.
we feel an uncan.rollablc desire to pitch in and
attend to other peoples.
First, then. il may Ire announced tina. the Dem
ocrary-as Is usWnl apon the eve Of ivory n"nina-
tior-are in grand stew and uproar qroai th"'-
Guberna,or;al standard-bearor. One not familiar
with the habits Of that party, who would form his
conclusions from the violence of the contest now
going on among the friends of the respective con-
testants and the peculiar intensity AMI conplica-
lions of the imbroglio, would conclude thai there
never was such discord and division in any party
before and that their ntcrnerine auarrcls would
certainly lead to q most disastrous defeat. Vain
delu.ion We used to think 81 too when We were
young and green.b but we have learne Wis lon from
experience, and we have felt, often, Ia our sorrow,
how little OF reliance there is 10 he placed on Dem
ocratic divisions. Only let their candidate be an
nounced-it makes no difference who he ishc is
immediately accepted by every individual member
of the Democracy. Those who were loudcs' in
their abuse of him the day before the nomination.
are the mo-t vociferous in their ; ,sannas and ac-
clamations the very day aise. The voice If com
plant is hushcd--the hoar.c notes of dissatisfac
ton are silcnccd-and calm and cheerful eompli-
ance with the will Of the Convention Immediately
succeeds the widest uproar Those wh' recolleet
how the sudden entrance Of the master into ALI
oldfeld school puts stop to the din AMI cla.,crof
the urchins can form tolcrably correct lea of
the quiet that succeeds Democratic nomination
no matter how noisy may have been their oljur-
cations before.
It is useless, therefore for the opposition IN rely
upon any divisions in the Democratic ranks. They
arc too we'll drilled, and too obedicnt to the crack
Of the party whip. The Of the party care
nothing about the notwithstanding as cheerfuliy
for one man Al another. On election day they
make their appearance, in almost countless num-
bers o. mysteriously a. the clansmen of Rhoder.
lex Dhu from the Scotch hcathern or rs water frogs
after heavy rain.
The imbroglio at present, consists Of a vigorous
internal warfare among the friends of Tho candl-
dates for the Gubornatorial toga. ! short time
ago the indomitatle Le.cher had tho inside track.
and was pulling along down the quarter stretch
considerably in the lead of all his competitions
But just as the joyous notes Of victor, about
to he sounded in his ears, our antiquarian friend
of the Richmond Wig exhumed I'M Ugly old doc
ument upon the representative Of the Tenth Le-
gion, showing how and when this allowed Of the
Virginia Democracy had endorse, some very OBJ
noxous sentiments OF ono Dr. Ruiner touchiIg
the everlasting "nigger question: Here vas
terrible obstacle Here "pull-back' indeed
for had rot tho Democr.cy defeated Grorge W
Summers for the same thing. only that Letehcr
was the more recent sinner By seventeen years?
Could the Democracy now embrace lctch"r after
having repudated Summers Tor l." purpose Of en-
dorsing that thoroughly solnd gentleman from
"York State" little old Joe. OF conr.c not--and
from that n i>rnt the star of Lctchcr began to de-
cline and the h,the ito invisible asteroids of Fauk
ner and jackson, and kui..i 'sor nd Bruckeu-
brough began to glm.aer with marked p.ia ness
upon the horizon.
Sir then the Enquirer has been loaded " h
communications trumpeing the virtues ofothers,
and detractng from the merits Of The faithful re-
preventative offtlie invnciLlo Tenth Legion. The
friend. Of the Right Honorable Charles Jane.
the most active Of any. inasmuch as the people Of
Charles James District beginning to manifest
m unmistakeabc desire to withdraw that worthy
patriot from the public service the worthy patriot
aforesaid being as much averse to being oui Of
Office nature is snid 10 be 20 vacuum, his
Majesty down below is to the pres' nee of holy
water. The fight therefore. bids fair to lie be
tween Letcher and tho Right lIonorable--lut in
asmuch as the Democracy claim to be the especial
champions Of Southern institutions hardly see
how they can manifest their regard in that re-
spect by the selSction Of either Of tho two. If
Summers was not sound enough, can the Right
Honorable be 80 considered, who ent II bow-snot
beyond Summers-or can the .avorie Of the Tenth
Legion, whose offence is 30 much the more re-
cent?
In this view Of the case, it is not at all improb-
able that the Democracy may avoid the peculiar
ly perplexng predacinent' they will be in, be-
tween the anti-slavery records Of the two princi-
pal eompesitors BY falling hack upon our gallant
friend Edmundson, Of the Roanoke District. whose
''soundness' is unimpeached and uuimpcachable
or upon peterborough, who tires Of the grave
pursuits OF the jurist-or upon Hopkins. even
Fayetts McMulleu now en- route for his old home,
after having laid down the gubernatorial robes of
aprovince spon the distant Pacific. Plenty Of
Democratic patriots yet ieft in the good old Com.
monwealth, who would consent to bear the hea,
aud burden Of the of6ce rather than see it filled
bya rascally Wing or a vile Know Nothing. We
ara indioar>x.k In, tha Iod