Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-05-24

teiested PATRIOTISM TO Mr.. stuart, because
then we would libel our own honest con-
,ictions. We honestly believe that Mr.,
Stuart designed, in the resolution under
discussion, to conciiate the Black Repub
licaus so far as to secure the nomination of
AIR. FILLMORE by the Convention Of ;hat
party wheel, assemblies on the 18th of
June proximo, and thus effect the same
coalition which two years since swept the
Northern States, and consummated the
foul stain upov our country's escutcheon,
hicl gave to the e. S. Congress Black
Republican Speaker, Could other mc-
tives have Influenced the movement? Mr..
Stuart knew tall well that the squatter
sovereignty dothiue was not embraced in
the Kansas Bill. because Mr.. Fillmore had
sanctioned the Utah Bill which vas couch
ed III the same veIbiage and he could not
have had the impudente in that manner
TO have denounced the administration OF
which he was a part We leave it to the
candid reader TO decide whether the mo-
lives Ct MIR. Stuar: in the introduction Of
this resolution were disln.erestcd and pa
'riotic, or not,
VIVA, must be The legitimate effect OF
the movement, The Black RepcblJcaus
have declared that the Repeal Of the Ne
braska Bill will be the result for which
they Will contend in the coming Presiden-
tul conflict. With them it IS Nebraska
or 10 Nebraska Bill. Ii is not because
the Bill contains "Squattef Sovereignty, .
! but because it contains STATE EQUAL
tiIY! Because it restores to he South
her lost rights, and places The people OF
the South upon equal footing with the
Moth, as we'll as to property as TO persons
1t gives us equal privileges N common
domain with the people cf the North, and
protects our negro as much as it protects
their wooden nutnlegs, as long as it re-
mains common propeIty--as lorg as we
are to-equal partners. and until the inhab-
| itants OF the Territory ale transformed
:. from the character Of residents of a common
territory to the people Of ii sovereign Stole
This is the secret Of the opposition at the
North to the Nebra.ka Bill. Its vensn e
and repeal is denounced there upon such
grounds and for such reasons, Its repeal
IS made test with the South it is made a
practical issue. We have been forced in
selfteitnce, TO accept it. There is no
neutral ground. The South must eth tr
stand fair and square upon this question,
or compromise and surrender. Then,
viii, the position OF the two sections thus
stated--.thc issue thus rendered and accept
ed--what mus, be the effect Of Mr.. Stuarts
movement? 1t is a virtual ceusure and
reputation of the Nebraska Bill by the
Virginia Know Nothings, and PROPOSE.
ton TO make that Bill a test with the De-
moeracy. II is true that MIR. Stuart and
Mr.. Seward employ different means to
express their disapprobaiion OF that Bill ;
but they aim at the same end-the repea!
of the enactment. The Inevitable effort
must be 10 give "aid and comfort 10 the
Black Republicans, and. as we honestly
believe was the design of Mr.. Stuart, tt
} form a coalition with that party for iht
purpose Of defeating the Democrat
ic candidate for the next Presidency
This is 10 far-fetched idea. Already have
the national Know Nohings and the
neutrality-suspicious. united in two instances
in the Congress Of the United States-ls
in the election Of Speaker to the House
and 2nd in the passage of the election
law for the city Of Washington. for thu
defeat Of the Democracy. In both 'u'
: stances they have trinmp+ed-;he Demo
cratic party refusing to yieIt one inch o
ground, and suffering DO COMPROMISE .
ITS principles. These facts have given en-
enlargement to the Benedict Arnclds o
the South. They want power and ols'
,incuon, aad like the base wretch Nbt
fired the Ephesian Dome that he nigh
be known to posterlty. they would not III
the runs OF the ahis Of the South, and
the constitution OF their country, could
they but accomplish their designs. They
either expect, by their trimming and
trucking al the South, to the Black Re.
publicans of the North, to secure the
nomination of Mr.. Fillmore by the Black
Republican Convention of the 18th Of
dune, or to throw the election Into the
House of Representatives, where the two
parties will unite, agree to divide the
spoils, AID tbas cement their rotten car
casses for the election of President Of the
United States!
Such is the legitimate tendency of The
Black Republican movement ia the late
Situation Know Nothing Convention. In
such light it must be viewed by all well
meaning neen. The prolific brain OF
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart Matched
the infamous banting, aud tie Elector for
this District, John Daniel lmboden, by his
taclt adhesi to the pi oposition, chnstesed