Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-03-23
The Virginia Democratic Candidate
for Governor Supported by the
Great Republican Organ at WASH
ingtOn.

Governor
Great Republican Organ at wash
ingtOn.
The great Black Republican organ at
Washington, the National Era, whose hue
Is several shades blacker than that of the
New York Tribune, is out in favor of the cleo
ton of JOHN LETCHER, the Democratic can
didatefor Governor of Virginia. 1t can find
nothing in the antecedcnts of GOGGIN, the
Opposition candidate, nor in the circum-
stances attending his nomination, nor in what
it thinks must be his secret sympathies and
feelings on the subject of slavery, which can
commend him to its Republican favor. OF
GoGGN and the Opposition party of Vir-
ginia, the Era thus speaks:
Ave know but little Of Mr.. Goggin, bnt his
best friends would not compare him, as it re
CARDS talents, with Mr.. Summers, of Kama
wha, or with Mr.. Bolts, Of Richmond. The
former was the Wbig candidate of 1851, and
was beaten simply because, in 1882, he sup
ported the emancipation cause, and made an
able and eloquent speech in its favor. He IL
now permitted TO lie on the shelf for that
reason, although his commanding character
and talents are admitted. Mr.. Bolts, who
possesses almost unrivalled power as de-
Whiggcry and Americansn have doomed him
20 private life, is now set aside by the Oppo-
siton in Virginia, simply because of his
avowed preference, in 1856, of Fremont to
Buchanan. How, then, is it possible for the
Republican party to harmonic with such an
Opposition as that which has been organized
in Virginia? The proposition is prepos-
ferrous"
GoGGN does not suit the "big gun" of
BlackRepublicanism at ali and the supposition
the possibility OF the Republican party's of
harmonising with "S4ch an Opposition as that
which has been organized in Virginia is
preposterous."
In the antecedents of LETCHER, however,
and what it believes are even now his true
and genuine sentiments the subj ct of
slavery, the Era finds much 10 conciliate It's
regard and to win whatever support it may
be in its power to render him. 1t SAYS
"The Black Democracy have shown less Of
the 'wisdom OF this world" in their guberna-
torial nomination, than the Opposition.
They have put in nomination man who,
eleven years ago, in the very heat OF
the Anti-Slayery excitement, committed
ted himself 10 the cause of emancipation ;and
who, we believe. never until recently made
any apology for bis connection with the
emancipation party of Western Virginia.
Mr.. Lelcher, ia lSi7. fully endorsed the
famous Anti-Slavery address of DR.. Ruffner;
he addressed a literary association in favor
Of the same views, and sgned letter
addressed To DR.. Ruffner, in which that
gentlemans Anti-Slavcry views were highly
commended, accompanied 10y request that
he would furnish them for publication
The Era then gives the following extracts
from the Rutfher Address, which was so
fully endorsed by Mr.. LErcHER, at the
time it was delivered, aud which he requested
might be published:
EXTRACTS.
I've esteem il sad humiliating fact,
which should penetrate the heart os every
Virginian, that from the year 1880 to this
time, Virginia has lost more people by emf
grafton than all the old free States together.
Up TO SAG. when the last census was taken,
she had Lost more by nearly 500, 900. She had
senior we should rather say, she has driven
from her soil--at least one-third Of all the
emigrants who have gone from the old States
to the new. More than another third have
gone from the other old slave States Many
OF these multitudes who have left the slave
States have Stunned the regions OF slavery,
and settled 10 the FIRE countries OF the Wet
These wera generally industrious and enter