Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-07-14
Daily Tirsiuiaa.
fron ihs Philadelphia Inquirer.


Dean Swift usedto say that when he bad nath-
ing else for dinner he always rssoted to piece of
Cheshire cheese and when he had nothing else to
preach about hs always took the Catholics as n
subject. and thu. the Catholics as subjects. and
thus the Catholics became his Cheshire cheese
1t 10 just so with our polisicisns. There are now
but lew dispntabls topics on which they can join
issnc. The sources of controversy between tho
old Fedoralsts aud Republicans are dried up. as
we'll as those betSecn the Wings and Democrats
of the last generation. Banks, internal improve.
vents and tnriffs have become quire threadba,e;
and lestlour statesmen should 10 perforce con-
strained to turn their attention to tho wsc de-
veiopement Of thu great material interest OF tho
country, some other cause OF partisan wnr must
be created, some other source of angry contest
nust be brought into the feld. around which tho
political battle may again bo renewed and the he
roes of rartisauship may stll play the champion.
Those other sutjects beirrg thus exhausted, and
the whole white race of the country not furnish
ing any topic Of adequate interest, We hayc seen
that the poor Ethi,pi s sudden magnincd into
the grand cdsns tRH. His flower permeatc1 the
entire atmosphere, and cxhales in Congress in tho
thruch, in Conventions. IN the roairutn on the
stagc. in the palpit, in our iiteratufein fact. he
perfumes us everywhere. lie IL the universal
iond set before ua Mt avery entertainment the
sianfliny Cheshire cheese. ON which. in tho ab.
soncc If all other pr"vendor We nrc To be pcrpct
ual3 fed. A political convention in onc section
Of tho country il split in twain. and nll for Samho
Another convention, ut an opposite section, re-
mains united. and constructs platform for the
sake Of Samho. Meanwhile. the thronged Sen,
ate chamb her day after day in occupied in high dis
course and San,ho 10 the text. In tho great city
during "nnniversnry week" the representatives
Of our Christianity are Aockng together to take
sweet counsel, hut tho spectacle OF world in sin
liverts not their mcJitatious from Sanbo TO their
Lord. Tho cause Of tracts. bible-. education and
mission, in their estimate OF duty sinks into rela-
tive insgniicanner. .and great ecclesiascal bodies
are rent asunder. Verify, Snmbo s great Are we
not entitled to u change OF diet
Beneath this ludicrous appearance of public al
inirs, we fear there 10 an nndercurrent which IA
steadily drifting us into danger. We have on ths
continent thirty millions of white freemen, made
up of as chnice n race Of men M ever before
constituted n nationality. Thir ancestors were
winnowed from the effects communities of the Old
World, and their advent and settlement in these
western regions. reserved for them until in the
funess of time, mankind was prepared for
historic development, were horaded and accom-
panied by auguries prophetic of splendid future.
The f,ilure Of this last and nobest effort in be-
hall Of humanity. would dissi pate tho hopes oi
mankind, turn back the stream Of human history.
and overwheln, The nations with disasters unnar-
alleled even by the destruction Of the universal
empires of antiquity. Yet we have fallen upon
times in which all this in TO DO perilled, not for
the sake Of the white race, which thus bears in
its hands tho dcs nies of the world. but in behalf
Of II parasite race. relatively inconsidcruble in
numbers, influence and historic importance, and
whose benft by the realization Of tho dreams of
Of it's pseudo friends, is extremely problematica
We believe that philosophy, religion and patriot
ism. require that we shall not leopard such grind
results even for the chance Of doing doubtful or
trihing goud. Innammatory agitation, which
must sooner or latcr end in snnguinary conflicts.
l.- r..
moment tho fearful injury which the general cause
of Constitutional Government must forever suffer
among men, by the disastrous issue of the crown
ing experiments in it's behalf.