Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-05-25
WILL LEARN NOTHING

oiii VIZ. hdh AhS PSoplC VI SlHlG WOuIu uD
honor with their confidence those who refuset
to come up 10 the standard of right and duty
which had been soemny and for second tim,
unfurled from her Stale Capital. Il was fol
their contumacious resistance 10 the "Virginis
Resolutions" ON the Wimot Proyiso and other
kindred subjects, that many of The most promi
nent and popular with their own party poiti.
claus were swept down BY the popular current.
With these blazing facts in full view, the
Wing, Bourbon.like, learns nothing, torgets no.
thing. In its Tuesdays issue, that paper vir-
tualIy endorses Senator Ben,on's extraordinary
letter, rsbelling against the Legislature Of Mis-
souri,, which we published on Tuesday. The
Wing says:
eve can, however, and we do appreciate the
noble zeal which the Missouri Senator man j.
tests fer the preservation OF the Union. II. is
right. The dissolution of the Union is pre-
cisely ,uch cure for political disease as
death j, for disease Of the natural body"
Let u see now how that letter is regarded
by the Free Soil interest. In The National In
telligerer of the same day we see paraded I'M
der the editorial head two articles-one from
the St Louis Republican, [Whig,l which stands
BY Bcnons letter, which it says "pl,ces the
Ba,nJuners upon high ground"-and TIE other
from tia Cincinnati Chronicle [Whigl to the
following effect:
"Coonel BENTON is for The Union, and scouts
the ida that, because the privilege to intro
ducc siyes into free territories may be denied,
this gIeious Republic must be dissolved and de
stroye. Congress, under every Administra.
ton, fom Washington 10 Polk, has asserted the
poicyof prohibiting slavery in territories Of
the Tilted States; and il is too iats in the day
now br any section or any faction to dspute
the rih. IL it be asserted by Congress in re.
ferepe to California and New Mexico, we do
no dubt that there will be found even in the
Soun men Of sense, patriotism and influence
endgh to inculcate and TO secure an acques
cece in the law, and a suppression Of all lrea-
sdable schemes against the Union.'
Here ii is clearly commended and The view is
edorsed BY the National Inte'iigencer, one Of
en. TayIors organs that il! is too late" for any
rlion OF the Union even ITO dispute The righ'
Congress to prohibit slavery in The territories,
sd that the South must tamey acquiesce in The
usage of the odious Wilmot Provisol All
tis is in direct conflict with the proud stand ia
IN by Virginia, with the professions made by
e Southern Taylofies that General Cass was
nsound on the Proviso, and that Taylor alone,
The Southern candidate" could vindicale The
ighls OF The South and the justice OF her cause !
But the same number of the Wing goes far
her. In very long and elaborate article, it
Jays the most glowing compliments to John s.
9endleton, the quondam alone Star" now the
Los, Pleiad." After stating that it "felt his
Iefeat most acuiely" the Wing proceeds to
,ile mountains of praise upon the great de-
Gated. ellis peculiar gifts forcibly reminded
Virginia 'that she had given birth to Henry, to
ZEE, to Randolph" In Splendid defamation,
defamation pregnant with argument and wit"
n which he approached "the great Chatham"
Mr. J. s. PeDdIeton has no superior in all this
State, as far as the Wing IS acquainted!
The Wing then proceeds to draw portrait
Il Pendleton, by way Of antithesis to that OF
Bots. The former was $50 true, so loyal"
He was never the man 10 throD obstacles in
he way of the Wing party, after il had chosen,
Is candidate. He never refused to open his
mouth in favor Of him whom Convention re
,ulary appointed, had declared most worthy TO
AIRY The Wing Gag. In fine, he was never
nee guilty OF one of those acts BY which
PRETENDED friend becomes moro fatal than an
pen enemy, in asoDei Wig more pernieious
han an undisguised Loeofoeo."
How comes it then that this mighty Co.
ypbnus of the Wing party should have been
struck down in thefuH blsst Of his u'tulness
" the hands of those Che Whigs) for whom
,e had toiled" in district with nearly 1000
Majority" None can doubt that it was for his
obnoxious views on the delicate question Of
,lavery-and the Wing proceeds to demon
trate the "one-sided cruelty of the whole pro
seeding" It brings up for the thousandth 'im'
he signature Of the Oregon Bill by MT.
Polk, and the course of Mr.. Mcdowell,
.s equally Objectionable with that OF MT.
'endleton. Mr.. Segar, leading Vlrgl-
Tia Wing, in his mastery speech on the
Conway Resolutions" showed that Mr.. Folks
ignature Of the Oregon bill could not be quoted
IS precedent, for he signed the bill for the
vowed reason that the territory lay above the
Missouri Compromise line, which the Virginia
Resolutions clearly recognized. MIR. McDowelIs
position i. very different from Mr. Pendleton's.
10 never. like Mr.. P, admitted, but, on the
contrary, argued against and resisted, the con-
titutionalty Of the Wlmot Proyiso. de
ever secuted the Virginia Resolutions but &C.
nowledged the right and the propriety of
he Legislature TO act on the subject. The
arallel will not hold water, and Mr. Pendle!on
must be judged and condemned upon his own
aked acts and opinions. Was il usefulness
n him 10 stand out against the whole South, and
efeal the Clayton Compromise, which would
ave projected Ia. rights OF The South and ad-
listed most embarrassing and critical ques-
on7 Was il auseiulness" in him to boast thai
is vote, slranglins that bill, had "killed Cock
lobin," lGen. Cass,l in keeping the agitation
pen, and elecling General Taylor, by the cum
inc and perfdious policy OF presenting him to
he South as the Simon Pure opponent OF The
'rovso, and TO the North as a most uncompro-
pising friend of that odious aggression upon
southern rights For these high offences against
he sovereign will and interest OF Virginia, he
as been most signally and righleously rebuked.
Gut il is not The Democrats alone that exnlt
ver his defeat. Many of The Wings unite with
IS, and none more cordially and mantully than
he Fredericksburg News, Wing organ. We
gain publish an extract from that paper
Though as strongly impressed as The Wing with
he assumed brilliant talents OF Mr.. Pendleton