Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-02-19
Opposition to Imposition.

opposition to Imposition
This is the watch-word- war-cry Of
that spotted pig, made up Of the odds
and ends Of all the factions and defunct par
ties Of the Union, to be used with crushing
effect in the next Spring campaign. John
Minor Bolts, the king-maker, has pro-
claimed it. Opposition to Imposition
a splendid conception! worthy of the pro-
life brain Of the great author Of the motto,
"Head him or die" Who can fail to con-
quer under the banner wherein is inscribed
the patriotic words, Opposition to Impo-
sition." It beats all the conceptions of the
deceased Sam out Of sight. s'The sons of
the sires Of l776," sink into insigni6cance
before an army of patriots. whose only prin-
ciple Of. action is Opposition to Imposi-
tion." Poor Sam most unfortunate, that
death overlook thee, before thou hadst seen
this glorious banner inscribed by thy most
favored son. The name Of the democratic
party, says Bolts, is "Imposition." The
rest Of mankind will assume that Of "Oppo-
sition," and then let Opposition to Impo-
sition" be the watchword For years past
the honest and truly patriotic among the
former opponents of the democratic party,
have frankly admitted that is the only par
ty now existing in the Union with any claim
to nationality while every element of OPP
position to it, is essentially sectional and
factious. The democratic party alone, has
taken the Constitution for its guide, the
Constitution as stis, avowipg its unchanga-
BILE determination to live By at, or fall wsth
1t. Even-handed justice to all sections, and
the perfect, unimpaired sovereignty Of the
States, is the motto of the democracy This
according to Mr.. Bolts, is all Imposition.
And what is the Opposition" proposed by
him to this Imposition p All the oppo-
nents Of the democracy, everywhere. At
the South, that opposition is made up Of the
few stubborn, "old line whigs,'' who in the
days Of Nothingism, were too proud,
or to obstinate to 60 down into the culvert,
and yet too much filled with prejudice and
hatred to join the democracy, who had
not the moral courage to denounce what
they felt to be abominable, and change their
party associations. These blasted trunks
now standing stark and stiff at immense in
tervals from each other, constitute the
cleansing element Of this great opposition.
Next come the Southern know-nothings -
SO utterly insignificant in numbers and in
fuence, SO utterly broken down by the
mere publication to the world of their aoom-
Unable doctrines, that the boys laugh at
them. their opponents detest them, and
their allies north and south despise and dis
own them. Then comes the great streng til
of this opposition, the Black Republicans,
the Abolitionists, and all the isms of the
north, the Fanny Wright men, the anti
renters, the Mormons. Did not the Rich
mond Convention know-did not Mr.. Bolts
knows not the fac: demonstrated and in
disputable, that if the glorious democracy
is defeated, it must be done by these north
ern fanatics? that theirs will be the only
fruit of the victory, that in the delirium
of their triumph, they would trample on
their puny and insignificant southern allies,
and refuse them even participation Why
then, does the southern wing of this opposi-
ton seek to deceive and mislead by honeyed
words and patriotic mottos? Why do they
not like men, proclaim from the top of the
capitol what they desire Let them tell the
people that such is their hatred Of the de-
mocracy, that they are ready and anxious
to see the Black Republicans Of the north
in power, rather than democracy shall lor-
ger triumph. That the triumph of abolition
ism over the rights Of the South, is the only
way by which the democracy can be trod-
den down, and therefore, that they, south
ern men though they be, are ready to hail
the triumph Of abolitionism. Do they think
the people are fools, to be deceived by high
sounding words and cunningly in tented
misnomers They should have learned
wisdom from the past, and remembered how
the yeomanry Of the South, an1 especially
of Virginia, tracked the willy Sam through
all his windings, and denounced him as a
humbug and imposter, in spite of his dis
guises.