Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-03-21
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND ~.
Monday Morning, March 90, 1919.
lost THE RECKONING.

tlc j lIICS say iShht iah athaAsl lbll
trust" either Cass, or Buchanan, or Dallas, or
Woodbury., il ''would vote for almost any
Wing in the land BraSely said! The Times
is RAPIDLY coming round TO the Northern Wing
platform. "Almost any Wing wc presume,
would embrace, Corwin, Ia prominent can
didate,l Root, Giddings, %Schenci, Winthrop,
sc. Indeed, we repeat what has never been
denied, that no leading Northern Wing can
be found who is not in principle and IN action
an advocate Of the Wilmot Provi,o, and an enc
my of the constitutional rights Of the South
From the above indications thrown out by the
Times, VIC may expect 10 see tie southern
Wing party rally 10 the support Of 4 Wilmct
Proyisoist; for, if We are to believe the emphatic
declarations of the Republican, 4 few months
since, ssthc veteran political gamblers" Of the
Wing National Convention will cheat The South,
and foist upon the Southern Wing party a car.
didate who is boldly arrayed as inst Southern
rights.
While on this subject, VIC take occasion 10
correct an extraordinary error in Saturdays
Times. That paper quotes the opinions OF the
New York Globe as "thc organ of the old Hun-
kers'' on the Virginia resolutions, 10 show that
the sentiment Of the whoie Democratic party in
New York is opposed 10 the Southern claim Of
equal rights. The New York Globe was some
months ago an organ Of the anti-ProTisoists, but
it has recently changed hands, and now stands
ell. Ia. o1la NTH ti. \.tu Var. Femme p1St
as an advocate Of the odious and absurd corner
stonc'' of free territory. This argument Of the
Timesis consequently knocked in ii. head.
If The Times really desires 10 know The scn,i
ments Of the cold lIunkers' or ant-Prosisois,s
OF the Empire State, VIC take srca: pleasure in
quoting the resolutions unanimously adopted on
the 22d February by the Albany Democratic
Congressional District Convention, held TO ap.
poin, a delegate TO represent the district in the
Baltimore Convention. The delegate select
| eli was Edwin Croswc!l, with RtLLs ~ Peck
ham as a substitute.
We give the resolutions at length. together
with the names Of the officers Il tn meeting.
The South should know and appreciate those
""natural allies who, in Inc midst ii . storm Of
fanaticism and faction, are battiias . nobly Tor
her just rights.
Elijah Chesebro was President; Stephen Clark
and Jeremiah Green Vice Prcsider.s; and John
Cos;igan and Stephen ). Wandcii Secretaries.
The following resolutions were unanimously
adopted as reported by a committee. consisting
of A. Gallup, Esq, DR.. II. Wendell and Messrs
Strain, Milford anG Wands
Resolved, That as Democrats. representing
the Albany Congressional aud Electoral Dis
,rict, We declare our positions 10 be, . liberal
and tolerant, but firm and stcadils, suppor: OF
tic prominent measures Il pole: and govern
ment which have signalized the present demo
cratic National Administration:
a tariff for revenue, with ultimate freedom
OF trade, at The earliest period compatible with
the condition Of our country, tie support Of 20
yernmeut, ana lis retains Il ..l..
cial powers of Inc world;
An Independent. Treasury, aI -iin5 such "a
cilities TO the internal commerce and business Of
the country as may be consistent with an entire
separation from tic banking interests Of tie
States;
a vigorous prosecution Of lie war with Hex-
| leo, until ample Indemnify for the past, AMI for
the expenses Of the war, and security for The FL.
turc, shall be obtained.
Resolved, That we rc.a!d a general PROPOSE
| ton for direct taxation al the prt:enl moment.
as calculated, if not designed, 10 .mbarrass The
action of the general government, retard essen.
tial measures for the prosecution Of the war,
and as coming. not from the friend, but the co.
vert if not open enemies, Of the national admin
istration.
Resolved, That we recognize il the late De-
mocratic Stale Convention held in the citv oi
Albany, the representative voice e the sterling
Democracy Of the State; that we respond 10 is
proceedings, address, resolutions md speeches,
as speaking tic language Of that Democracy in
clear and explicit terms, and slch a must carry
conviction TO all lis sincere friends in tie State
and throughout tic Union; that We regard lis
address, particularly, as cmbodying The princi
plies and sentiments of the Democracy; aud that
a departure from its positions Il Inc National
Convention or elsewhere, 20 C nciiialc 4 faction
which is secretly hostile 10 the Nalion2l Admin
i~stration, and which, standing upoh a narrow
sectional and odious Wing %'.corncr stone" hi,
opposed and defeated the regular Democratic
tickets, and deliberately and directly contribu.
ted 10 the present Wing asceldancy in the
State, must be deprecated IS unIlst TO tho De-
mocracy OF the State, the SINGER and uniform
friends Of the National Admin tntion, and en-
courag!ng 10 faction, and 10 the banciul issues
which faction has thrown into III, present poll
teal contest. and 10 the schcm.s Of sectional
agitation and disunion, originating in rcvengcfu.
hatrcds in Congress, and proclaimed here and
elsewhere for purposes OF mischi,i = encourage
ment fatal TO The restoration Q. tc Democratic
ascendancy in the State.
Resolved, That we rcpudiate the Wilmot
Proyiso agitation in all the form: which defeat.
cd and factious p~1rtizans in this State have at
tempted 10 appropriate il TO their schemes Of
mischief and Reorganization; th.t we regard It,
if persisted in, and if il could be extended and
become an element Of agitation in other States,
as fatal to the Democratic asccndancy in the
Union, if not subvcrsiyc Of the Union itself: that
we have every reason TO believe that such was
the ultimate design Of IFS authors and chief ahct-
tors, and that they prefer to ruin, if through II
| or by any means they csunot rule; that We bail
| with high satisfaction tic strcn, evidences from
other States, and from the Democratic masses
in this State, that they understand al drcject The
entire scheme Of Proyisoism, and that iii rapid
IL sin iny into the receptacle Of lost things
upon earth and will soon be remembered Only
| as a wicked device for dishonest, purposes.
Resolved. That in the meeting Of discrgan-
| izers, transferred from Herkimer to Utica,
we see only a change from one place 10 another
of the same partizans, who, assembling IN TAR
and full convention at Syracuse, and defeated
there, upon their candidates and their sectional
scheme of agitation, separated from the demo
cratic party, assembled in revolt at Hcrk,mer,
| DISPLAYED their %acorner stone rcpudia,ed and
opposed The Democratic State tickets, and by .
direct alliance and open efforts with the wings
gave to the enemies OF the democracy complete
ascendancy in the State: Tha; such parllzans'
whatever may have been their past association
with the democracy, so loag q ulhcc and emoi
umcnt were gained By ii, bli who desert rs
standard and bctray and oppose lis ticket wien
these arc no longer within their grasp, are en-
titled only 10 rcprobalion from oil honest drn,G-
Gratis; and that in its irrcgularity, IN inc Pai.,
:, and in liz objects the ltiCa