Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1855-03-31
sour Bread and Butter Hero.

served) distinction we gave him, in eeyt,tng
him 10 The dignity of a hero Of the political
slack rope. He axes various insinuations in
his Issue OF the 9th, entirely foreign TO facts,
III he vain hope OF directing attention from the
points Of or articles, and no doubt with de-
sire TO break their force. But the maLGnvrc
! has proved an amusing failure The Nv ISL
ing and squirting Of onr neighbor has only he
more completely fastened u e heavy load upon
bis shoulders, under which we placed him in
oLr last issue. How sadly mistaken was our
nelghbpr when he supposed the 'lre oil the edi-
Tors oil the Vndicaor hal been s:roused.i by the
paragraph in his paper Of the goth under the uu-
fortunate caption of 'Bread andiBu,ter." aIn.
stead Of anger, ninth reigned supreme We
knew il was an original idea wiki our neigh.
Dor, and that from the abundance Of his heart
bis mouth had spoken He knew the modus
ope1 andi by which his Bread an Butter aud
his 'sBlcon" TOO, for au2ht we know, had been
secured, and he could well fancy 10 himself tina,
human nature was The same the world over,
Democlals not excepted. No,nelghbor, we were
not angry; but far from it. We were in the
most delightful hcmor, and could have .'sa; aud
sung ourself away" in contemplating the in
teresting predicamen, in whi<h you had placed
yourself
Yon vas slightly mistaken, also, neighbor,
When you assumed that The respective editors,
1at not time 10 compare manuscripts II tie
admission OF the premise Of our friend Won't -
any deglee reconcile The arins ..e,rl,cje.
OF his politics. ilf- 'or The ;ast six months, or
III - ieast Feiis,c him from the awkward pre-.
! dlea.aent in which he finds himself we would
ht Slate someine lelore we could leluse him
that slish erumb Of comfort But, unfortunate.
iy ier him, the facts have been bfough, TO light
they are IN print, and there is no getting them
back az ain. Tine H. linlalion Of our neighboI
then, only refers TO the writer or writer's oil those
articles. Ia justice to truth, how painful
The acknoM leo9meni, we ale compelled 10 III
iorm our neI.hbor that the ''Juniol' Wrole
bo'h o them, and Is alone responsible lor Their
faults and merits. Our object was two.fold,
which The intelligent reader readily discerned.
II lhe sstulogyo Of MIR. koner .in The col
umns oil his own paper" was an act OF impIo-
priety, the writer Ot The article is alUne guilty
MIR. X. knew nothing about the aluslon TO him
until several days after the publication. Ii is
an Improperly, 100, that we will doubtless
asain commit, IL occasion requires, as we have
not yet subscribed to any sense Of false modesly
thai will suppress the truth.
Bui see low our neiehbor juslifies his un
grateful conduct towards ewing principles"
and ewing MEASURES |, seems that at the
very time he issued his prospectus Tor "Whig
paper his heart WAS running on, after the
Know Nothing, or the American party, aud
That he anticipated that the "American ques-
| lono would be paramount, 10 all others i'll the
coming election in Virginia.
I'VE then believed thai The Wing party woull
nominate a State Ticket, and We lalenle, If
that tcket should be rrhat re considered sound on
The american question, 10 support it,
IleIe our mel. hbor declares that the Wing
Pariy as formerly organized was considered by
him, ut the time he issued his prospectus for a
Uhig paper, secondary matter, and intlnates
thai his prime object, in establishing a Wing
paper III Slaun,on, was 10 support the ".4merican
question: How does this tally with the fol-
lowing DEF lara,ions contained IL his prospec-
lus: '.In politics, the Unicn Republican will
be WIG in the most comprehensive meaning
Of that word" ''ln the advocacy and
defence OF Wing men and Wing measures, The
Union Republican, " i'll be decided, energetic and
fearless
We leave the two positions 10 be reconciled
by those better acquainted with metaphysics
than ourselves. We are incompetent 10 he
task. WeaIe sorry for our neighbour No man
has abured more alduously to exirica.e hiu sell
from an ugly place. Yet il seems every tff1rl
only more closely riveis his iasienluss. We
will not laugh at his calamity. Whilst his diff
III ntles have been brought upon him by hi.
own imrrudent pursuit after BREAD and But
lei, u sllll our compassion is excited in his behalf.
Our christian impulses and fraleInai affection
arouse the "armesl sympalhies u our heart, and
we would shed rivers Of tears over hun, could
ne only be brou eht back To the virtue Of "Con.
sisltney." How are you to day, MIR. Maupln
Our neighbor'. jarson abou, the Why party
being dead, and The Know Nothings and Wing.
being Identical" Jilemmasn and .horns" vic-
Is fl stuff for one Who has placed himself in
Tie position he now occupies. II he is too
"supid" 10 understand his own questions, we
will reer him Tor a solution 10 the dulles
school boy in Slaunlon.
The w,i.e, IN the Republican devoits few
sliained and almos, n inleIIs,ble sentences in
The conclusion oi his lame and Aounderinp de-
fence, To the Junior editor OF the Vlndivator ia
person. He rery gracefully says '.Now don't
you think ii requires rather hard lace lof gen.
lieman OF your political an'ecedepls /, be cast
lns NOTES oul Of other peoples eyes % He then
very chaIltal'ly saves our ceilings by no, allu-
ding to The TACT that We acted with the Wing
party 10y force OF educaliou) before we arrived
al The age OF mamie oil. VIA, do yoa lh,nk he
does, leader' Why. he points lriumphanly
10 what he considers beam in our eye. The
objectionable 'anecedenl' OF which we have
been guilty. was the course we chose to pursue
in regard TO the Democratic Convention, pre-.
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