Lynchburg Daily Virginian

Letter from Mr. Graham.

The following letter from Mr. Graham explains itself. The sterling and patriotic sentiments it expresses will find an echo in every Whig bosom. The same interrogatories were addressed to Gen. Scott and Gen. Pierce. The former replied, taking substantially the position Mr. Graham has taken, but the latter has kept his peace. We suppose Col. King was also applied to for his views. If so, he too, has declined all response. It should be borne in mind that Gen. Pierce also failed to answer the letter of Robt. G. Scott-proposing important queries to him. We think, in view of these facts, the Democracy should cease to talk about Whig non committalism.

Hillsborough, N. C. August 25, 1852
Gentlemen. Your letter, propounding a series of interrogatories, at the instance of the Southern Rights Convention of the State of Alabama, which assembled at Montgomery on the 12th ult., has been received.

In reply, I have the honor to say, that I am by birth, education, residence, association, and interest, identified with the South. These, with my past life afford, in my opinion, a better guarantee of fidelity to all her just rights than any declarations of abstract or speculative opinions, after I have been, by a conventional my political friends, placed before the nation as a Candidate for a high station. I desire to see an end to the agitation of slavery in connexion with national politics; and I believe that by a faithful adherence to the adjustment made by the Compromise of 1850 and the execution of the law as it has been carried out by the president and executive hand of the Government, the country is destined to repose and security on this exciting topic, such as it has not enjoyed since the agitation commenced.

While this appears to be the general state of public feeling in all sections, I can perceive neither a necessity nor utility, on the part of the south, for a discussion of the extreme cases of apprehended injury comprised in your interrogatories, as among the practical questions of the times: such was the unanimous opinion of those patriotic citizens of the South who were delegated to the convention by which I was nominated, and who required only an acquiescence in the Compromise as a security for their rights in the present juncture; and in that opinion I concur. I shall undertake to establish no new tests of orthodoxy, to fan the flame of local excitement in the one section or the other, but, if elected, will assume the powers devolved on me, with an impartial mind, and a purpose to maintain the integrity of the Union upon principles just, constitutional, and liberal towards all its parts.

I am, very respectfully, your ob't serv't.
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM
Messrs. THOMAS WILLIAMS. J. A. ELMORE, &c. Committee.