Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-02-28


The "Impostion journals are regai'nE their
readers with copious extracts from The legislative
record of Messrs. Summers aud fresies " prove
what neither they nor anybody else d. ute l"
,r;, That undcr circumstances winch frightened
the old NAPOLEON ot the Press IA hls admirers
have been wont u call him. and cen''fs'l mat
amiabe. and IN It conservative statesman, James
Mcdowell lAusnthe Democracy Afterwards m'a"
Governor. hat, u furious advocate for eaancil'a-
tion-they, Ina, tng scarcely more than attained
their maioritv-lel into the views Whtch "ef" pro-
mulgatcd by those older politicians aud ai'''a
ted emancipation y, the only means ii a'er''"s
the terrible calamity which was then thought to
be impending over the State
The crisis passed by; public opinion hesa" TO
settle down on lis old foundations. anl til" iaents
of able and learned men were brought Int i'4"''
siton to prove that slavery MAS not The curse
the blight" or the "mlcw' which 1t hai f"'n
r,nresrntcd to be Mr., kltchi" va, ill regarded
as he Democratic le,ler IN \rsin.a, nd Mr..
Mcdowell, as We hay, al. va. MI 1a1cfn.r.
\ free pardon was graufci t. tA N: "h1l--. II
seemed 30 have been uhaoI -'..aL taat I r. Na"h%
Wing. who had followed ~ thrlr lea.l, "eHtnn'rr
to be forgiven. No lapse "i time, or aitef r. '""
could atone for their errly itdls.r,t'o" ih''
sedulously keeping alive their obnoxious re'ord'
whilst that of the older, and therefore more cr'm-
inal offenders was obliteraied indicates strange
moral obliquity that could lie rcrontiied Gully with
the doctrines of Machiaycl in politics ar the gen
eral practices of the Democratic party.
II those young men were guilty OF ma ind'scre-
tion. how much more blame worthy wcf, their old
or Democratic leaders? And if al, Of them were
obnoxious to ccnsurc. how t'asitlous must tho
crime of Le,chcr appear. whcnwe remember that
has DETECTION occurred il tie mntu'ltY Il hlr man
hood and intellect at time wa'n III, elangor OF
arms was heard in ,he Hall u. 'HHges =. and the
North were cndcavoring "a G,'ten the oiiouS
"Wilmot Proviso' upon oG' 'srrit 11'"l policy:
when in her Legislature, aud ty-aeh her rh">cn
representatives Virginia ~ te i l'5ns that she
would "resist this measure 'Nol hazafa.aod to
the last extremity" ], was a, sue, Tim a. this,
that her recrca,t s,s1 YVES arur'llng "Gl an 'om
fort t. the enemy, and battling Tor the cNpu-
sion from his own mother State ol an institution
which the State declared she wonldnot eetnpIa
Gently see prohibited in the territories T LEY
that she would resist at every ha4ari % the
last extremity Who, that voted prthe adoption
of these Conway res buttons, AS thy were
called, would have supposed that in little moro
than ten years this Western Virginia nhllitlonl>t
would be candidate for Governor Of Eastern. AS
we'll as Western Virginia and that Eastern
Democrats and journals would not only be clam
oring for his election, but would dare 10 institute
a comparison between his offence, aud that If
Summers: which offences, in point 4 magnitude
bear no more relation II each otter, than the
mountain to the mole hill?
But neither Mr. Summer nor Mr.. Preston are
candidates now for either State or FEDERAL office,
and the Opposition party of Virginia are no more
reponsbe for the opinions they held IA tx, than
the Virginia Democracy are for the enin, rs and
conduct of Martin Van Buren, ia ls,s. when lie
held the same opinions john Letclr. ai'! led
the Freesoil party of the country.
We are not to be diverted ly false ISSUES; Mr..
Goggin is our candidate for Governor and MT MIR.
Summers.
Mr. Letcher, the abotionst If recent date.
is the candidate of his party, and the record and
principles Of these two gentlemen are the only
proper issues before the pcorI>