Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-02-02
RICHMOND. VA
Thursday Morning, February l. Is4s.

1 S0'y - AofCs
"MR. CALHOUN AND HIS FOLLOWERS
The Times fires away a, The signers OF the al.
dress just adopted by Southern members OF Con.
gress al Washington, as "having proved them.
selves utterly false 10 The South whose rights and
interests they pretended 10 represent" and saws
tha, "il must be The judgment OF the Southern
by their rash and eulpable proceeding disclosed
an anxiety 10 create and lead on an agitation
rather than confer any real b.nef, upon the
South"
This grave impu!alion is based upon the as.
sumption that "al least an approximation 10 una.
nimity might have been secured by the adoption
OF Mr.. Benien's addfess"-which desirable re-
sull, in the eye OF the Times, was destroyed By
the "cuIpdble" conduct OF the "agitaiors" We
are free 10 say, that could sucha uoanimi,y have
been effected b. The adoption Of MIR. Berriep.
address, We should have not objected Though
we confess that there is much force in the views
OF Messrs. Mason and Bayy, that Southern re-
personalities would 90 beyond their duty in =.
dressing those who were not their consliluen.l-
this, we doubt not, is The feeling OF majority OF
| those who aced in The maiter-and Mr.. Iverscp
OF Georgia made similar statement in The meet.
| ing But do not the facts conroyeH any such
inlerencel Did not MessrS. Stephens OF Georgia
Gentry 81 Tennessee, and other Wing leaders
| from he South, ayow opposition 10 all action,
and make JEALOUS endcavors 10 embarrass AMI
deiea any avowal by The South o! her grievan.
ces} Under these circumstances, Southern De.
mocIa's finding il Impossible 10 rally those who
held back from sinister motives upon any plan
OF action, resolved, aud properly TOO, we think, 10
TALL back upon Mr.. Cahoun's address, which We
have examined with great satisfaction, and in
which We can see no threats 81 disnnion, no Guy
Fawkcs plots. which baunt The visions Of South.
ern Wing Editors.
But, again, suppose Mr.. Berrien's Address
had been adopted, would ii not have met with
storm of denunciation from the North1 We
have already adduced in evidence the Philadel.
phia North American, which assails Mir. Der.
rien's address as "mischievous," and a, ian in.
discreet, improper and dangerous appeal, calcu-
lated to excite feelings and provoke passions,
which do not yet exist either in the South or the
North, and especially calculated to excite them
in the North, because such an appeal eannott
othsrpiS: than wrong aud an insult 10 the
whole people of the Morrill, And soon after
receiving and publishing letter from Mr..
Berrien, demonstrating against such an IN.
founded version of his address, the same paper
which may be regarded as fair exponent Of
Northern Wing sentiment, reierates its opinion
that Mr. Berrien's address has "a greater capa-
city for mischief and therein is more obec.
tionable than Mr.. Calhouns," and for this rea-
son. also, it is now "rejoiced that the latter was
adopted by Locofoco votes, rather than that
MIR. Berren's should have been accepted and
sanctioned by Wing yoes.'' II goes on TO say,
that "no measure short of absolute disapprcba.
t,on OF the object for which the caucus was
conyoked, and directly calculated to defeat that
object, could receive or deserve the sanction Of
the nation at large In other words, so far
from the Southern meeting setting forth its sup.
posed grievances and appealing for justice, it
should have humbed itself in the dust, confess
ed that the North was more sinned agans, than
SHINING, and have ,amey kissed the rod OF con-
tinued Northern aggression! Do not these facts
concusivey show the necessity and policy Of
adopting Mr.. Calhoun's address, unless the
South is ready to acknowledge her own infe
riori,y aud degradatons
But the gist of the objections Of Southern
Wing presses to the address seems TO be that
Mr.. Calhoun had some hand in lis preparation.
He, whose Pacific course on the Oregon qucs
ton and the Mexican war was lauded by
Southern Wing prints TO the skies, is now de-
cried as the very genius OF 'disunion and dis
cord ready and anxious to apply the torch to
the glorious fabric Of the Union. In this view
.'Mr. Calhoun and his followers" are held up by !
the Times as highly "cupable' and The Wing
joins the chorus, but in still louder and noiser
strain. That passion and prejudice are at The
bottom of this opposition to MIR. Calhouns ad
dress, we ask no stronger evidence than the fol-
lowing wild declarations in yesterdays Wing:
"Messrs. Preston and Flournoy would be per.
iecy e1cusable, in our eye. for signing nothing
which comes from John C. Calhoun let 1t b. rs 1
innocent as II may. Our principal objection 10 \
The whole proceeding-our only one in facts,
that he is al The head OF H. We feel confident d
that he would engage in nothing, SO lar as this |.
subject is concerned in which he did not sre OF :,
fancy that he saw, disunion either immedia!e ~ D
remote We have no idea OF joining the Church !
when bid by h. devil, ami we would as soon b.. 7
come communicate under such Circumstance
as sci our names 10 paper trawn up BY MI y
Calhoun, where disunion could by any possibi. q
" enter lie has thought Of nothing else iO' !.
twenty years-his whole mind has been turned u
To that one object-he talks oil nothing else in al Il,
his public speeches-ant how honest sOever Oh. n
er persons may have been in The late Southern b
meeting and how innocent soever OF any desisn [1
hostile 10 The Union we entertain not The slish'. u
est doubl that he saw. or iancied he saw, 10 L. 81
the means Of consummaling his long cherishec "
wishes" "
Such arguments we shall not attempt TO an.
swer. Mr.. Calhoun is the very "jevi'' meal.
nate OF dsunion, and is so very cunning in lay. -
ing his gunpowder plots, that all who act viii he
him "honest," bu, TOO arrant fools TO The =
poison so skilfully concealed in The measured Oh
The Wing probably acts with policy in atOpt su
ing sweeping position. Il certainly saves il y
sell great deal Of celebration and logic. IN
can see in The address itself nothing that breahe
disunion but says III Wing, il mus be there sar
because Mr.. Calhoun aided 10 preparing The a. 90
clcss. III has hsu2ht Il nothing else for twenylf p
wears, AMI, though be says nothing OF the kind
means disunion, and nothing else Is NJ, this ~
fair version Of he Whis's position NJ
When we can find arguments on tbs ohs -
side Of The house 10 susan our position, atoH
them instead OF our own, as entitled 10 MOI n /,
weight with both parties. We therefore qatk ID,
what the Republican says, as more than an {. !. |,
Sc, 10 the vague and hypothetical charges Of " p
Two other Wing organs in this city The Rspu' H..
lcan remarks: E.
"Allhough no admirer Of Mr.. Calhx IS PV,t h
cal principles, and believing that on me SUB
iects his feelings run ahead oil his judrmeat Mn
see no proof that he is acuaed by lfeasonaost 4aI
motives or desire to dissolve the Union ioE st ~,
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