Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-07-20
DiSgruntled.

A b0mb-Shell thrown into the camp or a
band of sleeping yaserizlas, could not have
created greater Consideration Thar did the
fifteen line card Of Capt J A Hartman cali
ing State Convention of the Democracy
fof Virginia, to meet at Staunton on the 10th
Tof August, in the ranks of the Seceders.
| The Richmond Examiner and Alexandria
Sentinel roll up their eyes and uplif'
their hands in holy horror, and with all the
force and potency Of the most choice ad
verbs, adjectives, ordinations and inferno.
cations, warn the Democracy of the State
that treason turks somewhere Probably in
the whole history ofjournalism there never
has been parallel to the self-cotn placen
impudence which characterizes the criticisms
Of these papers The Sentinel coaxes, sigh.
and threats, inanifesting mood totally a
variance with the.placid temper and unwrin
killed. front ordinarily the agreeable features
of its editorial intercourse. The Examiner
has preached several 1soporiRc sermons upon
political ethics, now Eliminating tie ahathe-
mas which it holds in terrorem over the
heads of those who run counter to the laws
Of its "inexorable logic" and NOV again
eliminating in one of those beautiful fourth
cf-July periods that "make each particular
hair to stand on end like quilts Upon the
fretful porcupine AT first our knees smote
each other for very fear, then we whistled
to make-believe we were not frightened, aud
finally, finding our spinal column giving
way, weSsecured the services of a buck ne
gro to run fence rail up our back to keep
us steady and erect under the salamander
onslough Of our two mercurial cotcnrpora-
ries. The storm has spent its ftry-the
fuaking thunder has ceased; the clouds dis
charged their electric fluid, and still we
move like ching Of life upon this terres-
tial planet, unscathed, and perfectfully sound
in mind and body! Strange as this may
seem, it is certainly true.
1t is always source Of regret for Us to
offer with either the Eaanes;ner or the Sen
ttnet-papers conducted with marked abili-
ty, and heretcforeeSponeEt ofthe true poll
-cy of the party, with whom it has been our
fortune to cordially coincide in many instan-
ces. Bat through the influence of dis
union movement in the Virginia delegation,
we have been separated, and it only remains
for us to vindicate our own position as that
alone wnish is consistent with the integrity
of the Democratic party and the true inter
ests of the Union. The Enonshe.. and Sen
tinet could scarcely have expected anything
else from Capt. Hartman, than the caN he
has issued, after majority of the Executive
Committee had refused AL propositions of
compromise, and determined upon Con
vention, which they knew would not be at
tended by a single friend Of Douglas and
johnson in Virginia. What are HE facts
Of the case? The Virginia delegation, with
tie Examiner and Sentinel in the lead, were
committed to the Cincinnati Platform and
on-intercentie7s. They we're so committed
in the face of the known fact that Alabama
was pledged to secede from the Charleston
Convention if 3Rtertention was not iucorpo-
rated into the platform. The Convention
met-the Cincinnati platform and Non-I In
tervention were adopted, and Alabama and
several ether States did seeele. Virginia
voted for the platform as adopted remained
in the Convention and ballotted Gfty-seven
times for candidate for President, and
then moved to adjourn, at the same time re-
questing the States whose delegates had Sc
oodo1 m eli vao,,o;oh Thn I,,3o.4:. -
assembled at Baltimore on the 9Th of June.
The first thing q majority of the Virginia
delegation did was to pass a resolution as
sorting 10 Substance, that il would be cause
sufficient to dissolve the Convention, if all
Of the seeding delegates we're not read
mitted to seats. This was passed in HE
face of the fact that South Carolina and
Florida had refused to have anything to do
with the Convention, the delegates from Ala
bama had declared they could never as homo
rable men go into the Convention, aud when
the whole of the seceders had been accredi-
ted to the Richmond Southern Contention,
as contradistinguished from the Baltimore
National Convention. Virginia had made
the resolve in advance of the claims of the
different delegations from the seeding
States being submitted to the committee on
credentials, and blindly prejudged all the
cases and pledged herself to revolutionary
and distinguishing course, even should the
seceders be refused seats upon he most IL
proof in favor of the contestants.
The Convention did refuse seats to some
Of the Seceders, but admitted others. -
Tbereupon. majority Of the Virginia Gel
egation seeded, as did other Southern and
the Pacific States They seeded upon &
mere matter of organization. The Conven-
ton did not refuse to let any Southern State
be represented, but simply decided that
certain delegates from the same State had
stronger claims to recognition than certain
other delegates-a question clearly within
the pale Of the legislation of the Convention,
for every deliberatiye body has the right to
adjulge the qualifications of its own mem
bers. There was not one third of the Con-
vention that seeded As afterwards con-
stituted, the Seceders assumed to represent
over one third of the Electoral Colleges -
But not one of them was accredited by his
to act in that Convention 1t
was self-constituted body of american
for the moment they severed their
with the Convention to which
they had been accredited by their people,
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