Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-10-25
From the MontgorleI tVa) Herald.
John Minor IGlts,

We see with modification. ast onshmen
and profound regret, the name Of this msh
upon the american Electoral ticket. We
should be glad to know who it il that has
pcfpetrated this outage upon the American
party Of Virginia. Here is Il man wt3
stands up in the caPital Of tie State, anil
gives utteranee to the most atrocions yent-.
ments-aecuses the South of bad faith--ot
attempting to rob the North Of its Just due,
and of dshcnorably sacrificing its own hon
or and integrity in tho repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, and these false and unfatrotie
sentiments lie prints ard publishes and cir
eulates throughout the oontederacy This
man is placed upon the Electoral ticket
to be voted for and sustained by true and
loyal sons of the South Mr.. Bolts has the
audacity to declare that the American party
of Virginia has abandoned its former posi-
tion-now occupies his ground and endorses
his views, and be would have his Northern
allies believe that he is the leader and the
organ of that party We deny that Mr.
Bolts is tie organ Of the party in Virginia.
We deny that he Expresses its fFicws and son-
timents upon the question Of the Missouri
Compromise, We rertdiate Mr.. Bots
We repaiiate- lis peech-;his doctrines end
his arguments. No party oblgatiors-no
consideration ofparty success shall constrain
us to give even q sullcll acquiescnca 10 the
doctrines Of the sfricai, Church speech, or
to Mr.. Bolts appointment az an Elector 49,
This is no time for tjniidity. The South il
in extfeiile peril Her institutions are in
danger; and, however We of tho South may
differ as to men, We must stand united up
ON the great Question With which our desti-
ny q mterwoyeh irdissolubly. We can
couhtenaf'cc ne nan who has upon him the
suspicion o'f intide';t" much less ono who
takes s,de aeainaj lis 5wn country. We
shall speak the truth let consequences be
what they may. The name of John NJ.
Bolts upon the ticket will result in the loss
of 10, 900 votes to Mr Fillmore We call
upon those who have authority to remove
him if he will not--let the ticket be purgod
we say. Let itbe pitrged We call up
on the e,dit8rs Of the Wing, the Intclligcn-
Ger and Che F,ifshlah. to speak out upon this
slfbieef .%5ad Fef me country know, North
and South that TIE American party of Vir-
gnia utterly conJemns the course of John
NJ. Bolts.
rs further evidence to show the estina-
ton in which this man Bolts is held at
the North, we make the following extract
from the New York journal of Commerce.
ut is difficult to measure the intensity
# political hatred 1t is perhaps more OBJ
situate than personal antipathy because the
e1igencies of political warfare do not pre-
sent those appeals to the humanities of our
nature which occur in the collisions of social
life
Magnanmity is quality no more valued
amongst partisans then amongst barbarians
Any accidental exhibition of generosity or
justice is treated with rfdicule, or attributed
to design.
With. knowledge of these principles of
political nature, we have read without sur
prise the vindictiye speeches of John Nj.
Bolts, of Virginia. Yet vie cannot conceive
how that gentleman can justify his violent
assault upon the position and policy of his own
State and still less, how he should pro-
rounce series OF discourses, which have
been seized on by the Black Republicans as
evidence and admission, on the part of the
South, that Its policy has been unjust and
oppressive. We say we cannot see how this
orator can have volunteered his testimony,
for Whatsoever it may DO worth, against his
own people. AT a crisis, too, when the
weight of that testimony is magniiied by the
quarter from which it comes. For, it may
crafty the vanity of Mr.. Bolts that the
Black Republicans compliment him upon
every stump, and quote his speeches to prove
that if the South shall attempt to 90 out of
the Union, he will 'head" them, and twrn
them back or to show that Mr.. Fremont is
a safe and conservative candidate and that
his election will afford no just cause of dis
content to any quarter of the country Our
establishment at these volunteer declarations
is increased when we find Mr.. Bolts ac-
knowledging that the candidate for whom
he has declared his intention to vote, stands
no chance of an election, and is, in fact, un-
worthy Of public support, because, as Mr..
Bolts alleges, ''he discarded all his former
priaeipieS when he became President"