Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-11-12
Old Au1uSta.

We give in another column the vote OF Angus
ia, the Gibraltar of Federalism, Whlgsery, ana
KNOWN othingiSm, at the late presidential cleo
ton. 1t must be admitted that in comparison
with other portions of this Loco-foco-rldden
Commonwealth, we have done most respecta
Die things. Considering the state of tine wealth
er, what County has done better or half as wen
All around us those counties that heretofore
have been staunchly Wing and American, have
cayed right in-knoeked under to the Democ-
racy with scarcely show of resistance. ROCK
bridge has fallen and Albemarle is beneath the
clouds, but Augusta, glorious old Augusta Is
still erect, with lean majority OF more than
four hundred native American treemen who
have refused to bow the knee at the shrine OF
Democracy. All honor to that noble band, who
have proved faithful to their principles IN these
degenerate DAYS when men cast aside lifelong
convictions upon the merest pretenses, ana spout
Locofocoism the day after their conversion WIN
all the fippancy ola "born Dimmecrat' All
honor to the men who stood firm in the midst
of desertion, and with scarcely hope of success
in the great battle, travelled through the storm
on the day of election and cast their votes like
men for Willard Fillmore. We had rather have
the conscious rectitude that they feel in their
bosom, in the midst of defeat than all the graf
ification nero nominal participation in Dem
ocratic triumph could possibly afford.
The American majority in this county, though
ve:y much reduced, is quite sufficient for all
practical purposes. Owing to the unfavorabie
weather, and the conviction resting upon the
minds of all that the contest in Virginia was
utterly hopeless, hundreds of American voters
remained at home on the day of election. A
gentleman from Deerfeld informs us that twen-
ty-five American voters were absent from the
polls at that precinct alone, and we have similar
reports from the other precincts in the county.
Tue strength of our party in this county is suffi
cient to maintain the ascendency of our ''little
government" and establish the fact that Amer
leans intend to rule Augusta, if they cannot rule
America or the Five Points in New York
Owing to the amount of public patronage dis.
pensed in this county, the number of foreigner:
who have been engaged upon the public works
and other causes of private and personal char
acter, the vote of Augusta is fuctuating, but
there is no doubt of the fact that the Americ an
sentiment of the county is overwhelmingly pre-
dominant
| We take this occasion to urge our friends te
stick together, maintain their organizations anc
work on, work ever, cgainst the ruinous princ
pies of the Democratic arty. Though defeated
in another battle the time mustcome when ever
Democrats will admit and adopt the great prin
ciples of Americansm as the only hope of Ma
tional Republicanism. Native Americans mus
have the control of their own government or the
foreigners will, and the power once fully in th'
hands of that class OF men, Democracy will de-
generate into mobocracy, liberty into licentious
ness, and the fairest fabric of free-governmen
that the world has ever seen will tumble to the
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