Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-08-24


the breach that unhappily divided the par
ty. and each endeavor was met with stud-
led insult and insclent defiance. Such a
result might have been anticipated from the
beginning. The temper that convened and
the spirit that actuated the assembly at
Staunton, was bitterly hostile to all compro-
mise. Cancellation had no place on their
programme of operations. The decree had
gone forth from headquarters forbidding it,
and their own feelings prompted ready
obedience to the official mandate"
We clip the above extract from leading
editorial Of the Petersburg Bulletin Of the
2lst inst, as specimen Of the unfairness
of the Breckenridge organs in this State
No man at all acquainted with the facts,
and disposed to deal fairly with them, can
hesitate to nail the statements of the Bulle-
tin to the counter as utterly unfounded.
What the Bulletin means by a esprit of
maguanimity" on the part of the Charlottes-
vile Convention, we are at loss to con-
ceive. If the appointment Of a Committee
of Conference was magnanimous, what was
the refusal of the Committee to confer p
If the Convention displayed esprit of
magnanimity," how can it's action in over
slaughing their own Committee, by discuss
ing-anI that, too, with studied insult
and insolent defiance" the subject referred,
before the Committee had reported upon it,
or even had time to interchange messages
with the Staunton Committee regarded
as aught else tLan a display of spirit Of
pusillanimity? "Such result might have
been anticipated from the beginning" from
q portion of such leaders as were assembled
at Charlottesville, but could not have been
reasonably expected from many of the gen.
tlemen who composed the Convention. From
the first, their show of conciliatory action
was an unmitigated sham-their subsequent
conduct renders it too transparent to deceive
for moment the intelligent Democracy of
Virginia.
Every man who attended the Staunton
Convention knows that the temper which
aetuated it was not "bitterly hostile to all
compromise" but, on the contrary, very
large majority of its members were anxious
~ DESTROYS of effecting an honorable recon-
ciliation with the other wing of the party.
The proposition for Committee of Con-
ference was promptly and unanimously a.
dopted-the Chairman of the Committee
was known to Gov. Smith and other mem
bsrs of the Charlottesville Committee TO be
warm friend of conciIiation-a majority
of the Committee were thoroughly commit
ted to a fair compromise The Staunton
Committee were jealous anI assiduous in
their efforts to communicate with the Char
lottesville Committee, Notwithstanding the
discourteous silence of the latter The Con-
vention having referred the matter, by the
passage Of most courteous and conciGatory
resolution, to Conference Committee, wait
ed patiently hour after hour, to hear re-
port from tire joint Committees, before ae-
ton should be had Even after 'forbear-
ance ceased to be a virtue" it adjourned
over for another night, to agord the Char
lottesville Convention the fullest opportunity
to make an 'endeavor consistent with hon
or to, heal the breach that unhappily divi-
ded the party"
fhe facts of this whole case are before the
people of this Commonwealth-we will not
repeat them now-they fully vindicate the
friends of Mr.. Douglas from the unjust as
PERSONS of the Bulletin and his confreres !;
nay more, they clearly demonstrate the re-
sponsibility of Mr.. Breekinsidge's friends
for the failure s'to heal the breach shat un-
happily divided the party" We tell the
Bulletin that the people of Virginia will
hold him and his wing of the party to a
fearful responsibility for their failure ''to
heal the Breach" Already sthe handwri-
ting is upon the wall" and the Indignant
displacement Of the Charlottesville poiti-
clans from the favor Of the people and par
ticipation in the-by thea-dsarly- loved
"loaves and fishes" is determined upon.
AS to the fling in reference to an 'sofdd-
cial mandate we have only to say, none
such chad gone forth from headquarters,
If there had, the editor-of the Bulletin
would hardly have been advised of it; and
we can arrive at no other conclusion than
that he having received such, supposed the
Douglas men also wore collar.