Lynchburg Daily Virginian

Correspondence of the Virginian
Washington, January 19, 1854.

The extreme backwardness and silence of the Virginia delegates in the present state of the party to which they belong is remarkable. Gen. Bayly acted as Secretary of the Foote meeting, and has, besides some "pious responses," given quite a humorous description of the dilemma in which he found himself on arriving in Washington. Aside from this, there has been nothing from the delegation going to show, definitely, the sympathies of our great State. There was a time when Virginia members took the lead in all such controversies as those which now divide the party. There was a time when her people could be heard on all such issues, as are now distinctly made between the different sections of the party, and in which all parties are deeply interested.— Why are they silent? Have her people, or her representatives, fallen from the "high estate" of '98 '99," and mutually agreed to play "second fiddle?" Has Locofoco rule so impoverished the mind and the means of the "Old Dominion" that a few Federal offices should be considered necessary to her existence? We wish to hear from the gentleman entrusted with the mantles of our Jeffersons, Madisons, and Tayloes, and very particularly, from Mr. Charles James Faulkner, who was so apprehensive that Gen. Scott would give "aid and comfort" to the enemies of the South : and on this flimsy pretext went over to the Loco foco party.