Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-06-17
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What is Thought OF the Election Of Mr..
Letcher South and NOrth-A Word ia
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Letcher South and NOrth-A Word to
Old Wings.
The American Central Committee Of Geor-
gia, in an address published, declining to
call Convention Of the American party Of
the State, to organize for the elections,
doubtless from a sense Of their own weak
ness urge upon their friends, every
wkere, to unite with the Opposition to the
spurious Democracy"
In enumerating the abuses and frauds al
legged to be perpetrated upon the American
people, under the Democratic name, they
cap the climax thus T'Worse still; it has
elected an Abolition Governor over South
ern State-a State which owes more to the
institution Of slavery than all the South be-
sides, having acquired riches and power By
the professional business Of breeding slores
for SALE
Surely Seward or Giddings never said
anything harder of "Old Virginia" than
this which is said Of her by the American
Central Committee Of Georgia" And who
can doubt, after such demonstration, their
readiness to unite with Black Republican,
ism, or anything else, to defeat the hated
| Democracy It is time, high time, that
the true friends of the South amongst us,
who are blindly following in the ranks Of the
So called American party, should pause and
consider whittier they are being led. They
will not, we feel sure, endorse the gross Ii
bel Of their Georgia confederates upon our
people and State.
But what does the North think Of the
election Of Mr.. Letcber? A writer from
New York says in the Washington Inteli-
gencer of Saturday:
s'There can no longer be doubt that
the anti-slavery men of the North are pleas
ed with the election Of Mr. Letcher as Gov
ernor of Virginia They did not desire the
Oppositionists to be Strong enough to curb
them in the presentation Of Presidential
candidate They think and feel that in a
contest simply between the North and the
South they must succeed land now they con
clude they can have every thing their own
way, independently Of the Wing conserva-
tiyes That there will be another triangu-
lar contest seems evident, because Southern
Wings will not coalesce with the Republi-
cans, who insist upon the slavery question
as prominent issue
| So the Black Republicans do not consid-
er Mr.. Letcher an apolitionist. The charge
made against him here they Justly regard
as a mere cheat to defeat his election. and
they intend that the Americans of the South
shall act with them,if they act at all, on their
own terms, and vote for the candidates whom
they may dictate.
How idle is it, then, for US Of the South
to think Of third party in the contest Of
1860! The experiment made in the last
Presidential election ought to be warning
to u.s. Fillmore was only able to carry one
State, and that Southern one Had he
carried more, the effect might have been to
give us an odious sectional Black Republi-
can President.
It is hard to break away from old party
associations, even though nothing be left to
surrender, save the name. But let US ask
ourselves the question, what does patri-
otism demand of US in the present crisis p
As our noble chief, HENRY CLAY, said, in a
gloomy period of bis own fortunes, Il know
only one safe rule, in alt the yicissitudes Of
human life, public and private, and that is
conscientiously to satisfy ourselves Of wha'
is right, and firmly and undeviatingly tc
pursue it, under all circumstances, conf
ding in the great Ruler Of the Universe fol
ultimate success" And again, this great
Apostle Of our Principles, seeing with pro
phetic eye the dark cloud which now over
shadows our land, as it rose scarcely larger
than a mans hand, thus solelnnly announc-
ed his apprehensions and his purpose 8
Wheneuer the Wing party shall become
merged into a miserable sectional Abolition
party, / WILL RENoUNcE II FOREVER, ana
IN future act ,citA that purity, REGARDLESS OF
IT'S NAME, aoAich stands By the CONSTITUTION
AND THE UNION"
4 HENRY Clay WuIo.