Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-01-27

entirely exempted from the cost. But or
result can ensue This agitation must sti
further increase the disproportion betwee
the profits of slave labor in the grain grow
ing and the profits Of slave labor in the col
ton growing sections Of the Union. Th
insecurity of this description of property
combined with the rate Of taxation essentis
FOR its protection, must drive your slave
IN thousands to- seek glutted .tnarketa at re
duced prices, in the States nearer the Gulf
Sir, the wit, Of man can devise but one mod
of equalizing the burden. "A small stand
ing army, supported by e revenue from
customs, to which all the States of the Soutl
shall equally contribute, is the only rene
dy, and while represen tativeB are COOL,
calculating the cost Of che public honor, tn
the people themselves will solve the simpl
question: that Georgia, Alabama and Mis-
sippi should share equally with Virginia
Tennessee and Kentucky the cost of defend
ing acamtnon cause. Then, air., L ,contene
that. unless this agitation ceases at once ane
forever, you will be compelled. as a mere
measure of defence. as simple precautior
of policy, to recall from BQston, Philadel
phia and New York the double profit now
levied upon the, two hundred millions Of
Southern imports; to take back the 1926,
600 you annually. pay to Northern fisher
les to take back the millions of your hard
earned treasure, which are now daily squan-
dered on the Western prairie, to drive the
wild Indian into the ocean, IN order that
his place may be taken by the accomplices
in treason, and the accessories ip murder OF
Cook. and Goppic and Brown. In word,
that you will be compelled to take back
from the Federal Government the millions
you now pour into it's Golfers, in order to es-
tabllsh here upon your own soil the seat OF
an empire, which shall have the will and
the power to protect the institutions and de-
fend the honor Of the Southern people.
And now, sir, TO exhibit the folly of ap-
preaching this subject with tiniid :Vaseilla-
ton, rather then with prudent frmness,
suppose that the opposite policy is pursued ?
When thus worn by taxation and weakened
by dissension, suppose thst Heaven, in the
of its wrath, or faction, in the
height of its folly, should elevate to the
Presidency of this. Republic, the priest of
that new religion, which teaches thai there
is prerogative higher tnan chartered right
an obligation more sacred. than plighted
faith: Under the pretezt efregulating com
merce between the States, the right to trans
port slaves from one State to another is for
hidden The District of Columbia becomes
a plague spot upon the heart of this Com
"onWealth-every dock-yard and arsenal
from the Chesapeake to the mouth Of the
Mississippi become fostering sores upon the
body poitic--the army and navy ,constrsinee
by power possessing the shadow without
the substance Of. legal authority, are COM
PEELED, like Hea5ians, to do your masters
bidding ;. Every Federal Judge and every
Federal MARSHAL, are selected as the supple
minions of fanaticism, and not with refer
ence to that Roman integrity, which ostra-
,ised Loring and burned Webster in
efficacy. Your postmasters are corrupted
with the faint of abolition, and your mail
bags converted into travelling magazines
Of incendiary publication. And when thus
Bound end shackled, let some bold, bad
man, practising precepts conceived in
towards brain, and taught by traitors
Ups; tempted by brave, but defenceless
people, and encouraged by neutral, if not
= hostile government, raise the bloody ban
ner OF servile instruction. in your midst
And then, then let the sluggish sagacity of
that blind lethargy, which would not be in
structed though an earthqua trembled at
lis feet, predict the doom OF that fair land,
which now echoes with the busy tread o.
more than ten millions of Southern freef
men. Sir,,I yield to NO man in strong
Ind abiding Confidence in the stability Of
he institutions of the South, if her people,
irm as the bedded rock and true as the, tenn
oered steel, present an unbroken front to
he enemies of their peace. But if, in an
lour like the present, they permit them
elves to be lulled into security as false as
t must be fatal, have noreason to antic-
pate for them fate different from that
which inevitably overtakes individuals and
lations who take counsel Of hope rather
han of experience. -. 80.
But it may he said, -ahats7er.ba the cor
eotneas Of this reasoning, in the event of
he actual triumph Of Republicanism, there
s yet reason to believe that the conservative
'pinion ofthe NORTH may be able permanent
7 to control the elements to which L have
eferred. Sir, if such: be the fact, no. man
will hail its demonstration with more unmi1-
lied pleasure than myself. Lcare ,not by
what party that noble object ts Effected
Whether it be accomplished by that great
,ody of National CONSERVATIVES with which
t is my, fortune to act, led on by the un-
fuailing courage of Pierce and Dickinson
nd Gushing and Seymour, or by that small
,ut gallant band of devoted patriots, who
lerve their lessons of politial virtue from
he lips of Everett and Hunt, and draw the
of their patriotism from the
modest urn which com,aemorates the deep
wisdom and the high resolve, the lofty con-
ensplation and the daring purpose. the large
leart, audstEe eapaaious brain, of Rufus
'hoat. l am prepared to greet, as an au-
picious era in the national history, any
riumph over SECTIONAL party, which indi-
ates distinct, decisive and unequiVocal
epudiation of sectional principles, What,
hen, are the indications which promise so
avorable result? It is admitted that Tx
reat battle Of territorial supremacy has
eea fairly fought upon field Ct your own
election, and that the. irresistible logic of
vents has demonstrated that free society
power of unlimited expansion,
nth which your own social system can new
r successfully: compete. 1t is conceded
hat the admission ofevery new State serves