Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1861-02-08

tion OF Monday last, show that a majority
OF Union" candidates have been chosen
over their Secession opponents. The
complete returns from the State will not be
received in time for publication in our issue
OF this week. We are glad to perceive that
our brethren of the press, in announcing
the success of the '-Union" men, arc very
carefully guarding against aiisapprehen-
sion on the part Of the Republican party at
the North, Of the position of the Union
then elected. The term "Union men" has
very different meaning in Virginia from
that generally applied to it at present in the
North, aud if the idea is taken up out of the
State th:t the election of majority of gu
Mon men is equivalent to the election of
majority in favor of quietly submitting to
the rule of Lincoln and Black Republican
administration, they will find themselves
most egregriously mistaken. We should
be deeply grieved to think that Virginia
had fallen SO low as quietly to submit to
that rule without sufficient guarantee that
every right of the South will be fully pro-
tected in the future. We do not believe
that there will be even "corporal's guard"-
of actual submissionists in the Convention.
Messrs. Bolts and Clemens are considered
Union" men North of us-in Virginia,
except by few like themselves, they are
looked upon as nearly as dangerous men as
Seward himself. OF immediate secession
lists there will probably be about Is. In
the classification Of contemporary we see
Gov. Wise put down as UNION, man. Our
Northern friends will hardly count npon
much from him. If, as is very generally
believed, the Convention now in session at
Washington adjourns without accomplish
ing anything more to the purpose than the
famous Committee of 49, of the House Of
Representatives, there will be scarcely any
thing left for Convention to do. but to
draw up an act of secession, and submit it
Immediately to the people, SO that their ac-
ton may be known, one way or the other,
before the 4th of March That anything
will be done at Washington, we have little
hope. Barely a majority of the Northern
States are represented, and even these, by
legislative authority, have so instructed their
delegates as to prevent any conclusion be-
ing arrived at that will prove acceptable to
the South War-war-war-and nothing
else but war, not only Of cords, but deeds,
against the South and its institutions, will
satisfy the fanatical leaders of the Abolition
party. The fate of the Crittenden Resolu-
tons in the Senate ought to satisfy any rea-
sonablc man Of the slightness of hope ola
satisfactory settlement of affairs before the
Inauguration of the new President. Moth
ing short of that basis will satisfy Virginia,
and we do not believe that even that will
bring back the seeded States.
Let the result be what it may. we
fully and firmly believe that Virginia will
stand by the rights of her sisters of the
South, and if at last, all efforts at reconcil-
alton are fruitless, we as Virginans, will lave
the satisfaction to know that we have left
no means untried to bring about an adjust
ment She has twice, lately, given assu-
RANGES of her deep and heartfelt attachment
TO the Union as formed by our forefathers.
She proposed the Convention of States at
Washington; and last of all, the election of
a majority of Union delegates, in spite of
the bullying of Wade, Hale, Sumner, Will
son & Co., ought to be sufficient proof that,
fully as she desires to stand by the Federal
Constitutions, she will as fully vindidate her
rights, when satisfied that all hope of
peaceful adjustment of these difficulties is
lost.
The turning of the Capital into camp of
armed soldiery, is only looked at in this
State as the result of the silly fears of an
old dotard-for such the once great soldier,
Scott, must have become, to have allowed
himself to have been so cruelty hoaxed, as
he has been, either by Republicans in Con-
gress,or else by designing men who desired
to share in the "spols" consequent upon so
large an increase ofthe population of Wash
ington. From letters lately received, we
learn that already their disorderly conduct
has rendered them very obnoxious to the
quiet citizens of the place, and we should
not be surprised to hear that measures were
being taken to petition the government for
their removal from the city. The idea Of
there having been any secret organization in
this State for the seizure of the Federal
in that city, is simply ridiculous.
We, in Virginia, are accustomed to mind
our own business-we leave all such raids
to the Beechcr-P Phillips Browa party ofthe
North-they should not have judged US by
in this instance. The only IN
we can put upon Gen SCOTS
course in this matter, is, that he has been
under the control of men who were DESTROYS
Of bringing on the very thing they pretend