Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-21
THE OPPOSITION JOLLY UNDER
CREDTTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES.

CREDITABLE CIRCUMSTANCES.
1t is excessively refreshing in these de-
generate times to contemplate the more than
christian resignation, nay, the noble deter
mination with which the opposition bear up
under the most trying and distressing cir
cumstances. 1t is truly astonishing and at
the same time cffecting to ones feelings to
behold the laudable perseverance which they
display by invariably rising from the mud,
after having been knocked on the head by
Democracy, and crying "the sky is bright
and INTERCHANGEABLE sprightly ingenuity
with which they prove by the most intri-
cate logic, to their own perfect satisfaction,
and the infinite amazement of all others,
that if such and such combination had not
occurred-that if such aud such plank had
been left out of their platform that if this
candidate had been out of the field and that
candidate in, &c, &c, they would most
surely have achieved the most signal tri-
umph, and been cove.ed with everlasting
glory, while the democracy would have met
with the most decisive defeat, and been
clothed in thick coat of infamy.
The present is the most signal instance
of the justice with which the opposition
may lay claim to, being 'jolly under credi-
table circumstances" when every day
brings news Of some new Democratic tri-
umph- every mail tells Of some re-
cent desertion from the opposition ranks
when in word it is no longer questionable
that the Democratic party, is the only ma
tional party in existance. Under these cir
cumstances, so appalling to common minds,
does the opposition dispair; do they dis
pond do they bow their heads to the De-
mocracy, and humbly asking to be pardon
ed for past offences, beg to be admitted into
its fold? What was our surprise, on open
ing our opposition exchanges, expecting
to see them acknowledge the corn, and give
up the know Nothing ghost, to find them one
and all, in the highest spirits imaginable
perfect pictures of jollity, and proving by
the most logical train Of argument, that the
late brilliant triumphs Of the Democracy,
portended their inevitable and irrctrieveable
defeat in 1860 From this, and innumera-
Bile other spectacles of the same kind, we
conclude that the gentlemen of the opposi-
ton press. are the most remarkable men for
keeping up their spirits under trying cir
cumstances in the world and we would
suggest that the immortal Mr.. Mark Tap
ply-who didn't take any credit to himself
for being jolly, in the Storage of a vessel,
amid dirt and squalling babies, and who
didn't think it all creditable to be jolly af-
ter having been swindled out of all his mon
ey, by New York land agent, and sent to
claim some where out west, knee deep in
mud, where he buried neghbor every
day, and came near dying with the yellow
fever two or three times, and who went
back to England, complaining that fate was
against him, and that he never could, even
in America, find circumstances SO trying, as
to make it creditable to be jolly under them.
We say that this gentleman made grand
mistake if he had commenced to edit an
opposition paper and had not found himself
in a situation, in which, to be jolly, was
immor tai renown, then We labor under the
mightiest mistake, in which it ever fell to
! human lot to be involved.