Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-05-07

~ IA lailoaed political Bargains. Have We .u so1I
forgotten that be who obtained her votes Tor the
Presidency as the Northern man with Southern
principles was afterwards the head and Presiden-
iial candidate Of the free-soil party? Her rights
have a far better and higher guarantee than any
political combination can give. They are written in
the Constitution of the country. There, they are inn
preenable. Let US disdain to hold them by any
lower tenure.
Political agitation can do them nothing but harm.
They are under the sacred guardianship of a tri-
bunal instituted for the defence Of Constitutional
rights-a tribunal which no political agitation can
reach. that tribunal, In the serene and undisturbed
exercise of It's loly functions, has covered them with
the panoply OF the national justice. On each success
sive question, Involving the rights Of the Southern
States, as they have arisen-upon the constitutional
obligation and validity of the fugitive act-upon the
right of transfer from one State To another, free
IRON the control which had been claimed under the
power of regulating commerce among the States
upon the limits Of Congressional power with regnard
10 the common territories of the Union-on all these
questions, the supreme judicial tribunal of the United
States has, by its solemn and irreycrsible judgments,
surrounded the rights and institutions of the south,
in The only points in which they have ever supposed
To be open to invasion, with M impossible wall Of
defence.
lie who would, under these circumstances, indulge
any serious apprehension of encroachment, either
irsm Congress or the other States, on the rights and
institutions of the South, must be a very crcdulous,
or "A very timid man. Such a man, ms DR.. Juhnson
sad oil The HO-B0pfFn alhFinthl III tnlS uhN, NoNll
have been apt to cry fire! in the midst Of the uni
yersal dclugc. trust fellow citizens, Il ere is no
son of Virginia who would go farther in defence of
the Constitutional rights of the South, in case Of
any real danger, than would. But. as cherish
her h6nor-as value her rights. | loathe ard depre-
cate all simulated panics to g fright her from her
property'--to seduce her from her ancient loyalty to
the cause of pure aud uncorrupt government, and to
eulist her in the obedient service OF a party that
would practise upon her fears only to betray her
principles and interests.
Fellow citizens, there is one real, one pressing,
ole overshadowing and emminent danger which
threatens the whole country. 1t is the danger to the
public libcrty-to public morals-to our free institu-
tons hcmselycs-trom the wide spread corruption
and abuses which have invaded every department OF
our national administration. To reform these abuses
10 purify the government from its pollution, to bring
il back 10 its accountability to the pcoIlc.-to re-
place the public liberty upon the firm pedestal of the
public morals-to "drive tue money changers from
the iemple'-this is II high and holy work Of patrio-
iism, which demand the united and best exerilons of
all, Tor the honor aud interest of all.
Ii is the common cause OF good men aud patriots
ever, wherein the north. the south, the east. the
west.-Shall we permit ourselves To be diverted from
so vital and eAigent II work us this by the stale de-
vice of the adversary in attempting to SOW divisions
among the friends OF honest responsible government
by the revival of extinct and pc,tlcnt sectional
issues for which there is no existing foundatlon,-hy
the absurd cry of fire : in the midst Of the dclugc of
corruption which ovcrwlclms the land.
We have recently heard II most honorable and
truthful voice from the North, speaking in the name
ot II numerous, enlightened, and patriotic iod! Of
our fellow citizens there, declaring their Willingness
and earnest desire TO sink. hencciorward aud forever
these mischic,ous and dangerous issues in our
national politics. From opportunities OF Informal
ton, which a late visit of u wholly private charac-
ter to that portion OF the Union afforded me, | sin-
ccrcly believe that this is the unequiyOcal. the deep
!, felt sentiment of IL large majority Of our fellow
eltiZens in the entire north. Shall We not accept
this peaoe-otieriug,a and he willing with them. 10
con>ign TO the tomb Of the capulets-a tomb alas
that already contains 50 many victims of Nnujlutal
sttiie-an ilomcned controversy, which by the I'M
pnnity it has hitherto ensured to uueXamplD d official
abuses, has brought into the EXTREMIST peril those
glorious institutions which the wisdom and Naior OF
northern and southern men united III establishing.
and which the = lceet dants are alike interested in de-
tending aud perpetualing.
At all events, telow-citizcus. you are eugtged in
+ II noble effort to ,indicate the honor and liberties OF
,our country. 1t is an effort worthy o! the ancient
fame of Nirginia-of the best days Of her patriotism
aud renoNn. The spirits of her great men, who
cotsccrated their lives to the cause Of constitutional
freedom, look down with approving smiles upon
Your struggle. There can be no purer, no higher
glory than to be the sayiours, or else the martyrs. OF
the public liberty.
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