Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-09-06
Address of the State Democratic Central
Committee.

self to the great test question of the day
and presents the claims of the Democratic
party upon the South in manner that can
not but arrest attention.
There is no Sinking or lodging of tn,
real issues of the canvass in this address. =
There is no space or language wasted in pre-
senting the personal claims of Mr. Buchan
an, or exposing the recorded and undcnia
bic Abolitionism of Mr.. Fillmore. 1t treats
these as minor subjects when the grea
question of the equality of the South in the
Union under the Constitution, looms up,
Triton among minnows, as the leading ques
ton OF the canvass.
Opposed to the Kansas Nebraska measure
and yet refusing to avow it by frankly join
ing issue with its advocates; actuated dy
no other motive but of partisan hostility to
the Democracy, and having no measure Of
their own to propose Or advocatee-.the OPP
position in Virginia are driven to the
wretched expedient of confirming their labor
and effort in the canvass to the raiiing up
from oblivion of every imaginable forgotten
charge against the Democratic candidate
and stale speciality against the Democratic
party. The address scorns replying to
these miserable specialities with tho
great test issue of the canvass in the eeva-
ted temper of men who feel the vital impor-
lance Of their cause, and presents claim in
behalf OF the Democratic party to the sup
port OF Southern men of all parties, which
we are sure will command response in Vir-
ginia little dreamed of by the opposition.
n a ,od ~, Il I
riority to all clap trap appeal, in is calm,
lucid, nervous and truthful presentation Of
the great question at issue between the
Constitution and its assailants-between the
National Democracy defending the same
constitutional creed. in every State of the
Union and the hete ageneous factions which
assail 1t at the North and at the Soulful
surpasses any paper of the sort which We
have read for long period. We do not re-
commend it to giddy partisans of either par
ty IN the State, for these can poorly appre-
clate such paper; but We recommend it to
the candid perusal of that large class of Nir-
glnia people whose fair and honest minds
are always more easily wrought upon by
words of truth and soberness" than by the
extrayagant clap-trap and slang-whang of
the infatuated politician-Richmond E.raa,-
iner.
Address OF she State Democratic Central
Commute, TO the People of Virginia.
FELLow-ClTIzENs The State Demo-
cratic Central Committee invite your atten-
ton to the important consequences involved
IN the pending Presidential canvass, and So
hcIt your energetic cooperation in behalf of
those great principles with the maintenance
OF which are indissolubly connected the best
interests of the Republic and the continued
ascendency of the Democratic party. In
the course gifts long and brilliant career,
that party has often disabled or destroyed
organization. which threatened mischief to
our country. ltnow gathers its strength
ana marshalls its powers for struggle
with formidable party, which, aiming at
the vital principles Of the Constitution, me-
naces with destruction the Union Itself
In this contest our party is entitled not only
to the sympathy but to the active support Of
every unprejudiced friend of the Union and
Constitution. 80
The Cincinnati Convention have presented
a ticket embracing the highest order of pub
lie reputation and personal worth. If our
Presidential elections involved nothing more
than comparison Of individual pretensions
and decision upon the conflicting aspra-
tons of candidates, the party which presen-
ted suehmen as James Buchanan and John
G. Breckenridge, might proudly challenge
contrast with any ticket that could be Sc
lected from the circle of American statesmen
But our. Presidential contests are not mere
personal competitions. There are always
struggles between original parties. each
aiming to WELD the powers of the Federal
government and to establish its own ascen-
dency in the Union. No event can more
vitality affect the fortunes of parties in this
country than the result Of such an election
The very existence ofthcse organizations is
sometimes thus determined and parties have
beeen destroyed by "a Residential defeat
The success of the candidate cannot be sep
arated, in, Its practical effect, from the as
cendaney Of the party which presents him,
A rigid examination of the principles and
purposes of the party organizations, which
enter as competitors on these important oc-
casions is therefore of the first Importance
to a safe and enlightened exercise of the
public Judgment. In appealing to you for
your support in the canvass, we recognize
your right TO be satisfied not only that our
candidates merit your confidence, but that
you act safely and wisely in promoting the
triumph Of the Democratic party.
Ours is the only party organization now
before the country which has history of
the past to which It can refer,..ss a rledgc
for the future. Its measures upon the most
important subjects of domestic policy are in
actua'idperat'on and have so forcibly attrac-
ted the public approval that no party ven.
lures to incur the odium of proposing any
material notifications of the principles up,
on which those measures are founded Sc
tiercely opposed within q recent period they
have now demonstrated by experience theil
claim to public favor, and have extorted ac-
quieseence and approval from former oppo-
nents. The issues upon which parties late
~ divided, have thus been apparently, ifnot
really, Withdrawn from general attention,
and the superior wisdom of the Democratic
councils i'll reference to those subjects is nc
longer disputed.
The principal elements of opposition tc
the Democratic party are now combined I'M
der the banners of formidable organization
which is held together by sectional prciu,
dina and 10 inc;tol L,, I'll - ,o,ca,sN,s .se .,