Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-12-02
Err. DIcKINsoN's LETTER.
BRINaHAMToH, N. Y. Nov. IL, 1850.

teHtteHEn.
regret that I shall be unable to
accept your Aatterng invitation TO attend and
address mass meeting al Staunton on the 25th
inst, composed Of the people of Augusta & adoin-
ing counties, for the purpose of enabling them
TO express their opinion of the recent measures
of adjustment passed by Congress, for it would
afford me great pleasure to be with you The
friends of the Union have high and holy duty
to discharge, and they should embrace every
opportunity to-confer together to strengthen each
others hands, and TO devise means for more eff
fectually driving beyond the borders of our
Heaven fayoured confederacy the demon spirit
of disunon They have achieved mighty
Constitutional triumph in the success of the be-
nign measures of Cancellation, and have now on.
ly to stand by and defend them as they would
their household gods. While the South have
much to discourage and dishearten, and more to
annoy and initiate, in the foul currents of aboi-
tionism which have been rolling against them,
they have the qualification to know that the
"Wilmot Proviso" so recently the stalking horse
of denagogues and guiding star of hypocrtes
and fanatics, has been quietly consigned to the
place appropriated to decayed humbugs ; and
that all the territories of the United States have
been organized without it. Aboltionism will
now congregate her motley and reasonable
horde for breach of the article of the Constit,.-
requiring tIlC VI .tu1!ltVGS urON
service. She will struggle over it with the con-
vulsive energies of death throes and essay to
counterfeit tine nameo of honest philanthropy in
her artificial waiings; but this TOO, will, after it
has strutted its brief .hour, be arfaipned, tried
and condemned to s!follow in the footsteps of it's
illustrious predecessor" The great mass of the
Northern people, though occasionally misled hy
party associations and deceived by false and col
lateral issues, are true to the principles of the
Constitution and VIXEN once the great cues
ton of obedience to the laws is presented, will
prove themselves worthy of the bes, days of the
Republe.
rejoice that the spirit of the odd Dominion
is moving. She whose wise counsels and self
sacrificing devotion to the cause of liberty con
trbued so essentially to the formation of the
Confederacy, may, by the Influence of her DO
tentlal voice, restore lraterna relations between
estranged members OF the same great family
and preserve the blessings of the Union to future
generations. 0 how worthless and ienoble are
all the trumphs of administrations, the eleya-
ton OF Individuals or the success of parties
compared with the preservation of our glorious
inheritance How many hallowed associations
cluster around it How many untold blessings
has it conferred npon its children How many
wretched outcasts has 1t sheltered from persecn-
ton and death How many down-trodder and
mortas has ii snaiched from destrue
ton and nurtured in its bosom May Heaven
IN the plenitude Of its mercy preserve it and
change the hearts of those who would raise their
parrlcidal hands against it
With sentiments of high consideration and
regard, am, sincerely your friend and fellow
citizen, i'll the bonds Of traternal union,
d. S. DICKINSON.
To Messrs. VIM. Kinney, l.. Waddel, James
Points, B. Crawford, VIM. Frazier