Richmond Daily Times

ADDRESS OF THE CENTRAL WHIG COMMITTEE.

We are happy to publish this timely and appropriate Address, as the first definite movement towards an organization of the Whig party of the State, to counteract and defeat the organization which our Democratic opponents were prompt to set on foot.

It will be perceived that the Central Committee have fixed Thursday, the 25th of September, as the day, and Staunton as the place, for the State Convention to meet. An earlier day than the 1st of October was considered expedient, for the reason, that the various Courts held early in October would prevent many from attending the Convention as delegates, if it should assemble about that time.

We hope there will be a general concurrence in the recommendation of the Committee, and that Whig meetings will be held at all the county courts, to appoint delegates. The Whigs of Nansemond county, we are glad to see, have been the first to take action. At the last court, they met and recommended that a State Convention be held, and appointed delegates to represent them in it. They also adopted resolutions warmly approving the patriotic administration of Mr. Fillmore. It strikes us that it would be highly appropriate for the Whigs of every county in the State, in their meetings for the appointment of delegates, thus to declare their sentiments in regard to the conduct of our admirable President. The Whig party of Virginia have peculiar reason to be proud of the manner in which Mr. Fillmore has fulfilled their predictions and expectations concerning him. In the great canvass of 1848, he was held up before the people in every forbidding aspect which Democratic imaginations could invent. He was denounced through the land as a ranting Abolitionist and Democratic orators thought they could made no stronger appeal to Virginia prejudices, than to warn their audiences that, if the Whig party should prevail, "there would be only one life between the Presidency and Millard Fillmore!" But the Whigs had the good sense to trust their own judgments, rather than these distorted representations. They took Mr. Fillmore as the worthy associate of Gen. Taylor, and, though he was a Northern man, they accepted him as a patriot. They did not prevail so far as to give him the electoral vote of the State, but their efforts shook terribly the strength of the Democratic majority, so that it was long doubtful how the State had really gone. The single life, that lay between Mr. Fillmore and the Presidency, was, more than a year ago, actually removed, according to the sinister forebodings of the Democratic augurs of 1848. But what followed? Was it, as those soothsayers foretold, the dark sway of Abolitionism? On the contrary, is not the fact undeniable, that Millard Fillmore, from the day he took the oath of his high office to the present hour, has more than justified the good opinions of his supporters, and absolutely disarmed all generous opponents? Is he not confessedly the man to whose patriotic course, we owe the preservation of our Union, and does not the whole country (at least the reasonable part of it) rely with perfect confidence on his determination to maintain the Constitution? Let us, then, Whigs of Virginia, speak out our sentiments of Mr. Fillmore. We have sustained him through undeserved obloquy, and now let us proclaim our satisfaction that he has proved himself worthy.