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Republican Vindicator, October 26, 1860Go To Page : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Description of Page: Gov. Letcher's speech given in Wheeling, Virginia in column 3. Various Douglas campaign articles. A remedy to remove "Discoloration Occasioned by Bruises" in column 5. Poetry and song in column 6. How to cure a felon and clean black silk gowns in column 7. |
Declines an Answer
(Column 3)Summary: Editorial attacking Breckinridge for not answering questions that Douglas asked of him.
Trailer: Norfolk Herald
Origin of Article: Norfolk Herald
Judge Douglas' Chicago Speech
(Column 3)Summary: Editorial about a speech Douglas gave in Chicago to a large crowd of about 75,000 people.
Origin of Article: Atlanta Confederacy
Gen. Harman's Speech
(Column 5)Summary: Harman attacked "Yancey Democracy" in his speech last Thursday in the Town Hall.
(Names in announcement: Gen.Harman, Leake, Stephen L.Farish)Trailer: Review
Remains of Columbus
(Column 7)Summary: A new cemetery is being built in Havana and Columbus' remains may be stored there.
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Description of Page: A letter to Gov. Letcher from some residents of Highland County and his response in column 6. |
Secession and the Consequences
(Column 2)Summary: A pro-Union editorial.
Public Speaking
(Column 1)Summary: A list of upcoming local speeches.
(Names in announcement: Gen.William H.Harman, Col.GeorgeBaylor, George M.CochranJr., Hon.A.H.H.Stuart, Esq.John B.Baldwin)
60,000!!! FOR DOUGLAS!!! In Virginia!!!! The Tenth Legion Aroused!!!!
(Column 1)Summary: An extremely large audience came to the Court House to hear Hons. W. F. Gordon and Tim Rives speak. They were followed by the Harrisonburg band.
(Names in announcement: M.G.Harman)
The Beginning of the End--The Fate of the Seceders
(Column 4)Summary: Editorial accuses Breckinridge and the Secessionists of giving Lincoln the Presidency.
Excerpt: "Facts--stubborn and undeniable facts--now present themselves, which must convince the masses that all we have told them in regard to the danger which is to be apprehended from this secession movement, will be in all probability fully realized."
Full Text of Article:Fate of the Seceders.
Now when the practical effects of that insane and criminal proceeding--the secession at Charleston and Baltimore--are being realized in the defeat and overthrow of the National Democracy at the North, the public mind will be brought fully to understand the issue before the country, and the masses of the people will bring home to themselves the dreadful consequences which are likely to result from the disruption of the Democratic party. The question has always been one of Union or Disunion, and all the sophistry of the secession organs and speakers cannot now conceal the truth from the public understanding. The shameless inconsistency of those who have precipitated this ruin upon the country, and their barefaced effrontery, will now be fully exposed . . . [text missing] . . . Douglas have labored hard to convince the people of the danger in which they were placed, and have sought by every means in their power to bring the true issue involved in the contest fairly before the people. Much has been done towards dispelling the illusion into which many of the honest masses were precipitated by the leaders of the secession party. But argument and appeal are no longer necessary. Facts--stubborn and undeniable facts--now present themselves, which must convince the masses that all we have told them in regard to the danger which is to be apprehended from this secession movement, will be in all probability fully realized. The President of the United States and the disunionists of the Cotton States, united in endeavoring to defeat the nomination of a candidate upon the old platform of the party, and succeeded in demoralizing and destroying the Democratic organization; and now, after their work is complete, after they have succeeded in securing a breach in our ranks, which is growing wider and wider, the people have the practical results before them. The returns of the elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, show in a manner which cannot admit of doubt, that our division has given the Black Republican party an immense advantage in the Presidential contest. The President, with increasing malignity, continues his war upon the Democratic party, both North and South, and is doing all in his power to secure its defeat. Look at the returns from the North. The gallant Democracy have just passed through a contest precisely similar to the Illinois contest in 1858. They have in many districts nobly sustained themselves against the Republican and Administration coalition, and have gained six or seven members of Congress. But in many districts, the aid which the Republicans have received from the Breckinridge and Buchanan party, has enabled them to increase their majorities, and the State tickets have consequently been defeated. In almost every Northern State the Democracy are fighting a double foe.-- The Republicans, bold, defiant and united as one man, at all times a most formidable enemy--aided by the desertion of a fragment of the Democratic party, under the control of Buchanan and Breckinridge, through their army of office- holders and dependents--have everything to beck them on to triumphant result. This is precisely a repetition of the Illinois contest of '58--the Democracy against the Republicans, the latter aided by the whole power of the Administration. Will the people of the South countenance and justify such infamous conduct? Douglas and the main army of Northern Democrats straining every nerve in a death struggle to defeat Lincoln, and the Breckinridge party standing out in determined resistance to Douglas and the Democracy, and using every effort to secure his defeat. It is time the people understood these matters. The truth must be proclaimed, and as a public journalist, it is our imperative duty to apprise them of the facts and warn them of the danger. Democrats of Virginia, we call upon you who have agreed to support this "bolters" ticket, to pause and reflect ere it is too late.--Let no man, as he values the Union, and the peace and continued prosperity of the country, unite himself with the Secession party. Look at the conduct of the "bolters" themselves. They are now becoming frightened at the results of their own action. They have sown to the wind, and they are now about to reap the whirlwind. The people are becoming fully aroused to a sense of the danger which threatens the country, and woe betide the authors of the ruin, if it be not averted. The great "Bolter" from Alabama has become frightened, and has gone to New York to speak to the people there. For whom, Democrats of Virginia, do you suppose this leader of secession is haranguing the people of New York? Is it for Breckinridge and Lane? Is it for Congressional Intervention Mr. Yancey is pleading? Does he proclaim that Mr. Douglas and his friends are no better than Lincoln? None of these things has Mr. Yancey done in New York. But he implored the people to vote the fusion ticket--19 of the electors being for Douglas, 10 for Bell, and 6 for Breckinridge. Has it come to this? Are the Breckites so hard run as to back down from their pretended ground of principle, and go for Douglas the traitor, and Bell the abolitionist? Such is the fact so far as Mr. Yancey is concerned. Wm. L. Yancey, who denounced Douglas as a traitor in Virginia, and proclaimed Bell to be an abolitionist, is urging and imploring the people to vote for Douglas and Bell to save the country and the Constitution!--Does Mr. Yancey see the handwriting on the wall, or has he become convinced that we, the National Democracy, have been right from the first, in calling upon the people to sustain Stephen A. Douglas, as the only man who can defeat Lincoln? Yancey is frightened--he is afraid of the wrath of the people. The secession movement must go down in the South, and every man who has led it must go down with it. How utterly idle and ridiculous the boast of these men, that they are contending for principle! In Virginia Mr. Yancey proclaimed that in order to sustain the Constitution, Douglas must be voted down as a traitor and free-soiler in disguise. In New York he tells them that in order to sustain the Constitution, you must vote for Douglas--Douglas the agitator and advocate of free-soilism, as he proclaims in the South. Can this man face an honest and intelligent people after such miserable inconsistency?
Mr. Yancey is, we repeat it, alarmed.--His darling scheme cannot succeed. The people of the South will repudiate him and his candidate, and with them his doctrine of Intervention. This is what Mr. Yancey fears? What else could induce him to go for the Douglas and Bell electors in New York? If he was honest here, how can he advise any man to vote for Douglas anywhere? But more than that--he tells them to go for Bell and Everett, with their 10 electoral votes. Bell, the abolitionist, supported by Wm. L. Yancey in New York! We tell these seceders what we told them from the first--their days are numbered.--The people are repudiating them all over the South. They have been beaten in Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas and Kentucky, and wherever an election has taken place. And now this great Mogul of the party goes to New York and cries aloud for the Douglas men to save the "Constitution, and the Union under the Constitution."
Mr. Yancey, like his candidate, won't answer as to what he will do if Lincoln is elected. He says he will do what Alabama [word missing]. Pray what will you tell Alabama to do, Mr. Yancey? Come out, gentlemen--don't dodge. You are down, and you know it. People of Virginia have nothing to do with the secession concern- -it is played out, and everybody knows it.
Wood! Wood!!
(Column 5)Summary: The Vindicator wants some of its subscribers to pay their bill in wood.
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Description of Page: Letter to editor from Highland County about a speech by Col. Massie, the Breckinridge Elector, in column 1. Long letter, starting in column 2, from a Washingtonian; it is difficult to read. |
For the Vindicator, Bell and Everett in Staunton. Mr. Editor:
(Column 1)Summary: A letter to the editor describing a meeting of Bell and Everett supporters in Staunton.
(Names in announcement: Hon.A.H.H.Stuart, Mr.Sheffey, Mr.Flournoy, Mr.Pendleton, Mr.Summers)Trailer: M.
Col. Geo. Baylor
(Column 3)Summary: Praises this staunch Douglas supporter.
(Names in announcement: Col.GeorgeBaylor)
Married
(Column 5)Summary: Married on October 4 in Monroe county, Missouri. Mr. Rosenberger is formerly of Augusta.
(Names in announcement: Rev.Taylor, JohnRosenberger, Tabitha J.Divine)
Married
(Column 5)Summary: Married on October 18. Mr. Hartman is from Albemarle.
(Names in announcement: Rev.T.Brashear, Lyttelton S.Hartman, Mary R.Wright)
Married
(Column 5)Summary: Married on October 23.
(Names in announcement: Rev.C.Beard, Jacob W.Kiser, Elizabeth M.Cullen)
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