Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-12

MEETING OF THE STATE DEMocRARIc Ex-
ECUTTvE COMMITTEE "A session of this BODY
was called for the 9Th inst, to fill vacancies
among the assistant and county electors; the
members from all parts of the State either
brought or wrote most encouraging accounts
of the condition and prospects Of the party.
Fifteen Of the committee were present, and
upon comparison Of the opinions as fur
nished by them, we enter tain no fears as to
the result in the State.
The Baylor proposition was submitted by
the Douglas committee and peremptorily de-
clined-fhere tcos not a member of the De-
n'oeratic E.recutice Committee that avouzd
entertain the proposition: Greater una
nlmlty we have never known than existed
in the Executive Committee against divi
ding the vote of Virginia. There was not
member of the Committee that did not in
dignantly repudiate proposition which
looked to change in the ancient usage of
the party-a usage that had received not
only the sanction of sixty years, but the APP
probation of Thomas Jefferson, and of all
true and faithful State Rights Democrats
from 1900 to 1860. 1t was peculiarly con-
slstent in the Douglas managers in Virgin
la, that the partizans Of him who had divi-
ded and broken UP the National organiza-
tlon, should propose the decentralization of
the Virginia Democracy and the ruin and
destruction of the weight and influence of
the State When Mr.. Baylor first pub
lished his proposition doubtless he had not
considered It's practical operation upon the
moral influence Of the State actuated bv
noble State pride, he looked only to the tri,
umph of the Virginia Democracy. Living
in Stanton, surrounded by the influence
and misinformed as to the real strength Of
Douglas in Virginia, he imagined the State
in some danger. But we cannot believe
that Mr.. Baylor had ever reflected upon the
consequences that would have attended the
adoption Of his proposition. Not SO with
the Douglas committee-they had been ad-
vised as to the practical operation of that
proposition, they we'll knew that its adop-
ton would have destroyed all the moral
weight that attaches to Virginia, by her un-
deviating and consistent course of unit vo-
ting they disregarded all this, and ten
dered a proposition as the only basis of uni
ted action. that would have degraded Vr-
GINA from her present proud and noble po-
sitiou to the low level of divided State.
No better solution of the ends and objects
of the Douglas faction in Virginia could
have been furnished than has been by the
action of their committee in this matter:that
they are actuated by no political principle
is demonstrated by the tender Of PROPOSE
ton that destroyed the weight and infu-
ence Of Virginia; a proposition that ncgA-
! tived all principle either of squatter- sover
eighty, as maintained by Douglas, or of
popular soverei gnty, as held by the Demo-
cratic party. If the Douglas faction in Vir-
ginia really hold the principle of squatter
sovereignty, they ought never to have ten
dered a proposition that looks to the partial
denial Of that principle. AS adherents of
Douglas, and supporters of his heresy, they
could not, with any consistency, have voted
for ticket with one MN upon it who de-
MED that doctrine. But they do not hold
the principle of squatter sovereignty, and
will moi apop They DO, aud this proIcsi-
ton was rendered in the hope that they
might by it, be able to pinch off an electo-
raj vote in Virginia for Douglas, when he
cannot obtain one anywhere else It was
dying men grabbing at straws -Rtchmond
Enquirer.
Capt. John A Hartman has left at our Of
fee bunch Of apples, each as large as a
good sized hickory nut, which are speci-
men of the second crop grown this yea- on
tree on bis farm.
Dr. S. H Mofett and DR.. G. R. Harris
had joint discussion in Harrisonbnrg Mon
day night Moffe,t, we learn, give Harris
some terrible home thrusts. Roll on the
| ball.
BEAR IN MIND, that every vote cast for
Breckenridge and Lane is half vote towards
the election Of either Bell or Lincoln
CrNo1ssArI, Oct. ga private dispatch
from St. Paul, Minnesota, says that Cover
nor Willard of Indiana, died here last mig hi
of consumption.
The Old Dominion seems to have taken 8
fresh start. The census reports will exhib.
| it an increase in the population of between
$50, 200 and 100000. The cities have not
increased very rapidly, but throughout the
State we notice evidences of advancement il
wealth and prosperity.
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