Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-10-25
THE UNION PRESCRIBED.
JAMES BUCHANAN AND JOHN
BRECKENRIDGE PLACED BE-
YOND THE POSSIBILITY OF
DEFEAT!i

BRECKENRIDGE PLACED Be
YOND THE POSSIBILITY OF
DEBATE
Such is the joyful news we are permitted
to lay before our patrons this week, and it
is with hearts overlooking with gratitude to
Almighty God, that we announce it to a
country 50 signally blessed and saved in the
hour of peril.
The triumph of the Democracy in Penn
sylvania and Indiana, by decisive majorites
is now admitted by its enemies. The tri-
llmph in November, at the Presidential cleo
ton, all admit will be yet more signal
Glorious Pennsylvania-Glorious Indiana
We embrace you as dear sisters Man
kind owe you an eternal debt of gratitude
for yot have preserved from the hand Of
the destroyer their last refuge to the OPP
pressed OF the whole earth
Liberty is your debtor Her last hope
was sinking under the united blows of Trea-
son and Fanaticism. You have triumphed
over all-beaten down her enemies, and
Hope again blazes On her affairs with a
brighter and enduring flame. These two
States give forty votes to the Electoral tick
ct Of the Democracy. Besides these, Con
necticut and Delaware have already cast
their votes on the side of the Constitution
Michigan had strongly Indicated the same
purpose. Illinois is no longer doubtful -
and other non-slavehold;ng States, without
New York or Ohio, will swell the Northern
Democratic Electoral Vote to at least sew
enty-fye or eighty leaving no earthly
doubt of the triumph of the Democratic can
didates in the Electoral Colleges
Under these circumstances, what course
will the Southern opposition take? 1t is a
question of grave Importance to them and
to their country. We speak not to the lead
ers-the trading politicians. We have no
appeal to make to them. But to the yeo-
manry--the rank and file of the old line
Wing and Of the Know-nothing party
They have been deceived and deluded long
enough. They were kept away from the
support of the only National Candidates
the only candidates nominated by all the
States of the Unicn, On q platform fully and
plainly recognising the whole Constitution
and its compromiscs-by being told that
Mr.. Fillmore was National man, and
would protect tie rights Of the South. They
behold him now, in open and shameless al
lance, in the large States of Pennsylvania
and Indiana, with Fremont, whose cleo
ton he himself has declared, during this
canvass, ought to dissolve the Union. Who
it is notorious was nominated exclusively
by the Northern States, for the avowed pur-
pose of waging bitter war on the equal rights
OF the South
They were kept away by being told that
Buchanan could not get single Northern
State, and that the only chance of prevent
ing the election of Fremont was to vote for
Fillmore. They now behold Buchanan
powerful in the North. They see the noble
legions of Democracy there, with almost SUI
perhuman exertlcns carrying out their faith
ful pledges to the constitution and battling
bravely against the combined forces of the
opposition. Yet so successfully that sure
triumph has settled on their standard. So
far from its being impossible to elect Buch-
anan, it is impossible to hinder his election
So far from Mr.. Fillmore being the only
candidate who can defeat Fremont, he stands
no earthly chance of being elected, and to
make his feeble power Of any avail he is re-
duced to the degrading necessity of fusing
with the man whom he had bitterly de-
nounced We believe tire masses of the
opposition in Virginia to be patriotic. How
could tEey be notwithstanding no selfish
interest to serve, ard the nollest institution
that ever blessed mankind to sustain. What
Chen will they do now that their eyes are
open to the truth? The Democracy of the
South can without their aid ace 5neplish all
chat their generous Northern brethren have
left for them to do, They can and will elect
Buchanan and Breckenridge by triumph
ant majority. But the question is, will
their Southern opponents leave to them the
whole glory of this patriotic achievement.
VIII they take from the Southern vote, the
moral force that unanimity would give it,
and throw their power and influence into the
scale of the enemies of the Constitution
thus giving encouragement to renewal of
agitation2 Binder circumstances like ours,
majorities will not give repose to the coun-
try. The South should present herself as
unit against Northern aggression. If she
does-the hearts of our friends in the North
will be cheered and strengthened in our
cause. If not-the mad cry of fanaticism
will be "Once more to the breach dear
friends, once MORE" and the scenes that we
have gone through will be re-enacted with
only better success at the next Presidential
Election.
For once, then, let every son of Virginia,
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