Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-03-28


nre. sure enough. tho Godorsakcn Communwc wealth
TINT he has made Us out to be, now struts along
the stage w.th vast solf.eomplncency. and enlight
rns us exceedingly. ns concerning how the slave
States are more deficient In Commerce aud nav
cation, than they are in manufactures. And
speaking OF the slave States, he says, "They only
make tobacco for Northern men To buy and ship
What commentary. in his abolition ardor and
zeal upon his enlightened craftsmanship and
intelligence. of the course Of trade apperiaiuing
to the great sinple and commerce of tho State
Virginia thou teacher in lsrenl. buys and ships
hcr own tohncco-"and chews her own tobacco J.
And in this connection, ns he gave poor Kich.
mond, he gives now the ancient borough Of Nor
folk hearty punch in the stomach and stretches
her outn poor figure. rs he il pleased To term II,
''umong the suburbs ot tho Northern towns -
And then he shpots otf another hig abolition gun
nj .'our old slnvc-caten Cnmmo uwenlth." ns ho
calls hcr--sla,c eaten .--"dccnycd and dwindlcd
away to mere pilinncc in tho general mass Of
American trndcl" Negro slavery his grcat theme
aud his Pandoras boz. and the fruitful cause of all
the onnumbcrod woes that abolition rhodomoutade
is skilled in tho invention of.
And then he throws this prosperous and flourish
rg Old Commonwealth daily growing richer, rs
she is. in her agricultural progress, resources nnd
advantages generally IL, she is an agricultural
S,ate-hc throws her into gallopin6 consuWp
ton with regular hectic cough and colliquatiye
and straightway again NIL tho fatal symptoms of
slavery wearing AWAY the yilals of tho Common
wealth. Slavery Ihau Tmour. the Tartar!
Statistics pile upon pile. and numerous as tad
poles IN the doc-dnys. nrc then poured out from
his nmplr stare house. by our abolition nominee
Tor Nlrgnns Governor: 10 prove TINT "the curse
of itnorn nee and mental degradation is Of another
the awful scourets that the Slave States suffer
from the prrnicions influence ol slavery Yet,
thou abolition hahhlrr, and W abolition babhlers,
and sc advocates ol Nirginn nholionist Gov
crnor. where is the State ou thu earth WE live
upnn that hnA ,,i,en the world II moro glorious
galaxy nf i'la.'rinns mcn. than this removed COM
IN luwrahh? How mnnv Washingtons, nnd Mnr-
halls, and Patrick llenrys, aud Joirrsons and
Mp5lisous and long line Of other heroes, states
ur5. aud patriots. have she'd Immortal lustrc on
thi, good uli commonwealth this good old ocm-
monwcnth, cursed with ignorance nnd mental de-
ciclatioi. according tu the verdict of tho demo-
cratic nominee for Governor Of Virginia.
Proceeding on from topic to topic, Adnm Smith
and Malttus. other authorities, aud experience,
are again consullel--and the land, We are told,
in a beautiful melaphoricnl morcea,,, has alroa-
dy got savr~ick, and is rpewing out is inhnbi-
tani-;" "Sla,c-slck and spcwing out its nhnbi-
iunis!" frightlul d"vrl rment!the wonder is
that it was not rcgunr cholera mnrbnr And
we NIL ought to he thankful to Mr.. Lecher that in
putting unou w this hidcous malady, it looks
And then Immediately afterwards. this loyal
son of savrhnling Virginia. sezesthe cold grand
mother" rs he snccrinely cnlls hcr--by tho waist
nnd puts her to bed, whether slc will or no, with
tho "lcllow fever and Black yomit'-of slavery
--ierriug her with pun funny ndiacctious, at her
"ycllow," straight -hnred haf-breeds. md her
"hlark' woulIy heads oi cl,ushin and gizzard foot
mould aud coniormution The grandmother, ns
he calls her il immortal .nanie,tly; or originally
had the nine lives Of the eat else ongngo she had
"yasscd the tinnl bourne" with the plnpue. ma
lgnnn, cholcrn-morL or with yellow fever and
black yomt; with other restilcnccs ol tha ma
lgn dcsontrn that ha- 50 long scourged md
"curscd" her in her black population. "All Vir-
gina nm infected country, n Governor l.etcher
---t;od snve the mark .--soemnlv uyows Oh, ne.
cursed Nrsinla, according to hohc John and his
Northern allies, the Grcelcy~. and Gildingses, md
Gnrrisona and unvcrsnl race OF abolition fanatics.
Other Alasics ard Gcnghs X hans have passed over
tho world; but this great desonton OF sIavery was
br.rrved for Nirgiuiu!
Wheeling and Wcllsburg he tickles over the
gjyznrd for their somewhat thriving manufactures
- keep to the wind If tho tariff. John, else burnt
brauIy will nat ~nye you'--but Wheeling. hesays,
"us seat oi manufactures, il inferior 10 no town
in America, except Richmond" has almost no
.!n,cs-un1, together with his favored Wcllsburg,
'bronthe- the atmosphere of free States, almost
touehing them on either sideW "Atmosphere'
compa sion, thou patriotic nominee for Governor
Of Virginia yenrn over your ncighboring free
States polluted and Contaminated by the poison
upaS Of Nrg mia slavery. scattering pcstllcncs
from her borders Oh, thou immaculate! oh,
thou lclrciablc embodiment of true and Simon
! Pure Southern principles oh, thou model Of n
virginia Governor "Go it boots - Go it
blind" thou glorious nominee for n Southern Go
vernon Of Southern slayeholdcrs Go it, yc faith
lul followers, trembling under tho wagon whip
and lash oI the spoil.men! Go it, ye blue hens
chickens of party, the dcmngoguc's lasso around
your necks, aud your souls and actions in his
brccches pocket.
This intensified Abotionst and nominso for
Governor of Virginia seems absolutely to regard
negro slavery rs the great sin Of the world-Like
as,
ain Alnm's fall,
We sinucd ALP
there seems in his mind never to have happened
any evil or mischief, to Virginia, or elsewhere, on
this sublunary planet, wherever clso slavery was
ever tolerated. in which slavery not the fruit
full source ond origin Of all evil. But for slavery
the Garden of Eden had held unlovely comparison
with all Western Virginia, There. too" he says,
in this 'beau'iiul country" Virginia decay has
been the order Of the day-"there, too as this
paragon nominee tells us. "the corrosive touch of
slavery ha. also shown its cankcrous effects "
Poor Old virginia. We had thought she was
some pumpkins" But she is maniiestly pas,
praying for Groanins under "desolation' =
'spcwing up her inhabitants" -writhing under
"thc plague" c"-ycllow fever and black vomit got
her---and her universal mortal tabernacle"' out.
side. inside and all, struggling ut the same time
with diretul and malignant cancer. Pity that the
prophets Of old could not supply the writer's Of
show that job was mo where" 1
IF o,r old and yalued friend and trne pallanj