Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-10-09

On Wednesday night last, Col. Jno. B. Bald
win addressed the Bell and Everett Club at the
Court House. Though it was not known that
he would speak more than few hours before
the Club met, the Court House was filled to its
utmost capacity, so great was the desire to hear
him on the part of his friends and acquaintance
who appreciate his fine talents and admire his
deyoted patriotism. He spoke for two hours
and a-half, during which time he not only en-.
chained the attention but delighted the audience
with his strong arguments and amusing illustra-
tons. We have never seen an audience more
perfectly delighted. There was not citizen o.
this county present who did not feel proud thai
the speaker was a son of good "Old Augusta
Like the mother of the Graceful, when asked
for her jewels, Augusta can proudly point to bel
SONS. Her crown has several brilliant jewels Of
which she may justly be proud.
He said that it would not now do for the
Breckenridge men to deny that Hon. VIM. L.
Yancey was representative man of their party,
as he had been selected by the National Execu.
tive Committee of that party to follow the track
of Judge Douglas, for the purpose of meeting
his arguments and presenting the principles Of
the Breckenridge party. He said that Yancey
was the recognized and authorized exponent OF
the principles of the Breckenridge party. He
showed that the principle upon which that party
had staked the very existence of the Union and
the preservation of the Government was worth
less abstraction-that there was no territory
xrboro oloyoe ,vonld ho toLon ;f xpo bod tbo,, r.,
spare, and that if there was such territory we
had not the slaves to spare to send there, as is
shown by the fact that the extreme South is now
demanding the re opening of the African slave
trade because they have not slaves enough to
work the sugar, rice and cotton fields in the
States. He showed that it was madness to stake
the existence of the only Government of free
institutions in the world upon the recognition
of principle which could be of no practical
benefit to us. The Democracy had been all the
time engaged in settling principles, which as soon
as settled, they unsettled. They settled in 1847
'4S and '49 the principles of the Missouri Com
promise. In 1850 and 1852 they settled the
principle of non Intervention. In 1854 they re-
pealed the Missouri Compromise, since which
time no Democrat is allowed to express appro.
baton of that Compromise without being threat
ened with accommodation from his party
They are now again throwing the country into
violent and dangerous agitation to settle an
other principle to be like the others unsettled as
soon as accomplished. He showed that Yaucey
was disunionist, and, in a few minutes time
-
sophistry which it took Yancey three long hours
to weave. He showed that it was the duty Of
all good citizens to rally to the support of the
Constitutional Union Ticket. That all could dc
SO without any sacrifice of principle. He denied
the right of secession, and said it was the duty
of all to look to Constitutional remedies when
any aggression should be committed, and that
when all the remedies provided by the Constitu.
ton should fail, that then, and not before, was
the time to raise the strong arm of rebellion a.
gainst the Government. In the course of his
speech he mentioned the interesting incident in
the history of this county that when South
Carolina threatened notification in 1882, dis
tinguished citizen of this county went on to
Washington City and offered to Gen. Jackson
the services of a military Company from this
county to bring that State into submission
through the gentle persuasion of rifles and bay
onets. As we hope that Col. Baldwin will a.
gain address the people of this county before the
canvass closes we do not deem it necessary to
give any more detailed account of his speech
At the conclusion of his speech, Capt. ]. d. I'M
boden requested the Band to play the "Star
Spsngled Banner as it was exceedingly ap-
pronriate to the occasion.