Year: 1861

MEssRs EDITORS:


The subject of nominating candidates tor
Members of the House Of Delegates is being
somewhat extensively discussed at present.
The names Of number Of gentlemen have
already been suggessed and the leading
characteristics Of good representative emu
merated | know Of no one who comes up
more fully to the standard Of competency, and
who believe, would more clearly represent
the people Of this county in our State Legis-
lature. than Harrison Hagans, Esq He
possesses all the qualifications Of the gentle
man, the scholar, and an honest man and
no one clings with stronger fidelity to the
Union than he His election as one of our
Delegates would prove an honor and blessing
to our county. SUBRosA


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MEssRs EDITORS:


/ noticed several communications in your
excellent paper from different correspond
ents, setting forth the qualifications of their
respective friends for seat in the next Gen
cral Assembly Of Virginia, and from present
Indications ! 10 not think there is any danger
but that the people Of Preston County will
be represented in our Legislative Halls, for a
lack of aspirants. Our good old State may
secede, for all know, but this opine will
not cool the ardor Of some Of our would be
legislators Or make them less willing to serve





the dear people Of this county.


We, the sdear people, are assured that
our chances are good at this time for an able
to be 50 well represented, that we will have
great cause to be proud Of our high and ex-
alted position among the nations Of the earth
must confess that | feel grateful to the
@Giver Of every good and perfect gift, that
my lot has been cast III this glorious old coun-
ty, where legislative material is scattered
around 50 profusely Permit me, therefore,
to name our esteemed friend and fellow citi-
zen, Daniel Gooding, ESD, as suitable per
Son to represent this county at Richmond
next winter. Mr.. Goodmg is extensively





Of orr good old hard-fsted, honest farmers
man Of sterling worth, unfinching integrity
and zealously devoted to the Union, not
like some OF our professcd Union men in this
section who, when called upon to assist in
raising a Union pole, refused for fear Of giving
offence to some Of their disunion friends
The people of thir district have no confidence
in men who clamor 50 much about our glori-
ous Union and when resolutions are offered
in favor Of the gallant Major Anderson for
his nerltorious course in defending the Stars
and Stripes that wave over the walls Of Fort
Sumter, Indignantly voted against them. The
people Of this district will not jecpardize their
interests BY placing them in the hands Of
dough faced politicians. We want firm and
solid men. and Mr. Gooding is the very man
for the crisis He true Virginian. by birth
and principle And / here say that it is
high time that the people Of the South would
commit their interests to men Of our own soil
instead Of selecting northern men, who are
barely long enough in the State to have vote
Let us bear in mind that there are plenty of
demagogues nowadays, who can put on very
grave faces and prate much about the inter
ests Of the dear people, Y when il fact they
only have a lynx-eye to the 81, 60 per day and
'troast beef Iwould therefore suggest that
Mr.. Gooding be put in nomination By the
people Of this county, for = seat in the next
General Assembly and On the fourth
Thursday Of May next, that We give him
such an overwhelming majority, that all our
old political hucksters will quake like aspen