Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-09-01
The ssWoodcock" FIutters.


tries to get free. But all in vain--you cant Is
cape. ''Yoa said-sIf Gen. ScoTr is shown I,
haze uttered language hostile to Sosehern institu
tions he should not be trusted" The rule mus
apply equally to Gen. PIERCE, and he according tt
yoar own admission said: "The man that would
dissolve the Union did not HAZE end deplore sLA
VERY more than he did," We hold you..to that--anc
pardon us if the circumstances forcibly remind us
of the lines once addressed 10 a fedgling caught
in similar fix
''l've watched you long, you're mine al last
Poor little thing, you'll scape more.'' f,.e
Every reader of the Vindicator must have OBJ;
served of late the remarkable familiarity Of the
Editor with legal phrases. All of sudden he
talks like one who had followed the profession fully
six months, and had picked up "a few technical
terms; if nothing more. His mode of reasoning
too, we mast confess, is decidedly professional
The special pieader and the attorney at the bal
are obvious in every sentence of his last long arti
Gle headed ''The Spectator Inspected"
To reply to that article in every particular would
require more time and space than we have at COM
mand, and under any circumstances we would moi
deem it necessary to do so. We havealready pub
lished, not arguments, but evidence to prove Gen
ScoTT's soundness on the Compromise, and on
every question in which the South is specially III
terested and he that aciH not see must be left to
grope on in darkness.
Having despatched Gen. ScoTr in summary
manner, our writer turns to defend Gen. PIERCE
and the Democracy. Hic labor, hoe opus est
Gen. PIERCE he says did write letter before his
nomination. Was it published before?] He did
send toast to Democratic festival lauding the
Compromise. And you laud him for that, II
Truly may you repeat "times change and aot
change with them" Remember, however, that
he said on another Occasion that the North got the
kernel by the Compromise, and the South she'll.
He did maksa speech in which he expressed sound
national sentiments. Admit it all, and compare il
with the testimony of your o,on Witnsss Mr.. MApp,
who says
''Ihe greatest difference bet,Ueen Mr.. Pierce
and Mr.. Hale, as Understood them, auas about
the means ,chich Should be employed to effect the
same end desired by both.'
Mr.. MAPF says also
SIN his (Pierce's) remarks; he distinctly avo%;-
ed that he was as much opposed to the institution
of slavery as any man in New Hampshire and
made use of language very much like, if not al
most the same as, that have seen imputed to him
in tile New Boston speech by the Independent and
Manchester Democrat"
The Vindicator, OF his assistant, CORDIALLY adj.
mits'' that if all he knew of Gen. PIERCE wa:
that he hated and deplored slavery, 'no Southern
man should support Lim;'' but refers to his "legis
lative career,h "through large large portion O
which he stood side by side with Mr.. CALHOUN
SC. We beg leave to refer the Editor to the pro
ceedings of the Senate OH the 3rd of January, 1889
On that day Mr.. CALHOUN voted to- lay on the ia
BILE motion to receive petition to abolish slavery
in the District of Columbia and the territory ofFlor
ida, and for the prevention of that traffic between
the States.-Mr PIERCE c0ted the other avay!-
That's the way he stood ''side by side with Mr.
CALHOUN on that occasion. Again, see his vot
in reference to Brooks negroes, an account o
which is given elsewhere in this paper. So mr'cl
for the Legislative career" of Gen. Pierce, tn
Presidential candidate whom his partizans are en-
deavorirg to palm off upon the South as anothe
''Northern man with Southern principles" Ava.
with all such humbuggery! Let the people o
the Sonth remember the VAN buren, cheat am
beware in time.
The Vmdicator takes occasion in passing; to al
lude to the sentiment in Gen. Scorr's Atkinson
letter, ''that it is high moral obligation Of mas
ters and Slaceholding States to employ all means
not incompatible with the safety of both colors, t
meliorate slavery even to determination" Tha
is Gen. ScoTr's opinion, aad however we or 9th
ers may dissent from it, it does not in any degree
impair his soundness. He holds to the true prin
ciple of the Constitution, and places the matter
where it properly belongs, in the hands Of ''mas
tets and SlavehoSdng States" He deprecates Gin
reference or aid from without" He has neve
''attached blame TO masters for not iberating he
slayes." He finds in Che institution 'some com
pensuting benefit" Gen. PIERCE, on the othel
hand ''hates and depIores slavery - yet we are
urged to commit to him the execution of the fugl
tive law, because his constitutional notions cor
rect and his feeling of hatred only refers to ''sla
very in the abs rict," says the Vindica. 2! ''Sla
very in the abstractr' Where is it to be fount
in that shape2 We should like to know. Wher
ever it exists at al in this country we are incln
ed to think it is exhibited in the form of pref
ty substantial coacretion.
The Vindicator concludes with piece of adj
vice to us, for which we are duly grateful. we
ought to be So for it is not often we find man
more concerned about the good name of his neigh
boz than of himself. That paper lectures us tpoF
propiety, and we must again ask pardon for quo
ting poetry. The following lines Of CoLERlDcE
seem appropriate:
| The river Rhine, as is well known,
Washes the city Of Cologne;
But, tell me, all we powers divine
| What power can cleanse the river Rhine!
| But ''one good turn deserves another" and we
will now conclude with little advice to the wrl-
ter in the Viadicator. We say to him then, Sin
all courtesy" don't forget hereafter the fable of the
sAss and the Lions Skin" You attempted tc
disguise yourself under the editorial garb, but GER
tain ''ear-marks" have betrayed you.
The United States and Peru.
A difficulty is likely to arise between the United
States and Peru in reference to the taking of gu
ano by our citizens from the islands of Lobos on