Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-05-03
Letter from Mr.. Bolts.
RICHMOND, April %, 1885
To William Old, Jr., Esq,
Editor of the Examiner.

Editor Of the Examiner:
Your article In the issue of this morning headed
| aLo,rr Of NJ Bon.-ths Deafh. knsH of ne OpDo,,-
,o, has attracted NV attention and been CAREFUL,
re adj
tab. Measure in acknowledging one martial me-
rit IL nossesses-not ai,cavs found in Democratic ar
tiees relating to me or my political positions Il
po, filed with unbecofnnp personalities and VULGAR
aLuse from beginning to end and in this regard ia
entitled to more respectful consideration than SINH
! lar assaults usually are. ! know that you are a
"uw hand at the Leiioms" and not yet well broken
into the harness of the editorial chair, and not hay-
ing OCCASION until very recently to give your whole
time and attention politics and political discus
sions i, is not 10 be wondered at that when on yonr
ccs.ion To the honorable position YOU have been
induced to assume, you found that all that was
deemed necessary by the Democracy secure n sue
cessul result for all their candidates of high or low
degree, Gubernatorial, Congressional, Legislative
and Mayisteral in this State, was to discover some
flaw or error in my pms, record Of thirty years aud
that all efforts far, had proved absurd failures :
it was not greatly to be wondered at say that YOU
should have come TO the conclusion, reading my
la letter nd Powhatan speech that You had made
a wonderful discovery of II hidden secret never be-
fore disclosed to public gaze and which settle
MI the troubles and difficulties in which the uniur
tunue Democracy are involved, and by which "he
de1fh- kn,W If The Opposition" had been sounded.
But my dear land much respectcd) young friend
Won must pardon me for the cruelty of deprivng you
Of the atiorng comfort you had cherished of having
rendered IT, is important service your party by n-
forming you that the Powhatan speech was delivered
nine years ae and that since that time, every read
or of the Eraj i,er and Enquirer have had the same
extracts paradcd before their eyes again and oglD
aud AGAIN until they ought to be quite familiar
with them ns II Sunday School scholar mil ht be
supposed to he with his catechism or the LoId's
PRAYER Why then, should their reproduction now
hv ypn after they lad been handed and hammered
and taltercd and torn into shred3 and patches 1y
Daniel, and Hughes, and Richie and Pryor, and
other contributors OF il fcrority for nine years he
attended with such canm tous consequences AS ihu>e
YOU proclaim of sounding "Me death-hnH Of n,
Opposition yf
Whv sir M,y and l. have outlivcd il ALL and are
At this moment in n better condition for giving the
Democracy their lust deserts han we have enio,cl
for twenty five wears when upon the removal of the
denosiis we carried the Sta tc sor the first and ",
time hy n clear majority
In cop,ing the extracts to which, Won have CON
fined Yourself il is quite mann fest that Won had no
design to create unjust prejuee but to prcscn, me
niry md mnartiully before the readers of the H.
am n,y hs one hostile TO their n, ,rcst-who really
} encouyagr fhe North 10 rnrss IL pdssage Of init
UHwoD "prori,o" But in tiis laudablc effort
cxcu.c me for saving there are so me persons of my
nranaintancc who for the purpos es of Justice and
impartiality would have made other Il mean adli-
tonah selections tbnu those 10 viii, h our attention
seems TO have been confined, as h est serving the
cau-c not of "A party but of the i ntc,,ests of the
State and Justice To one of its humble est citizens
Strh ir cx,uple rs tho folloNin,r which Won seem
In have oycrlooked or il may lie Won h ad borrowed
the "p,y,I,t,9 cam an cor,red ,r,b 5y ar recently
cxtumc1 in Tho tnoy,yrr Office ,bou, tb, fine thcy
called for "A new copy which was fur, isncd and
which wnnId have hccn os much nj vour service II 4
theirs After saving. in TIM, spcecb In, the OBJ
ieet of the ARGUMENT advanced was mt sim ply 10
defend nv avn nostion vhirh h,d hoe, ii ar,hIy
assaulted hu, from hone TINT il mybt sery to re-
copeile some of those who how onnos, the 'on, pro
mise ,ot 1870 then ncnding before Conprcs, to jts
ndopop
/ said: " Let me not be misunderstood Let il
uo, lao sunrosed I nm, a Wil,not proveo ,n.n + ar
from, il voted ,yoin.t !, in eyer, farm, in VIII, eli Il
wa. presented whil, WA, in Cop.rcss | woul i do,
ga amin feel trained IA say | have n.ynr at,
tnchrd the slichtcs, ,rec,,c1 imnor,nrr IN its -,
so,e AR r,i,rtion bcrausc diJ pn, hel;eve slor. r
rnDId c,cr find ;ts WAY ,hrrc n was cncoLin, Of
California n y \ | believc CONGRESS h.s IN ,
unor,,linned rowrp IN declare war ,g.ins, AL ths
world but am no, therefore n war man believe
reuercs, has mower To abandon the NAVY of the
United S,o,cs ard sub.,,,u,e Mr. Jnnrsnn's ald c,n
ho,t system ar no,hing in IL stc,d. I'm, I am mn,
therefore in favor of the measure. / breyc Com.
pre., has the Dor,r To break mn the whole ros,,1
system of the Tuitad States and lenve i, cp,ircl, IN
private cutcrprse but am not therefore in f,vnr q,
br,okiuy nm MI ,hc nost nm, ,os,,oods !, ,lo
United States So bcliey. Cono,r.s has tho cnn.
s,itn,ional ,o,c,r In mass III, VIM, prnyiso I'm,
am not therefore in favor of its MASSAGE
Nav. could Won have rend this nasso,o of Tho
sroc,h and stiil b,v, ,oib ..u p,,s e., L,,
he.p onnos.d IN the Whine, pro,;s Ln, ;f ar,. ,,,,
can gather that fact from his reasoning in his ct,
ar ,nnccb mr. from his c,na,ct .t,r h ,nadn III;
sncrch in powha,an hyha, con,u,, ~ ho ia far ,nr
inoonious Than any we have We, se.,"o or ,rn,il
Won have frt yoursclr -, Il,er,y g., narro n,o i,,
bcino in fact in t1ror Of me lrJnn, pror,,o ,,r
vbi,I the whole Onnpo.ii on mart, in Viro;nia u
he hold rrsnonsible nnd ,nnihI',ad H., ''ma d,I
vonr yi,,rous nen2 / ,,nnnt ,hinL !, and ,h
fore conclude YOU read and quoted from the " mani.