Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-08-22
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
ERInay MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1851.


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KICKMOND ENQUIRER.
ERIDay MORNING. AUGUST &c. 1851.
AM s,nos takes leave politicians and turns mis- oacK
no,,,ics the hig shouts after hm-Dunlontst! "heh
Mr Seldom reres from before the puoic ana oeaAeS '
Golf 70 tbs repose of private c the Wing tails 10
HI, sentiments and msconstruing ms "fae~eh i,uue''
r It has right to do this independently OF the Prece
don, ne Revolutionary ancestry which 1t boasts ("naess
tho. he and on whichever side of the house but mere ~ "
eino this chasing man into private me- Is SCI an
diren, manners and in the best taste Mr. oeooon ~"
hardly reappear before the public, to repei 'hese
crs,,ions That would be needless, in community III
which bs is so well known and highly respected as
d noc,n by NIL classes and parties az IN the ohh Oon
gressional District ,:, r j.;
Probably wohirds of the people of this district were IN
favor of the Compromise OF $780, as peace 'o
one-,hd of them, probably were IN iaFof u ~
independently of the circumstances unoef Which - w -
acted More than nineteen tweneths OF them are VIKING "
cor,rscE in the measure, now that II has become a"'
ma iory probably very large Majority Oh .he "oua
voted for Mr. Seldom because Of his acqSiescence among
whom would have many patriotic members OF 'he wing
narty Probably as many ten Of the voters oil 'hS us
1rc concur with the Vhg in believing Mr. Seldom DIS
up,on.t. and probably many half thar nuoe' aee
IN bis yaedctory card fac,ous opposition TO he
mise"
No one doub,s the sincerity of the Wigs belief oil Mr.
Srnpos's dsunionism its real conviction mat MS auu'
does breathe factious opposition TO the COMPROMISE 0
one believes its gross misconstructlons OF ha paper
ora, There are politicians in the South who see Southern
conduct only with Northern eyes, and regard every hs
hostile to the Union which indicates greater devotion Il
rho Souh than the North There those in the South
who detect dsunon in every effort TO the Constitution
and the rights of the States; who regard all attempts 10
erec, barriers against consolidation ncendlasm anu
treason who have ever word of denuncation TOR oou
ern discomfort but word OF lndsnau"h io' w.
ern fanatcism. 1t would cost lnborous seorch 70 e
naIueraph Of ebuke of Northern hostty 70 tue oo
promise in the of the Wig during the last thee os
On the other hand when has II omitted lot aay - .s
deuunciaon and obloquy upon State Rights mems "ha'
sor, of unonsn is that which sits quiet and piaclo
spectator of continued assaults upon the Constitute"
from the only quarter from which real danger proceeds
hnt which oyerwheIms with incessant blows ana Vllin-
cution az we'll those who mediate escape IRON such
assaults as those who prepare detences against hemi
sucient for Mr. Seldom counsel in other language tue
ballowed maxim of l776-eterna vigilance the price 81
lbeyiy-t to draw upon himself the Hhss usual ana ever
ready impuation of faction and disunon win singular
ob,iouity of construction it represents Mr. Seldom as fac
tiously opposing we'll the Missouri Compromise US Inc
Adjustment af $780, when is known that Mr. Seldom, dis
himself moved in Congress- substitute fer the ADJUST
men the extension of that Compromise TO the newly nc
guired territories.
The fact that Mr.. Seldom himself proposed the Missouri
Compromise the Congress of 1850 complete retaliation
Of all the nisconstrucon which Wing journals and Wing
politicians have been busy in heapng upon his con.
duct No one who knows Mr. Seldom believes for mo-
rnent that he approved that Compromise Every one I'M
dersands that he brought forward the better and safer
hath IF he No
less then now, pregnant with future evils Every
unbipoted mind understands that his opposition TO both
measures proceeded from intense devotion TO the
South than lukewarnness for the Unions and that in pro-
posing hcm when the OF the other became
imminent he sought avert the superior evils both to the
Sou, and the Unlon which he believed himself descry
in that other Nor does require now, great stretch
of the understanding perceive how Mr. Seldom may Ia
men the concessions derived by the North from the South
IN the ordinance Of 81 the Missouri Compromise and the
Adusmen, Of 1880 and the South agains, the policy
of such concsss:ons-r,nsistantlr Nth ~'-~-'- :,
N, Inion and patriotic determination to acquesce IN al
no.o copromses rather than hazard the dangers which
would attend thoir aorogation.
Tho Democratic party of this district will not shrink from
INV responsibilities attending their denomination OF Mr.
Seldom We shall not appear assai him in his retire
en by pointing the that he gave and sentiments
that he may uttered n the of $780, which did
not receive our concurrence Whatever these been
the Compromise became law and Mr. Seldom returned 10
constituency who admired the motives which had dictated
his conduct if they had approved the course he had
pursued in all its parts and details 1t sufficient for
his Democratic constituency approve his motives; TO
know that with all his hostility TO the Compromise of
1880 he was true the Union and 10 its highest and
most sacred comprehensive Constitutions and TO feel
assured that the Compromise the Constitution and the
Union were much safer in his hands, than they would be
in those adversary who cherished enets and sentiments
destructive of all of themo induce them to renomina'e
him against his wishes by acclaaon So will it ever be-
we trust with people of Virginia and the South-to be
ever ready much zeal in their cause but never
ready to tolerate much luke-wamness.
We see nothing in MIR. Seddons address, which true
Southern man may condemn There is great dea in 1t that
every Southern man may approve; and wha, we see ap
parent in this brief card though vauntngy expressed
more earnest devotion the Union than we have in the
Hhig for the last three months.