Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-03-01

Df glc
V ,,rsr ran prcscrre The GniOn unless you respect me
;bt nj Inc SYaie Fellow Citizens, want to illustrate
this position and WILL as The gentleman before me has done
lien /, 10 partnership First then, here ann with slaves
Tho only propery that have; here Is another man. win
horses the only property he owns another has lot OF
and fourth, poor lawyer with ms ihuSiy oooks-anu az
mite in the concern We go for while and are prospe-
roIs-and after time conclude to buy n iariIl
First the man with his horses goes on and they grow rat
the man with his cows goes on ana tey !'e wen any
the lawyer finds some shady nook To set himself down. ana
make himself wiser; and presently, come along win my
slaves but they say yon don't; ihcy smut me ot 81 H.
because happen 10 hare properly :" negroes hr'n tey
roni ed ,rhen ey took me inio the partnership, ont rh.h
ar, moi riip NOR 10 recognise and rant TO take al '
propery Now these phianthroplc ana generous partners
m once begin TO discover that IN the matter ot slavery
there is thing that weighs on their consclences Now"
h,ya o injection 10 man protesting To be philantlroic
man. ii he willing be 50 at his own COST ot do MOI
him get character at the COST Oh ahot'F Now uS =
exactly the position in which these States are placed IN re-
ar 10 the territory acquired That territory has not been
acquired by the north alone nor by the %est-hnt oy inc
north and south and east and west LOOK 10 the oattle
fields in Mexico the most brilliant welcomes won III tlat
xar and Won will find the head and front Ut the deadly
breach the southern and the northern man. both eXa
ing nag The highest pinnacle Oh eaf,y glory lhe
their best blood be- shed upon that SOIL and they
are now denied the right remove with their property IL
that acquired land Think you thai they would have fought
had they believed that they would nave been denied ,le
privilege upon that territory ntl It's people are point
cay organized! ask is this JUST would talk longer 10
you upon this subject bur hold in my hand resolutions yer
be read my voice begins 10 ia ana am saoofhs uh-
der headache bur say, that II my head aches, my
heart does not.
feel that upon the present occasion speak the senti
OF the true Democracy ask you 10 raiiy WIN M
upon the platform Of the Constitution and 10 say that thai
sacred instrument shall be- violated for The sake Of carry
ing the abstract opinions OF band Of men VINO hav'
banded themselves together as party nave always Cd
served and that younger than will yet observe
H. that when politician gets oil halt way OH question: ne
slides of altogether am for permitting all those VINO do
take the Democratic platform as j. is to go elsewhere
and remain in the ranks OF the Democratic parry anu
nj the time fight against II.
take occasion describe you my felowcitizens the
position which conservative democrats took in relation
10 The mammoth bank They willing 10 in with
the great and good Jackson when he said that The monster
should 90 down.
Democratic party who during the last campaign fought
against your regularly nominated ticket and aided in elect
ing Wing President Well, nov, these men profess 10 BIZ
democrats but will not consider them Judge people
by their aconsa fig for all their professions Of Free Soil
Ism and Conservatism
There are men who live by politics and political shifting.
They will ride The Free Soil hobby, until il leads them into
the possession OF power when they will drop H. ana rally
under another flag
Col =. illustrated The position Of the Free Sellers, with
anecdoc o porker, owned BY an old Duchman. The
porKer the habit OF breaking into the fields roofing up
their potatoes, and tearing out the The old Dutch
man. who had been repeatedly annoyed by the complaints of
his injured neghbos promised them The next time the por
ker injured their property he would put 10 DEATH Well
hot afternoon Of his neghbors came, and
reiterated the complaint The old Duchnan called his
Jacob and started the killing expedition He found the
proving hroughhgh grass The Dutchman folowedher
side of the rum when the SOW got the Other side and
kept shifting until the old Dutchman exhausted By the
chase and heat gave swearing that the devil was In The
SOW and that she on both sides of the run AT the same
time.
Well say Of these political Free Sellers, tina; they
are on both sides of the wnnt Ia get them one
or the other | would say, up with your flag Iyou are
political Free Sellers and make il party upon that
basis say and do be sticking il into the Democratic
creed would 60 on bn that warned 10 be brief yet
| have thing say in conclusion Ny attention has
been drawn resolutions passed al the Pttsbug Conren
ton. in 1919 Now there are two classes OF Democrats
whom do not like. The first those who profess 10 be-
ieye The principles the party and fail carry them out
The second class composed of those men, who undertake
manufacture opinion before the people have spoken
The Democratic party Of the State OF Pennsylvania was
placed in false position by this last Glass; nj the Pittsburgh
Convention in 1919 The Convention was called 10 nom
candidate for Canal Commissioners and nothing more
They not authorized 10 say one word upon slavery YET
what did this Democratic Convention do! Instead OF nom
mating candidate Tor Canal Commissioner and adournng
they undertook tasen resolutions upon the Democratic
party upon subject that they had right speak about
AZ ALL This ordinary instance in which attempt was
made to manufacture opinion for the people
Ii have entertained sentiment IN my life, that believe
10 be honest and true is that The Norh mas stood up and
Sae tie Sot and that the North had better get right be-
fore il attempts IL lei the South 10 get right.
ROBERT TYLER Esq, after secondng The resolutions pro-
ceeei rs follows: Fellow cit!zcns rise the organ OF
the Committee second in brief terms the passage Of the
preamble and resolutions which have Just been offered yon
discharge this duty with great pleasure believing the
uiions contain expression Of the of this
na ought respecting that dangerous and aga,ng
subject eminenty threatening the peace and stability
Of lie unont is needless dwell upon any OF these
resolutions by way Of comment bu; beg leave 10 refer You
the drift and scope ~ the whole series We
here Tonight 10 dnonncc political abo'ionisn in all It's
prm,-proye It's uscrssnessio assert its worhlessncss
aud condmu lis wicked counSes and perncious elects
Political abotlonisn among sn!any compounded OF Two
elements now rapidly engaged in forming homogeneous
ntemix old Observation-Disclosures and what has been
called Frcc-soism The abolonsts proper ana propose
make remarks concerning them, did not at first go
arter than express sympathy for and desire TO- ale
,ile the condition Of the negro in the Southern States
In this they sustained il BY the direct operation,
least b. the earnest hearted feeling Of majority
Df Northern OF late however though conscious OF
their strength derived from quarter other and,
conscious in that thought of the power do il with mpu
ny tearing the mask Of hypocrisy from their counlenances
and showing themselves be- what in truth they and
have always been, British party in disguise among US
ing upon line British policy for the dissolution the
Cnon its main object They have vocerousy with one
voice camored long and continuously for the dissolution
the Union. They have lately held State Conventions in
Massachusetts New York and elsewhere and they have in
varaby adopted resolutions in favor OF disunon They
have far as TO adopt the principle OF dissolution n
The primary article OF their political creed They reproach
The Union They reproach the wise and venerable authors
humanity They boldly assert themselves 10 be right and
The American Constitution 10 be- wrong, and they unbush
ney charge that John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, who
olcd and suffered mpch u.s. their posterty, made an
infamous bargain with George Washington and Thomas JEFF
erson when they established this free and happy govern
nenl. wish know, fellow citizens, whether, in your
wish know what possible good proceed from
ng upon such ideas ene them, for instant your
consideration respect prlvty. Yet wc are told, that
tolerate these inerenliay NJ least told
that must tolerate them and sympahize with Them and
invoke peJudiccs against Southern and Southern in
stiuIions that have never done any harm We must
tolerate them while they riot in their cgotstica cbaucery
while they indulge in their startling and opnionavc selfish
while they indulge in the mad dolary Of their deestabe
lmbition--a: ambition to destroy this Union. We
tolerate them while they brightness in the sum-
when il looks down upon the millions OF happy faces i'm this
Tree and happy land We tolerate them while they can
brightness in the sun, unless shines with cclpsed
md ud RAYS upcE scenes of civil dscord and i;tcrna
oloodshrd We tolerate them while they eagerly look
forward in their iuagnaons, with prophetic oneings
the hour that shall wall the drge of this departed Union and
yifness the wreck OF the brightest hopes OF mankind.
Fellow citizens these fanatics are now raying from one
end OF the free States the other They declare That The
hour is come when il il their duty urge dissolution
upon "the highest moral and religious grounds that the
III the United States is ian agreement with
hell, and covenant with death" They have even come
here among us, in this cy-here where American liberty
was first bornhere where the first Congress sat-here
where the Declaration proclaimed BY Senate of stern
and devoted patriots listening and awehushed world
here, where the toworn authors of freedom subse
luent met in high holy and solemn concave and estab-
sed this blessed Union, amidst the grateful and happy
tears and e1ultant rcocing OF whole peopehere in
The capital 81 his Grea Commonwealth made by the foster
ing influences OF the very government they desperately
have nagnedthe keystone Of the Arch Of thu Sa,es