Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-08-25
RICH MON VA.
V.dnex,,av Morning, August %, ls4s.


TIE WING AND THE PRESIDENT.
The Whig OF Friday regularly opened lie Dat
,eries upon the President Tor mol playing 'yfa".'
. nd for no, arhwaring The viii OF The people %
expressed by majoti'yo hpty-n,ns Oh 'ns p p.s
ple's Representatives" Nc ih'nk 'hs' -
sdent would have been perfectly F'gh' ii We :,.
Tho hin wba,eyrr nigh, have been The n"J"''p
in is favor if a sense Of duty had LED MN ~ w
co R,,,bis is net Wing doctrine; Congress 'n,,
cav and no, the Judiciary must decide VII -.
~ S,.uoho,ae, shall have risa! to 90 in'' 'A0
new territories with his properly ~ u,ns, he
c,,,,e aRepresenatives OF The peoP., .';.,,;on
,,-,,, q Inc beyond which the oohs'"u''.
ie'' - "' .a,o.s,.dl Where will they ORA" 'ha'
~ V ,u;l ,bev draw i, at al WIN an over
49,. .s.In;us majority Of forty asainstus' wna' ca"
,onc from ,ha, body, when the editors oil Inc
wing informed US, in their yes'e'uays p1r.'
ma, n,iev kncy very well that The Nof'hefn E" "'s
rere opposed TO The acquisition o. territory LIN
u.x;cn I'm, II acquired, would vote !oT lne rio'
yiso, for they had always ANNOUNCED '"e,' "s"
INN so 10 do" and lha. they had actually ''0a''ea
the country That if more iefri DRY were 10 " az,
psxed, he consequence would DC Inc enlo'ee''en
=, me ordinance Q. 1857 " And The same
editors % on 10 lel Us that "!NorfAfrn Os"oe'@'s
moro &C firmly resolved 10 vote ior The pfoViso'
nc any Northern Wing whalsverp These are
Tho men peop!e Of Virginia, who, Southern
Wings ,ell you, must decide whether you nave
,;eb,s IN The territories. They gloiy in having
k;llsd ,be COMPROMISE Bill, and are ia favor OF
so,,,.,,ns your mos; saercd rights 10 body which
nv a majority OF forty, is solemniy s1or"' accorc-
inc 10 these very Wings, 10 apply The Wilmo'
p,ovi.o 10 New Mexico and California.
The Wing OF yesterday acknowledges what
has heretofore been lis gross its utter ignorance
of The Missouri Compromise. That paper had
ac,ually stated in a previous number hat'he MIS-
souri Com promise established slavery South OF So
deg. 80 min and when It's glazing error was pro-
nerly EXPOSED in The Enquirer OF Monday, and
Inc h section OF The Missouri COMPROMISE Blu
was SHOWN TO BE- an czQct copy OF the ordinance OF
1857 i, comes on, and tells US that The Compro-
mise bill vas compromise because eve'y6ody SO
understood i,-aud would not such general UNDER
andiug equally apply TO the late COMPROMISE
Bin We are asked does anybody regard the
Oregon Bill, which MIR. Polk has signed, as a
Compromise3 Certainly mol; but The presiaeh';
&C he tells us, in his message, was but carrying
ou, the spsra of The Missouri Compromise, wn'ch
has been so much Landed by the Wings had ne
rhed bill prohibiting slavery 10 a territory
3so miles North OF The Missouri Compromise
line. he would, in all probability, have crca-
led an excitement a, the North, Just as dangerous
u the Union as he would have done at the SCUM,
il he hal signed a bill prohibiting slavery nun
dreds OF miles S.uM # hat line.
We would respectfully propose 10 Inc very
wise opponents of the late COMPROMISE b'l'' VINO
are ., much wiser than the assembled wisdom OF
the Senate, the following questions, and we Wou'u
| like 10 have them answered:
VIVA, rights would the Missouri COMPROMISE
secure the Shareholder, up to 81 deg. 80 min,
Ina, the late Compromise bill did mol more Than
secure to him up TO AZ ces.2
VIVA, obslacles in the way OF Mexican unre-
pealed laws, prohibiting slavery would The slave
holder have TO encounter, under the la!e ComPo.
mise bill ,ha. he would not equally have 10 en-
counter under the Missouri Compromise
The truth is, the arguments aiduced against
The lale Compromise bill, 10 prove ii sacri-
fee Of Sauhern rights, are more miserably
idle and absurd than any by which we have ever
known anv great measure 10 be opposed; and, II
true At all, are perfectly snicida--iof nothing can
ha more certain than that the North, with ma
ior,y OF forty representatives in Congress, will
NEVER consen, 10 repeal Mexican Law, so as to
admit slavery, when we ourselves, al The SCUM,
Wings and Democrats, have utterly denied That
Congress has any jurisdiction at all over The sub
iec of slavery. The Constitution distinctly re-
cognizes slaves as property, and the equal rights
Of The States, AMI OF all the ciizens OF all The
States Any unrepealed laws Of Mexico, in
New Mexico and California, preventing The mi
grafton into those territories OF the STAKEHOLDER
with his properly woud, OF course, come in di-
rect couaict with these provisions OF our iunda-
mental law; and therefore, by The admission Of
Wbies themselves, are entirely null and void.
tn sum up what we have said, the President
has bAcn guilty OF No greater violation OF the
Constitution, by signing he Otegon territorial
ill Than il ne had signed The Missouri Comprn-
mise bill; and, if the doctrines which The Whiss
have been praing about The tone man power
thwsr,ing The will Of the nation" be true, then
the blame if there be any, ought not to lie at bis
door. but al that o: The eight very wise and pa'I-
o.ic Southern Wing members who prevented him
from having an opportunity of signing The Com
promise bill in It's place, and lhus forever settling
the question in all the territories!
The Wing press are full of The assertion that
Senator Footc has declared, that, owing 10 the
course OF The Northern Democrats in The Senate