Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-10-05
An Uniust Prejudice.

cessionists is that the election of Lincoln
will be practical declaration that the PEG.
pie of the North are at war with the people
of the South. This assumption is contrary to
the actual facts in the case. and unjustly
prejudiclal to the conservative sentiment oil
the North. Let the conservative, national,
union-loving element of the North have q
hand-to-hand contest with the fanatical
hordes who, with vandal impulses, seek to
destroy the force Of constitutional obliga.
tons and infringe upon the rights Of the cit.
liens of oae portion of the confcderacy, and
we will guarantee that the friends of equal.
ity and the Constitution will significantly
triumph over the ismatists. Instead of that
however, party leaders, and designing dema.
gogues initiate political movements which
are calculated to divide the conservative sen.
timent, and thus give power to an united
and consolidated enemy who is really in the
minority. There is preponderance in IA
yor Of conservatism in the North, decidedly
and uncompromisingly friendly to all the
gsranteed rights of the South, yet when d.
vided it is powerless to accomplish the very
object for which we blame them in failing
to effect. We should no more hold the
great mass of the Northern people respon-
sible for the Personal Liberty Bills of Mas
sachusetts and Vermont, than should the
entire South De held accountable for the
extreme views of South Carolina. 1t is un-
just to the people Of the North to brand them
as enemies of the Constitution and the rights
of the South, when we assist ia creating
the divisions which paralyze their efforts to
give practical efficiency to their real senti-
ments. It is hypocrisy and cowardice and
in us to charge the brave and
true and high souled men of the North Will,
being our enemies when they are daily graz J.
pling with an avowed foe and seeking to
strangle him to death. There never has
been exhibited a grander and more sublime
devotion to the Union and the cor stitutional
rights Of the South than the late fusion ia
New York between the friends of three can
didates for the Presidency opposed to the
''irrcpressible conflict candidate Laying
aside party attachments, yielding up party
and individual predictions as
a holy oblation upon the altar of the Consti-
tuition and the Union, the conservative ele-
ments have banded together in common
fight against the avowed enemy of the
South. When and where has ever been pre-
sented in the political history of the country
a nobier spectacle of love for the right than
in this union? It is for our rights that they
have united-it is to defend as that these
brave aud true men have come together to
beat down our enemies. And yet men in
the South talk about dissolving their connec-
ton with such men !! No! If Black Re-
publican should be elected by the divisions
we are helping 10 create among The conser-
vative men at the North and that Black Re-
publican should attempt to transgress one
single letter or syllable of the Constitution,
we will not, like towards and bathrooms, fy
from the invader, but calling upon the con
sentative and constitutional loving majority
Of the North, we will march upon the trait
Or, and in the language of Judge Douglas,
hang him ten feet higher than Virginia
hung old John Brown" We cannot, as
men, respecting our manhood. be driuen
may from the Constitution. We must
stand by and defend it. tits our Inheritance,
md we owe it to ourselves and to our pos
erity to keep it spotless from the touch of
raitorous hands. 1t would be pretty spec
,acle for those who boast themselves of their
,hivalry and courage, to run from shad-
wv phantom, and leave in the hands of
heir sworn foe all that should be held dear
BY patriot! If the South should fly from
he contest, we will avouch that the North
srn conservatives will rally as one man to
The rescue, and wrest the government from
he hands of the spoilers and traitors. It
vas never designed by God Almighty that
his edi6ce, founded and built up for his glo-
y in the spread of FREQ religious and polit-
cal principles and the development of hu-
nan capacity for self-government-unfet-
cred by imperial edicts or arbitrary enact
nents-should be torn down to crafty the
PASSIONS of band of infdels in heart to
,very princi pie Of rational progress and le-
Ultimate and healthy intellectual expansion
We must stand by the brave men of the
North who, rising above sectional prejudice.
IRE now standing by the Constitution. We
must fight for it as we would our own fire.
tides, and consider every man friend and
brother, who will lock shields with us to
meet the charge of the enemy. Whenever
he contest comes, if come it should, South
,rn men who have reviled and traduced and
,elied and besmeared the character of Judge
Douglas will see him coming forward, as in
lines past. boldly aud firmly bearing aloft
he banner of the Union under the Cousti-
ution and equal rights to all, to join hands
md heart with them in its defence. He
low leads a column of gallant spirits in
he North, many Of whom nave extended a
,elping hand to the South in time of need.
They will do it again, and from such men
re cannot separate. We have a common
object in view, and by united action we can
md will achieve it.
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