Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-10-17
TAE SPIRIT OF HARDY.

~ W we vote OF the County, than any
e"unfy IN the Stale. What say YOU Who's Of
Loudoun and Augusta1 Do YOU mean TO Ie,
your niue sister beat you. II you do not, yoi
"'oS' Improve upon l9fO.-Vin. Rep.
Ana now we ask, what say you Wings of
Augusta3 Let your response be heard in
November next, in tones ,ha, cannot be mis-
understood.
Organize Organize! Old Augusta "expec,s
every Wing TO do his lu,y'' See to it ,ha,
you are armed for The conflict. lie, there he
one simultaneous, spontaneous organization.
The eyes OF all Virginia arc upon you, and
the Wing party throughout, the State expec,
that you will be found true To yourselves
they expect that you will come out in your
strength and evince by your action a, the en-
SUNG election, your deep devotion to your
country's veal!
What say you, People Of Augusta, we again
ask! Shall this noble resolve of the Wb;g
boys of Hardy come true IT CANNOT
Be!
oid Augusta, good old Augusta, will We, be
found, as OF yore, foremost in the conflict
last to yield! Come then to the polls ON the
4th OF November-come old and YOUNG
persuade your neighbors to come-let no
consideration keep you away. COME UP
TO THE HELP OF OLD AUGUSTA! The
honor OF your county--the best interests of
your country are alike a, stake, As YOU love
the homes of your childhood, as you honor
the graves of your fathers, as you reverence
the affairs of your God, come out in your
strength! The eyes of the whole country are
turned upon you; much, every thing is ex-
Peoted of you! Will you, can YOU d;sap-
point the best hopes of y our friends, and graf
lily the dearest wishes of your enemies /,
YOU CANNOT! YOU WILL NOT! Here.
amid the blue mountains and green vallies of
Augusta, where freedom hath ever found her
suresi refuge, her safest home, Tyranny can
never have resting place. Let then the Far
mer torsake his plough, the Mechanic his
workshop, the Merchant his counter, the Stu-
dent his books, aud all, all come and strike
Tor the "Farmer of Ashland" the Patriot and
the Statesman.
Wings of Augusta. in addition to what we
have said we ask you 10 read the following
| spirlt-stirring appeal put forth at late Out.
pouring OF the Wings of New York. Ii will
suit every meridian, and we beseech every
wing in whose hands this paper may fall to
| give it a careful pernsal:
TO THE WINGS OF THE STATE AND on ,,.,r
UNION
brother Freemen In the Catholic shirt
oil true lovers of our Country we approach
you.
| In the name of PUBLIC LIBERTY and Cow
sTITUTIoNAL FIRE EDoM, we address Won
IN behalf of our national CHARACTER,
our NATIONAL WELFARE, and our national
Honor, we make our appeal.
In the great cause of LIBERTY and UNION
OF EQUALITY and JUSTICE; of REpREsEsr.-
TIVE PRIVILEGE against EXECUTIVE PRERo-
GATIvE of HONORABLE PEACE rather than
VICTORIOUS WAR; of dependence upon our
own Industry, and INDEPENDENCE of FoR-
EIGN control, aud of the perpeiuation of our
free Republican Government, we invoke vour
aid.
New, startling issnes are before YOU Their
decision will affect not the present generation
only, but poslerity.
The great contest so soon to be ended for
"eai or woe involves our deslnies as Ma
ton. powerful and INSCRIPTIONS party,
under the false garb Of Democracy. are aim
ing their deadly attacks at your Constitution.
and the citadel of Liberty itself reels 10 its
foundation.
Composed Of discordant materials and of
heterogeneous principles, connected by sim
gle sentiment, the hope of plumber, and ac-
&nowedgng, but one common rule of action.
mat "to the victors belong the spols,o the /
FREE TRADER and the protesting PRorEc-
ZIONIST, the friend of the Annexation of
Texas and its deadly opponent, the high-lon-
Ell federallst OF the wors! days of Federalism,
and The most authentic supporter of modern
Dorrlsm, the "would be Tores'' of the Re-
voluiion and the pretended friends of popular
rights, lailtudnarians and strict construction
lists, limllarans and proclamationists. bond ,av-
ers and repudiators, alike rally beneath the ban
ner OF James K. Polk, and recognize in him
me genuine exponent Of their peculiar princi- |
pies' the believer in their several and respec- |
1--WE creeds, the great High Priest of modern
Locofocoism
The high and ennobing impulses which
prompted our ancestors in the olden time, in
'he'r resistance to British oppression, which
governed the trainers of our Constitution in