Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-12-16
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all deplore the spectacle of innocent and un-
offending people compelled to sleep, as did
our forefathers and foremothers Of the colo
NAL day, with arms by their side to protect
themselves from the savage assassin and
murderer Do they shudder at the sight
presented to them of the arms of citizens
turned against the breasts Of fellow citizens ?
Do they appreciate the awf ul fact that large
ard most respectable counties in Virginia
are resolving to cease to use the products
of northern labor? DO they rise to percep-
ton Of the terrible reality of one portion Of
the United States regarding another portion
as enemies? Do they see where all this, if
not checked, Is to end
| We are rot alarmists We are not &C
customed to take Responding views of pub
lie affairs. We have faith in the patriotism
the good sense of the North, when they
take matters into their own hands. But
yet we cannot fail to perceive causes of So
lctude for the preservation of peaceful
and happy Union2
:. The men Who occupy seats Of power in
| New England. the controlling public men
in the dominant party here are bound hand
and foot in the fetters prepared and riveted
by the anti slavery fanatics. 10 deny ii is
to deny the plainest facts of every day &C.
currence. With these men patriotism is
dead If not dead, it sleeps. At this hour
a majority of the Republican party in Mas
sachusetts do invardly rejoice at the John
Brown raid They see nothing but subject
for mirth in the spectacle CT alarm present
81 BY the men and women Of Virginia! To-
day, majority OF them do not think, or if
they think they dare not say, that John
Brown ought to suffer death To-day, a
minority Of the Republican party in New
En- gland do notintend to give prompt, cheer
full cordial obedience to all the requirements
of the Constitution They laugh you to
scorn, if you ask them if they intend to see
to it Tat fugitive slaves, in accordance with
Constitutional Obligations, be returned TO
their masters They heap vulgar libalary
on The men who say that the South cannot
and will not long sabmit to the robberies
and murders CT Northern fanaticism They
babble about the inability of the South to
live without the North They rave like
idiots about the Numerical superiority Of the
No,th, just as though in a RI sht cause, men,
proud men, ever waited to cooly count tie
cost nhen their homer was assailed, their
lives and property put in peril They fail
to sec that sepsraton Of the South from the
North would not BE- near GO bold an act as
was the aeparatiln Of the infant colonies
from The colossal p,wer Of England in 1776
They seem to thinl HAT it is by the relent-
less application to he case, Of the mere
dead weight ofIu,iltrical majority, that JUS
tice is TO be done ard the Union preserved
We Of the North ar. strong, but is it right
to place the South il the alternative Of dis
honorable submission to fanatcism, or OPP
position by resistance to is? If the Union
we're 10 be dissolved Tomorrow, these men
do not appear to reflect who would have
becri tic aggreseoE all WHO the aggrieyed
who the voator Of the public compact and
who the Victim Of the violation who the
oppressive majority, AID who the oppressed
minority.
We say that the dominant political party
in New England utterly fails to see and ap
preciate all this. They have covered the
statute books ali over with laws to nullify
the Constitution aud Acts of Congress, and
now while we write they ooncoct new schemes
Of Legislation to annoy, insult, and degrade
Southern men They let slip no opportu-
nifty for violent ;ois-qp REPRESENTATION and de-
n,nciation Of tie chIacte- AID principles
Of Southern men. fhey exaggerate their
faults end laalign their motives. They toll
crate no man who pleads for irstice, wis
dom and common anse. They reject ell
counsels O. forbeera,ce, good will and con-
Citation. 49,
These THU haze got to stop. The solid
men Of New thgland farmers, merchants,
lawyers, docors, al Of every class aud in
terest-nus' give nov their attention to the
public weaIocfore it is too late. They must
speak thci' voice Of o.,'.ipoteht authority,
and rebute We bold bad men who are hur-
rying US or: p common rain (! Wendell
Philips, Rhpit Waldo Emerson, Rev. Mr..
Manning and John 4, Andrew, must not
be ocrnitted, without re5uke, to falsely as
sunlcto proclaim the sentiments of Boston
in Ration to recent deplorable events in
Virginia We appeal to men ofal! parties
" ask met! Of The Republican organization
toIook and see where these mad spectators
c the Wendell Philips school IN public af-
airs ere leading them. The crisis rises a
2oTe mere party names, It looks to the
substance CT things. Where are the good
n,cl. upon whom Boston has a right to count
in the hour of Ter need /? Where aro the
men who have been nursed, nurtured and
honorcd by the Pilgrim City, Where are
the hundreds who have prosFcred under tie
pr3teoting impulse of the Union, and whose
voices would stir the country as the sound
of g trumpet, relying al to deliberstion
upon the conn,cn- veal? Can they not,
viii they not, lolgefting party names, con-
centre the patriotism and Intelligence of
Boston, and max, It speak to our Southern
friends words for the Constitution and the
Uuion VIII they permit the meeting of
the Brown fanatics in the fremont Temple
to stand as an expression Of tie opinion of
Boston ?-Bostoa Press end Post.