Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-01-10
Not Pit to be Nominated. Not Fit to be
Elected.


Not Pit to be Nominated. Not Fit to b
Elected.
Mr.. Timoehy Rivee, 1.-THE Wheel-horse of Virgi
ginia Democracy" has announced that he canno
support Mr.. Letcher for the Office Of Governor
And he places this determination upon the SCUM
and imprsguable position that man who is no
ct to be nominated for an Office is certainly not e
to be elected to that Office, and to discharge ii
duties. and incur its obligations and responsible
ties.
Mr.. Rives, in the Convention, opposed the nom
ination Of Mr.. Letcher as one mot 1T to be made
He opposed it with all the earnestness of his logic
and his ridicule. He opposed it upon principle,
and on an issue of consistency forcibly
and truly, that it would be an entire rc,ersion OF
the Democratic record to elect Mr. Letcher to an
ONCE for which they had defeated Mr.. Summers.
If MIR. Summers, by reason Of an anti-slavery re-
cord in 1882 were unfit for the Office Of Governor
of Virginia, 20 much the more unfit gentle
man whose heretical opinions on tits question ex-
tended back no further than ls4s. This was the
way the Whcel-horse argued. and no one can deny
to his argument the merit Of force and effective
ness.
1t is almost too plain proposition to admit Of
argument, that a man is certainly unfit to he
elected to an Office who is unf, to be nominated
for it. An election to an office is n much more
serious thing than a mere nomination. As the
greater proposition, in logic, always includes the
lesser it follows as an irresistible conclusion TINT
no man is worthy of filling an office, unless he be
worthy to be named as a candidate for that Office
in the beginning.
Mr.. Rives was not the only person in Virginia,
by great many, who protested against Mr.. Lo,ch-
ers nomination az one unfit to be made. The
Richmond Enquirer, the leading Democratic or
gan in Virginia, was of the same way Of thinking
It's correspondents, BIZ scores, were Of the same
way Of thinking. Most OF tie political and per
sonal friends Of GOV. Wise, believing that tho
nomination Of Mr. Letcher was projected and in
tended as movement adverse to the Governors
political promotion, and that it was piece Of pol
icy To exalt Mr. Hunters Presidential prospects
at the Governors expcnsc-were If the same way
of thinking Now, the question is whether the
large number Of Virginians embraced in these
classes, who believed that Mr.. Lcteher not fit
to be nominated will be guilty Of the inconsis-
tency of believing him fit 10 be elected? Mr.
Rives occupies ;hc true and loecal' position on
this subject If Mr.. Lelchcr Wa unfi, for Tie
mere fornaliiy Of nomination, Mr.. Rlhcs he
leves, as thousands Of others doubtless believe,
that, f6,fi0y he is still more unfit IL be elected.
The one conclusion follows the other 10y the ire
ssiible deduction If logic, to say nothing of the
plain and simple rule Of common sense,
II Il.
point whether Mr.. Lctchcr was originally, the
proper man to Ia named Tor the otfce of Governor
OF Virginia. We say not We say that the Oh
Commonwealth should have man for her Chief
Executive whose caltv 10 her Institutions j, not
of recent growth, and usges'rl hy the cNigencics
Of canvass; bat whose devotion TO her rights
and interests hns leen the prevailing sentiment If
his heart from youth TO mature age. We say the
Old State SHOULD have Governor whose heart is
large enough t. love all aud ever, part of it. with
out indulging in sneers ut the "negr"ucracy Of
Eastern Virginia" We say the dignity Of the
Commonwealth should he unprecedented by a man
whose vision is capable Of extending beyond tho
smoke Ct his own chimney, and e embracing
within its scope Eastern As we'll IL Western Nir-
ginia, in all the grand proportions Of the entire
Commonwealth. from The blue ekpansn If the
Chesapeake to the rushing waters OF tie Ohio
In short. we should have IA man for Governor
such as Gov. Wise described himself So be-, "a
Nirginian intus It m cuf,"--a Nirginian from the
crown Of his head ~ the soes Of his fcet-a Nira-
man whose feelings are capable Of comprrher'jnE
the entire interests of the State mud Of reregnir-
ing the ''negro-ocracy Of Eastern Nirginia'
brethren, equally with the sturd, sons of the Val
ley, and the bold and hardy mouutainccra ot the
West. Such is the man " want for Governor %!
our old State, of which we have so many rrnnd
and memorable traditions in ,hr past and Of whose
MIR. Letcher been such usn? lie; his record
answer