Lynchburg Virginian

COMMUNICATIONS.

The period has arrived when every man is bound to take a decided stand, either as the friend or the enemy of his Country; to lend his purse and his sword to the cause of peace & order, and to the support of a government, which though not administered so well as it should be, is leading us on to wealth and national grandeur, or to declare himself on the side of a nefarious faction, avowedly eager to precipitate these united and happy states into anarchy and ruin. Those are strong terms, but not inapplicable now. There is, there can be no middle ground.

A few citizens of reckless character, even in Virginia, finding the position assumed by the anarchists utterly untenable, are laboring to blind us with sophistry, upon points foreign to the subject. It is asserted that the President advances doctrines that are ultra federal, and calculated to prostrate the states at the feet of the General Government, and much is said about the Virginia resolutions of '98. Now what is all this to the present purpose? Is this the time to discuss abstract questions, when disunion and ruin threaten to destroy all that renders life desirable? These topics legitimately belong to the drowsy essayists of peaceful days; they and their productions have seldom done any good, and never any harm, and to them the discussion should be left. I have ever been the friend of Mr. Clay. His friends are the friends of order and government. In the dense, wealthy, and intelligent neighborhood in which I live, there are only two nullifiers, men of limited information and little influence, and strange to say there were the only men who supported Gen. Jackson at the late election!

Never before did the United States present on any political question, a more firm and undivided front, than they do now, in opposition to the rebellion of the south, and should they be forced to draw the sword, though its lustre may be dimmed by the tears of those who wield it they will return it to the scabbard, till it shall have accomplished the purpose for which it was drawn,

CYRUS.