Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-05-27
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 81. 1881.

. - go We aneak i, in sorrow. Our countrymen de-
better things the hands OF press 80 well supported
Whips and Democrats alike interested in the peace and
prosoery of the whole Union; and all admit that the own
ara of three millions Of slaves cannot and will support
apy party whose general proclvy tends the destruction
or serious disturbance of this property What Southern
men, support party, who in the North, maintain that
slavery should be short in its existence and that three
millions of free negroes should be turned lose from their
ravage the country Southern productions cut
Short" and the not only OF the North ana the
South of the whole world disturbed Sarva'lon crime
and misery made take the place of prosperity peace and
plenty Such the philosophy OF founding and MAINTAIN
ing party without principle or OF combining antagonisc
principles in party and attempting TO carry them out
Now do not charge Wing contemporaries OF the South
with abolition Nothing could be fatal to them than
The ayowa of such doctrines and nothing could be more aa
10 the Wings of the North than for their friends OF the
South unanimously, TO denounce all connection with them
unless they should abandon abolition and all aboitonsts
But it be understood North by Wing editors that the
Wings the South, like the Democrats will support no
man for high Offices who is tainted with abolition and
The country again resume its wonted quiet
We quote from the Nashville Union the following article
on this subject:
ITO ALL WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN-LOOK AT
THE WING TESTIMONY.
We have frequently had occasion TO lay before readers
the testimony of the accredited leading and influential
Journals of the whg party the respective positions of
that and the democratic party Of the North in regard the
fugitive slave law and the sectional issues generally But
we have yet thing the poin-and it Is
impossible conceive anything to the pontthnn
what proceed TO copy from the Boston Atlas
There is far advised Journal in this land
which claim be higher and better eg authority than
this Boston Atlas Its The recognised leading organ
Of the regular Winthrop whg party OF massachusetts, and
the regular whg party of New England
II is oHogekher the powerful and most ably edited
whig Journal of all that reeion-and with the possible esGep
tion OF the Albany Evening Journal and the New fok TIL
bunc know of which speaks Tor an equal num-
Der Of regular True Blue Wings and Wing Organizations
Such is the witness. Now for the testimony Let the
True Wing everybody else mark learn and nwardy d
gest the fact this Wing witness openly promugaes the
declaration and teses directly its truth, that the 'Whig
party Of The North by the "enire of its sentiment
the whole Of its action and its universally prevailing
voice." has nained that slavery should be opposed in
its influence short in its eristencc and confined TO its
pre-exstng mts and that in taking this ground and main
tanning it, in "ong and consistent course OF action" the
the dsmocrac party until that party to Be recogn=eI
and ,Driiten dolon The natural ally to the South! Marx
further that the Boston Atlas expressly says there is hardly
Who in Massachusetts or in THE FREE STATES nho cM
dissent from opinion" Mark further just what the At
las says about the fugitive slave law But enough of COM
Doubtless neighbor OF the True Wing will copy
this whole article and all as rich mine of poli
cal fact labor in and send it out supplement 10 its
elaborate and able upon politics.
We shall mpateny wait for his reutaon of these blab-
bing Bipartisan Wing witnesses in the North. Had they
nothing better do than down here the wings
of the wind Tapping their broad sheets in his face and
setting his whole by telling the people such untimey
truth? Surely the thing wanlon and gra,utous But
UNION in ts OF The II I Wild PARTYThe United and
firm stand assumed and maintained by the wing
bcrs of the Legislature upon all vital questions which
have before them, shows that however much the
wings of doors may disagree there is after all real uni
Of sentiment and of action when we come TO afr
arng and disagreement, which EXHIBITS itself among ind
sdnals, may For anxious 10 accom-
psh this result and ready orego whatever person
nj feelings may have accomplish this much wished for
end
Upon all questions of State policy there is perfect union
&c
the Legislature and the response which the wing press of
ihaf S Siaie ai RsiYefsL te their dongs
Upon questions of national policy we knowof nothing hut
,he fugitive slave law which division Upon the
questions of currency, tariff internal improvements public
lands &C., there is not and will not be any division We
believe that there is any whg who desires open
sion Congress The only question Indifference them
wings In regard 10 the fugitive slave law and regards
this subject agree with the following
able article in the Springfield Republican Of Wednesday last
Looking back the history of the Wing party of the
morrill, from the first agitation Of the slavery question down
the time of the compromise and the entire tenor of sen
rnent, the cole Of action, and the universally preca
ing 1oce have been consistent with the firm belief that slave
in the limits of the constitution and strictly legal means
be opposed in its influence cut short its ersenc and
fined to its pre-e1is,ing limits In stating this we state
democrat for in this long consistent action
il had been uniformly opposed the democratic party until
natural ally of the South.
Some of the of the compromise satisfaco.
party the North The admission of the free State Of
California and the abolition of the slave trade in the District
of Columbia were roced over with the snceest
qualification by that party now and for long time,
tainted by its enemies with being the pro-slavery party
But there was one measure of the compromise received with
almost universal dissatisfaction by the Wing party the
North The bill for rendering efecua that provision
OF the constitution for the rendition OF fugitive slaves
one which This paper and the majority OF the Wing papers
ing force of the constitutional provision designed
render eectual have believed and uniformly said
features and particularly in its denial Of the right of trial by
curry was much opposed to northern of right it
fatal TO the object of the law Our opinion of the law
has changed ioia We regard it impoitic law,
unnecessarily harsh law, and bad law for the country
North and South This has been our uniform voice, and We
Ieiterateit."
The position of the wings Massachusetts, is well stated
in the above We believe when public opinion gifted down.
when passion sassuaged when reason is supreme there
is hardly whg in Massachusetts the free S,aes who
will dissent from the opinions expressed by able coabo
rer the hg ranks at Springfield There has been much
feeling angry feeling too exhibited where there ought to
have been fairness camness and forbeaance There may
have been the side and the other much of
expression and much contention for the triumph
points of controversy while the bottom there was
after ALL NOT wide difference of real sentiment.
The sustenaon of the Fugitive Slave law can be
made party by the wing party in Massachusetts,
for the momcnt is done the party will fade away like snow
before the
The following extract from letter from Marion county,
tells well the effect of extending improvements through from
the Eastern market towns the rich lands the Western
The plain matters of fact in relation increase
Of the value of property in Northwestern Virginia. by
Of the Baltimore Railroad and the Pennsylvania Canals
and Slack-water Navigation opening that section the
markets of Baltimore and Philadelphia sufficient JUS
y the best efforts Of this State in drawing her Eastern
cities the rich products of South the Kanawa
region, possible with full confidence OF the like
results being produced in those sections which have
been In the Northwest We have 0ecn Baltimore and Phil
adelphia increase in the last years. in wealth
and population by of their Western improvements
though still incomplete than the aggregate of wealth
and population in all the of Eastern Virginia Had
Canal Southwestern Railroad and Central Railroad
been carried through their Western and Southwestern
Ietmin before ls40 any doubt that the Eastern
towns OF Virginia would now have been almost doubled
in wealth and population; or If soon completed that
IN me next len years they would almost doubls9-
The completion of these great works will, natural
ly lead to the construction Of every variety of inter-