Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-07-17
Organize and Rally-yictory in View.

The signs are auspcious-the prospects of the
Union ticket are 'sbright and Frightening the
people are beginning to be aroused to proper
sense of their patriotic duty. Every gale Is 70
cal with the cheering news that we are gaining
strength every day. The glad tidings come
from the East and West North and South
Politicians of eminence and comprehensive states
menship, presses of ability aud sound national
conservatism, and, more than all, the honest
masses of the people are beginning to rally with
spirit of jealous patriotism to the standard so
CALAMITY borne aloft by those pure and accom-
plished statesmen, Bell and Everett. The peo-
pie will arise in the majesty of patriotic strength
and crush beneath their heels the head OF the
serpent of sectionalism which is attempting to
gain admission into the paradise of our liberties
If the honest masses of this good "Old Common
wealth." will do their duty to themselves and
their country, as we believe they will, they will
arouse themselves from the ignoble lethargy in
which they at present lie bound, and will rally
with might and main to the rescue OF their
country from the perils which so closely environ
it. They will rally from the mountains and the
valleys, as they never fail to do when their coun-
try calls, ''to arms!" to repel foreign foe.-
Their country now calls upon them to rally to
its defence, to protect it from Dorse than for
eign enemy. The foe is now within the lines of
the American camp. In the guise of friends, the
enemy, like the frogs in Egypt, are in our houses
and beds-they enjoy our confidence and will
betray to ruin, unless the eyes of the people be
opened to the treacherons danger which turks
in our very midst.
We call upon all who love their country to
sound the tocsin of alarm, and to light beacon
fires upon every hill top, that there may be no
excuse for any who may be remiss In their duty
at this crisis of our history. The first duty is
to organize patriotic Union Clubs in every neigh
borhood. There is no time for delay-postpone
it no longer. Organize your Clubs immediately,
that you may come as organized bodies to the
grand rally we will have here at our August
Court ''Old Augusta" it is our earnest wish,
should have a potential voice in the present
canvass. We wish her to speak in spirit-stir-
ring tones, trumpet tongued, that her voice may
have the eject of arousing all who are slumber
ing in careless Indifference obliViaps Of the re.
sponsible duty incumbent upon them. We hope
to receive the news in short time, from every
precinct in the County, that Union Clubs have
been formed, We will cheerfully publish your
proceedings. Organize yogr Clubs, appoint
meetinge for the attendance of all, invite yonr
speakers, and have glorious and spirited can
yass You are laboring for great object-the
preservation of the National Union. Let there
be Union of faith and good a0orbs and the
salvation Of your country will be secured. La
Dor actively, earnestly, vigorousy-relax not
your energies sight the good fight of patriotism,
and we promise that when the battle shall be
fought and the victory won, that the glorious
banner of the Union party will wave in triumph
from the dismantled battlements of the Sevasta
pol of Democracy, and Virginia will stand IRE
deemed, regenerated and disenthralled.s - =.