Staunton vindicator. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1858, 1858-01-09
In Advance.
NUMBER e..
The TIRE Course.


The TIRE Course.
We commend the following sound ana
sensible views expressed by John Van
Buren, at the recent Democratic celebration
in Talnmaoy Hall Why should there not
be harmony in the ranks of the psrty, in
support of the Administration, of James
Buchanan?
What is the aim of this excitement In
the first place, it is to break up the Demo-
cratic party. In the next place, it is to-
make war upon the South. People ask me
why are the South so strenuous in regard
to this question, if slavery has nothing to
do with it. | will tell you why they are Sc
strenuous: They have uniformly contend
ed that the Convention of Kansas had power
to make G institution for themselves with
out submitting it to the people; but they
have uniformly admitted that they had also
the power to submit it if they chose. The
Convention have now submitted the vital
Question. Mr.. Buchanan says. they were
bound to Go it; the South says they were
not bound to do it, but they had right to-
do it. And they say, ''Now we will meet
I! YOU ON practical, common ground which
I'VE have maintained before our people,
which we are committed to, and on which
we fought the Know Nothings, and proa-
trated them at the South" Fellow citizens.
let me remind you of our controversy that
has recently occurred. To,f remember the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS men that pretended
to prescribe those who entertained peculiar
views Of religion, or who happen to be born
in a different country from this.-You re-
member that they Frustrated the Democratic
party of New York, of Ohio, of New Hamp-
they meet with a reverse which was to them
IL disastrous overthrow? In Vir ginia, un-
der the lead Ct the gallant Wise They
were first overthrown in the South. (Three
cheers were here given for Virginia and
Governor Wise) We should have been
Frustrated by these bastard American as
,sociations if it had not been for the
South in that great contest And are We
to turn round now and make war upon them?
So in reference to this question Of the cur
, rency that is referred tom your resolutions
!, where are the sound, hard money men Of
: the United States that stood by Jackson,
that stood by Polk and by Pierce, in the
great contest; { 4 voice, "And by your
!. : father p laughter and loud applause. -
And | will ask you another question NO
), less important. Iallude to honest legis-
! ilation-to the fbanishment of corrup-
tioa-so thu stopping. Of stealing. Is.
3 not Col. Orr, the present Speaker Of
: the House OF Representatives, one who
signalised himself by the manner in which.
:, Through committee, he purged that House
: and restored it to its honorable and digniE-
y ed position. before the country? Now, in
- these great important Questions, to say
4. nothingsof the stability of the Union and
81 general prosperity of the country, you have
= the cordial cooperation of the South, and
; having that zoe should preserve it. When
4 man eadeavors to inhame you against the
North, see if he has not some special griev-
- ances, if he don't fancy that he has not got
- his deserts, if he has not been in some dis
? honest Legislature. if he has not had some
\ perscaal disappointment, or if he is not in
~ secress 81 enemy of the Democratic party
- and try him as such. Fellow-citizens, in
~ the course of two or three years we shall be
y again involved in Presidential canvass,
and 1t will then become necessary to select
another Presiden tial candidate That can
didate will come either from the South or
ss from the West. Ehe West has never had q
n candidate the South has not had one fol
~ twelve years, and [ look upon any man OF
any body of men with suspicion who are
r endeaTorlng to excite spirit in the free
VS. States which would dri~e from the sphere
p of candidates the great patriotic men of the
$, South who row belong to the Democratic
r. party. We have enough to do, fellow citi
n zens, to attend to New York We have
g. carried as your resolutions correctly say
le this State by a brilliant majority at the las
y. eiection--carried it alone carried it with
al out foreign assistance. We have converted
he a majority of 50, aeairst US last year
q. into majority Of rS,C0O against the Re.
r. puhfisars this year. We have done it by
~ cordia! 'action--by standing together as one
nc mainland are now in position where we
ne can 60. to Albany and say the city of New
OF York nas i. Democratic majority of 25.
II 900; it has been trampled upon by unjus
= Legislation repeal your Metropolitan Polio,
OF law repeal your tax upon the trade an,
of commerce of the city of New York, and put
he back our city to the position in which thu
ny Democratic party put Kansas, where she
OF can govern herself in her own way" Gap
plause.) Fellow-citizens, have detained
you longer than had any idea of. (Criel
CT of $50 on Ego on.") Stand by the ole
iy Democratic party 1t has carried itself fol
n half century in triumph through all thu
wv dan gers that Ills country has seen. -
ed CA voice God love it''-laughter. y
IL 1t has established an independent treasury
n It has brought the great empires of Texa
ne and Louisiana, and Florida and California
TIC into this copfederacy. It has given peac
ell and tranquility to the Cnioni. 1t is destin
AZ \ ed in the future to DO far more than it ha
mt ever yet accomplished; and your resolution
very properly, in my Judgment, alludo t
what the Democratic party can accomplish
q It cen~aot only hold the Union that we hav
ses and govern it with economy and order, blu
We it can gain and annex large, populous AM
las wealthy regions to our confederacy, it Cal
it throw open that great gateway, the Gulf 0
cd Mexico, aud the mississippi River, whicl
he now has Ccha standing in its way. 1t can
to if it chooses, accomplish that grea. -csuls
70, peaeeably, constitu;ionally, honorably with
cd out violation Of existing treaties, ara with
d. OFT disturbance of the peace of the confede