Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1861-01-18

sisted in, will mot only result in a hopeless
destruction Of the Confederacy, but must In
itiate the bieodiest and most destructive civil
war yet recorded in the annals of history -
The warning voices of Douglas and Breck
! inridge, Pugh and Lane, Hunter and Davis,
and a host of other tried champions Of both
wings Of the great party which elevated Mr..
Buchanan to the Presidency, have been
disregarded-the wise advice left upon the
record by Washington, Madison, jackson
and the Fathers, has been despised.
Floyd and Thompson, the representative
men Of the South, have, by the treachery
Of their chief, been driven from the Cabi-
net-the coercion of sovereign States has
been determined upon by the Federal Adj
ministration-an9 Gen Scott, military
chieftain, who has, ever been true to his in
stlucts Of personal vanity aud personal ad-
vancement has been installed the Execu-
tive de facto Of the nation. All this for
what? To pfeserve the Union. And when
thus preserved, what sort Of Union will it
be? We answer in the emphatic and
truthful language Of Gov Harris, of Ten
nessee-ssA Union not of consent, but of
! force-a Union not of equals, but of the
victors and the vanquished."
We have been the steadfast friend Of the
! Constitution and the institutions of the u
nited States-wc have ever urged our peo-
pie to stand by and maintain the Union Of
these States whilst "the equality of the
States in the Union was preserved" But
if the cocrcive policy Of Mr.. Buchanan is to
obtain-if worse than military despotism
is to be established-if we are to be gov
erned at the point Of the bayonet, and our
negroes hemmed in by armed men to null
tiply and increase upon US until our sub
stance is consumed and our very yitals ca
/ ten out-in tbs name of God and by the
| memory of our revolutionary ancestry! we
invoke our countrymen to declare in unmis-
| taxable terms, that we are prepared, be-
| fore SUBMISSION to such a s'Union of the
victors and the vanquished," to have the
entire race of Virginians extinguished and
! blotted out of existence.
We are free to admit that we have no
hope in the present Administration ;-how
/ is it with the incoming Executive and his
party? Has Mr.. Lincoln, the originator
of the 'irrepressible doctrine" given indi~
cation of change? Up to this moment,
though appeal after appeal has been made
to him, the Springfield Oracle has been 81
lent. The country torn and distracted
civil anarchy prevailing, and civil war, with
all its attendant horrors. threatened-the
dignity of the "Rail Splitter" must not be
compromised ominous silence is pre-
served by the President elect. Add to this
silence the fact that the nephew Of the Pres
dent elect, who edits his Springfield organ,
takes high ground for coercion; and other
facts, which we shall advert to presently,
and we are forced to the conclusion that
there is no hope from Mr. Lincoln.
1t is now mi-officially announced that
Mr.. Seward is to be the Premier in the new
Administration. From him what are we
to expect? Are his honeyed words at the
Astor House supper to lull us into supposed
security? At this writing his anticipated
speech ia the Senate has not reached us, but
can we trust to the author Of the "higher
law doctrine" the re-iterator Of the "irre-
pressible conflict" the endorser of the Help
er book, and the Chieftain who was only set
aside at Chicago because his sentiments
were 80 veil known and SO extreme as to
render him unavailable We put no faith
! in the crafty Senator from New York, and
his appointment to the Secretaryship of State
! is another evidence Of Mr.. Lincoln's deter
mined purpose of hostility to the South
From Mr. Seward we may hear aeoras which
would incline the uninitiated to anticipate
something from the incoming Administra-
ton, but those who have observed him and
studied his character will know that ne is
only excepting the word of promise to the
ear to break it to the hope" From the
day of his entrance into public life, Mr..
Seward has been the Incorporating and
INSCRIPTIONS enemy Of our Institutions
From the so called conservative Republl.
cans in Congress, can anything be found
in the speeches Of Senators Wade, Trum-
bull and Baker, upon which to found rea-
sonable expectation of the preservation Of
our rights under Black Republican rule
They abound in highly wrought eulogiums
: upon 'our glorious Union;" but its glory is
to be increased by dissol7ing the covenant
with he'll, (" in the extinction of African STA.
very, and the reduction Of the Southern
States to condition Of provincial yassal.
age, Is