Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-11-21


should have endcavored to do. 1t nigh:
not please all, individually or ssectisnaly
but it was for al and not for part And
the great mass of the party was well content
and gencnerally acquiesced in the organiza-
ton. but the President had hardly been
inauguratcd, had but. Just taken his seat,
had said nothing and done nothing, besides
his inaugural address and selection of his
cabinet, defining or indicating policy-had
mot been in his etsice sixty dars-not 4hirty-
when a s21o:eaptae Opposition raised quill
lat e'efy.pofm Of po1icy and at erery man
Of personnel in the administration, oac
the attempt ~ds made to damn the uhole
Democratic party ofMe North, and epcrs
Soafhey7a fa'a', ar1sd"tfusted them. wsh doubt
or 'dfsfrast o. outspolien deauaciotion. An
affiliated press was found organized from
Richmond to New Orleans, Which opened
its batteries 81 sweeping, ranoo1ous, and
vndictive opposition, denouncing certain
members of the cabinet, and especially GER
tain Southern members, misgiving as to the
foreign, and exciting suspicion as to the
home policy warning against imaginary
evfls--doubting the good faith of some friends
-disparaging others-not sparing the
President himsclf-and especially dcnonnc-
ing National Democracy. And all this
was begun and published too before Cor.
Walker ,cds erer sent to Kunsus. We werc
10 be betrayed before re ~crc betroyedi Tia
Northern Democracy arere not to be relied
on! The President himseJ uas Of that
Demoerucy!i
Now, gentlemen, prior to the campaign
of 1886, there were bnt two lines Of see
tional division in the United States the
Mason andsDixon. and the Missouri Com
promise lines. They we're geographical
partly in their character, and were well de-
| fined aaidaunderstood. Many evils growing
out Of them had bees, in the past, and could
be in the future, guarded against. But, in
1856, another and more opsineus Sine 1xa:
disclosed, oblterating all others. It was
mot defined upon the earth, DIT revealing
itself by what sailors call "SuniDos' in
the East, it awed superstition like an angry
comet portending evil, and shot dull black
and white gloom looming through the mists
Of the Arctic iccbergs striking from over
Old England, by the Newfoundland banks
cutting off all View England and Pew York
and passing midway through Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and. indefinitely
Westward All North of that line was
Black Rapaliicoa, and all South of It wa:
what s5'as' ediied Egypt.
What did this mean? u hat portend-?
Why, it was sign in the very heavens Of
the wisdom of Washngton's Farewell Adj
dress-to bemarc o, Foreign IpReence ana
Sectional Strife. The constant commercial
and social intercourse of.New England and
the immediate nei5hborhood of the bake
border with Canada, had let in the Wolf o.
English feeling and prejudice and social
! habltsa and fanatlcism and influence into our
fold against the institutions Of the whole
United States, as established by our Consfi-
tutions of. Government. 1t is the most in
sidious foe which has ever ia7f2dcd oar
country. 1t is English influence, operating
socially, undermining our institutions, and
threatening our peace and safety, bound up
fin ,the1cords of our National Union In this
sense it is THIS nation-this uhste nationao on.
nation against its old encmy-English in
fuence. And who met that influence and
backed it from off cur nations SOIL past the
Niason and Dixon and past the Missouri
line, as far North as the 'Ti5un Dog" Inc,
which divided Hocf Rcpul1icans .fis,,,,
Egypt2 It was Democracy orthern De-
mocracy-Natienel Democracy The same
true sort of,patriotic Amcricanism- of Broth
err JonathaAism-which fought at Erie and
Plattsburg and Lundy's Lane, and drove
John Bull back into Canada. That is the
sort of Nationality love and cherish, as
love and honor my eonntry-ny whole coua
try. With true 'deyotion, IN the midst OF
non slaveholding passions and preju,lices =
with no ties or associations of their own
with slavery, except National-with Fana-
ticism laundering Church anathcmas and
communication over their heads-thev
the Northern Democracy, whether in ma
jorites or prescribed minoriries, with strong
nerves, with steady and unwavering faith,
taxed themselves with heavy contributions,
and raised the National Flag of protection
over our Constitution of Government, over
our property of every sort, over good faith
among men, over State rights end State
equality, over popular sclt-government,
over the States separately aud united, owe,
the United States, and battled for us and
for all, and drove back the insitIo.s and
foreign foe to the Sun Dog line, where il
yet glooms in dofcat. A-Nothise is so fatal,
sure to kinslle the pale and sickly beam Of
that "blue light line of sectionalsm into
a lard fame eff FIRE to devou our country
as for Southern Democracy to doubt, dis
trest or deno.nce Northern Democracy, af
ter such noble sacrifices as those they made
in the campaign of 1856. The Southern
Democracy never has done this, and neve
will, until Nationality, IN The sense Of 4
merican patriotism and dcrotioa to tn
Union Of the Amertcan States, ceases TO burn
in American bosoms everywhere North ant
South.
Nationality in opposition to Demoerac.
or State rights, oppose. | oppose all tina
sort of Federal Nationality which woul,
consolidate us into one centralized despotiSm
loathe thatsort of Nationality which pro9o
ses and adopts Compromises efaay sort OF tn
Constitution or .fortde Constitution. But tn,
Nationality Of Democracy, which supports
and defends the Constitution and its STRIFE
construction, which maintsins State right
and State equality and keeps the faith o
compacts. which guards the Union and tn,
country, against foreign and domestic foes
honor and cherish and rlorv in nd thi