Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-10-31
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 80, 1856 1
MIR ROT"rS, LAST

THURSDAY MORNlNSs oSIohEn oO, Ico
MIR. BOTrS LAST.
! As curious commentary upon the recent exciting
in this district, we publish to-day Mr.. Bolts last letter
| tire 1t is characteristic document and comes down will
all his sedgc-hamer power upon the Wings VIII
seeded from the Of Bolssm He does spare tn
lash upon them Mr. Bolts declares that he has given
politics This is his natural feeling now-but when
favorable occasion shall otier mistake the and hi
devoted paanx of friends if he be again engaged will
the hearty ZEAL the leader of the fight the same sell
confident but always desperate, ambition for triumph
Mr. Bolts dies hard-not gracefully like the dolphin in ht
midst of the most brilliant ranbowhues-bu like the har
pooned whale mady lashng the ocean, and with its giant
tail striking desperate blows at the gallant boats crew
Wings well Democrats, who have taken his poii-
cal life His death-strugse needs the cowning glory
of noble and magnnnmous resignation TO The nW Of the eo-
ie-he still hunders defiance and furousy aud vainy as
sails all who have had the ndependenceto differ with him.
and think that the election of Mr.. Bolts in Con-
gress was not oft to be made"
After the explosion of the party in this district aud
State and 10 view of past in the history Of Whggery
little amusing hear the loud voice of Mr. Bolts
raying his friends another fight the office of Cover
nor With the fact of the awful disappointment of ex-
,ravasant calculations in the Metropolitan District
staring the people of Virginia in the face how Mr. Bolts
hope bring his friends cordially TO the support
OF Mr. Summers thorough fedcralst the Cover
of so thoroughly Democratic State as Virginia has
ever shown herself to beand than in the
election passed? Many Of them have become Tired of
this knocking Of their heads against the solid rock
OF Democracy, and they will either view the approaching
election with sullen indifference, will for the noni
nees of party which stands firmly and unedy its prin
cp.es AS Mr. Bolts however has sounded the war cry, il
becomes friends prepare for the Let the
he horouuhly oruaniZed-and aboye
ALL let the Spartan Band of Richmond from their
weldung but stand to their Under the Consl
tulion many young Democrats now for the first time
invested with the privilege and responsibility Of
would not be well for them in imitation of their brethren
of the Cockade Town. form Association of their
auxiliary to the good cause?
Mr. Bolts does not dwell much upon the "Union' ques
,ion That question is all blown up. As the Warrcnton
Flag well says the "Unon is safe but the Union party is
collapscd:
The glorious resul, in South Carolina dispcls all fears
the OF that State. But at the time il de-
sroys The hopes of those who have been attempting gain
power by raising the cry Of Union The wind is complete
ly taken of their sails What Aessrs Bolts, and
Southa and Goggiu and all those other Wings 10 do who
have declared their party and their party principles oLsoce
and absurdy aemptedro foEma Union party! They have
ground left stand upon. Their party gone and South
Carolina deprving them of the pretcxt which they based
their humbug union party where they TO to-
Ard what form the staple Of the Alexandria Ga
and hundred other prints who havo been surelng
their readers with homes against the abstract right of
and with disingenuous insnuaons charges OF
'sunionism against all who believed in that doctrine?
They advocated the abstract right of Revolution The cyer
else of which would be equally destructive to he Union
exercise of the right of secession. But yet they
claimed be Union par excellence, and had the I'M
fairness and the mpudence charge those who believed in
the other mode of resistance federal oppression when
sistancc should become duty with being dsnionists"'
II they had been sincere and disinterested in their efforts
bring ceclua public opinion 10 bear against South
Carolina they would have told her that large party in
this and other States sympahzed with her in her conten
plated action and that she only condemned hy the hum
bug "Union par,y! On the contrary they would have said
her people, Whc your fellow citizens here disagree in
opinion the abstract tight Of State 10 the particular
ooy they oil thoroughly united in believing TO be
wrong in employing resistance at all for past gricrances-
they think you acquescc in the past and hope for
s 1Ss WIZ Can oh All Il 5 " s fHua aYs Hqa Os @
would have been greatly increased by it? But noths did
not suit the founders Of the & Union party in this State
They had other things attend 10 besides that OF saVng
he Union" They had their dear selves TO take care or
and thev thought they uncommon chance.
hIr Souhal had advocated whig principles until he had
wearied in the Improbable work. Let them go oy SAID
ne cy are in fact o5solste and he cried out Tor Union
,arty John NJ. Botts fastened 10 the movement as
owning mariner scizcs floating plank. dc thought
ne was rescued. Said he,
Until this new Union party was formed, began to be
that there would be ghost of the Whg par
" for any body TO be afraid OF"
Alas for him. South Carolina has laid this new ghost OF
he WhIg party and body is afraid OF IT, essrs Cog
gin and Others will al once over The unncy grave
II their "Unon party Of their hopes based upon
that wicked political speculation.
The Wings will now have to stand trial on Inc od issues
issues which been condemned until they are oosoiete
md issues which Mr. Southa is naturally 50 anxious TO
shrk No one doubts the verdict.