Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-08-03
The Ground swell.

ton Of Western Virginia, in which the
most encouraging intelligence is commune
Gated as to the prospects of Judge Douglas
The people are'beginning to move. Here
tofore the politicians have taken the first
steps in favor of the seceders' nominees,
and now comes the time Of those who are
the masters Of the politicians. The masses
are determined not to be led. like sheep to
the shambles, but are asserting their right
to think and act for themselves in matter
wherein is involved the momentous issue Of
the existence of the Union.
A letter from an intelligent and infuen-
tial gentleman in Highland county says
Il, with numerous others in this section,
am pleased with the bold stand you have ia
ken in defence Of the honor and integrity
of the great National Democratic party
against the efforts Of boilers, disorganizerf
and disunionists. 1t is to behoped thatthose
delegates from Virginia, who ran away from
the only Convention in which the people had
authorized them to sit and act, will be taught
lesson that they will not soon forget
We suggest to our friends to have meet
ing of the Democracy called to appoint del
egates from Highland to the Staunton Con-
vention. We also want The friends of the
Democratic party in Bath, Pocahontas, Pen
dleton and Allegheny to do likewise.
A letter from Warren county says: 81
see through the papers that you have raised
the regular Democratic flag with the names
of Douglas and johnson. Send me spe-
cimen number of your paper, and I will
procure you list Of subscribers. The paper
here is for the disuniorists. .
4 letter from Randolph county says:--s.1
have been taking the Richmond Examine,
for number of gears, but have no fur
ther use for it. Send me the indicator
as [ see that you have raised the Douglas
and johnson flag. Three cheers for Doug
las p 1T e34.
These are specimen extracts taken at ran
dom from our correspondence. We might
multiply them to an almost indefinite extent,
but they are sufficient to indicate the gene
raj tenor of the letters we receive. Gradu.
ally the trath is working its way among the
people, that the true doctrine of the Demo-
cracy is Non-Intervention By Congress with
the subject of slavery in State and Terrific
ry-that the people thereof are the bes,
Judges of what they want and what they dc
not want-the great idea upon which the
Revolution was fought and our system o.
government is based-that the people s,t
capable Of seZf:gouernnaent-and which finds
its true exposition ia the platform laid down
by the Democratic Convention at Baltimore
of which DOUGLAS and JOHNSON are
the nominees It il the practical, control
ling idea which seizes upon the common
mind, and the only one, as applied to polit
cal communities, that can be clearly ano
practically exemplifed in the history Of re-
publican government. All Others must
necessarily, from the very working and prin-
ciple of our governmental polity, result il
failure. The People is King. Speculative
theories must and will be swept away befor<
the march of practical, popular truth, and
the time is not distant when the fact will b
incontrovertibly proven that there is no ether
doctrine compatible with the existence o
the Union of these sovereign States, but tha
of Non Intervention.
The editor of the Lewisburg Chronicle
whose espousal Of Democracy is of SO recen
date that he can scarcely be considered ia
miliar with the Democratic alphabet, is ex
ceedingly savage against Capt. j. A. Har
man, because of the call he recently issued
for State Convention to meet in Staunton
and says that that gentleman is an "unwor
thy member Of the Executive Committee. y
The Chronicle is but a weak echo of the
metropolitan Breckenridge papers. They
assume all The authority and all the Democ
racy in the State The progress Of this cam
vass will exhibit the fact that the Nationa
Democracy-the supporters Of Douglas ane
Johnson as the nominees Of the Nation a
Democratic Convention mean to stand firm
in the right. and exhibit nerve and will e
quail to the emergency which has new arjs
en-, or any that may yet arise. "Thrice il
he armed who hath his quarrel just" wa
no truer in the philosophy of the great Poe
Of Nature, than it is in the political throe
which involve great country like ours. -
With all our heart, soul and mind we en-
dorse the call for the Staunton Convention
and conscientiously believe that it was The
only step that could have been taken te
maintain the integrity Of the Democratic
party, and save the country from the mad
and blind fanaticism Of Disunionists. The
Democratic Convention which meets in
Staunton on the 10th inst, will represent
tho aciU Of the people, ard its results will
not go forth simply with the insprinsatur Of