Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1859-11-14

State, 10 resolutions have ever beer
passed Of addresses sentIforth over ths
State, denouncing slavery and fropos.
ling elratcipation Id IN cstern Virgin
Lila. Boone, 4 with her two dozen
Islaves,n lias,ever been trne 10 virgins
| ia and her institutions Boone, and
|hersdns and her. : appendages' = have
no ORGANIZATIONS, to make Of past. sen.
Itiblerts on tile subject Of slavery
Neither Boone nor any Of ssii it's ap-
Ependages' ogan, Raleigh, Putnam
and Kanawliahad a Democratic pa
per in 1S47, Or at any other time, to
MISREPRESENTATION Of this good old
Commonwealth, and the abolition 81
emancipation of slavery in the est.
Can Tie Harrington Oracle say as
mach Ja loyal Rock5ri;dge and
her sons?
r The Orde1s at Lexington says
e We have no doubt Maj. Parks is
9 willing under al circumstances ID
vote for Seward, Hale, Chase, Lin,
& coin or the Blackest of Black re.
"pa6lieaaain preference to Douglas,
.or any other Democrat, North Of
e South. Snch we feel pursuaded are
. Laidley's opinions z
The Ofoclo has made the foregoing
sweeping charge against two eminent
and patriotic citizens Of Virginia,
whose fidelity and devotious to hel
institutions have never been ones
toned, 50 far as We can learn BY any
one, eitherin 1s47 or at any Other
period, and It 'behooves the Oracle
to furnish proof to sustain the charge.
or else stand convicted before the
world, Of an UNJUST, unproyoked and
unfounded assault on two respectable,
eminent and patriotic citizens.
Its probable that Mai Parks and
Mr.. Laidley, as we'll as many other
Wings, wonld vote for Seward, .Ior
Lincoln Of Chase in preference to
Judge Douglas, and feel#themselyes
justified in doing So; but We utterly
deny, and pronounce a wholly nm
founded, the charge that either Of
them would vote for Seward, Lincoln
Or Chase, in preference to 1any Dem
.ocrat North or South.
We will not consume further time
in exposing the aisrep aentations Of
the Leeingtoa Oracle; aud in re-
gard to its personal and unproyoked
assault upon YMessrs. Broun Parks
and Laidleyl we deem i'll scarcely
necessary TO say that those gentle
men are too elevated III! their charac-
tiers and positions to be reached By
the enyenomed assaults of The Lex
ington. Oracle. We have too mach
respect for those gentlemen TO believe
that the assault of the Oracle will
excite in their bosolns any other feel
ing than that of the most profound
pity and contempt for the editorial
andi author. 5s
In 1913 the Democracy Of Virgin
ID denounced Squatter Sovereignty. as
alvin brother of the Wilmot Provi-
30 subsequently Mr.. Calhoun de-
nounced It as more insidious and ia
tal to the South. than the Wihnet
Proviso. Ii. 1856 the, Virginia Del
egation at Cincinnati unanimously
proclaimed in favor of fIntcrvention;
and in 1859 Senator Mason assorted
on the floor of the us. Senate that
no man South b. The Potomac could
vote for any man who advocated the
Sqnatter Sovereignty principles Of
Judge Douglas without being. recreant
to the South andzher institutions
This emphatic declaration Of Senator
Mason met with the tacit approval
not suly of Mr. Hunter, but Of every
ether Southern Senator; and yet in
the face of all these facts the Lexing.
tor. Oracle undertakes to denounce
Virginia gentlemen because they
will not kneel lat the Squatter Sousr-
eigatg shrine Of Stephen A. Douglas,
But recently Old John Brown and
tWenty.t@o Squatter Sorsreigaa, fresh
from scenes d blood and carnage in
Kansas, marched into Virginia, seiz.
/ ca the national armory and attempted
toezcite a servile war ii the very
bosom of our Commonwealth, and
yet the Lexington Oracle asserts thai