The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-20
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We ask attention To the subjoined commun
cation OF Investigator. Ii is from high source,
and will be found worthy of the perusal which
we bespeak for it:
To The People Of Virginia.
FELLOW CITIZENS: beg leave TO call your atten-
ton to two three facts, in which you have deep
interest, and which ought to be known before you
cast your votes in the approaching elections. :
1t is now universally conceded that the Compro-
misc measures passed by the last Congress had
most salutary effect in calming the agitations
which threatened the integrity Of the Union and
the peace Of the country.
II becomes, then, important to know the rela-
ton in which the parties in Senate and the
prominent men of the country stand TO those
measures.
The Wing party are committed to their support,
the Wing Administration at Washington used all
its influence to their passage through Con-
gress, the Wing President promptly sanctioned
them, and il will be conceded on all hands that
the President and his Cabinet have employed all
the constitutional means in their power TO enforce
them.
The Wing Convention of Virginia recently as
sembled at Charlottesville have passed resolutions
declaring in the most positive and emphatic Ian
guage their approval of those measures and their
determination 10 support candidate for the
Presidency who will not sustain them.
There can then be doubt Of the position Of
the Wings of Virginia this vital question.
But how is it with the Democracy?
The Democratic Convention met in Stanton on
the oath of September, and was in session contem-
poraneously with that of the Wing party. What
did it do in regard to these great measures What
resolutions did it pass in relation to them None
1t was afraid to meet the issue. II lodged the
II dnO unr6o he
which are confessedly the great questions of the
day What does this prove? 1t not the
work of inadycrtence. The Wing Convention had
logged its memory the subject. 1t proves
that the Democracy unsound on the subject
there were too many nulli6ers and secessioniss in
that body to render it safe to attempt to pass such
resolutions, and the Union succumbed TO the
chivalry, and were afraid to meet the question
and therefore, repeat, they lodged it!
Nor is this all the evidence, nor the only in
stance, of lodging connected with the subject
The two most prominent aspirants for the Pres-
dency in the Democratic ranks are Cass and Doug
las; they were both members Of the Senate of the
United States when the Fugitive Slave bill was I'M
der consideration. That bill the pivot on
which the whole series of measures turned. 1t was
the consideration given to the South in the Com
promise for the sacrifices which it made lit
lalleu, all WOIlu nave lallCuJ anu ought 10 nave
failed.
Well, how did Cass and Douglas vote on the Flu
gitvc Slave bill--for or against it : They BOTH
DoDGEp IT
you will turn TO the journal of the Senate, page
4Sl, you will find the vote recorded-ayes 81,
noes II.
The ayes were: Atchson, Barnwell Bell. Ber-
rien, Butler, Davis of Mississippi, Dawson, Dodge
of Iowa, Downs, Foote, Houston, Hunter, jones'
King, Mangum, Mason, Pearce, Rusk, Sebastian,
Sou6. spruance, Sturgeon, Turney, Underwood,
Wales, and Yuee.
The noes were: Baldwin, Bradbury, Chase,
Cooper, Davis of Massachusetts, Dayton. Dodge
of Wisconsin, Greene, Smith. Upham, Walker,
and Winthrop.
You look in vain for the name of Cass or Doug
las; and yet the Union and kindred papers now
claim them to be the peculiar friends of the Com
promise. Neither of them sick; for they voted
other bills on the same day.
You have the facts now, fellow citizens, present
cd from the records. 1t is for you to say what
weight they are entitled to. INVESTIGATOR.