Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-09-07


ing the extreme Southern vote. The motion
was sustained, and the report of the COM
mittee was laid on the table at the instance
Of one Of the committee, and for the reason
solely that the chairman Of the committee
was not present. The same resolution was
renewed by Mr.. Glass as an independent
proposition Various substitutes were pre-.
scented, and the following offered by Mr..
Russell adopted as the sense of the delega-
ton Mark, up to this time Mr.. Hoge was
committed to Mr.. Barbour's proposition. -
He assigned no reasons for his instantaneous
and rather remarkable somersault, as indi-
Gated in his vote for Russell's resolution
which was the direct antipodes of the posi-
ton assumed in the Barbour resolution:
Resolved, That we recognize and main
tain the principle which since the last Demo.
cratic National Convention has been estab-
lished by decision of the Supreme Court OF
the United States in the case Of bred Scott,
and we maintain that all the citizens of the
Union have an equal right to inhabt the
Territories of the United States with their
slaves and ether lawful property; and that
this right, like other rights Of property, be.
ing protected by the Consultation, cannot be
taken away or impaired by the inaction, or
by any action, direct or indirect, of the
Federal or Territorial Governments; and we
maintain as just consequence of the said
principles, that all such property in the Ter
ritories is entitled to efectual protection by
the several departments of the Territorial
and Federal Governments.
The vote being ordered on Mr. Russell's
substitute, it was adopted by the following
vote-ayes %; noes 6:
.Ayes-Smith, Kindred, Harvie, Thomp-
son, Clarke, Coles, Early. Coghill, Leake.
Hobbs, Booker, Buckner, Garnett, Seldom,
J. B. Hoge, Funston, D. H. Hoge, Davis,
Crockett, Brannon, Brown, Russell.
Noes-Glass, Fisher, Yost, Mofett, Co.
Gil, Fitzhugh
Messrs. GLASS, Yosr and MoFFErr ex-
planned their votes. They preferred the
resolution of Mr.. Barbour, offered by Mr..
Glass.
| It will be thus seen that Mr.. Hoge hop
ped from one position to its immediate oppo-
site with as much case to himself and appa-
rent grace as he would have lain himself
down to pheasant dreams" It was 6 re-
markable conversion, assimilated somewhat
| to that Of St. Paul, but for the terrible Sc
verify which characterized the latter. Mr..
Hoge had been cropping in darkness fer a
number Of years. His profession Of faith
was fresh in the memories of his constitu-
ents, and still more fresh in the III inds Of his
fellow committeeman; when suddenly ray
of light burst in upon him from the tropics,
and made plain the fact that both he and hi.
people had worn scales upon their eyes fer
at least twelve years. Whether Mr.. Hoge
has chosen the better part or not, We leave
for himself and constituents to determine :
Whether he has represented his constituent
by ieoparding the stability and existence o
this Union for the sake Of asserting an i'm
practicable abstraction, and that too in tn
face of his recorded and declared opposition
to it, is question more appropriate to b
settled and decided upon by those who's
trust he betrayed, than by us. We woul'
willingly have ''let the dead past bury it
dead" but the question Of consistency 10 hi
case having been raised, it is but fair to tn
Democratic party and to the political histcr.
of the times that the nnwritten facts bear
ing upon the point be made Known by som
one familiar with them. "E7iat just;tia
J ruat cos5ure"