Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-09-06
THE YINDlCAT'OR.

OF KENTUCKY.
Tae KnoW Nothing HalIy & Dotts' speech.
TIE Gully event that rescued the Know
Nothing Rally from the clutches Of failure,
was the effort On Friday, of John Minor
Bots; all the rest was as flat and pointless
as their worst foe could desire But Bolts
came to the rescue, and made a speech which
was distinguished by his usual ability; and
which--as we are not III the habit of hear
ing free-soil harangues ON the hastings Of
Virginia-was invested, to our minds, with
all the charms Of novelty. 1t was some re-
lief, undoubtedly, after the painful drows-
ness Of preceding efforts. to find ourselves
aroveed, even at the expense of a laceratiou
of our Southern sensibilities; as an indivd-
mi viii often times submit gladly to a puuc-
ture or a pinch, as preferable to monac-
ed soryitude to "slumber's chains" We
do not mean to assert that ilr Bolts declar-
ed himself in express terms a free-soiler, his
effort would have heen less dangerous if he
had done so, for in that event many, who
drank the poisonous potion which he ad-
miniatcred, and pronounced it good, would
have turned avs from It with loathing. =
Bolts positions as 20 understood them,
were, brief aad substantially these: that
the Nilsson aEra@jsa vas Ctasta mi0R-
al, that it ~ abara ueasare. that its
repeal was fr7a g. flehted faith, that the
Democracy are werable for that ro;jeal
and criminaily responsible for the agitation
now existing, that the Southern Democracy
are particularly iniquitous, and tic f'Cal-
houn wing" disunionists, and altogether
damnable. lie finally assured his audience
that they need not fear that the slaves would
be taken from their masters in the States
where slavery now exists, and on the other
hand that they need not crpect that the North
Jc0ald submit 20 It's ertelsion TO aaother foot
Of Territory; and as a sort of just conelu-
sion from these fixed facts-he wound up with
lofty flourish in favor Of the preservation of
/ the Union, in the course Of which be present.
ell himself 10 tie imaqil ations of his hearers
ondued ''ii all the gorgeous paraphernalia
of military oxaeeration'' (to borrow bur-
lesque Of Leslie Goombs) lcading thovan of a
movement which was to annihilate the disu-
nionists" That Mr.. Bolts views are not
easily to be endorsed we think inferrible
from the notice of our neiobbor Of tho
.Spectotor" That Baner saws He CBotts4
discussed If lenoth the leoislat,on inon tbe
slavery question and eave EXPRESSION To has
ouu opinions with his usual ipdenendenco ,,
This i oe ,5,ieb narbans rs could have boen
cypected from a paDer with which Mr. Bolts
is eo-onorotino 10 elect Mr. Fillmore but ss
soutlarnoyy ana not g ,,art;sane ,ro would
boro boen ,,joosod 70 soc # with &c n,.,
in1oro,5onca as NJ. Rotfs rsro1l,- ov oro;;s,y
rorrobatiro. fboeo Of his nositions At loost
,,b;ob ,ro;g dia,nci4;eally At variance viii
tbe ,ositione Of tbe c9eetator itself IN ;ts
sunnort of the Nehraqlso Kansas hill We
snbm;t 70 onr no;cl,bor botwoon whom and
ourselves vc hone there IS no difference nm
on tb;s m,ostion-tbat If ;s t;po that al
who t}inI alike were banded together nnon
tho GREAT iss,e Of the relations Of tho Fodaral
Government to the institution Of slavery
Every hereto upon this vital oncstiop
sbould bo visited with lash Of scornione
f,r II matters not whether 10 ha boncst Or
tbe reverse his errors arr oo,ollv f,aurbt
,v;,b r.in - ne
W. rrono,noo tho ar;s,9,,r; Co,.,,,no,,,;so
&c tbo Domooroeg and men of tbo South nso.
nonco it--uucoo .t;,,gjooo7 nor did NJ Rotf.
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W. do,,, tha+ !. :, o,t;tl.l 20 10 ,,;.,..o5 :,
the liobt Of = eoaeset tbero heirc no nrona,
,,ort;os 10 Il sud i he;oe ao,.o;d IF al oa,.
sido,at;on W. afir,n tbat Is tloro rros any
o,ne;1oro4;on far t,ia ovolrs;on If slavory
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oa,,;ss;on 81 +bo e+oto &c Af;.so,,,;. ond ,ot
At +l,o wary novt soes;on of.ar tbo ooss,a 90 .,
tho so-cslloa N;ssor; con,,ron,;so tho nortI,