Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-04-20
From the Charlottesville Advocate.
Tho Wondnll Vote.

From tho Charlottesville Advocate
Tho Wondall Vote
In tho discussions Mt Staunton and Fincastlc,
and probably ut other points, certainly at the two
we have named. Mr.. Ietchcr stated cmphatically
and Internationally that he did not rote for Cor
nelius Wcndal ns public printer to tho House Of
Representatives in 1860.
Mr. lntchcr having thus cmphaticnly and re-
pcatcdy denied tho charge, MIR. Goggin thus con.
cluded that he himself might hnvo been in error
in his roeocction and did not therefore press 1t
any more ut other points in the canvass. But ns
ho arrived in Charlottesville. some of his
friends who hnd noticed in the Now York Herald
Mr.. Letehcr's deuial "hdf he had erer rofed for
Ur"ddH far Me office Of public printer" aud who
themselves Ind heard ut Staunton the same denial
from Mr.. letchers own lips, procured mn official
copy Of the Congressional Globe for 1860 and
in 1t pointed 10 pages 36o. 372 3S2 3So, 300, 306,
and 400. where JouN IErcnER IL ELEVEN TINES RE.
CORDED AZ vorIsa ron CORNELIUS WENDELL Az run
LlC PRINTER
Here was apparently mn unqualified falsehooi
hy John Lctchcr. which Mr.. Goggin nnd his
friends immediately determined thnt MIR. Letchcr
should have the very first opportunity of explain
ing or denying. As soon then ns the discussion
was opened ON Monday Inst. Mr.. Goggin publicly
stated that the New York Hraids reporter (Mr.
kcan who was then on tho platform. and who had
bccn with the two candidates through tho canvass)
had stated in his report Of the discussion at
Stnunton that 'ln reference to Wondall, he
tl.c:cher) denied hnying ever voted for him for
the Office of public printer" and he tGoggin) now
desired 10 know il Mr.. I.ctcher still denied tho
charge, for ir he did he now had tho offical votc
and would proec TINT hc had voted, not once only
but eleven times for Cornelius WenIall as public
printer of the House Of Representatives Mt its
sion Of 1865 g. What excuse, explanation or
denial did MIR. Lechcr, who at least Processes to
be an honorable man, make 10 this grave, delibc
ratio aud pointed charge against his vcracity.-
Not one royd did he then say, or has he since
snd in justification or explanation of this most
singular and dscrcdahle nfiar.
This was not ALL Mr. Goggin's frionds. aflcr
tho discussion wns over, in their private inter-
course with such Democrats as they knew to be
intimate with Mr.. lctahcr, took cspccia, occasion
to aluic to this Wondal charge, and inquired if
Mr.. Letchcr had any defence to make. Again.
not word could be gotten from Lcchcr either
directly or through his friends. In order to afford
even another opportunity for explanation, If any
could bc made, Mr. Magruder in his speech at
night twice repeated the charge in distinct and
emphatic form: and still no reply was made. Mr..
Montague was there, and n large number of lend
| ing Democrats of the county and town was in at
tendance, and yet no word OF explanation was
| offered.
| Upon facts so plnin. unmistaknble and 40
unfortunate for Mr. Leichcrs character ASA man
| We have no comment to make this week. We
give them to the people of Albemare as they ac-
| tually occurred, and leave it to them in their calm
| aud honest judgement to draw their own conclu-
| sions Al another time and IN another conncc-
| ton we will avail ourselves of the tho light in
which these facts have placed John l.eteher's char
| meter for veracity, to make some comments upon
the sincerity Of his recantaton Of tho Rufhcr
| abolition sentiments and upon the truth of his
| charge against DR.. Rnlfncr that he DR.. Il. had
nddcd Objectionable matter to the Pamphlet. n
charge TINT Dir. ltuilner emphatcally denied and
| challenged Mr.. Letcher to mako good, but which
/ he has up to this time failed to answer. 1t will
also greatly mid us in finding out whether Mr..
Lctcher refused to pay his part Of the printers
| bill for printing tho Pamphlet upon the ground
| alleged to have Influenced him. viz, that it
| different from the speech that he could not en-
! dorso it. We have every reason to believe that
| no such reason Influenced him in refusing to pay
| that bill. The gentlemen who united with him
| in the obligation to pay the printer never heard
| that excuse rendered for its non-payment until
| Mr. I.etcher himself mado it last summer. Mr..
! Lccher's rccantation and change of views upon
slavery are sustained by no other evidence than
his own assertion. and.if his assertions be liable to
| impeachment where is the assurance that he does
! not now entertain the infamous views TINT he en-
| tertained and published to tho world in l847.--
His friends will doubles say that his speeches in
| Congress prove that there was change. Is that
true Let us what the Enquirer Of the 18th
| Nov 1853 says:
/ ave have altogether faed to discover an ms
tanco in which Mr.. Letcher has lent prompt, en-
Tire and unhesitating support to any single public
measure proposed for tho constitutional protection
| of the Institution Of slavery"
| There is no Inconsistency between Letcher as
| an mancipationist and Letcher member Of
| Congress resisting the fanaticism and aggression
/ of the Black Republicans. The Rutner Pamphlet
! itself abuses the Northern abolitioHsts, chiefly
because their tanatcism las caused Shareholders TO
| adhere more closely To their slaues and had thus
| Mropn in Tie teay an impairment 10 slavery emdn
| cir,ation. And yet Dr. Ruffner and his followers
| were not sound the subject of slavery. Letch-
! er though still IN tmancpationist may, for the
! reason assigned in the Pamphlet, still abuse and
| denounce the abolt;onsts. Didn't the Pamphlet
| do so Has John Detcher done anything else
| while in Congress The Enquirer says not !; and
| tho Enquirer is the Democratic organ Of Vir-
| ginia.
But the Wendall nffar-what have Letcher and
his friends to say to its The quicker some ex-
planstion is atemptempted the bettor. for we yer-
lily believe that with foul Charge upon his honor,
Letcher cannot and will not carry tho Democratic
| party in any portion of the Commonwealth hat
least he ought not.
| How THE BEAN CLIMBS THE PoLE.-Professor
Brewer, of Washington College lPa.) communi-
Gates to the American Journal Of Science and Arts
| the result Of some experiments mnde by him on
climbing vines-the hop, the Lima bean, and the
mornng-glory. He finds that they will climb d
round Transparent glass pipe just as well as any
thing else, and that they are most ardent In their
embraces when the pole is warmer than the sur
rounding air. During the day the vine is attract
ed towards the light, bat at night especially en-
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