Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-09-14
For the Vtndicator.
Douglas and Senator Mason,
LOCUST HILL, FAIRFAX Co., Va. J
Santam her 9Th 1870

Douglas in our State has given the lie alike
to the politicians and the press. ''Douglas
dares not look for countenance or support
from the people Of Virginia" said the poll.
ticians one month ago. Douglas is trail.
tor and his adherents are but leprous demo
Gratis exclaims the Hon. James Malyoic
Mason. 'He cannot muster corporars
guard her" Virginia has noughs fon
Douglas but Kisses and contempt" howled
supple and subsidized press. "Shoud
he dare to attempt to preach his heresies
IN the Old Dominion. we shall serve him as
we served John Brown cries an editorial
whipster at Richmond.
Douglas came, however, and his descent
was as that of the eagle anon owls and tom.
tits; and the lying oracles of the press and
of the stump stood ''fabbergasted" and
dumb in his presence, while the honest
hearted masses of the people cried aloud for
Joy. 1t rs true, the cause of Douglas was
unattractive. Arayed against him, on the
one hand, were the disappointed aspirants
with their retainers, backed by all that was
reasonable or disloyal in the South; on the
other band, the Administration with it's
enormous patronage Of eighty millions of
dollars, added to new subsidies levied on
federal officials for the support of presses
and central executive committees. Against
odds SO terrible as these, he came forward
armed simply. with lion-heart and the fiery
gospel of democratic truth upon Lis lips !;
but with these he confounded his enemies,
and in a few hours ki1ded a fame in the
Virginia heart that will not die out for many
day. Some Of the secession presses now
tell us that douglas is all right, but that
he has no show in the State, aud that every
vote cast for him is bat vote given to
Bell "He. cannot" [ answer, "well
carry the State, unless you aid his cause by
telling the people the truth. by rallying on
him not only as the regular nominee, bu,
the representative Of the great Southern De-
mocratfc doctrine of Non Intervention and
as he is potent 10 the North and West where
your candidate has no '.show"-has nc
"show," indeed, even ia the South, and II
is questionable row whether he can carry
even South Carolina why do yoa continnt
to divide the party by grasping at shadows
assured that every vote you cast for your
| II
let me come to Senator Mason.
| So long as this gentleman was contente5
to MUNICH his rations in silence at the Dem.
ccratic crib-which he has been doing these
twenty years-the '.leprous Democracy" bac
little to say against him. They believed il
the most natural thing IN the world that {
man might be dull and yet be deceut-sha
a man may have red face and white liver
as he proved at Harrisonburg when shrink
ing FROM the challenge of Gov Foote to dis
cuss the issues of the day, he crawled in
gloriously cut Of a back window of the court
house-that man may look big, affect The
gobbler strut, have little brains. aud vet b.
lnoffensiye; but when he dwarfs his senate
rial stature and gives public vent to suol
rhetoric as would disgrace an apple woman
the ''leprous Democracy" think it high ti,at
to cast about tor successor to this geatte
man. Virginia has many worthier SOM
than he. His political sands are nearly rur
out, as are those Of every public soar whc
has mnistered to the disruption of our party
l do not pretend te say that Mason is more
politically dishonest than Hunter OF other
disappointed asprants who, receiving no in
vitatlon to occupy front seat on the Benz
cratic platform. endearored to make thai
platform too hot for Douglas to stand ca
although up to recent date, he considered
1t dals Of the noblest and most exquisite
carpeniry-the happy conception" as Bu
chanan said Of it. .'of the collective Demo
cratic wisdom of the nineteenth century :
bit do say that, no matter how little res
pect the opinions Of Senator Mason sboulc
command as statesman his views as to -da1
expressed before bis ''leprous" ccnstituen
cy on the disturbing question of territorial
power--or "squatter sovereignty" as h,
prefers to call it-compared with his opin
ions of yesterday on the same subject. show
a condition of mind and morals unspeakably
revolving to every honest, manly and con
sistent democrat
quote from his speech, delivered in til.
Senate, in the 34tb Congress, in renly t,
Fessenden, of Maine;
NOW what was the issue presented in The
last canvass in the State so ably represented
by the honorable Senator (Mr. Fesscndeu
On this floor, or anywhere else, | know not
. but | do know what was the issue on thi
! subject which was presented in the politica
platform adopted at Cincinnati by the Dem
ocratic party. That issue was the doctrin
Of the Kansas Nebraska bill What wa
that? The Territorial government wasss
organized then as to admit citizens of al
the States, whether free or slave, 70 tax,
: their property into the Territories; and uhe1
they organized themselves, or acere organizes
under the la,., into a Legislative body, the
to determine for themselves aehether this IN
; statution shall eaist among them or not
The specific difference is. that under tn
Kansas law, citizens from the slave State
d might 60 into the Territories with their prop
erty; citizens from the free States might 2
there holding no suchj and ,ohen they 9
;, there and meet IN common council as lee
lsIatiue body, they should determine aohethe
. the institution should prevos7; whereas. tt
party which the honorable Senator is no
representing here, declares that III the o.
ganic law creating the government in tn
Territory, there shall be prohibition 4
u ltnaino that no slaves shall ge there. Tha
was the issue presented by the platform a
, doptcd at Cincinnati. Gong. Globe, 8
Sess., 34th Cong, p. "a.
A JACKSON DEMOCRAT.
/ TuE GREAT EASTERN AND DIRECT TRAD