Lynchburg Virginian

Locofoco Convention

This body, the convocation of which was expected to kindle a perfect blaze of enthusiasm throughout the State, but which seems to have served rather the purpose of a wet blanket, assembled last Tuesday, and was organized by calling Andrew Stevenson, Esq. to preside over its deliberations—Messrs. Wm. H. Roane, R. M. T. Hunter, Braxton Davenport, D. W. Patterson and William O. Goode were appointed Vice Presidents; and Messrs. Thomas Ritchie, Richard B. Gooch, Frank G. Ruffin and A. F. Cunningham, Secretaries—Speeches were delivered by J. A. Jones, Robert O. Scott, James Garland, Wm. Smith, H. Bedinger, Thomas H. Bayly, John S. Barbour, R. M. T. Hunter, Henry L. Hopkins, Wm. O. Goode, Thomas Ritchie and Wm. F. Gordon.—We hear that it was a very slim affair, and, (the speeches excepted, which we have no doubt were full of fire and fury,) it seems to have been as dull and dry as "the remainder biscuit after a long voyage." We infer so, likewise, from the tone in which it is spoken of by the Charlottesville Jeffersonian, (the Loco organ,) which says: "we cannot tell what was the number in Convention. As far as ascertained with certainty, the delegation was nearly 400, and it was probably a good deal more numerous, as several delegations failed to hand in their lists. This number was considerably increased by a large concourse of both parties from town and country. The lower country, Piedmont and the Valley was well represented, but there were but few or no delegates from beyond the Alleghany—a circumstance attributable, as we learn, to two mass meetings to take place in that region on the 18th of this month."

Brief and so!

An Address to the People of Virginia was adopted, and 10,000 copies ordered to be printed—a plan of county organization was agreed upon (a hint, by the way, "upon which the Whigs in the several counties ought at once to act, without the suggestion of a convention,"—a fund raised to procure and distribute documents—the Daily Richmond Enquirer recommended to the support of the Democracy, &c., &c.

We understand that huge loads of documents were sent to Charlottesville, from Washington as well as Richmond, which are to be scattered broadcast over the State. We have seen some of them—such as Boyd's speech on the alleged coalition between Adams and Clay, in the truth of which no intelligent man of any party believes one syllable—four solid pages of garbled and perverted quotations, the object of which is to show that there is a new coalition between the Whigs and Abolitionists; a charge disproved by every election in the non slaveholding States, and known to be false by every man of common sense in the country—a Report of Mr. Woodbury, while Secretary of the Treasury, showing how much the government has lost by Banks, (and from which the reader will see that not a cent was ever lost by a National Bank, but the whole of it by State Banks, which are now, as they were when these losses occurred, the pet agents of the government.—and which, by the way, ought to have been accompanied by a list of the Treasury defaulters)—Several speeches and letters showing the importance of the immediate annexation of Texas, while they themselves, at the North are bringing forward for high stations, both in the National and State governments, anti-Texas candidates; &c. &c.

Among the committees appointed was one to make a conjectural estimate of the vote of Virginia in November next; and, having the figures at their own disposal, (which fortunately will not be the case with the votes,) they give the vote of the State to Polk, of course, by a swimming majority—about, 6,000. All gammon! If Polk gets the vote of Virginia at all, it will be by the skin of his teeth—and we have the strongest confidence, from recent information, that he will be beaten in the Old Dominion. We call upon the Whigs, therefore, to prepare for the contest—to organize, where organization has not been effected—to meet zeal with zeal, and effort with effort—and they will have nothing to fear. Virginia, so long wavering in the balance, will turn "right side up;" and the native land of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe will be once more found the champion of the principles and measures which illustrated the administrations of those fathers of the true Republican faith.