Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-05
A Lie Nailed to the COEzzafer--The
Proof Overwhelming:

| The Abolitionists are the natural allies of
all enemies of Douglas. For twenty years
he has warred necessarily and with success
entirely without parallel, on these sworn
foes of the South and the Union, and it can
excite no wonder that their fercest and most
subtle efforts are directed towards his over
throw. AS Yancey sought the overthrow Of
Democracy that he might remove the great
est enemy to his traitorous schemes,so Free
Soil singles out Douglas as the Hector of
this beleaguered Troy, well knowing that
the citadel of National Democracy cannot be
taken while this heroic soldier defends her
walls.
Having been vanquished by him, how
ever, in every field of fair encounter, they
have now abandoned honest, manly warfare,
for the more congenial and safer course of
the stab in the dark-the cheap resource CT
towards. Since the day Of his majority,
judge Douglas life has been passed in the
midst of the people and before the putllc
eve. No man in America has held SO pronli-
nent place or been subjected to SO contipu-
Gus and searching criticism, and 20 pub
lie man of our day has stood the trial better.
He has SPOKEN more and written more and
done more on the field Of American Politics
within the past ten years than any other ten
men, and to this voluminous record he
proudly appeals for his vindlcation But
this does not suit the purposes OF these Ia
natical traitors. Speeches and votes the
criterion by which honest men Judge OF
stateslnen's acts, will not serve the purposes
Of these political jackalls. Anonymous re-
ports of private conversations. the inuendos
of enemies. the whispers of Judas friends
the sheer and slur of those social vultures
THAT envy begcts upon ambition, and fear
upon hate, in the world of politics
are the more congenial sources OF evidence
for this pack of ssmousing OWLS" We are
indebted to one of this kith, who, stealing
the livery of Heaven to serve the devil H.
has attempted to hide his sneaklng spirit
under the name of bold John Hancock, for
the opportunity of ventilating large batch
of this rubbish. The object Of this scribbler
is to prove that Judge Douglas catered into
some sort of league with the Black Repub-
licans to secure his own election in Illinois
and defeat Lincoln, and certain Of the Re-
publicans with whom this bargain is said to
have been struck are summoned to give tes-
timony. We might content ourselves with
demanding whether any true friend Of the
South is to be tried and convicted on the
evidence Of such a pack OF traitors, and
would he content to abide the decision OF a
generous people. but we prefer to meet the
issue. In the first place, if the charge be
true does it not convict these witnesses of
the basest treachery to their own party ? Ii
It be true that they entered into league
With the greatest enemy of their party to
defeat the Regularly appointed standard bear-
az Of that t narty. then are they branded by
their own admission with a per6dy which
renders them unworthy of credit. A traitor
is invariably liar, and any man who coaies
hetrav his, friends need not be suspected OF
anv soneamishness ABOUT slandering his enc
mics; ME But this is not all. The story bears
marks Of intrinsic falsehood, and is contra
dicted not only lnferentially by circumstan-
ces. but directly by evidence:
In the first place, the bold, fierce nature
Of the. contest between Douglas and Lincoln
precludes the idea of any such understand
inc. Would Douglas or any man have dared
to hurr such denuuciatery philliples against
the Lincoln mem, when at any moment the
fact might leak out that he was colludlng
With them ? Would he>or any man have ga
red 10 po,,r such inycctive on any party when