Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-05-18
The Master-Spirit Of the Charles.
ton SeceSSiOniSts.

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The re- production of the notorious Scar.
let Letter" in our columns yesterday, is pro
ducing profound sensation here in sober
minded circles. Its appearance has furnish
ed key to the unsuspecting, of the attempt
at Charleston to demoraize the integrity Of
the Democracy. The disaffection of Ala
bama, as represented by Mr.. Yancey and
Mr.. Walker, was assuredly premeditated, il
it was not studiously pre-arranged. The
delegates seem to have gone to the ccnven-
ton for no other purpose than to SOW ths
seeds Of dissension in heretofore harmoni.
Gus body This is manifest, as will be seer
by the extract below from letter writer
by the latter TO brother of Senator Clay
on the 7th of June, 1859, in answer to the
three following questions.
'1st. Is it the duty of Congress to inter.
vene for the protection of slavery in the Uni
ted States?
"2ud. Are you in favor Of repeal of the
laws Of Congress, which declares the foreign
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''3rd. What position should Southern
Democracy assume in the Charleston Con-
vention %
In the concluding paragraphs Of his let
ter, Mr. Walker says:
''In answer, frst-He should insist upon
adopting platform before making the nom
nations. 2nd,-This platform must en-
body the first Of tie foregoing propositions,
and should embrace, in principle, the sec
oni, also-3d, If the first Of these propo-
stions-viz: protection Of slavery in the
territories, is not adopted, the South should
withdraw from the convention, and make it's
own nominations, and enunciate a platform
of principles consistent with the dignity of
sovereign States and the great right of self
protection. In adopting this course, we
must expect defections from our own ranks.
Old Saturn himself never devoured his off,
springs with more faculty and apparent rel
sh, than do some men their opinions and
professions, for the sake of the emoluments
and honors Of Office; forgetting that, in after
life, the recollections Of their treachery will
remain only like demons upon the memory,
to tauDt them with the cost at which they
purchased them. But our ranks will be re-
inforced by the good men and true of what
is now called the Opposition And I, for
one, will hail them as brothers, whatever
may have been their antecedents. When
the South is beleaguered by enemies, at
home as we'll as abroad, let us remember the
Christian precept, ''Ephraim shall not envy
Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.' .
"We have missicn TO fulfil, 'ennobled
by its danger, and purified by its isolation,
and we may we'll afford to cultivate that
Corinthian spirit in which each one is allow
ed to have doctrine, or an Interpretation
Of his own, upon questions and issues hav-
ing no present Importance, but long since
buried in the Past.
With this spirit, let Che crisis comet
Be bold, united, firmly set,
Nor finch in word or tone;
Well be glorious people yet
Observation-Disclosures
I am, very respectfully;
Your obedient servant,
L. P. WALKER.
j. WIrHERs CLAY, ESQ"
1t must be borne in mind that Mr.. Walk
err, the ardent coadjutor and eoaborer of Mr..
Yancey, was the chairman of the Alabama
delegation first delegation that ever
seeded from Democratic convention.
Is Delaware, or Maryland. or Virginia
or North Carolina, or Tennessee, or Ken
lucky, or Missouri. or Arkansas, Or Texas.
or Louisiana, or Mississippi, or Florida. or
Georgia, or South Carolina, or even con-
siderable portion of the citizens of Alabama,
prepared to coalesce with such wild disor-
ganizipg spirits :? No,a thousand times no
we will undertake to say will be the prompt
and definite answer of EACH Let them stand
resolutely shoulder to shoulder in the ire
pressible conflict which is to be determined
in November. and, if Sewardism shall be
triumphant, there will then be an insevcra-
Bile bond of union between the Democracy
of the North and the South sufficiently strong
to efficiently protect the latter against AbU-
lition aggressions. The patriotic men of
the slaveholding States desire nothing more
than this. Factionists cannot persuade or
frighten them into change of this true pol
ICY Washington States.
EE- Every one sits in judgment on dir
ty sin; but clean it, dress it and polish it,
and there are ten thousand people who think
it not so sinful after ALL 1t is ragged in.
ioultv that shocks their delicaoy.