Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1855-04-11
Eureka.

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American ticket, we told our readers that who
ever might be nominated, the Democratic news
papers would denounce them as unsopud on the
slavery question: We made this prediction with
so much confidence that we pledged ourselves,
we believe, to vote for Henry A. Wise, in case
we prophesied falsely. We have newer enter
tanned any misgiyings, but if we had, might now
breathe freely, for the Enquirer has discovered
and published to the people of Virginia that both
MIR. Flourney and Mr.. Beale are 'srotten on the
Slavery question:" Five la Humbus! Truly
the inventive genius of Democratic politicians
might work miracles Of surprising advantage TO
mankind, if judicously and honestly employed.
Fulton Franklin! Morse hide your diminished
heads, and let the laures that have enslrcled
your brows, be placed upon the heads of the edl-
tors, who are now fairly entitled to patent tor
that most wonderful machine for converting
slave-owning Virginia gentlemen into rotten 40
olitionists-the Richmond Enquirer.
Was there ever such a bald attempt TO stuihfy
the intelligent people of Virginia? Are not the
men who are engaged in the miserable wcrk a.
shamed to see their faces in looking lass 3
Can they expect people to give them credit for
common honesty, when they denounce Jas. Nd.
II. Beale as rotten because of the vote he cast,
and laud Stephen A. Douglas, who gave the
same vote, as sound and true to the South! II
Beale is rotten, Douglas is rotten, and yet the
very men who denounce the former have actual
w had the latter on the stump in Richmond, adj
vocating the election of Henry A. Wise. The
charge of Abolitonism against Mr.. Flournoy ls
still more absurd and ridiculous. 1t is mere
charge, unsupported by single scntllla OF evil
dence. Halifax, the county in which MIR. Flour
nov resides, contains more slaves than any other
county in the State, aud in that county there is
no truer, sounder, safer Southern man than he
We have not alluded to this silly, sckening, dis
gushing effort to injure the candidates of the A
merlcan party, for the purpose of retuting the a
bominable charge, but merely to laugh at Ito
amuse ourselves and our readers with ito en-
pose it as the desperate resort of demagogues to
save their almost defunct party from the over
whelming defeat that stares them in the face
The people of Virginia will laugh at it In their
sleeves. and at their firesides, and on the day OF
election will pronounce it SANDER at the polls.
They have had their eyes opened to the fact,
that the cry of Abolitionism has been universally
raised by the Democratic party against every
man of an opposite party who has been before the
public for office. As a contemporary well re-
marks, 'it is their ace Of trumps, and no matter
how the cards have been dealt it is sure to be
some how or other in their hands," If old Mr..
Hairston, the owner of innumerable negroes, had
been nominated by the Winchester Convention,
some skillful practitioner would have converted
him into an Abolitionist of the Hale and Gid
dngs' school before the day of election.
There is one view of this matter which is
worthy of the serious attention of the people of
the South. Let every honest Southern Demo
crat ask himself what effect these constant eff.
forts of this party to aix the sin of unsoundness
on the question Of slavery upon distinguished
Southern men, will have upon the Aboltionists
OF the North? VIII they not be encouraged in
their fanatical assaults upon the South, when
they are thus told that the leaders of great par
ty in the largest Slave-holding State in the I'm
ion are ''rotten to the CORE" and prepared to Co
operate with them in their abomnable designs
Such is undoubtedly the effect, and it is high
time that all Southern men should frown indig-
nantly upon these endeavors to insure the triumph
OF party at the peril of our dearest rights and
highest interests.
This whole slavery agitation is kept up by
partizan politicians, both at the North and the
South for merely partizan purposes. The sub
iect constitutes the entire stock in trade with a
certain class amongst US, just as it does with an
other class at the North. To hear them talk you
would think the Abolitionists were the only phi.
lanthropiss in the country, and their Southern
aiders and abetters the only slave owners.
"The Boone Children"