Staunton Vindicator

"...as Fred is amply able to make the outlay, he should either purchase his own flesh and blood from servitude, or cease his shrieks over an institution which possesses such untold horrors."

We publish in another column, at the request of one of the State managers of the "Mount Vernon Association," for this County, the "appeal to the Ladies of Virginia for the purchase of Mount Vernon," from the gifted pen of Mrs. Anna Cora Ritchie, Vice-Regent for this State. We trust this appeal will not be in vain. Each subscriber of one dollar and upwards, becomes a member of the Association; the name and residence of each subscriber will be carefully recorded and preserved in the archives of the Association of Mt. Vernon. It is confidently expected that if proper efforts are made throughout the country, the entire balance due on the purchase will be paid by the 22d of February next. It is hoped that the Ladies of this County will co-operate with each other in their respective vicinities, in enlarging the list of subscribers, so that the State Manager's Record Book, which is to be returned to the Vice-Regent on or before the first of March next, may bear ample testimony to the fact, that nowhere are the name and memory of Washington more warmly loved and cherished than in old Augusta. The gentlemen named below are requested to transmit the subscription lists made up, and the money collected in their respective neighborhoods, either to Wm. H. Tams, Esq., Cashier of the Central Bank, or to Edwin M. Taylor Esq., Cashier of the Valley Bank, Staunton. Middlebrook,--Dr. Wm. S. McChesney and Elijah Hogshead, Esq. Greenville,--Messrs. Bumgardner and McClure, John J. Larew and John Newton. Waynesborough,--Nathaniel Massie and Clinton G. Miller. Fisherville,--Franklin McCue and Philip Schmucker. Barterbrook,--Dr. Thomas W. Shelton. New Hope,--Dr. Wm. R. Roberts and James M. Stout. Mt. Meridian,---Maj. James Walker and Joseph D. Craig. Mt. Sidney,--Capt. K. Harper, Wm. Crawford, and Dr. W. E. Bruffy. Spring Hill,--Dr. R. Gamble, N. D. Poe, and James A. Clinedinst. Mt. Solan,--S. Marshall McCue and D. Newton Vanlear. Parnassus,--William D. Hogshead and Dr. Wm. R. Blair. Churchville,--George A. Hanger, and Dr. R. Hamilton. Deerfield,--Wm. Guy, Kennerly Craig and Joseph Mason. Craigsville,--David Kunkel and R. S. Craig. New Port,--Wm. S. Sproul, Arch'd Stewart and Harvey Fulton. Midway,--Capt. James Henry and J. W. McCormick. West View,--Dr. W. L. Walters and W. W. Taylor.

It has already been announced that a vessel, the "Wanderer," had been captured on suspicion of having landed a cargo of slaves in South Carolina and Georgia, and that it was hailed as a good omen by many of the planters. Indeed, it is and should be a cause of rejoicing to every right thinking Southern man. It is a question which has been but recently revived, but no question of national policy has been so generally discussed and approved since its second advent. The most potent argument in its favor is, that we need negro labor. Negroes at the present prices are too high to cultivate the soil by them to any advantage, and the Southern and Western section of our Republic being better adapted to such products as require slave labor, we will be compelled to increase our stock as we increase our territory. It may be argued that Congress has legislated against it, but Congress has passed laws prohibiting other things, yet when necessity demanded it she has promptly repealed them, and such we conceive to be her duty under the present circumstances; or at least to give such encouragement that the traffic may be protected. It may be argued again, that it is our duty to elevate this fallen race, instead of keeping them in a state of bondage, but has not experience taught us that this is the surest and most speedy way of civilizing and converting them to Christianity? Should the opposition of our neighbor across the water, who connives at and encourages the French system of apprenticing, be any object in our way? Then better give up every cherished principle for which we have fought, and submit ourselves to her dominion at once. But we think that several laws would be repealed by Congress rather than this should come to pass.

"It is the only remaining national and conservative organization in which the whole people of the confederacy can unite, and which has the power to maintain the Union."

"Like the giant Anteus, it has struck the earth; and it will, as it ever has, gain new vigor and vitality with the rebound."