Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-07-03
take the following spirit-stirring and patriotic


extract:
"Whist there is still Union OF States, IT Is
incumbent on every loyal and patriotic citizen
to adhere to National Party. There is now
| only one such party remaining. The Democrat
lie party is ruptured into sectional notifies We
| stem from sundered organization to the plat
| form of-sTHE UN1oN-THE CoNsTITUTIoN-AND
THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS When this
fails us-when this, too, shall be riven in twain
and there shall be no other alternative-we
must, per force, make choice between the sec
tions.
"We are lifelong Democrats Nevertheless
zoe are aoillng to enlist uder the banner Of Bell
and E0erett aoho haze been Wings and Anaera-
cans We enlist not as Wigs or Americans, but
as Constitutional Union soldiers The banner
is emblazoned with the motto of the Constitu-
ton and the Union, and it floats upon the breeze
in every State. We follow that banner. Its
bearers are statesmen; renowned throughout the
world-renowned for their virtues, for their
commanding intellectual endowments, for their
long experience in public affairs, and for their
public services as Governors, as Senators, as
Cabinet Ministers and Diplomatists.
BELL AND EVERETT aoiU saoeep the South from
one end to the other, and if the hitherto conser-
vative people of the North are not false to the
obligations of duty and patriotism, and not blind
to every consideration of interest-both nation
al and individual-they will carry New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, New York, and at least half the
New England States Awake! arise! or be
forever talenp Sound the trumpet-beat the
drumming the bell-and rally the masses,
North and South, East and West, to the rescue
of the Union, in the sacred names of Washington
and the Constitution"
| The contest is now between Bell and Lincoln.
The Constitutional Union party is the only Ma
tional party in the field to combat the Abolition
party The other factions are merely engaged
| in Kilkenny cat-6ght among themselves, and
nothing but the small ends of their tails will be
left at the end of the BATTLE"
What a Democratic Delegate Says.
A Douglas delegate from the Greenbrier
District to the Democratic Convention in Balti-
more passed through this place on Wednesday
last on his way home. He was full of Douglas
zeal and confidence, and poured denunciation hot
as vitriol upon the heads Of the friends of tb<
nomination of Breckenridge and Lane. HePos
itively asserted that the object of that Gonven.
ton was to effect dissolution of the Union, te
precipitate the country into revolution, and tc
drench it in bloodshed in civil war.
He said that Breckenridge and Lane had moi
the slightest possible chance to carry single
State in the Union except South Carolina, and
that it was more than folly, it was treason t.
support that ticket.
He denounced Hon. Caleb Gushing in un
measured terms, saying that he prostituted biz
position as Chairman of the Convention to the
heinous purpose of disorganizing the Democratic
party.
He said the object of the Richmond CONVEX
ton was to corrupt the Virginia delegation, an(
that that object was effected.
He asserted that thousand persons had beer
offered the appointment of Judgeship in the Su
preme Court, to supply the vacancy occasionet
by the death of Judge Daniel.
/ That Washington City under this Administra
ton is the "most corrupt place this side the AS
lphaltes."
He says the people are for Douglas, and tina
it is only the politicians who are for Breckin
ridge and Lane.
We do not profess to quote the language, Blu
think we have correctly given the substance o
his remarks, as they were poured forth with tn
rapidity of electricity, the vim of condensed
steam, and the heat of molten lava.
When asked his opinion of the Massachusett
delegation, he said that if he owned negr'
within % miles of the border he would be afrait
he would be stolen by that delegation.