Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-10-07
1.-The Democratic ImbrogIio."

Under this caption the spectator OF the
4th inst. comments with great delight upon
the differences and difficulties Of the De-
mocracy upon the Issue Of equatter sover.
eighty ana congressional Intervention for
the protection Of slavery in the Territories !;
and assuming the nomination Of Douglas as
certain, complacently presents 70 the South
elr Democracy the alternative of "abject
submission to Stephen A. Douglas, and
what they consider his vile heresies," or
desertion Of the Democratic party and its
regular nominee. Now, we differ IN toto
with the Spectator in its supposition that
Douglas ''has no inconsiderable number of
friends and admirers at the South" and
that she will come into the Charleston Con-
veation with strength sufficient to enforce"
his terms Candidly, we do not believe
Senator Douglas has strength enough in the
whole South to carry one single Southern
State, were all his .sfriends and admirers
collected and concentrated into one State
His whole strength, then, is at the North,
and we cannot believe the North would be
SO ungers GUS as to.. force upon reluctan;
and protesting South, candidate most OBJ
noxious to her. We do not believe the
Northern Democracy are SO impolitic as to
5usist upon the nomination Of Senator Doug
las, when they have Dickinson, Pierce,
and host Of other great men, either one
Of whom the whole South, without even
the exception Of Maryland,) would cordi-
ally and enthusiastically support. But
even if Mr.. Douglas receives the nonina-
tion, and the Southern Democracy should
support him, Gas, under the circumstances,
we should advise them to do, and as they
Individually will, } in preference to the nom
inee of the conglomerated Black Republi-
can, Wing and Know Nothing parties, who,
in addition to holding the obnoxious senti-
ment Of Douglas, will stand on a platform
of broad and catholic hostility to Southern
expansion, is their anything so inconsistent
in this or anything which deserves the
following sheer Of the Spectator eff we
had not SO often seen the loud-meuthed
leaders Of Democracy wheel into ranks and
sustain the very men upon whom they had
heaped the bitterest denunciations, we might
suppose it impossible fer the Little Giant
to subdue and bring them into measures"
If the Spectator belonged to a party which
occupied broad Southern platform, and
disdained to stoop from that platform for
any consideration, even the defeat of the
much hated Democracy, the above sentence
would not appear so exquisitely ludicrous !;
but emanating, as it does, from member
of q party which, no more than four years
ago. proclaimed itself the peculiar champs
on Of Southern rights which, through a
caucus of its delegates to the Legislature Of
Virginia, expressed unqualified indignation
at the attempt at the hands Of powerful
party at the North to seduce Southern men
from their sectional fidelity" &C., and de-
nounced as unworthy the social or politi-
cal confidence of Southern men" all "who
should accept Office at the hands Of our Sec
tional enemies'-which no longer than
last Spring pursued, with o virufence al
most unparalleled in political warfare, the
Democratic nominee for Governor of Vir-
ginia, because Of obnoxious sentiments held
and expressed by him on the slavery ques-
tion t.celee gears ago and mouo, without the
formalities of courtship, without even a
show Of political coquetry, purposes. un-
asked and unsolicited, to throw itself into
the polluted and polluting arms of the Black
Republican party; We say, when all the
facts in the history Of the party to which
the editors of the Spectator belong are
known, this denrnciation by them Of the
sins Of the Democratic party, affords the
most amusing exhibition of an attempt to
HCompound for sins, which they're inclined to
By damning those they have no mind to-
Without meaning any disrespect, we would
ask our neighbors if they were not over
whelmed by an overpowering sense of their
own impotence, when they penned this ed
itorial on Democratic inconsistency.
Before concluding We will set the Spec
tator at rest on one subject. After felici-
Eating themselves upon the division Of ''the
great enemy" our neighbors remark 1--WE
may even expect some assistance from the
Democratic ranks" To save themselves
from disappointed hope, which, as well as
hope deferred "maketE the heart SICK" we
implore our neighbors to receive and profit
by our assurance that this expectation is
wholly vain; for ia any contingency. even
tae nomination Of Douglas, who, barring
his squatter Sovereignty proclivities, is
good Democrat; the Opposition need not
expect Democrats to support the nominee Of
the monere1 party composed of amalgama-
I'd Wings, Know Nothipgs, Black Repub-
lS;canse A-bolitionists, BE