Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-11-16
religion Of the Bible has spread its happy

religion of the Bible has spread its happy
influences to every cline; the human mind
free and unsl,aekled by governmental re-
straints or imperial edicts, has developed
with such amazing strides as to enable us,
IN less than century, to vie with the world
IN science, art and literature and by which
all the blessings and delights that spring
from freedom Of yolition and action are
voIchsafed. Treason, not only to his coua-
try, but to Religion and Humanity!
We ask any one who may question the
conclusions to which We have arrived above.
to take up the Slaughter letter, and read It
side by side with the scenes that have been
enacted since the meeting Of the Charleston
Convention, and are now enacting, and see
for himself if every act is not there fore
Swallowed, from the breaking up of the De-
mocratic party to the precipitation Of the
Cotton States into revolution In our julg-
ment, he this day stands before the country
a more blackened traitor than Arnold.
and with whose name will be linked through
all time to come that fame Of infamy which
posterity visited upon the memory Of Eros
tratus. He has wilfully, deliberately pann-
ed and almost consummated the destruction
of this public-broken up the unity
of the States, we fear, and if so, laid the
foundation for multiplication of petty pow
ers, which, like those parceled out by the
successors of Alexander, and of which Roll
lin gives us so vivid and instructive de-
scription, will be constantly warning the
one with the other
We wish to remind our readers that these
results were held up to them weekly during
this canvass. While we did not charge the
friends of Mr.. Breckenridge in Western Vir-
GINA with being in favor of d;sunion, we
constantly kept before them what has ripen-
ed into fearful and painful fact, that the
leaders in the movement that nominated
him were reaching with eager and impatient
hands to encompass that deplorable result.
See how they are precipitating it--rush-
ing madly and blindy into dsunion and Sc
cession verifying every prediction we
made, and lifting US above any suspicion
which may have been created that we were
actuatcd purely from motives of party policy.
We saw with our own eyes the opening of
the first book. We look with painful sus-
pense TO the breaking of the seal of the last.
We re-iterate that these views and facts
are written with no purpose or desire to
wound the feelings of any, or to awaken re-
fectlons that may be slumbering When
the time comes for action, we will be with
Virginia, whether it be to raise aloft the
flag of her own sovereignty, or to pursue
another course. We do not deem it oppor-
tune now to discuss the various points pre-
sented in this fruitful theme. We shall
await developments. There is this time,
more responsibility resting upon Virginia
than there has been since Che revolution. -
ltmay be in her power, by calm. deliberate,
sagacioas counsel andaction to stay the COM
ing storm, avert the fratricidal blow, hold out
the acceptable olive branch, and bring to
gethcr in harmonious unity the thirty-three
independent Soyereignties Of the Confeder-
acy