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

Sent ID isCe. JACOB BAYLOR.
This proposition of Mr.. BAYLOR was also endors-
ed by Adam Stephenson Of Highland who, togeth-
er with the gentlemen cited above. is a supporter
of Breckenridge and Lane by public meeting OF
both branches of the Democracy of Augusta, held
in Staunton on the September Court day and by
the Breckinridge and Douglas electors of the llth
district.
In response the following communication was
received from the Executive Committee of tae Char
lottesville Convention
CONN. Room OF THE DEMOCRATIC !
STATE Ex'VE Comm, Oct. 6th go.
The Democratic State Executive Committee hay
ing received on yesterday, communication from
the Committee appointed by the Staunton Conven-
ton, informing us that they were in session and
ready to receive any proposition from us, and this
committee in response thereto, having submitted
proposition based on the action of the late Dem
ocratic Convention assembled in Charlottesville,
respect fully ask that that propoetion thus submit
ted, may be acceded to or declined. And this
committee declines to entertain any proposition
from the Committee appointed by the Stanton
Conve nton until the proposition submitted to them
by us has been acted upon.
By order of the Committee.
J. RUTHERFORD, Ch'mn.
JAMES DOVE, Secr'Y.
In reply to this our Committee Immediately sent
the following
Comm Room OF THE NATIONAL Dem.
Ex'vE COMM, Oct 6, 1860.
To the Breckinridge and Lane Eo'ive Committee.
O'Clock P. M.-The National Democratic Exc
cutive Committee of Virginia have received the
second communication from the Executive Com
mittee of the Breckenridge and Lane party. The
proposition rendered to the Breckenridge and
Lane committee was intended to be declined by the
communication made by this Committee this morn
ing. w e now again decline it emphatically, as a
proposition which could not be entertained for a
moment by us. We now renew the proposition
contained in communication Of this morning.
and respectfully request definitive and speedy
response TO what you intend to do.
M. G.. HARTMAN,
G. II. HOPKINS, Sec'y. President pro tenn
And in response, our Committee received the
GLOWING communication
Comm. Room OF THE DEMocRATIC( a'
Ex'vE Comm, Oct. 6, 1860.
Resolved, That the Dem ocratic Executive Com
mittee of Virginia, representing the Democracy of
the State, have received the Communication from
the Committee appointd by the Stanton Conven-
ton, dated so O'Clock, Z. NJ, Oct. 6, $780," and
decline the proposition OF the said Committee as
inadmssible-no power being vested in this Com
mittee to authorize, carry out or in any manner,
execute such plan as that thus proposed to this
Committee.
The proposition to divide the electoral vote of
VIRGINIA being utterly wrong in principle and
pernicious in practice, this Committee could in no
wise consent if it had authority that any portion
of the Electoral vote of this State should be lost to
the Democracy
BY order OF the Committee.
JOHN RUTHERFORD, Ch'mn.
This. of course, closed the conference, which
was formally done by the following note:
EXCHANGE HOTEL,
O'Clock, 2. M.
October 6, 1860.
The Executive Committee of the National Demo
cratic party of Virginia have received the thil d
communication of the Executive Con mttee of the
R,.o. lrinrI roo od I.ana Nv No ~,
the proposition of Jacob Baylor of the 10th Legion
IS now Chased by the action of the Breckinrd ge
and | ane Executive Committee. Purely from
court sy make this communication. We now
appeal to the people OF virginia to vindicate our
conduct. b. Nj. DEWITT
Chairman of the National Democratic
Executive Committee of Virginia.
Without fur ther CO nment upon the last comnu-
nication received by our committee fl ON the other
committee, that to point with significance to the
want of candor and righteousness of a BODY meet
ing and pareyiug witt. US for two days, and then
closing up by stating that they had no authority to
act upon the subject upon which t:ey were confer,
ring, we proceed to state the motives by which
our committee actuated.
The National Democratic party OF Virginia, who
ralying their forces for the nominees Douglas
and Johnson. are ardently solcitous for the pre-
servation, the peace, and the power o. the hol G
Democratic party in the councils of our State
Amid all the wreck and chaotic confusion of the
political organizations outside OF Virginia, we de-
sire to preserve intact here at home, organizA-
ton of our party which as nucleus would be able
after the smoke OF the fight passes off to gather up
the dsintegra ed elements and restore the perma-
nent strength and force of the Democracy through
oat all the land. Hence, without clubbing upon
minor points. we submitted to the other com init
tee the proposition rendered by their own friends
and associates to US, and were willing to bury the
Ratchet. That committee repudiated the offering
OF its own friends wholly untenable and perns-
c,ous in practice. 1t seems to that the pro po-
ifiny h,7i ri hM Iox, tnr.
able pernicious. Under it every Democratic
voter in Virginia would have received in the Ele
toral College. the full weight of his own suffrage
This propositions indeed, seems peculiarly consis-
tent with and analogous to system of govern
ment, expressing the voice not Of the majority but
OF the whole.
AS to the objection to division Of the Electoral
vote Of Virginia, we think that a calamity but not
80 serious a one as a division of the Democratic
party of Virginia. We all placed under pc.
culiar str Of circumstances in this clmpagn.--
We must III eet them in the best and most practical
BILE manner. The division of the Electoral vote OF
State, however to be regretted d necessity
would have been far Tess disastrous to genaral
organization, than continuance of the present
unhappy division of our party which may natural
ly now be attended with acrimony and acerbity of
feeling and eventuate in permanent and chronic
misfortune to ALL
Would it not in party view be far better, if
the worst came to the worst, to diuiae the EectO-
raj vote between too Democrats. than to risk Civ
ing the whole to our old common adversary But
the Rubcon is passed-the die is cast, the subject
is closed We must now appeal to the Democrat
ic people OF Virginia to rally to the support OF the
regular nominees OF their party. For the present,
qdietiy remove these leaders Oft the field, and pre-
your organization and your own faith to
the party of the whole United States. We have
no heart to use harsh terms Of elimination against
erring Brethren. The Executive Committee
of the Breckenridge and Lane party is composed
Of gentlemen of the highest social consideration
and the first intellectual worth. We say nothing
of them in anger OF unkindness. But with the
deepest and most sensitive modification, we be-
leye they have Inflicted upon the Democrat
party of Virginia, blow from which it may not
recover for many years-that III time they will re-
greet it, we cannot doubt. The existence of the
very institutions under which we have grown as a
people, to such prospect y and significance in the
family of Nations, is now seriously imperilled.-
Before bullets and blood, remedy is still Left
that is the power of the ballot box. We appeal to
the whole people to rally to the support of Douglas
fanaticism, and defeating Lincoln and Fl alnlin. In
such crisis as this, it strikes US with the pro-
foundest establishment, and most poignant morti-
hcation that gallant leader Douglas, who is
now abused, hated and crucifcd by Northern ia
natics and Aboitionlss and who has been for years
in the face of Infatuated mobs, and is fighting
them to their teeth with more energy and nerve
than any living man, should be denounced by any
portion of our people as untrue. Virginians
Come up and exhibit that manly and noble gene
rosity which has been the characteristic OF
your State.
ALFRED NJ. BARBOUR, jefferson.
NJ G.. HARMAN, Augusta.
HENRY G. ALLEN, Botetourt.
VIM G.. DUNBAR Richmond Citv