Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-03-23
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 20 1906.


While some seem to think that new party
organizations are necessary in these times,
would it not be we'll for us to consider this
matter thoroughly before we make the at
tempt. There is no division Of sentiment in
the South, the universal desire being to bring
the country back to strict adherence to the
Constitution, under which the Union was an
object of our veneration. Believing Andrew
johnson to be animated by the same desire,
VIC have, By public convenings and otherwise,
unanimously accorded to bis course and poll
CIV cordial endorsation It would, there
fore, be an easy matter to rally the united
South under the banner Of one party, whose
principles embraced our views and call it by
any name we might prefer, and as lar as tn:
name is concerned would make but little diff
ference to us, bat this would avail but little.
We of the South are powerless, did we even
have a perfect organization under new
name. We must rely upon cooperating
Organization in the North unuei .,1o
name and with the same principles. But We
find there, different lom what it is here, par
ty lines distinctly drawn and parties organ
ICED and contending. One, the Democratic
party, fighting for the maintenance of the
Constitution and the restoration of the Union,
with the rights Of all the States unimpaircd,
and earnest in its support Of President John
son, the other, the Republican party, insist
ing on q peryersion of the Constitution, op-
posing the restoration Of a number of States
to the Union Oh equal terms, and active in
its opposition to the policy of the Presi-
dent. Many who formerly acted with the
Democratic and Wing parties and joined the
Republican party on the question Of slavery,
or some war issue, who cannot coincide with
the ultra views of the radicals, are daily
swelling the ranks of tie Democratic party,
in support of its principles, which arc ours.
Can we then expect that the organization of
the Democratic party in the North will be
destroyed and a new party built upon its ru
ms, with the aid of the Conservative Repub-
licans, which will more nearly carry out our
principles than the present Democratic organ
ization! Is it not folly to attempt at pes
cnt a new party organization in the South,
to cooperate with any other party in the
North than the Democratic party
To those who think otherwise we commend
the following extract from letter, written
upon the subject of parties by the warm per-
sonal friend of -" Harry Of the West" General
Leslie Combs, of Kentucky, which is equally
applicable to the other States Of the South,
as to Kentucky.
Gas veteran in the Wing army in times
past, standing by it in all its disasters, as
well as in its brief period Of triumph, I ap-
peal to my brother Wings in Kentucky, what
will you do? With which of the two great
parties now dividing the county will you CO.
operate? Are you for the negro or the aohite
man? IF you coincide with me in opinion,
then I entreat you to assemble with the Dem
ocrats, and all others of similar views in your
respective counties, and send yonr wisest and
best men to Louisville, to hold counsel to-
gether to save the State, and restore the
Union as our immortal Revolutionary fathers
made. The recent veto message Of Presi- |
dent Johnson. and the action Of the Senate
sustaining it, is calculated to warm the hearts
Of frcemen, and give hope that the usmpers
and tyrants in Congress will soon be put
down, and honest men take their places. -
Let us have harmony and Union among our
selves, and Kentucky will at any rate, be
safe"