Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-07-29

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RICHMOND ENQUiRER.
TUESDAY MORNING, July go, ISL.
1--WE ar. only astonshcd e WhssI n who comes VI
of finding in their ranks sn, the South
we know Of no Wing The No hx Of The Southern Wings
1ae we look .e S ." The many ant! sound statesmen
Il. be- found in the The Northern Rond Enquirer
,yh., Ia n,he standard of soundness IN the esualion
~ Er;rer9 Is il Mr. Cahouns doctrine OF an ahehoe.
Constitution and two one .o Of secession or MIR
on;tman,s of notification, Mr. fancys OF
i,v ~ the American Union, that OF Mr. fehaoie; ~
r. which is TO raise the ID generally these afe on
,c,a ric standards 10 which hope no wing, oou.s ~
North will ever subscribe. If however, the i;
as whole fairly interpreted and faithfully haye and
GOOD enough standard for Southern wings us "" 6nI
Snow il is for the great body Of henG al least he w;It
enough of their Northern brethren 10 zoe le tho nm
them To give them Jointly continued ascenoancy ~ ;naio
% = ssndsr mon The wings everywhere, 70 lns.n
uaie that their prominent men not loyai ~ te
NON If the Enquirer seeks anything oeyon :, Wt
we tuI @ ~ zee Northern submitting TO any
CHER or Southern men asking any oher anu ye M
i bods ~ some higher law" doctrine Tor It's s1anaato
,h, imoosed BY The Constitution 1t would DC sec
,ionn as against the Union If IT dared anu - e
ira of all the presses this side OF compete seceSS''
While we cannot but smile at the above character give"
"a Nv the New York Express prepared 10 MAKE g'ou
70 the which the South should insist upon
Mr. Webster is generally regarded being as naohai anu
conservative rs any Northern Wing. Indeed ne nus oee
Nominated by one Wing meeting in Virginia. unqua'"e
praises have been sung him by Southern wing poS'
that would rejoice him their Presdcn'la cahu'u
President Mr. Fillmore, wIo doubt, VIII receive '
vote of Southern Whiggcry in the national nominating
v.nton and who sound" enough for their votes stahuS
precisely upon platform of Mr. Webster, as we are IN
n tho Ram
fore, we can show that neither Mr.. Fillmore nor Mr. WEB
ster up the proper standard, our demonstration
complete, that there is no such Wing at the North
We PASS over for the present, Mr. Flmores past pohuca
,ran,eressns We say nothing of his famous Erie letter.
which bunglingly attempted TO explain away anu
which he advocated the abolition oil the lner-oue save
trade the olition of slavery in the District OF Cooa
and dcclard his opposition 10 the annexation Vi ie""S
while she twned slaves We down 10 the present mo-
1nent andn premises admit that they are both DIS
posed TO arry the Fugitive Slave Law, although Mr
Fillmore fit compelled ntepose the legal opinion oil Inc
Attorney ienera in favor of constituonaly between
himself aid the abotionist and MIR. Webster avo~s ms
desire while in the Senate introduce the trial BY Jur!
which wud have muated and rendered the law entirely
null come to Mr. Webs,cr's speeches. made during the
Presidential tour on the Erie Railroad Excursion, and from
those rio materials deduce the abundant proof that
neither hmser nor Mr.. Fillmore who occupies the same
platform is sound enough for the Southern support
his Buffalo Speech in close imitation of his federal pro-
toypes New England Mr. Webster denounccs the adms-
sion nothe Union Of LOUISIANA Florida and Texas as slave
States declares that he erer would consent that there
should bone of slave territory beyond what the Old Ihlr-
teen Staes had the time of the formation OF the Union
and that hat man would be hypocrte and fasher VINO
would say that he (Fcbstc) departed from that ooc-
trine kr Webster in the speech BOASTS of the fact
Garda hp
wen, GU Of his way shew what he anticipated in the at
temp, &c annex Texas slave territory and declared at the
time that sit should be opposed by me, im) 10 the last er
treit His objections he bases the false principle that
in admitting new States the Constitution has operation
<benp confined to the Old Thr,een and that the old mem
bes of the partnership have right TO say hd terms
the partners in and what they are 10 bring
along with them Is such doctrine vioAtve of every
principle of equality Justice and equity7 The right Of
ucng has been plausbiy contested-but wher
territory shall be introduced it Is TO argue
Mr. Webster docs that majority of the partners shall have
the power exclude their from equal and
restricted enjoyment of the territory thus admitted This
The fatal heesYthe wild doctrine-which has led US into
the present troubles that convulse the Union Mr. Webster
once more boasts of his original free sois, whose 'hun
DER the Buaonans stole in the last Presidential canvass
We give him credit for boldly procaiming the nth in
the midst Of the fanatics and rginr them TO carry out
specific law 1.-THE fugitive save) for the protection OF South
ern Righ,-but this speech contains sefcondemna-
lion of Mr. Webster OF the most efficient and infu
enasl agents In assang tho Constitutional rights Of the
South and in thereby raising the Of agitation which
not even his giant mind can CONTROL The ugitaors he
may coudemn-bu he forges that he himself the
prince of agators he boosted in 1915 and virtually
admits in vndicang his past history His false prn.
cipes pledged he against the admission of future slave
States if sanctioned By the elevation of himself any
Dorthern Whig will furnish ncstegg TO engender in
justice discomfort and the fatal fruits Of agitation.
1t cannot be in the proceedings of the Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Vermont Wing State Conventions which give
fuel the slavery agitation that find stand
ard of soundne,s The distinct line, which marks the
parties in their Interpretation Of the constitution makes the
Democratic party the North, national party and the
Wing party at the North nurrow feudiced and sectional
party In their strict construction Of the constitution the
Democracy seek reduce the power of the Federal Govern
mcn restrain it from ntermeddng with the rights of the
States and adopt the doctrine of complete nonnerfer
subject of slavery Whiggcry, the contrary
aims invest the Federal authority with enlarged powers
and the slavery question: TO authorize TO restrict the
rights of nearly half of the States of the Conederacy
and 10 prohibit Them by actual legislation from carrying
important portion of their property into territories the
common property of all the States. The principles
maintained by Messrs Webster and Fillmore, and their
Northern wing party, years SINCE arc !nalHtaihea W
them now-and they. still pledged to employ the
strong arm of Congress TO defeat the admission OF
any more slave Staesa assumption of power,
which violates every principle of equality and justice ex
cites discomfort and bood between different sections and
threatens the existence OF the Union itself But upon this
point call in Northern Democratic paper the Boston
Post, give triumphant reply to tho self-complacen
structures of the Express:
The policy that arises above all ocalsn all sec,unaism
that looks the cho country and parts of the
countrys that which the democracy since Jeersons
time has acted on without varabcness shadow Of turn
Ing and glores in Standing On this account il is
that from Jeersons time down. tho Northern Democrats
have charged by the Federass and Wings with being
prosarery But is for this that the Democratic party
the highest credit and fullest confidence 1t is this
HAT has made them the only national pary-:ruc to
Tho compromises Of the constitution and the expanding
genius of our 10 the past and 10 the future
az American destiny This policy the country has sanction
ed and will continue 10 sanction The policy will
make the people false to their high duty and false their
manifest destiny.
And would be the effect of the policy laid down by
Mr. Webser7 Carried its legitimate extent where
9oud lead7 Had it prevailed in 1913, ISL in what cnndi.
havp tha