Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-07-03


diabolical designs-they were met at every point
mocracy, and because they have been foiled-
because their internal Vaccinations and rascality
have been exposed they mean to dissolve and
disrupt the party"
''The politicians" the ''faro-dealers," the
''demagogues" are none other than this same
man Douglas and his friends. He and they and
nobody else, are the ones who have created the
issues that now divide and distract the demo-
cratic party. To him and his friends are these
things justly chargeable-they lie not at any one
else's door, and the people, the sovereign people
the democracy-the true democracy, speaking
through their tried, trusty and faithful delegates
at Charleston and at Baltimore, have rebuked,
in unmistakeable terms these faro-dealers and
demagogues, and yet our neighbor is oblivious
to the fact!"
He (he Editor of the esprit of Jefferson" a
Democratic paper published in the same town.
would have his readers believe that it is some
one else, any and every one else, rather than
Douglas or his friends-and why, because he
knows that he himself in advocating the claims
of Douglas to the nomination is to that extent
party to these high-handed outrages against the
peace and integrity of the Democratic party.
The Editor of the 'sWinchester Virginian,"
Democratic paper, has written from Baltimore,
a long letter to his paper, from which we extract
the following:
To the nomination of Mr. Douglas we were
opposed for more reasons than one. He did not
agree with us on an important principle. In his
effort to gain Northern votes he sacrificed
principle of vital Importance to the South. He
repndiated the Cincinnati platform, his own
| Kansas Nebraska act the bred Scott decision
Of Ia ap1b lOpr hoo q
opponent of Mr.. Buchanan's administration-an
administration that has been true to the South
true to all parts of the Union, and worthy of
the cordial support of all its friends. The NOM
ination of Mr.. Douglas was one not fit to be made
nor could he be elected under the most favor
able circumstances attending a nomination.
The South would have stultifed itself in nomi-
mating man with whom it did not agree in
principle. Mr.. DIS. friends assert that he is the
only Democrat who can receive the vote of the
North. Let them giveit to him. We shall have
no objection. Their reason for supporting him
is our reason for opposing him. We dc not be-
iiev.e, however, that he can carry single State
in the Union. All the North and all the South
will be against him. He will not only be beaten,
but disgracefully beaten. He is politically dead
and on the first Thursday in November next
he will be buried SO deep that the hand of Res
direction will never reach him. He has played
desperate game for the Presidency--a game of
fast and loose principle and bare faced election
misunderstanding the fate in reserve for him.
The course of his friends at the Convention
which met here this day week ago, was inso-
lent, overbearing, tyrannical, anti-democratic,
and fraudulent in the extreme. They came here
swearing that he was the only man they would
vote for, regardless of consequences. They came
here as miserable man-worshipers, caring moth
n for nrn niNIoc ftn Of 10
The South reasoned with them, and pointed to
the Importance of selecting candidate on whom
all the party could unite. Hunter, Breckenridge,
Dickinson, Lane, Gushing and others, were Of
tered them. But there was no compromise in
them. 1t was the game of bluf-and the chief
OF the faction has lost and gone to that political
bourne from whence no traveller returns. For q
time the Democratic party may also suffer-
But, although it may be stabbed in the house of
its protested friends it cannot be killed by one
man.
They turned out and put in just the number
required to nominate Mr.. D. by two-thirds
vote. But the trick failed; and they were left
to enjoy all the glory and shame of nomina-
ton under such circumstances. The heart and
soul of the Convention was lost by the with
dfawal of seventeen States, and in the next place
the head was lost by the withdrawal of Caleb
Gushing, the President of the Convention, who
abruptly left the Chair, evidently in disgust,
and was subsequently appointed Chairman OF the
real Democratic Convention. Tocarry out their
desperate game, the Douglasites virtually dis
tranchised some States, put bogus delegates in
others, and thus packed Convention, in order
to carry out a predetermined purpose to give
Mr. Douglas nomination at all hazards.
he oo k1ak IL. ~ o..
opposed to Mr.. Douglas; the fact that he, in
consequence of his long and angry war against
Mr.. Buchanan, could not hope to receive the
vote of the friends Of Mr.. B. in Pennsylvania.
where we have no votes to spare-the fact that
ne has embraced principle hostile and deemed
OF vital Importance to the South, and the fact
that he has repudiated the Cincinnati Platform
and the bred Scott decisiOn-and the fact that
he could not unite the party at time unity was
essential to success-afforded ample cause for
refusal of Democrats to go into a Convention
with men who refused to accept any other can.
dldate, without reference to the packed Conven-
ton. Mr.. Douglas has probably to learn that
he is not the Democratic party-that he is buta
single member of it-and that there are humid
reds of other Democrats as worthy and as much
entitled as he to the Presidency. His friends
say that ''squatter sovereignty" is an abstrac-
ton, OF no practical utility, and humbug. If
this be so, why are he and his friends so tena-
cious in holding on to the abstraction? If il is
humbug, why not yield to the wishes of the
South and thus, without the loss of ANYTHING
useful or practical, allay its prejudces and ouet
its objections? Some men may think the whole
slavery question an abstraction. The South il
quite as able as the North to judge whether or
not it is an abstraction. One thing is certain
the idea of Mr.. Douglas being elected President
for the next four years, is an abstraction.
SAD ACCIDENTAL child OF Mr. Peachy Wine
living near Dry River, in this county, was burnt
to death on Saturday last. 1t was PLAYING in
some ashes with shingle, when the shinole
took ire aud communicated with her CLOTHING
The little creature became alarmed, ran ont into
the yard, and was burnt into a crisp! It snr.
vived but short time. The child. we learn
was 3 or years OF age. The sad and melan.
choy accident has caused the deepest grief in
the family Of the little innocent one.-Rock. Reo
Look OUT.-A dexterous swindler. hailIno
from Baltimore, and calling himself - Mil.
Ter, succeeded during this week in swindline the
Monticello Bank of this place out of $500 NV
forged drafts on Baltimore. After purchasing
watch for 1925, paid for in check on the same
bank, he hired horse to ride into the country.
and that is the last that has been heard of man |
Or horse Charlottesville Reoiew
The National Executive Committee Of the
constitutional Union party, of which Hon. A
(. Boteler, of Virginia, is Chairman, hold meet |
ngs daily In Washington, and are actively en-