Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-06-04
THE VIRGINIA. ELECTION

Though the returns incomplete, they suffice to
show that the Opposition party OF Virginia have made
the most gallant light they have maintained In that
State against the Democracy. They have been beat.
en- only three TO thousand in an aggregate
vote OF at least 10000 In the Presidential election OF
1896 they were beaten about 900 votes; aud in 1855
when the American party had swept nearly every other
State With whirlwind the Democratic majority IN
Virginia was some 10000. The result Is eneoarag
| / x and hopeful.
Had the Opposition only been conscious Of its strength
and less under the enervatng and distracting influence
OF former defeats Il would have carried Virginia In Ibis
election beyond doubt As IL Was the party was not
hale orgsnized-ii had Opposition candidates for Con
gress in several districts in which Mr. Goggn must have
obtained majority for Governor Indeed we believe
that there only two or three STRAIGHT Onno,iop
candidates for Congress in the State in all the
other districts the Opposition TO let the cleo
Opposition member OF Congress has been elected hut he
makes gain of one and defeats the INSCRIPTIONS Chas
Faulkner In two or three other districts Independent
Democrats were elected chiefly by Opposition woes
We have compared the tau Fs.s,rp- % ,he -svcraI
counties that have reached US and the COMPARISON dis
closes fact which is certainly not crelable 10 The Sou
thern Democracy. 1t Is this John Leteher the late vi
client and revolutionary EdRei pasoaist runs IN with
his ticket and all the Democratic professions of horror
tor candidates tainted with abolition records i thus shown
10 DC me merest hnmbug They are Indignantly patriot
&c in calling upon Wings TO desert Wing candidates n
single speech Or vote of their lives does come up TO
the fourthproof Southern sentiment but let Demora,
with black freesol record be presented-one whom
Democratic papers of his Stale were only last wear
hercey announcing a. untrue to the institutions of the
south2ne for whom tha Aholtlon papers of Washing.
ton and Batmare have even in this contest inerered 70
express PreeTenco-and the Virginia Democracy come
up ~ oGny 10 ms support Hereafter let the of
Lefeher silence all crocodile cries nf this kind
From The KnorsiYe (Tsnn) IpR;g
considering the fact that Virginia is the MaLaLoF of
American Democracy-tat she never before wavered in
the support of that cketwhout going into details As
1t regards the late contest therr-enough il Lnowp 40
show that the " Old Dominion the Mother of S,,,s
has virtually repndiated the corrupt administration of
James buchanan, TO whom less than three vears ago.
she gave majority of 2s,4O0l This in itself is scaih
ing Fehgke % thc administration and TO the spo marty
upholding and sustaining IT, John Iecher the Buchanan
norinec Of the Petersburg Convention II elected AT nh
Governor by majority of from three thousand
and every vote composing that majority cast by anti.
sidrery men; by EndHe Pdfioaists, or if the reader
please, by AbotoHists in the Northwest who rallied 10
Letchers supper; because hc prescribed for his fee
soil e.pfipsHfs and opposed Goggin because lac was
prO-sidrery s., The advocate of Southern Sfs,ry
Can the demngocues of that pary g itesc fact, star
ing them in the face look honest In the face and
again charge the Opposition in the South with Black Re
publican procvitics.
Pour Buchanan nominees for Congress certain and
probably hye. have Leen defeated by the Wings Know
Nothngs Independent Democrats snG repgdi.te Buch-
anan's administration the stumn while the defeated
nominees Of the party, aud former members of Con
gresS sought To excuse, uphold and yindcate the cn
travaganee, and corrupons of the Administration -
Friends and countrymcn, what signal rebuke the po-
tgate party who have brought this Government TO the
verge OF ruin, aud TO actual bankruptcy! What r,,o-
luton when even the Virginia Democracy return YER
diet of guilty, agInt the time.serving -posovin and
corrupt leaders Of their party! What a commentar,
upon the integrity Of the masses and their capacty for
selfgovcrnmcnt, fad them in defiance of such an
amount Of State and National patronage and other a-
planes standing up for the Constitution and Laws ami
against sE mIense army of official plunderers IGor-
gin could thus, in sEnhllaia majority OF
THIRTY THOUSAND VOTES what sill selhe.land do
with Buchanans hoasaHd in Tennessee Our vic.
tory in Tennessee and Kentucky Is liked hQt-We shall
elect Governor and two-thrds Of the C0nsrcssus -
Let the result then in the Old Dominion Inspire a. H,
renewed ardor end nerve our arms to stin greater
more untiring efortsr
An n contest "a
who eanvassed te etAire STAN ai,aoat aet outy Dc
nounced and exposed the policy OF Buchanan but open
y advocated the Ciay-Whig doctrine Of Distribution
Protective Tariff, a..
Ffsss me Petersburg LateRigeaeer.
In 1892 Petersburg anA te three counties which Join
our city, viz Chesterfield Dinwddo ANA rrii.cs ueo.ge
gave Mr.. Wise majority OF 93T over his Oppo-
neni; at the recent election, the places gave Nr
Goggin majority of four, showing net gain OF NINE
HUNDRED and FORTY-THREE votes. We alluic TO
the subject to boast, but show what has been
done by united energetic action and increase the
faith of friends in future elections who ndsposed TO
work because they consider the chances too great
against lseE. united party having good cause can
with proper verk sch.es- t,mtG, -h-I Under ord.
nary circumstance, it would seem impossible.
, From Ne CiHeianai Gd-ene
The from Virginia come 10 worse and worse
for tie disorganized Democracy II they are not abso-
lutely beaten flor the Rrs time Ia Virginia. they have
had an extremely narrow escape Had the Oppositiou
! nov be in doubt. The Old Dominion was the great
stronghold Of the Administration party and has hitherto
them severer blow they could po vii La,e sufer-
ed than in this virtual il nat actual 5etsry Of the OPP
position IL now remains no longer Doubtful that the
Sham Democracy everywhere going ruin There is
little question that the party will be totally broken up
ia 1850.
From tie ST. Louis Democrat
The election Of Letcher by the old Virginia Democra
tc mJqFy 81 1iteeD CT twenty thousand taken for
granted by the needless outside publo 1hoy ere con
sequeny, all the surprised the election returns
Honest Johnnie IL honest for a National Dcmocr,tic
faa nal .c..t - ii A
he has escaped IT, and the prestige Of his party in the
? South Il destroyed.
The vote given to Goggin the srangest phenomenon
Of the day We believe will be decisive Of the result
ia Tennessee and Kentucky that it will reannate and
invigorate the Opposition in Louisiana, Mississippi Ala.
bamain short throughout all the Southern statesand
that will render the election OF an Opposition cand
date 10 thS Pges.iency easy task.
The causes VI this Iev0iEl ~ Virginia cannot per.
haps be easily defined az IT, results Some will sttri
butte il to GOggns jealous advocacy Of slavery and the
doubtful antecedens Of bis competitor that question
This hypothesis believe TO be erroneous for whatever
Letcher may have been he j. now and has been for
years ardent slavery propagandist an public man
in Virginia. ~ Congress he voted for every sectional
proslavCry measure which up during biz protracted
service IN Thai bod, e yged for the Kansas Nebras-
"a bill the LecomPon b aud tho gholc sndrl cd.
lie had recalled the honest ndizcretlOns OF his cartier
years, and shrmk from demand which hi party made
upon him. except when they asked for unreasonable at
4 preparations.
- The disappearance Of the old majority must therefore
NJ be accounted for other hypothesis than his 10
~ sOn many Yeas $50 on the slavery question and
. think Ibis hypothesis vha IN search Of viii b,
u found IN the general corruption ipeeGtg and anarch,
~ Of the National Democracy. The whole nansn l dis
Is gusied with the Administration oMr buchanan an the
10 Od1m which that Administration has incurred aud uIcI
- etcher had 20 carry together with the dcords and ,
q dogmas Of the party Of which be- j. a member ha bow
H cd him down very close 10 the ground We noticed that
y Goggn opened his batteries prOagacy and extra
70 yagince n the Administration u HE opening speeches
n and never ceased g. point oct te glang
aud universal Generalization Of The national Demo. ray
These truths IL seems sunk into the minds Of the peo
pie Of Virginia and resulted 10 rich harvest Of vote.
z for the Opposition.
There be doubt u The fact that thc front Of he
National Democracy is broken % the South II g. sure
" doomed when Virginia the wi.o boiiest and We ma,
add the pures Of ihc phaanx III iho Siacs which have
been Welded to that party has 1mof il not wholly re-
nounced u. alliance.
F,oya Me FIHqd iptiq Oa7eNc
The Of The au icw years aud especially
the late serious disturbance of party lines In Old Virginia
demonstrate that people will think somemes for Them
selves They do not alway wait for the party platform
20 be changed by authority An radical party change.
are in their initiative tho wark ~ The people The po
~ cans 0f e South, Who thought that the true strength
Is Of nation - in the substantial wealth and prosperity Of
an classes have beon Tor many years without honor In