The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-04-30
For The Cecil Wing.
The Virginia Election.

The election in Virginia will be held on The
Goth Of May next and a special interest is felt
all over the country in the result because of
the tremendous Efforts Of the Democracy and
the gallant fight of the united opposition
Letcher and Goggin, the rival candidates for
Governor, stunl ed together west Of Tic Allc.
games bu. Mr.. Lctchcr has suddenly declined
the contest, whether from real indspositon or
a disposition not 20 meet Goggin any more,
the papers do not say. With these two gen.
tlcmen We have nothing to do, although we
shoIld prefer Mr.. q, ggin as an old line Hen.
ry Clay Wing: one ii the old school who nov
or la,tered in dangers hour but with the two
parties which they represent we have much to
do. John Lctchcr is the candidate of benign
sentative man Of That class of politicians who
go to Congress and rave about abo!itionism
and public corruption while at the same time
hundreds of lazy sons of the old Dominion are
ia ttening on public plumber. lie is put for
ward as the standard bearer ola party which
has bound Virginia head and heels to poverty:
which has proclaimed itself on the soil Of the
state which gave birth to Washington, hos
tile to the best interests and the perpetulty of
that Union which Washington founded and
sustained. lie is chosen TO lead the masses
of that party which cannot look above the
low, base born localisns of the day, to a
higher honor and brighter destiny. IN fact
he is a fitting candidate for the Locococcs of
Virginia and language cannot describe man
more fully, or more justly.
On the other hand William L. Goggin is the
candidate of that great party of the people
that conservative party which here as well as
in Virginia is the true DemocIacy-that party
which for years has been uboring to build up
nation which shall last as long as Time ::
which Las for its principles and aim n proper
encouragement 20 American labor and Amer
lean inrer,s SITS, which pledges eternal devotion
to the Union, which places the nations free
dom far above all state rights and state issues
that party which under the name Of
" Union has raised the same stainless ban.
ner which has gone down in many fights but
which to It's followers is as sacred as 1.-The
helmet Of Navarro" and now bears it again
alolt calling all true Virginans to its aid
aud rescue.
Whether that banner will come out of the
fight victorious, or whether it Will again be
borne down by the press Of numbers remains
to be Seen We have no faith in the result
because Virginia ''nevpr tires" in the cause of
Locoiocolsm; but the nucleus Of great party
has been for,nvti,- the Umion o Old Line
Wings, American and honest Democrats
there is perfect and complete. Other states
are following the example, and if the fight in
Virginia is a noble one IL the opposon reduce
the Locofoco majority even though they are
again beaten-the moral effect will pulSate
throughout the land. If the 16 ,000 majority
of last year is reduced, Virginia will have
made one step in her path TO freedom from
the curse of locolocoiSm. If John Lelcher
goes into the Guberna orial chair with but n
few thousand votes more than Gogsin, every
good man in this nation will rejoice and take
courage-thc back bone of the iocofoco party
will be broken and the way paved for a
triumph of the opposition in the great contest
of 1860.
Eloquent gentlemen have taken the stump.
Tor MIR. Goggin, among them George w.
Summers, John Minor Bolts. and Alex. II.
ii. Stuart, and the State is being canvassed
with all energy and determination seldom
witnessed. With fears and doub,ings we
trust the result will be beneficial to the in
terests of the nation in breaking down that
hitherto indomltable mountain Of ignorance
and stupidity, lccolocosm in Virginia.
Welcome and glorious will be the day when
" the Mo ther of Presidents" ceases to wander
in the Wilderness, when the land of Jefferson
and Mad again returns to the principle
lnculcat ted by these sages. When - the old
Dominion takes her true place among
America S noblest and greatest-first in ma
tional honor. first in devotion TO the Union,
and first in everything loyal, great and good.