Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-10-31

sense Of The people and their abiding love OF
uninn-not union in political bonds only, ou' IN
sentiment and feeling-lhan 10 doubt but that ms
threatened agitation is destined 10 and is calm III
The results OF dispassionale and patriotic legs.
laIion.
In conclusion, have only to repeat, that in
exercising my right of suffrage, I shall be gov.
erned BY reference to those cardinal primer.
plies upon which this great Republican party OF
the country has heretofore regulated its conduct.
With sentiments OF high respect,
Yours, &c. JOHN TYLER.
To Messrs. Hunter Woods, M. Cooke, &C.,
Committee.
RicHMoNp, Oct. 25th, lS4S.
Gentlemen have had the honor TO receive
your polite note Of the 18th instant, inviting
me, on behalf of the Democratic Association
of Norfolk 10 attend mass meeting in your
city on the 9th Of this month.
1t would be highly gratifying for me to be
with you on so interesting an occasion-to min
gle with the noble hearted Democracy OF the
Lowlands-to listen to the patriotic appeals OF
your eloquent speakers-to commune with you
on the prospect before US, and cordially unite
in e1horlng the Democracy Of Virginia 10 put
forth their whole strength in the approaching
Presidential election. i regret 10 say, however,
that engagements which confine me here will
deprive me of the pleasure of availing myself
Of your kind invitation But, though | cannot
be present, all the sympathes OF my heart will
be with you.
Interesting as the election of President and
Vice President of our Confederacy has ever
been never before have fell, so much anxiety
on the subject, because never before have be-
lcved that our glorious Union might be jeo.
pardcd by the result. Apart from such con-
tingency, the character and issues Of tho pre-
sent canvass are well calculated TO excite the
appIehensons OF calm and rejecting men, We
have seen large party in free representative
government select candidate for the Presiden-
| CT, whose opinions on questions vital to The
country are neither avowed by him, nor de-
manded by thom We see candidate graveiy
| announcing that his opinions ''are neither TN.
portant nor necessary" and ayowing it MS "A
PRINCIPLE" not TO declare them. We see
party which denounced the Democracy for nav
ing selected as their candidate the illustrious
Jackson the statesman and warrior, who, like
the father of his country, temporarily abandon
ed the plough-share for the camp, TO repe the
insoIent invaders o. our soil--and yet We be-
hold that very party selecting an exclusively
military candidate-a maj r-general-now III
commission in The regular army, with no other
recommendation than supposed AVAILABILITY;
selected merely for popularity acquired by a
Jealous and gallant prosecution OF war when
they had opposed and sligmatized as UNJUST ano
atrocious. And they are doing this, while DO
nouncng us for having excited military spirit
and lust OF conquest throughout The nation
Having tailed 10 the mode designated by the
| Constitution, 10 strike from that instrument a
i hpu
10 render il Substantially null and void. They
present Coaiituon Tscket-nut II puritan and
Dlackles"-bu but Of STAKEHOLDER AND Abolition
IsT; recommending one candidate 10 soulherl
syInpahies, and the other TO northern fanaticIsm
| What Should be our regret, when We see Geh
| Taylor, southern man, endorsing inc opiniohs
ul Willard Fillmore as sound and CONSERVATIVE,
and recommending him 10 his countrymen as en-
titled to the frst instead OF the second place o;
the Wing ticket What should be our surprise
aud modification, when we see southern mel
Jo..o~iou ',1'nfrjns W tfd' WIN! b. no1rI;Lnltl
The Vice Presidency, because, in common with
rabid abolilioniss, hr dare MT say that Congress.
can constitulionally interfere with the suhjecl o
slavery IN the S!ates7 When all these eytraor-
binary and Anomalous iacts ale exhibited 10 ouI
view as sober realities deep indeed should be
| our concern.
The election Of the w hig candidates, unde,
such circumstances, would Cypress me with
gloomy forebodings With Wing House OIL
Representatives, divided Senate, the casting
vote with M!ard Fillmore, and the Veto null.
fed, The principle OF The Wilmot Proviso will be
adopted, and he equality oi The States annlhila.
ted. Inc grave question will then be presented;
Viii the Southern States submit 10 his deora.
dat,on? Would Ibis ''unlenitied commonwealth, y
though unsupported by 4 single Stale, submit, to
1 the Humiliation of hpino divesied nj thai P0n al
station in The Union which she has ever held,
aud 10 which she is entitled by The federal COM
| pact? May | not ask, has she son, worthy OF
such mother, who would iamely acquescel-
The ready answer cannot be doubted. Come
what may there is enough le'l OF The cavalier
| spirit OF The Sonlh 10 protecl our honor. While
| Virginia has given away empires as boon 10
The conederacy, she will, where her rights and
honor are concerned, "cayil for The ninth part u.
hair" No Stale has made greater sacrifices
| for, and evnced more devotion 10, The Union
| Nor can The Union be in any way SO eifectually
| maintained and perpetuated, as by insisting up
on strict enforcement OF all The compromises up
| on which it was so based. To insist upon these
compromises. as The only basis upon which team
rest, proves no disoyaty 10 the Union. II proves
| not that we lore the Union less but Liberty and
| equality more.
have, however, an abiding faith in the in
| telgence OF The people, and that kind Pfovi-
dence, which has sustained US Trough many tri-
ais, will continue 10 watch over and protect US
believe that a very large majority oil the pee
pie OF The United States are thoroughly demo-
cratic that the spirit OF Democracy is indi-
senious 10 American soil that the Democratic
party ever has been, is now and ever will be-, the
conservative party of this counry-and that
whatever temporary checks and rcverses ii may
encounter, il will steadily pursue The course OF
its destiny and sweep before il the combined
elements which oppose the march and impede
Inc ultimate and permanent triumph Of tree
principles.
Feeling every assurance that The Republicans
OF This state will do their duty, and that The De-
mocracy of the Union are alive 10 the magnitude
OF the issues which are involved in the impand-
ing Struggle am sansuine in The belief, that he
triumph of Democratic principles will again b.
signally illustrated by the election Of our candi-
dales Lewis Cas- and William O. Butter.
With my cordial wishes for the success of our
noble cause, and the assurance OF my high re-
spect for yourselves individually,
have the honor 10 be- gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN RUTHERFORD.
To Hunter Woods, NJ. Cooke, Aaron Milha-