Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-08-10

O
1t is with reluctance that we attach our
names ito any publication, even in vlndlca-
tion Of ourselves, but the persuasion of
friends has induced us to ask the favor OF
YOU to give the same publicity to the ad-
dress herewith submitted that was given the
statement of the seeding delegates. A like
courtesy is asked of the Examiner, Index
and other Virginia papers to that extended
to our late colleagues. We arc most re-
specially,
Your obedient servants,
S. NJ YOST,
s. H. MOFFETT. Z.
no the Democracy OF the EEev-
eHatIl Electoral District.
Occupying the position Of Delegates from
the Eleventh Electoral District to the late
! National Convention, and believing the
course which we deemed proper to pursue in
the deliberations Of that body to be perfectly
understood and approved by an overwhelm-
ing majority of those whom we represented,
we would have been content to leave the de-
cision of the question, as to whether those
who participated in the deliberations Of the
National Democracy, or those who seeded
therefrom, were right, to the tribunal CT
public intelligence, undisturbed by appeals
4 or statements from either side of the con-
troversy. The seceders, however, having
adopted different line Of policy, and hay
ing issued an address in their own behalf TO
the Democracy of Virginia, we are induced
to submit the following facts as incontesti-
bly, sustaining the action of the National
Democratic Convention upon the authority
Of the Democratic precedent, congressional
compromise, conservative patriotism, and
enlightened public policy.
The same facts, in our judgement, most
decidedly condemn the movements of the Sc
ceders as disorganizing in their tendency
and hostile to the future progress of the
4 Democratic party and the perpetuity Of the
I American Union.
i Standing amidst the broken arches and
falling columns Of that grand political edi-
fee which was reared, adorned and beauti-
fed by the artistic skill of Jefferson and
Madison, Monroe and jackson, with the
most fearful forebodings for the destiny Of
our country, yet buoyed up with the con-
sciousness of having faithfully performed all
the obligations devolving upon US as dele
gates from the Eleventh Electoral District,
as Democrats and Virginians Of the States
Rights school, we speak out the honest con-
victions Of our minds in relation to the de-
plorable sohlsm now existing IN the ranks
Of our party.
Every Virginian remembers the famous
controversy between the two wings Of the
Democracy of this State, appertaining to the
doctrine Of Congressional intervention for
the protection Of slavery in the Territories.
All remember that the gallant and patriotic
| Wise, himself one Of the foremost states
men Of the age, represented and developed
with vigor peculiar to his own intense in
tellectuality, the principles and bearings Of
| ly remembered that the friends ard advocates
of the nomination of r. NJ. T. Hunter. as a
candidate for the Presidency, opposed firm
ly and steadily the incorporation OF this idea
| into party platform, as unwise, inexpedi-
ent and unnecessary. The press of the
State was unequally divided on the question
in point Of numbers -the Richmond Enqui-
rer as the exponent Of intervention, and the
Richmond Examiner as it's most uncompro-
missing opponent occupied the most promi-
nent positions. For weeks and months, the
subject was the theme Of pertinacious dis
putation throughout our State, as was also
the relation borne to one side of the contro-
versy by the distinguished standard bearer
of our party, Stephen A. Douglas, of Hi
nois.
The sentiment CT the Democracy Of the
Eleventh Electoral District was unmistaka.
BILE. That sentiment was what it is now
favorable to the doctrine of ''non -interven-
ton" and to the adoption of the Cincinnati
platform, and bitterly opposed to all limo
vations on the established usages Of our
| party. Our names were submitted as cam
dldates before the Convention of the Elev-
enth Electoral District, and the views en-
tertained by US, and the line of conduct we
would pursue, if elected, made patent to the
meanest understanding
We announced an Individual preference
for the Hon. r. NJ. T. Hunter-a prefer
ence determined by the understanding that
ne espoused the doctrine of s'non -interven-
ton and was opposed to the adoption of
any new test Of party feaity. Our public
and private expression Of sentiment was
against Congressional intervention" on the
subject of slavery in the Territories, after
the organization Of Territorial Legisla-
ture, y and in favor Of carrying into faithful
execution the compromise between the North
and the South agreed upon in the Kansas
Nebraska act. And whilst we asserted orr
intention to support the Hon. R. NJ. T.
Hunter SO long as he had prospect to sue
coed, we at the same time declared our de-
llberate purpose to engage in no factious
opposition to the nomination of any candi-
didate whose name was then prominently
before the people, in connection with the
action of the Charleston Convention. We
were elected by the Convention, and on the
23day of April were in Charleston, to enter
upon the discharge of our duties as dele
gates We found the majority Of the Vir-
ginia delegation to be what we were advised
it was before leaving Virginia favorable to
the nomination of the Hon. r. M. T. Hun
ter-and, as we understood, to the the re-.
affirmation of the Cincinnati Platform
We extract the following from the adj
dress Of r. Fl. Glass, ESQ.,, a delegate to
the Convention, and high in the esteem and
confidence of the Hunter party, now float
ing from the mast head Of the Lynchburg
.sRenublicanu the names of Breckinridge