Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-08-31
Judge Douglas in sfannton.

Judge Douglas I'm STANTON.
[. will be seen by the following dispatcl
received on Wednesday last, dhat the Hon
s. A. Douglas, the candidase of the Natiea
al Democratic party Coz the Presidency
the great Statesman and Patriot, who know
no section, but is alike devoted to every por
ton of our common. country, will be i,
Staunton on tomorrow in the two o,cloel
train.
PETERSBURG, Aug. Is, 1860.
10 M G.. Harm,an or S. M Yost.
Judge Douglas will be in Stauntea b,
regular train on Saturday next, Sept. LIST
in Woodstock On Monday, Sept. Sd.
G. w. BOWLING"
We anticipate Tomorrow an immens
gathering of the masses of all political per
suasions. for there is no man in whose hear
throbs seosibility Of right, or in who's
head there is one thimbae full of brains, wh.
does not acknowledge, to himself at least, tina
Stephen A. Douglas has been and is nov
the great defender of his day of the Consti
tuition and the Union-the master mind tina
rises above the mere quibbles and artifcel
of the political triekster and party huckster
| and marches boldly and bravely to grapplt
with IDEAS. Scorning, as every patrio
should, the technical and metaphysical con.
struction of terms. which have no substantial
Specification, he seeks to arrive at the prac.
tscat meaning, purpose and results of gov.
eminent and laws, and having accomplished
that end, he dares to go before the country
and ia the face ofmobs and Kisses and threats.
to plainly, frankly and brayely declare his
convictions. He does it everywhere and 10
every community alike Although his path
way from Washington to Chicago was lurid
with his own burning efiigies because he had
maintained the rights of the South in Con-
gress, yet this only made him the more
fierce in defence Of thoserights in the midst
of an Infatuated mob, whom he FIRST shamed,
then denounced aud finally conquered by
the prowess of his towering intellect, and
the resistless power Of the cause Of Truth
and Justice which he had espoused. Wher-
ever he has gone, from the glades and sa-
vannahs of the Sunny South to the hills and
vallies of the North-from the broad prai-
ries and fertile plains Of his own mighty
West, to the ocean bound shores of the East
at extremes and midway, he has had but
one great theme to advocate and butone great
idea to present-the Constitution and the
Union-fhey must and shall be preserved.
He comes here in the centre Of the very
cradle of Liberty-the birthplace of the De-
claration Of Independence, the Constitution
of the United States and the Bill of Rights
of Virginia, to declare, uphold and defend
from all assaults, the great immutablc prin-
ciple of justice and equality the denial of
which brought those instruments into exis-
tence. Equal rights and equal laws--the
equality of every citizen with every other
citizens the great foundation idea that
underlies the party which Judge Douglas
represents, and which as sure as the sun
shines and star answers to star in beauty
and brilliancy, mast triumph, or the govern
ment which is based upon it, must crumble
to pieces.
Let every man who can possibly get here,
and especially every Democrat, come in to-
morrow to pay tribute of respect to this
great apostle of the principle Of Popular
government-the Corypheus of the rights
of the people-the man whose every act and
every word have been in common with the
masses Of the country, and who this day
stands peerless, the great master mind aud
expounder of our governmental system.