Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-09-07


18th Dist N. LIGGETT, Rockinghans.
18th Dist.-D. H. HOGE, Montgomery.
18th Dist.-GEo. W. HOPKINS, Washington,
14th Dst.-C. J. STUART, Doddridge.
18th Dist.-WM. G.. BROWN, Preston.
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The Great Question before the
People.
The great want, the great desire of the
people North and South, is to purge our ma
tional politics Of "the Niger" with whom
the Abolitionists of the North and the Disu-
nioniss of the South have been playing bat
door aud shuttle cock, of and On since
1920. Within the last twelve years the
political agitation Of the Slavery question
has assumed chronic character, threaten
ing at stated periods to destroy the Union
md steadily breaking one by one the ties
religious. political and social, which former
ly united, as band Of brothers, the South
ern and the Northern people. While, there
fore, the political agitation of this accursed
question, of British importation, has produ-
eed many evils, what good has it done to any
section Of the country or to any one in the
country, black or white /? The people of the
North fanaticised by the Abolitionists; the
Southern people exasperated by the Disu
nionists of the South, have been annually
brought to the polls, Quixote like. to fight
wind mills aud ia the confusion of the fray
demagogues have stepped into Office, to the
exclusion Of men of patriotism and common
Esense. If the compromise measures of 1850,
carried through Congress by Clay, Webster,
Cass, Douglas and other patriots, and the
Kansas Nebraska bill adopted as the compile
ment Of those measures, had been faithfully
and honestly carried out by the Administra-
! lions Of Franklin Pierce and James Bucha-
nan, this dangerous question would long
since have been finally settled But unfor-
tunately, President Pierce was as much I'M
der The controlling influence of ambition and
Southern Fire-eaters as his successor, James
Buchanan, has since been. The prestige of
Southern influence, nsssrep7esenteda at Wash
ngton by Southern disuulonists, imposed
upon the credelity and weakness of admin
strations which soon became the plant tools
Fof Southern demagogues. The Northern
fanatics were not slow to avail themselves of
the errors and duplcity which characterized
the vacillating policy Of the Government at
Washington. Hence, the renewal, with re-
doubled accrimony, of the Slavery question,
which has again eliminated, as in 1850,
into crisis threatening the safety CT the
Union and tie peace of the country
But at length the people of the South
have awakened to the imminens dangers
which threaten them They have sudden
ly stopped On the very brink Of the abyss
into which the disunicnists were leading
them. A sudden and tremendous reaction
has taken place. The Southern conserva-
tives have disowned and repudiated the
Rhetts and the Yanceys, the Keitts and the
Slidells, in the persons Of their candidates,
and Lane! The same reac-
ton is now going on in the North, where
the moderate Republicans are deserving by
thousands from the ranks of Lincoln and
Hamlin, to array themselves against section
alism. The time has at length arrived when
the great agricultural, manufacturing and
interests Of the country feel the
imperative necessity in the North, as we'll
as in the South, to rebuke the insane dema-
gogues who rccklessly leopard the very exis-
tence of the Union, to crafty their insatiate
and unholy ambition. Hence, in New York
the friends Of Douglas and Bell haverallied
in one soild column the elements of conser-
vatisin against the disunionists' under Lin
coin and Breckinridge-w who, at the Presi-
DENTAL election, will be routed and driven
from the field. The City of New York alone
will give fifty thousand of a majority against
this unholy and unnatural alliance. Every
indication points to similar results in all the
Northern and Western States, where the
lovers Of the Union. Of order, of peace and
National prosperity are now preparing to
unite in one solid phalanx against the com
mon enemy.
The campaign of 1860 will terminate in
the total overthrow of the disunionists, North
and South. The great principle of non-in-
servention will triumphantly prevail. and
we may then hope that Congress will find
time to legislate for the protection of the
great interests Of the country, both at home
and abroad. Fer too many years past, the
constant political agitation Of the slavery
question has been dead drag upon the pro-
gress Of our national prosperity. The peo-
pie have at length become thoroughly sick
of this. They have risen in their mi ght, and
will be obeyed. -Peansyzvania State Senti-