Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-10-18
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER II, Ia
FLORIDA ELECTION.

FLORIDA ELECTION.
Telegraphed for the Charleston Mercury. -
MoSTGnsIEny, Ala, Ocr IL.
We have pretty full returns from Florida, which she~ e
election Congress OF Mr.. Cabe, the present wing me'
ber -
MOBILE Ala. Der. II.
FLoR,ps LEo1sr,ruRE-I Duvull county, Buddington,
Whg is elected 10 the Senate and Pumng and Bryant a
80 Wings, TO the Legislature. ~ y,
In Nassau and Marion counties the Wings are "
have majority.
ST. John and Putnam have gone Whg.
The roiurns generally are favorable 10 the wings.
The Charleston Mercury also has despatch iio" Ne'
West which has given Beard De for Congress- "a mao
y and elected Democrats the Legislature The writer
however, expresses the opinion that the Stale Is
Wing, and Cabel lwho voted for the Texas bill and other
adjustment measures will be elected by greater i'Jo'
than he has ever received
We could expect other result after the very extreme
opinions avowed by Mr. Beard Early in the canvass ne
was declared disunonIstthat should the COMPROMISE
bills have passed in the original orm Such an extreme ut
ttude produced an unfavorobe impression through '''e
State whose result ia manifested in the re-eecuoh Vi WI
Cabe Just before the election, however, the fiorua
speaking doubtless by authority for Mr. Beard staeo a
his opinion was considerably modified BY subsequent events
and that he for disunon The explanation came
"oo ate-his fate sealed BY his original mprdence
We ask the attention Of the bitter ienounceEs OF ALL who
sustain the adjustment TO the following article III
the Flodlau, one of the most oPPos'
of the compromise Major Beard was ultra South
Carolinansee how his views have been softened by the
changes of the bills before Congress- The result in Florida
which was confidently counted for sunion will cool down
the fre-eaters in Georgia 1t should also friends
the Democrats the South against muang un issue oil TINS
question If il be done, must fall prey to the Why's
and Democratic Virginia. like Florida be thrown into the
arms of our opponents We cordially endorse the sugges-
tons of the Portsmouth Pilot and the Stanton Vndcator
ON this point. The Flordian's article is as follows
Mr. Cabe in his last letter says the contingency has hap
pcned In which he MAJOR Beard is for dissolution OF the
Union" We reply not The contingency has not hap
pened The bills reported by the Committee OF Thirteen,
which MAJOR Beard so bitterly and 50 properly assaulted
the re-cupure of fugitive slaves and that for the dsember-
ment OF Texas-are different from and better than those
reported by the Committee. BY the Texas Bill as
adopted twenty thousand square miles less were
cut oil from Texas than by the Omnibus BILL And ii is this
failure get 5000 So miles of slave SOIL which would have
been given them by the Omnibus that has called forth the
wall which has been re-echoed in our midst The
following is from one OF their papers:
"Frecdoms banner trails in the dust at Washington
Twenty five thousand square miles of territory have in the
Last half of the nineteenth century, by act of the Amer
can Congress- surrendered slavery And amid tht
clankng of newly forged etters We hear the craven voice
The Fugitive Slave Bill which has passed. instead of be-
ing an Outrage the South like that of the Compromise
Committee is doubtless one OF the best that could be framed
So that the which Maj Beard so strongly OBJ
cced have passed. consequently the contingency has
arisen in which he ia for dissolution Of the Union
From The @ rGg's@oa,h y. n. ,o ya2 PiIotl Iol l,,cr
THE ElEcTioS-Goop SEws.The star of Whiggery IS on
the wane and the glorious Democracy tumphan, all
points of the compass The first gun from the keystone
State knocks the Whig Levin and gives
Democratic gain in the election of Col. Florence.
From Ohio too the good news comes rolling on that ie-
deral Whggery If absolutely killed is earluy scalped
The Baltimore Patriot (Whg) by telegraph that
Wood the Democratic candidate for Governor is probably
elected
Now is the time for the Democracy OF Old Virginia 10
buckle on the Pass the word 10 agdni:e-organi:
Assemble your wards and iowns and counties, and dis
ric,s See that every Democratic voter h at his post lie,
there aeglers from the camp; and in the April con-
test lei present. unbrokcn unconquerable phaanx
When do the sterling Democracy of Portsmouth propose to
gird up their giant ioins2
From the Siaunton vindicatorl
We regret in Virginia. disposition the part OF
some Democratic prints chde their brethren for
difference of opinion in relation to the settlement Of what
s called the "Compromisc" This is not il should be-
Come, brehren remember the watchwords: "Union, Con-
| cession, Harmony