Staunton Spectator

Hunter and Mason.

The opposition of Hunter and Mason in the U. S. Senate to the Peace Conference resolutions, will meet with the indignation of three-fourths of the people of this State. The people will pronounce the curse anathema maranatha against them. The secessionists and the worst class of the Black Republicans harmoniously co-operated to frustrate all efforts at settlement. Mason and Hunter paid no respect to the voice of Virginia as recently expressed in thunder-tones at the polls. In the language of the "Baltimore American," we ask, "what have Messrs. Mason and Hunter to say in their own defence when they assume an attitude in direct hostility to all the conservative men in their State?— They oppose the Peace Conference resolution when it is perfectly well understood that there is no remaining possibility of settlement by the present Congress, if they are rejected. Moreover, they are not required to commit themselves. Their opposition was a factious opposition, based upon grounds so frivolous, in comparison with the momentous issues involved, that we can only wonder that gentlemen of their pretensions were not ashamed to offer it."