Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-12-16
The Union Meetings Of Boston and
PHILADELPHIA.

noble men who, amid the profound gloom
of abolitionism and fanaticism which envel
opes New England, and, we fear, the whole
! North, have the intrepidity to stand forth
in defiance and rebuke Of the wild spirit
of discord and disunion which pcrvedes that
section of the country. We homer, ne love
the bold and dashing Gushing, the talented
and patriotic Pierce, the elegant and con-
servEtiTe Everett, ard the many other less
er, yet still great lights Of the North The
soundness and patriotism of these men we
never for moment doubted-we always
knew them to be true as steel to the Union,
The Constitution and their country.
We consider the meetings of Philadelphia
sad Boston as earnest and imposing express
sions of the sympathy and good will of the
minority party north of Mason & Dixon's
lime, and as such, deserving of the graft
tude and confidence of Tie South but for
all practical good effects we think them al
together impotent.
Cushing, for many years past. has never
ceased to hurl his red hot invective full at
the towering crest Of the ruling demon of
the North Pierce, both while President,
and as private gentleman, has never lost
an opportunity to rebuke it; conservative
meetings, expressive Of sympathy for the
South and allegiance to the Constitution
and the Union, are continually being held /;
yet no practical fruits have ever yet been
the result. On the contrary, abolitionism
and fanaticism have gone on increasing in
strength, until hardly conservative repre-
sentative from the North, is to be found Ell
Their in the Senate or the House.
The painful fact must force itself upon
every thinking man, that the conservative
clement Of the North is SO perfectly power
less as to preclude the hope of practical and
efficient aid from that quarter. 1t is time
that Southern conservatives should cease al
lowing their hope, that the conservative is
the preponderating element of the North,
to blind them to the palpable facts which
prove the contrary. We are sick and tired
ofthe eternal assertion, based en- nothing.
lhat the masses Of the North are sound, but
misled by demagogues. 1t is our dcliber-
ate opinion (and we think the facts bear US
out) that the Northern masses are rotten to
the core. We believe that their leaders,
instead of being the corruptcrs, areAhe cor
rupted. We may be answered that this o.
pinion contradicts the idea which We have
advanced, that the Northern leaders are
demagogues. We think not. Why is it,
and how is 1t, that these men have obtained
power? Is it to be credited that they dem
agogues as they are, trucking and pander-
ing to popular prejudice, would run counter
to conservatism Gift existed) and their own
interests by preaching abolitionism and
Harper's Ferryism? Is it not mere rea-
sonable to believe that they, finding the
people, the masses, deeply imbrued with
fanaticism and hatred to the South, only
float smoothly with the current? Dema-
gogues are so many weather cocks by which
We may tell the way the wind blows they
never create, but only follow and pander
to the popular prejudice.
fla powerful conservatism exists in the
North, why is it that such men as Gushing,
Hallett and Everett are eschewed by NORTH
ern constituencies, and men of the Seward
and Banks stamp fill the State Executive
Offices and the halls Of Congress Ifnorth
ern conservatism exists, whence comes the
Rochester platform, applauded by thousands;
whence Helpers ''impending crisis, signed
by numerous Northern Congressman
whence Tire sympathy for the murderer
Brown and his confederates, which wells up
from the great popular heart of the North
whence, in word, the Infamous sectional
party, whose success in 1860 must be the
death knell Of the Constitution and the g.
Mon
But the practical question which all these
signs Of the times suggests to US is, what
shall the South do in the emergency which
has been thrust upon her by Northern ia
naticism In our opinion, the answer is
comprised in six words of Gov. Wise's Mes
sage-"To your tents-organize and arm y
Let the South arm for the protection of
herself. We can hope for nothing from tie
conservatism of the North, for be It ever SO
strong. it is, as has been well said ,oassffse,
willie fanaticism is acttue We repeat, let
the Legislatures Of the South prepare their
respective States for the most extreme emer-
geney-the exigencies Of the times and the
people demand it at their hands.
EE Persons having servants to hire out,
are referred to the advertisement Of Messrs.
Turk s Gushing, who will faithfully attend
to tha. business and secure for the aerv.Ets
essa kens.