New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-15

their yDpstbJ By letter. There can Do no dodo'
tia. a large proportien-probabiy m.jouty-ot
the intelligence, talent tried integrity and prop
er.y. Of the Mother Of States" was represented
in this Convention. It's ticket-unquesslouably
strong one-is s follows:
20, Go,<r.~........wILLIAM L GoGGIN Of Bedford Co.
ro~ J.rt .Gor,..r W.rw.s T. WILEY Of MsnoossiA
Fs- Arr General. .w.LrEs PRESTON sfWsshinston-
This il a soutd ticket-s substantial tcket-a
good ;icket-and will receive good, sound sub
santis thrs.bpg. For, with all its responsibility
and talent, t is ticket that represents mainly by.
gone ideas and closed or overshadowed Issues. Not
entirely closed, we admit for the following extract
from the Hon. A. H. H. Stusrts letter to the Con-
vention is pertinent and vigorous:
Surely, the people Of Virginia must awake from
their etiargy ere long! When they see doctrines
preached by the Executive, for the Tesu,ton OF our
intercourse with fore nations, which could be tOe-
rated only By gang of free bOotersi when they see
ali fraterns feeling between the North and the South
desroy ed by the Vaccinations Of the Federal Govern.
neLt; when they witness the INDUSTRIOUS demand OF
thirty millions OF dollars to be Withdrawn from the
public treasury and plsced at the control OF the Execu
tive; when they see Democratic Senate abandoning
it's executive functions ard wiling IN advance to rat
y any treaty the President may negoti4 for the ac
qusiton Of Cuba when they perceive that one line OF
tons and another for those that weak and defense
less when they discover that the golden rnle of asking
of other countries nothing but what IS night, and
submitting to nothing that is wong is utterly Y,
nored; when they find that, in a time OF profound
peace. the expenses of the Government are swelled
from fifty millions of dollars to eighty millions; when
they learn that the surplus of seventeen millions,
which was in the Treasury when Mr.. Bncnanan came
into power has been squsndered, and all the current
revenues gone and debt OF sixty or seventy NIL
lions has been created in two years; when they see
that American industry has been Frustrated to foster
the labor and reward the capital OF foreign nations
when they are told that tax the productions o. for
eigr pat ons only eafy per cent an average when
they tax productions except cotton, winch they
cannot do without on an average, three hundred per
cent, ard Virginia tobacco about one thousand per
oent-sursly, say, the people must awake TO Just
sense Of their wroDgs surely, they uust Else IN the
majesty of their strength and hurl from power the
party that has so shamefaly abused their confidence
If the Wings of Virginia had not, By being
ured into Nssivism, repelled from their ranks two
or three thousand citizens of Germsn, Welsh and
other European birth, who were once proud to
rally and battle beneath their standard there would
be some chance that the truths so vigorously put
would tell upon the public mind. As it 10, they
will be answered BY lightweight of ignorance
and stold prejudice, giving Letcher & Co. crush
ing msjorities in almost every county which is not
distinguished by intelligence and thrift.
For, if you would have Wing State, Mes'rs
Botts, Summers, Stuart, Goggin & Co., you must
have an educated, intelligent, reading Lsboring
Glass; and that you have not and cannot have
while you cherish Humsn Slavery. Not One-third
of the legal voters Of Virginia take Newspaper;
not half of them habtually read one; not two
thrds of them habituhlly read anything. Ignorance
1--WE speak what we do know is very general and
very dense among the voters of Virginia; and every
one who knows 10 good reason for being on one
aide rather than the other drifts or sinks naturally
into the ranks Of the Sham Democracy. "The
dark places Of the earth are full of the habita-
"tions of cruelty"-as truly so to- day in Virgins
as twenty. five centuries ago in Judea. And so long
as Virginia shall have more slave-prisoIs than
school houses, and her chief staple export shall
consist Of her sable sons and daughters, she will
remain politically what she is, and her Hunters,
Letcherr, Wises, will carry her steadily diminish
ing Electoral Vote in their pockets and trade it of
at Democratic National Conventions for places in
the Cabinet, Embassies and fat Consulships, as
hitherto.
this. They insist on cherishing the cancer that de-
YOURS them, the wolf that is gnawiRg at their vtas.
Maya dozen disastrous defeats not sufficing-
they are resolved to try once more to outtrump
the Slave Democracy in their show of devotion to
Human Bondage Just hear some Of the givings-
out of their recent Convention:
SAYS the Hon. ALEX RVEs, on taking the chair
at the preliminary organization:
"who is to marshal the Democracy in defense Of South
Of virginia Why he has indored scheme 70 divide the
and who came to the Convention and tsned Eastern men with
design to establish nesroocIscy"
SO Mr.. A. JUDsON CRANE of Richmond, fol-
lowing:
Rerred TO John Ls.cher the Democratic nominee for Gov
conAsted hi, public with that Of George W. Summers
who when candidate Of the whs part. for Governor de-
and to be trusted en- the Slavery question"
So Mr.. RALEIGH TRAVIS DANIEL, who followed:
THE Democratic c.pddate for Governor bad favored the d.
vision Of Virginia making the Western puts resort for fugitive
So Mr.. MARMADUKE JOHNSON, also of Rich.
mond:
Abolition tendencessnd e1horted bis brother Wings to bear
his history mind sad to the people inow hi, an'ecedsna
divide Western from Eastern Virginia % to maze
II. s M Fem sos Mr. Ss ssa no 'So 9
Of The West the FIST Improvement ne would have
recommended would have been and rrround rosd
slaves from Eastern Virginia TO OHIO. Loud ChseIAl
So Mr.. JAMES FooT JOHNSON Of Bedford Cog.
gins County, says Of his neighbor, the Wing
candidate;
And he ow. Mr. Letcbers history too By this time Mr.
O. has possessed himself Of the history Of all his opponents
scts and .isIpe.e them 70 public gaze The cry Of Abo
tonist Aboltior which has been raised against every