Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-09-16
Tho Charleston Convention Will the
Southern Democracy Prove Loyal to
the E0uth I

The time for the holding Of the Demo-
cratic National Convention draws near, and
the hour for the South to look the issue
which will be presented to them at Charles
ton boldly in the face. has already arrived.
It is useless for us to shut cur eyes to the
palpable fact, that Squatter Sovereignty
(that serpent form which the Black Repub-
lican Lucifer has taken) has many ardent
supporters within the Democratic Camp,
aad that the detestable dogma will have
many able and unscrupulous advocates at
Charleston ia word, it is certain, and it
is we'll fer the South to know, that she may
be prepared for the issue, that the inser-
tson Of squatter sovereignty plank in our
platform, or what is the same thing, the
nomination Of Senator Douglas, will be en-
ergetically urged by every possible argu-
ment; threats of detection in the North
will be used, promises and protestations Of
loyalty to the South will be made, and all
else failing, it will be attempted stealthily,
bat no less fatally, to incorporate it in the
Democratic creed under the disguise Of q
compromise.
j In view of this emergency, what action
should we Democrats of the South take p
We do not pretend to anticipate and deter
mine The policy of the Southern Democracy
in certain contingency, bat we do ack-
nowledgc the possibility, nay-if the South
ern Democrats are not true as steel to them
selves and their section the probability of
such contingency arising, and believing
thus, we would earnestly counsel the ut
most caution, and fearless determination
to maintain in the Convention, at every
hazard, their plain Constitutional right to
protection for their property in the common
territory Of the Union. Let the people, Ia
king the matter into their own hands, look
we'll to it, that none but men of the stern
est loyalty to the South be sent to the Con-
vtntion. Let the masses in primary meet
ings and district Conventions, instruct thei,
delegates to present bold and uncompro.
missing front to Black Republicanism in it,
new phase and then we will goto the Con.
vention with unanimous South, entrench.
ed behind the truth and holiness Of oul
cause, and powerful in the unity Of our mo.
tive, and there we will reason calmly, yeI
earnestly, with those who deny our rights
and if they be indeed erring but conscien
tious Democrats instead of Black Republi
cans in disguise, they will listen and desist
but if the minority Of the North, taking ad
vantage Of, and exercising an usurped an
unjust power, should, unheedful Of our re
monstrances, persist in war upon our hon
or and interest, and insert squatter SOW
ereignty plank into the Charleston plat
form, and place upon that platform squat
ter sovereign, let it be done under the sol
emn protest of the Southern Democracy
and let us reserve the privilege Of thinking
and acting for ourselves in the premises. -
The Northern Democracy, all powerful al
they are in Convention, would do well t
be warned in time AMI beware how the,
present to the South the alternative Of squat
ter sovereignty or desertion of the Demo
cratic party. t4