Lynchburg Virginian

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editors of the Enquirer,

THIS CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

Messrs. Editors—If it be not premature, permit
me, through your columns, to call the attention of
the people of the Congressional District, composed
of the counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania and Campbell,
to our next Congressional election, which will
take place next Spring. My principal object is, to call
the attention of the people of the District to a gentle-
man of the Whig party, who is in every respect wor-
thy of their confidence. For the last three years the
District has been represented by a Van Buren Sub-
Treasury gentleman, when it is well known that two
counties out of the three composing it, are decidedly
opposed to Mr. Van Buren and to his "untried
expedient;" and the fair presumption is that a ma-
jority of the voters of the District are of the Whig
faith. One thing is beyond a doubt: that is, that a
large majority of the voters in two of the coun-
ties are decidedly Anti-Van and Anti-Sub Treasury.
How, then, are we to account for this state of
things? Two of the counties are decidedly Whig.
and a majority of the voters of the district are Whigs,
and yet we are represented by a gentleman of the
"Democratic Republican" faith, and friendly to
the Sub Treasury scheme. The simple and plain
solution of the problem, in my opinion, is this: that
the Whigs have not as yet brought forward a can-
didate who could concentrate the whole strength of
the district; consequently, many of the Whigs either
do not go to the election at all, or if they do go, will
not vote, from some preconceived prejudices against
the Whig candidate. It is well known that many
persons entertained a prejudice against the able and
eloquent gentleman who opposed Capt. Coles last
Spring, which prejudice either originated in, or re-
ceived additional strength from, certain false charges
preferred against him.

The writer of this begs permission, however, to
say, that, in his humble opinion, a more honorable,
high minded gentleman never breathed, and no a
bler defender of the constitution of his country ever
graced the halls of Congress, than John Kerr, of
Pittsylvania. Seeing, then, that two of the counties
of the District, and firmly believing that a large ma-
jority of the people of the District, are decidedly
hostile to the "untried expedient," which is the
favorite scheme of Mr. Van Buren, which receives
the cordial approbation of our present representa-
tive in Congress, and which is regarded by some as
a sovereign panacea for all the diseases of the body
politic, and which we are told by the President, (in-
directly, if not in direct terms,) is his ultima
remedium, why, permit me to ask, will we submit
to this state of things? Can we select no gentleman
from the Whig ranks who would be in every respect
as palatable to a majority of the citizens of the Dis-
trict, as our present representative, and whose po-
litical principles are more in accordance with those
of that majority? That we can select such a one
the writer of this entertains no doubt; and I call
upon those opposed to the Sub Treasury, & friendly
to the credit system, to aid in making this selection.
I call upon you, gentlemen, who have so long bat-
tled against Executive usurpation, to aid in making
that selection. I call upon those who have wan-
dered far from the path of "original republicanism,"
and who have been convinced of the gross deception
which their leaders, in whom they had unbounded
confidence, have practiced upon them, but whose
ranks they have so lately and so gallantly forsaken,
to aid in making that selection. I call upon those
gentlemen who have so long and so zealously sup-
ported and are supporting those high handed mea-
sures of the late and present administrations, which
have destroyed the best currency the world ever
saw, reduced to abject poverty many who were in
apparent affluence, brought unparalleled ruin and
distress upon our once happy and still beloved
country, and have come well nigh engulfing the
whole country in complete bankruptcy, to withdraw
their support from those ruinous measures; to
pause awhile and consider, for their country's good;
to think of her once prosperous and happy and en-
viable condition, and contrast it with her present
gloomy prospects. I call upon you.—Whigs, Demo-
crats, Conservatives, or by whatever name you may
style yourselves,—to unite and present an undivided
front, and offer an opposing arm to all "untried ex-
pedients." Unite, and raise your voice in behalf
of your once respected, but now disregarded con-
stitution and laws, raise your voice against oppres-
sion, against tyranny and against Executive usurpa-
tions; and that voice will be heard and respected.
I appeal to the citizens of high minded and gallant
Pittsylvania and Campbell, & to the small but no less
gallant band of Whigs in Halifax, to select a suitable
candidate to represent us in the next Congress of
the United States. Permit me to present to your
favorable consideration a gentleman who is in every
respect worthy of your confidence; than whom no
man is better qualified to fill that important station;
no man is endowed with greater natural abilities;
none possesses a more gigantic intellect: no one is
more capable of dissecting abstruse and difficult sub-
jects; none can be more ardently attached to the
republican institutions of his country: no one pos-
sesses more sterling innate worth; and none more tru-
ly patriotic, gallant and high-minded. My allusion
is to Capt. Vincent WITCHER of Pittsylvania coun-
ty, whom I earnestly recommend to the people of
this Congressional District as a gentleman in every
respect deserving of their confidence and most cor-
dial support; and who, if elected, will represent them
honorably and faithfully.

A great revolution is going on throughout these
United States; the Whigs are daily and rapidly
gaining strength; and shall the proud "Old Domin-
ion," which has given birth to some of the most il-
lustrious patriots, be content to stand still and see
States, far less renowned, taking the lead in the
eventful crisis? or shall she be content merely to
follow in the wake of her sister States? I appeal
to you, Virginians, if you possess one spark of that
glowing patriotism which carried your forefathers
triumphantly through the revolutionary struggle,
to arouse from your slumbers and restore to this
"proud old Commonwealth" the high character
which she once possessed, and to which she was so
justly entitled. I appeal to you, fellow-citizens!
descendants of the illustrious defenders of "the best
birth right and noblest inheritance of man," to step
forward to the rescue of this "renowned old Com-
monwealth" from the grasp of tyranny; and
liberty shall again flourish over her desolated seats,
and our good old Virginia shall stand "redeemed,
regenerated and disenthralled." And whilst other
Congressional Districts in Virginia are girding on
their armour, hoisting the Whig flag and striking
the decisive blow at the "untried expedient" and
its authors, shall this truly republican District be less
patriotic on this occasion? Shall we not boldly
rush to the contest and share equally in the toils of
battle, that we may enjoy an equal share of the ho-
nors which will ever be conferred upon the de-
fenders of the constitution and the defenders of their
country's rights?

Having made these remarks, I now submit the
subject to the consideration of the good people of
the District, not doubting but they will, in due time,
give it that attention which its merits demand.

BRUTUS.
Pittsylvania, May 21, 1833.