Lynchburg Virginian

Political.
From the Baltimore Patriot.
"WHAT THE SOUTH EXPECTS FROM THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION.—Our readers have seen, by the article copied from the Sunbury American, what Pennsylvania expects from Mr. Polk's administration. At the time of copying the article from the Sunbury paper, we stated that the Locofocos of Charleston had honored the election of Mr. Polk by a "torch light procession." The Charleston Mercury of the 19th inst. gives a full account of the procession, and accompanies the publication of the account with the following remarks:

"The only inscription which we would rather not have seen in the procession, and towards which he exclaimed with Byron, 'what business had it there—at such a time?' was the extract from Mr. Polk's letter about equal protection to all interests, &c. &c." That it was equivocal—was enough to condemn it with frank plain dealing Republican Carolinians. We trust, we believe Mr. Polk meant by equal protection, impartial forbearance from all interference with the industrial pursuits of the country. We are sure that our spirited Committee of Arrangements interpreted the principle of protections as the French merchants of old answered their monarch who offered government protection, and was told in reply 'laissez nous faire'—your best protection to us is to let us alone. But yet we would not tolerate the word upon the Charleston banner. We remember Pizarro's vulture to dove protection to the Peruvians, "covering and devouring"—as Mrs. Quickly said of the word "occupy," it was a decent enough word once, but has been put to such vile uses as to have lost caste. Prithee have none of it!

"We enter this our protest in no fault finding" carping spirit—but from a sense of duty as a sentinel whose duty it is to reply with plain truth when asked "watchman—what of the night?"

Now we like this—it is honest. The South Carolina Nullifiers supported Mr. Polk because he had been all his life opposed to the protection of American industry. They have therefore a right to believe that he will oppose it when he comes to be President. But the Pennsylvania Tariff Loco Focos blindly persisted in believing, or affecting to believe, that Mr. Polk would favor protection—and now that their votes have elected him, they begin to fear that he will betray them! They would be dupes as they have been duped. But when the ruin and distress which must follow the adoption of Mr. Polk's free trade, anti-protection policy, are realized, then we expect to hear these deceived Pennsylvanians, crying out from the depths of their sorrow to the words of their fellow Locofo co of the Sunbury American, "I cease to love the man who has betrayed me."