Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-11-04
Republicanism in Virginia.

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The slave-breeders of Virginia appear to b
exceedingly exercised on account of the di:
t covery that full hedged Republican, MI
Caldwell, has been elected to represent til
Wheeling District in the Senate of the Old Dc
e minion and the First Families, who incIud
S all the save-breeders, beside some others VIII
wish to be, but lack the requisite capital, ar
A putting their heads together to decide wha
they will do with SO rare bird. Various sug
t gestions have been made from various utiarters
but, so far as we judge by the outgivings o
, the organs of public opinion in Virginia, no de
cision has as yet been reached as to the proper
disposition to be made of th. Weastern limo
vator, who not only has the audacity to be g
! Republican and a member of the Republican
National Executive Committee but ACTUALLY
gets himself elected to the Senate. The mild
est course of treatment we have seen suggested
is, first to try to bully Mr.. Caldwell into re.
signing his Office, and that falling to expel him
from his seat for boldiBg opinions likely to en-
danger the future growth of the negro CROP
In other words the Senator from Wheeling is
suspected of holding to literal Interpretation
OF Virginia's sac Semper tyranniS, and indorsing
unqualifedly that portion of the Bill of Rights
of IT'S which declares "that all men are by
nature equally free and independent" More
over, he is believed to entertain sympathes
with one George Washington, weak sent-
mentalist, who many years ago, before it was
discovered that Slavery is ordained of God
lived in Virginia, and expressed as among his
first wishes a desire "to see Slavery abolished
by law" Also with one crazy-brained, but
well-meaning man named Jefferson, among
whose 'glittering generaltes" was the absurd
idea that all men are endowed by their Creator
with the inalienalole right to liberty, aud who,
in speaking of our treatment of the African
race, said: Il trembe for my country when
| reflect that God is just" And with Mr..
James Madison, gentleman who occupied a
rather prominent position in his day, but was
so unsound as to think it wrong 10 admit in
the Constitution the idea that there could be
property in man." And with Mr. James Mon
roe, another respectable old gentleman of the
ancient Virginia school, but who so widely
failed to comprehend the will of God and po-
litical economy as to say: 1--WE have found
that this evil (Slavery) has preyed upon the
very vitals of the Union, and has been prejl-
dicial to all the States in which it has existed"
And Mr.. Patrick Henry, reasonable agita-
tor and "higher law fantic, who, in his day,
not only deied the King, but said of Slavery
(Which is greater than the King or the Consti-
tution,) u will not cannot justify it. 1t is
debt we owe to the purity of our religion to
show that it is at variance with that law which !
warrants Slavery" And with George Mason, !
a leading member from Virginia of the Con-
Convention and who "held it essen
tial, point of view, that ttbe General Govern
nient should have power to prevent the increase
of Slavery"
Mr.. Caldwell is also charged, and probably !
not without eason,xith =holdiag44 opinions IN !
common with other and hardly less distinguish, I
Virginia statesmen, whose heresies were given |
to the world at later period and in a more /
age than those to which we have
already referred, and were therefore the less ex-
cusabie. Such, for instance. the eccentric
John Randolph, who, in his will, wrote: Il
give to my slaves their freedom, to which nv
tells me they are justly entitled"
And Thomas Jefferson Randolph, who said =
How Gan an honorable mind, patriot, and a
lover OF his country, bear to see this ancient
Dominion converted into one grand menagerie,
where men are to be reared for the market like
oxen for the shambes?'' And with Mr.. Clay,
who, in the famous debate on the admission 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, said $50
long as God allows the vital current to 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 he might quote similar sentiments, and
With whose views we suspect Mr.. Caldwell sub
stantially agrees; such men, for instance, as
1Ov. Thomas NJ. Randolph, PewtOn Randolph
Edmund Randolph, Gov Mcdowell, Charles j.
Faulkner, Thos. Marshall, Mr.. Summers. Phil ,
ip A. Boting, BENZ. Watkins Leigh, and ,
,thers.
1t is then for holding steadfastly to the an
,ient political faith of those Virginians whom
he world has learned to call great, that the
lavc-driviDg Democracy of the present day,
Who, with strange inconsistencies, boast their
lescent from these fathers of the Republic land
hey certainly have descended a very long way
rom them) propose to oust Mr.. Caldwell from
lis seat. We shall see whether they will think I
wise to carry their threat into execution
The expulsion of one member for a difference !
If opinion with the propagandists, may nccessi l
ate the turning cut of much larg9r number I
he next year. IT must not be forgotten that '
n Western Virginia Slavery has but nominal t
Existence. 1t is hardly to be supposed. that
he people who are beginning to see and ap- c
'reciate the advantages of the Free-abor sys- a
EN- would tamely submit to see faithful pub t
c servant punished for truly representing their C
interests and sentiments.
The fact that the three members of the t
House of Delegates from the Wheeling or t
Panhandle" District agree with Senator Cald C
7ell in sentiment seems to have escaped the o
ttention of the Virginia Democracy, who
lay find that they will have more business on c
and when the Legislature meets next winter, r.
nan they had anticipated. 1t may be urged, a
owever, on behalf of the delegates that they n
re not members of the Republican Nation c
Committee and that they have not made b
ny public speeches avowing their attach q
lent to the Republican cause, while the Sen
tor from Wheeling has committed both these
enious offenseS.-N !. Trtuune.
Governor Wise on Ossawattomie