Lynchburg Virginian

MESSRS. GARLAND AND GORDON.

"A True Whig," in the Charlottesville Advocate takes the correct ground in reference to the pending Congressional election in the Amherst district. Independently of Gen. Gordon's present position, in reference to the two great parties, his conduct towards the Whigs is peculiarly ungrateful and offensive. Four years ago, when he was in the field, he electioneered as a Whig, was be-dinner'd by the Whigs, was supported by the Whigs—and now, in the most insulting and contemptuous manner, he declares that he never was a Whig! How, then, can he now expect support from that quarter! And what Whig, with a proper sense of self-respect, can now vote for him? Certainly, Gen. Gordon pretended to be a Whig in 1835: If he did not wear that appellation on his brow, he did not complain when it was applied to him, nor turn with scorn upon the associates with whom he then took up bed and board. If he was not a Whig then, he was guilty of manifest insincerity, to call it by no harsher name. But he is explicit enough at the present time. He now declares emphatically, not only that he is no Whig, but that he never was a Whig, even when, in 1835, he was soliciting Whig suffrages—and no Whig ought, therefore, to support him. His scorn of the party should be repaid by stern, unanimous, inflexible opposition. Even if Maj. Garland were now thoroughly committed to the Administration, (as he is against it, so long as it adheres to its financial policy,—and that it will never relinquish,—) we, for one, should cheerfully give him, or any other Loco Foco, our vote, in preference to Gen. Gordon, who, according to his own showing, was guilty of gross duplicity towards the Whigs in 1835, as he is of offensive repulsiveness in 1839. We prefer a candid, open, fair opponent, to a Jesuit, who takes our hand when he hopes to obtain office by our votes, and afterwards declares that he always held us "in his enmity." The Whigs of the Amherst District have a clear path before them. Garland before Gordon, forever.