Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-05-24

who had charged that the President had uSurpcd legislative
functions AMI exercised arbitrary power because he hr
Prcsiten nal recommended the Caliiornians the
ton S.tt constitution No doubt the President wont
b. sustained in the country, and in Virginia matter !,
special pleading and myscation may BE- resprteL
lawyers. This will be- VI avail The people can read and
comprehend the meaning ri the Presidents message which
is plain and sensible paper General TAYLOR had pursued
the proper course IN not committing himself in advance; ana
main trouble slavery was caused by his predecessors
pursuing 4 different
H. had said he intended vote for til. admission Of
California. IL actnow lodged the doctrine that the peo;l.
capablr 81 St!isoycrnnent and when they form
constitution they have the right 10 determine tor ITEMS.
aud reguae their domestic concerns and say whether
the: vii tolerate slavery not in . midst; and he called
The friends o civil liberty sustain HIM IN TIL position
aud he called his friends the North abandon The
Niluut pr)yiSo, and all unconstitutional measure, t.y
may in contemplation They did not believe that they
Will have practical effect, and neither did he Ii they have
the numerical force they ought pass them. They
should d. r"'hins 10 ALLEVIATE the feelings ut section
from tosc Of The other and disturb the general HARMONY
Let rccoiec that all belong the great family;
and that on this question we should not only void things
unjust but offensive The iac;, that gentlemen have the
p1~cr Is NJ argument why they should exercise except
TOT The puo!!c good. Let Us take the question il Is We
have slaves in the South and must have for years 10 come To
speak Of slavery in poachul have beneii.
cal Effect II con! only produce alienation of feeling and
sectional action Let stand the platform OF non-in
efv'non and all Viii BE- well enough Its platform On
when we all can stand Leave the people Of the
free 10 say whether they will tolerate slavery in their midst
not.
TINS excitement brought about Tor parry purposes and
newspaper eIJ influenced ~ the wish break down
til Administration. And n feared that desired 10
crisis which would bring the country 10 the verge OF n.
voutln that they might seize the helm deiyeres the
country Having had the Government Tor twenty years
hey believe 'ey have the prosrpivc gh, the
81 the Governments and they ready risk ana ,eo-
pad this Curious Union, be- rcinstaied III power as
thev tiey viii =. III 1872 III, would tell gen..
ihat pcop. watchlu ana -ao- and nave n.
dcous disposition and will ilown Gown the men when
they discover their real object The people of the North
and the South devoted the Union and will tolerate
men who seize on the and raise and
yo!uon to reinstate themselves in power
~ - southern convention he satisfied that there
was not sane man in northwestern Virginia who in
favor o. Il. They only opposed H. but would
resist H. His colleague (Alr Beale) from the Fourteenth
Congressional district and himself represented the
OF the frontier marked for the boundary of the southern
CONFIDENCE There will be representation from north
western Virginia in the southern convention The people
there believe that IL conceived in sin and that the OBJ
)eci- Of the gcers up Of il il disnnon Wherever the peo
pie have been called in large masses in Portsmouth
Richmond Norfolk. and AbemA,lc they have repudiaed
those who have advocated the Nashville convention The
northwest are 10 against it, Every letter he receive,
urges him 10! the admission Ut California The sla
very question lie settled ny dengnciation but bv In.
conservative at the two parties. II cannot be sci
Tied by destroying Tie Character Of the DISTINGUISHED m,r
n the head 81 'he Government. They the South wht
wish ~ destroy the President say thar he tayos northern
views and northern sentiments; while the aboltionists de
the President for advocating wha, they are please,