Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-26

We publish below letter from an intel
hgent gentleman, a resident Of Washington
City, addressed to distinguished citizen
of Virginia. The sound conservative SEN
timents it conveys are worthy of attention,
while from some Of its expressions we dis
/ sent
WASHINGTON, Oct Is, 1860.
! 1fy Tear Sir Your most acceptable favor was
duly received and pressing engagements have alone
prevented an instant reply of that full and unre-
served character which you seem to desire.
Iincoln's election is assured; ard. unexpectedly
to eperybody, sound aid Morousb-going Demo
cratic Congress also. AS with majority of the
| people, q majority of Congress- and the Federal
Courts against him, Lincoln (however badly
disposed do nothing to affect the status of slavery,
the almost universal opinion is that effort
will moao be made to upset the Government; this
opinion, according to the secessionists is an
sound opinion. Early IN the coming month, in ad
vance of the meeting of Congress, the revolution
will be begun. The fact that the Courts, Congress
! and majority of the people of the United States
are opposed to Lincoln will have, in their opinion
no influence upon the plan relied upon to produce
a Revolution. Feeling assured of the quiet and
| aemonstrative support Of the present Adminstra-
ton, the friends of Southern Nation hope to be
able to peacefully overthrow the present form of
government and set up new one on the extreme
Southern border-a favoring chance, in their opn-
ion, not likely again to occur: But whether the
March under secession control whether he can, or
cannot, be persuaded to allow new Government
to be set ZIP III the Southern part of this country
without opposition beyond a loquacious protest or
loud wall at his inability to compel obedience to
the laws of the land whether he shows energy and
manfully fights like Jackson to preserve the in
to gritty of that Union which has been confded to
his guardianship, or whether he allows his associ-
ates to render him anabecde, the PLANS
| will be carried out. A Nation is to be born
Anc that Nation is to be carved out Of the United
States--no concessions no eleventh hour defeat
OF Lincoln can now avert this pre- ordained thing
The election of an energetic man would come
''too late! p They believe the die is cast. Our ma
ton is to TO be- Out Of its territory several
governments, like those in Central America, are to
rise up and become rival nations: Of similar force
to OF those existing in Europe such as Belgium
/ Sweden, Naples, Portugal, &c.
4 Why do think there is much in all this assel-
ton Because of talent, who otherwise can
not become famous, haze wiNed at, and are gener-
ally supposed to have ANGLE ability to effect what
they judiciously se5U and deterne5ne Look mo-
nent at what is zu5Eic and thea If you please Judge
from, taat atone whether this nation is not about to
be 'partitioned' off by Senators were the domin-
ions of Alexander by his successors.
Last fall the Governor Of South Carolina used
| the following language:
at, as L8oleasnly bet5ece no longer 6ce "a
q7eoce cndb0rmony IN The Jnion-notWithstanding
the associations Of the past, and the remembrance
OF our common triumph, (belng treated as enem es
and aliens, rather than brethren of the tami-
ly and heirs Of the same inheritance, by the North
we can form confederacy with ability to protect
itself against any enemy, and command the respect
and admiration of the wcrld. -
This was the 18th Of Nov. 1862 On the 10Th
Of December, 1859, t. Legislature Of South Caro-
lima passed the following pre- amble and reso luton
"Whereas, the State Of South Carolina, by her
ordinance of 1852, affirmed her right to secede from
the ConfederacV whenever the occasion should
rive iustifying her, III her own judgment, III taking
tn at step and in the resolution adopted by her
vention declared that she forebore the imm ediat4
| at pIrr dot hQrc
tes and whereas more than seven years have elaps
ed since that convention adjourned and III the in
teryening time, the assaults upon the institution Of
slavery, and upon the rights and equality OF the
Southern States have INCREASINGLY continued with
increasing violence, and in and more alarming
forms Solah Carolina still DEF eYing her Southern
sisters neuerbetcss fully to them
that, an her judgement, THE SAFETY AND HONOR OF
| THE sLAYEReLDING STA raS IMPERATIyELY DEMAND A
! SPEEDY SEPARATION FROM THE EREB-soIL STATES OF
THIS CoNFEpERACY, aad earnestly invites Gnd urges
her sster States Of the South to originate the
aaeat of Southern separation IN Uh1ch ste pje1qcs
promptly TO Ga5te.
"Kesoved, That the State Of South Carolina
| owes it to her citizens to protect them and
their property from every enemy, and that for the
purpose ofmiitary preparation for any emergency,
the sum of $500, 900 be appropriated for military
contingencies.
Here is direct appropriation of 500, O00 to pro
vide military means with which to wage CIVIL WAR.
Since then and very recently two important things
| hav been done ist 4 Legislature has been elect
ed, each member Of which had seen publicly pledg
ed to the secession Of South Carolina in the event
! of the election to the Presidency of a Republican.
I'd. The National Administration has sent II, 0o0
stands of the best 'nproVed arms to the fort in
the harbor Of Charleston, S. c., and placed them
in custody SO feeble SIS to allow the South Caro-
lima authorities 30 take possession Of these iprov
ed arms sucl day as they may elect. do not
know that the President intelligent party to
this transaction if he has taken stops the
safety of these arms have not heard of it. Still
: Il h. r{0To
Judge Douglas, when asked at Norfolk, said be
would resist all attempts to break up the Govern
meut. Thereupon UNAyowED disunonists, as the
best method 70 serve those States in the extreme
South which to lead off lin the second week
November) in secession, denounced him as holding
"scronq principles +! All over the Union the sccss-
sonists claim the RIGHT of the lawess, the dis
affected, to peacefully dissolve the Government in
to thirty odd parts, and set up thirty odd ndepen
dent Governments And any is political her
etc who repudiates their reasonable claim 70
strengthen the Baltimore Secedeis, Mr.. Ell. Da-
Wis, Mr.. SlideIl, Mr.. Yancey, Mr.. Toombs, Mr..
Bayara, Mr.. Green, and your Virginia Senators
Left Washington to stump their respective States
The following is an extract from speech Of Hon.
JEFF. Davis, at Jackson, Miss, the 9Th July,
1860. lie said
''Tho success Of such q party would indeed pro-
duce an firrepressble conflict" 70 you would
be prescnted the question, will Tou allow the con
sttutiona Union to be changed into the despotisnl
of majority VIII you become the sub ects Of a
hostile government, Or will you, outside Of the u
nson assert the equajity the li5ery end sovereignty
to ,chtck you toan For myself, say, as
said on former occasion, in the contingency OF
ihe election Of q President on the platform OF MIR.
Stewards Rochester speech lei the Union be DIS
seoed Lethe ''great, but the greatest Of eOsls
come. For as did the great and good Calhoun:
from whom is drawn thai expression OF value, |
love and yenerate the Union of these StateS--but
love liberty and Mississippi more"
The foregoing language OF Mr.. GaTls Is bolder
than that generally used by the gentlemen whom
nave Just named; but the Gesaga OF them all seems
to be precisely the same they all appeBF to act
in concert; as their action was rot taken until at
leaving this city, will not multiply quotations. -
Each and all OF the2 appear to look to the destruc
t0n of the government over which they are about
to lose control, and seek to carve out smaller ones
wherein their influence will Enthusiastically predomi-
nate. Hence order TO raise the necessary o|0noT,
they assembled in caucus and agreed on set OF
resolutions the purport Of which was that ii ter
ritory established slavery its action was right; If
it did not, then it the duty Of Congress to es-
tablish it for them whether it was wanted even by
the South or not. The object was cJanor, not
the establishment Of slavery in territories where
sensible Shareholder would la@gh at Sc ious pro
pos for him to settle with his slaves. Kansas had
directly, prohibited slavery il 1t had not the legal
right to do So, and if Congress had the legal re ht
to repeal that prohibition and in lieu Of it pass
Law establishing and protecting slavery IN Kansas,
why did not these agitatng Senators perform their
legal duty Why dill ali but three Of the Senate
vote against '|protecting" slavery in Kansas? If
Senators will not protect slavery in the fertile val
lev of K ansas, why should they do SO in Nebraska
regions of New Mexico and Arizona If Kansas
is not to have slavery protected INTO IT, and south
ern honor does not demand that it should be, then
Southern honor does not demand that slavery shall