New-York daily tribune., 1859-09-29
REPuRLaCANIsM IN VIRGINIA.

The .layr- breeders of Virginia appear to be ex-
ceedingly exercised on account ot the discovery
that q fullHedeed Republican, Mr. Caldwell,
has been elected t. represent the wheeling Dis-
trct in the Senate of the Old Dominica; aud the
First Families who include all the slave breeders,
beside some Others who wish to be, but lack the
requisite capital, are putting their heads together
10 de eide what they will do with Sd rare bird.
Various suggestions have been made from various
ausrters, but, so far as judge by the outgivngs
of the organs of public opinion IN Virginia, no de-
decision has IS yet been reached as to the
proper disposition to be made OF tols
Western innovator, who not only has the
audacity to he a Republican and member OF the
Republican National Executive Committee, but
sctually gets himself elected to the Senate. The
mde.t course Of treatment We have seen suggested
il, first to try to bully Mr.. Caldwell into resgning
bis Office, and that failing, tO expel him from bis
seat for holding opinions likely to endapger the
future growth Of the negro crop. In other words,
the Senator from Wheeling is suspected of holding
70 literal Interpretation of Nirgirlas SIC semper
turanns and of indorsing uDqualfedly that portion
of the Bill of Rights Of l776 which declares that
"au men are by nature equally free and independ-
"tIt." Moreover he is believed to entertain SYM
pathies with one George Washington, weak
sentimpntallst, who many years ago, before it was
discovered that Slavery is ordained of God lived IN
Virginia, and expressed as among bis first wishes a
desire "to see Slavery abolished by law Also with
one crazy Drained, but well-mesning man
named Jefferson, among whose "gllttering gen.
" eralitlesn was the sbsurd idea that all men are
endowed by their Creator with the inallenabls
right to liberty, and who, in speaking of our treat
ment of the African race, said: IL tremble for my
country when / reflect that Gcd is just Aud
with Mr. James Madison, gentleman who occu-
pied a rather prominent position in lis day, but
WAS so upsound az TO "thiuk it wrong to admit in
the Constitution the idea that there could be
"property in man" And with Mr. James
| Monroe, another respectable old gentleman
of the ancient Virgins school, but who
so widely failed TO comprehend the will
of God and political economy as to say:
"We have found tha. this evil Slavery hiss
| proved upon the very vtsls of the Union, and
I" has been prejudcia to all the States 10 which it
4" has existed" And Mr Patrick Henry, trea-
sonable agitator and "be ehera~" fanatic, who, 10
bis DAY, not only dtfed the King bu. said Of Slav-
cry (Which is greater than the King or the Consh'
tutiop), Il will not, cannot justify it. 1t is
(" debt We owe to the purity Of our religion to
show that il is at variance with that law which
warrants Slavery" And with George Mason,
Leading member from yirgini. Of the Convention
which framed the United States Constitution, and
who held it es,entis in every point Of view, that
4" the General Government should have power to
prevent the increase of Slavery
Mr. Caldwell 10 also charged, and probably not
without reason, with holding opinions in common
with other and hardly less distinguished Virginia
statesmen, whose hereses were given to the world
a, later period and in more enlightened age
than those to which We have already referred, and
were therefore the less excusabe. Such, Tor IN
stance, as the eccentric John Randolph, who, IN
his will, wrote: II give to my slaves their free'
dom. to which my conscience tells me they are
Justly entitled" And Thomas Jefferson Kan
dolph. who said: How can an honorable mind,
:. patriot. and lover Of his country bear 10 see
tbi, Ancient Dominion converted into one grand
" menapere. where men are TO be reared for the
market like oxen for the shamblesl' And with
Mr. Clay, who, in the famous debate on the admis-
sion of California in 1850 (when he was old
enough to have known better), in reply
TO threats that the Union would be dissolved
if Slavery were not carried into the Golden State,
sad: $50 long as God allows the vital current 10
50 flow through my veins, will never, never, never
aid in admitting one rood Of free territory TO the
=. everlasting curse Of human bondage" There
are many other Virginia fanatics from whom We
might quote similar sentiments, and with whose
views We suspect Mr. Caldwell substantially agrees;
such men, for instance as Gov. Thomas u. Ban