Staunton Vindicator And General Advertiser

The Spectator says that its article in which it declared its willingness to let "bygones be by-gones," was based on the belief that Northern Republicans were disposed to abandon their position in regard to the South. We would like to know upon what hypothesis that opinion was formed. Was it from any deed or word of that party? Was it from their platform of principles? It is probable that the Spectator has the blue book of the would-be American party, and as it is pretty generally conceded that they both sprang from the same parent stock, he may have found some such words of consolation in that. But then he must recollect that those were the palmiest days of Americanism, when their aid was courted by and readily granted to all the abolitionisms. But the case is different now, when there are none found "so poor as to do it reverence." Will the proud and dominant Republican party desert its only hold which it has upon the North, to secure the assistance of a handful of Southern Know-Nothings? We presume not. The position of the Spectator is then the same, and a most unenviable one it is for a Southern journal. We fancy that it is already getting sick of the declaration, and when it "reiterates" it we shall begin to despair of accomplishing our pious purpose, viz: of bringing it back to its first love.