Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-09-16
RICHMOND ENQUIRE Il.
s.TURDAf MORNISG, SEPTisMHEK To-.


,; e ria, rrocccdinrs Of the Burs' C"nvenon anu upon
rho o,rir inconsistency of the editor 81 me ""s' Ia "
,orncino Democrats as "jsunionists "hie' a' '''e ~
time he ayoas his purpose TO give i warm S'pi' ~ 7
who are found in exactly the same category, '' WA ~
rim, oy, -, ask no better proof than The gfoans OF i'
editor in lie Whig of "Wednesday. More important matters
have deferred notice until this morning.
The editor flies into passion because we S'!'eu MN ''
and regrets that, by such an atteinftat
sur The Erourcr should marx IN equal deatn Oh scHst
Of wi, md M good manners" We shall certainly not 90 I"
,,, -. supply OF either OF those articles. tic says
two A., civil toward it uhe EEqurer)-cannot II be the
, ~ We shall not stop discourse upon the quality o!
,h wh;,s cyily remark that 1t is very little
cvi,n in its editor utter daily lts parrot cpiuhe'
oooinst rs Of ocufocos and dsunionists but we were
greatly as,onished that the charge Of being uncS on &C
-, =, h,t we had done shoad be brought against us
W. ,hh, our presentation of the Wing might have been
r.o,rdad cs rather complimentary than otherwise Hede'o-
tod nuh Of our space the oatoy OF the wing edito re-
nor,ed under his official signature and dny nlefadeo
; g Land ,nplause" "prooneed cheering and such other
,o,rs Of ,opular commentator. We complimened his
.l ,s Secretary in swelling the tame proceedings Of the
Rors Convention three columns OF the Wing, and IN
making The Convention appear to the country people at least
c. "a I,roe as it really was by reporting present. and
c,,oIv rariiynu Mr Bolts nomination. all the Richmond
deIeuation originally appointed, when only onehith were
in when several of the absenecs arc known
n be 60 hostile Bolts election, that they will not touch
him uwi,h foot poe So much for our designation OF
he admirable qualities Of the editor OF the Wing for the
Secrearvshp of Convention. Nothing in our article
was intended or can be construed sur upon the
editor or upon any one who may act as the Secretary
of any respectable meeting of citizens Its often trouble
some position but Of responsibility and honor which we
have never sneered al and which Wing has warrant
dnuiu cd Tho
of the Wing as the Secretary Editor" thinking his vanity
might be little aered by employing the very title under
which he seems proud win literary and political laures-
"R Ssgretario The Secretary the dc plane un-
der which he himself burst into fame and has since de-
lighted 10 soar into and above the clouds IT. therefore, there
DO any thing ridiculous in the the Editor can old
himself alone responsible who invented and sun chs 10 ~
and us, who simply copied from the auho But VIC
said enough and than enough show the absurd
y of the charge against u.s. OF attempting sur or call
ing names Our cvily has now been made quite PATENT
apprehcEd.
To the main point of discussion, now. We copied the
pledge Of The Editor his published Speech 10 support Col
Meredith for Congress with much willingness he does
Mr. Bolts We showed that COL NJ. original and
ardent supporter of the Nashville Convenonhe chief
speaker and mover in recommending it the people Of
this cty-and urged that this pledged support Of an advo
cate OF denounced by Mr. Bolts as sin no respect
better than the Hartford Convention" and which the Wing
had often denounced with equal bitterness with glazing
inconsistency Editor who has denounced Democrats
who originally sustained that of Southern confer
encc for the sake of Southern Rights and the preservation
of the Union The Wing brises up-and challenges to
produce article sentence Of ours which will justify
its (thc Enqulrer's) assertions" The Editor adds:
We have scarcely mentioned The Nashville convention at
ALL We have spoken OF it only ncdenlly, and in
ner with set denuncation. Of have onheroded
nobody in denunciuon OF il nor have we ever vlhed as
worse than the Hartford convention But all this be said
not that had any respect for its objects or its spirit
its members simply because express our III opinion
Of it did fall in way out of which VIC seldom
TO abuse anything or anybody; there being always quite
enough abuse without such digrcsson in these De-
mocraic days.
We have file Of the Whig-but we have
stumbled upon struggling number of the Wing (Junc 81
S5l) which, not 10 do injustice give in full as follows
MURDER OrT.-So too, is it very apt to &c, with
Treason. Wherefore have long felt convinced that do.
such is spoken OF below, would finally sec tho
light.
readers OF this paper will doubtless recolect that in Its dis
cussion vi the Evil OF the Day. in the early part of last
year willis, rrdeavoring show the danger-whch might
apprccndcd in OF general REPRESENTATION ot the
Southern States in the first Nusirc Contention, through
some inpusive hasty movemenof the instant iorrna
ton Of Southern coniederacy, placed before them an
anonymous Letter advising US 10 warn The North that
constitution for such new governmcnt, 10 Supersede
the good old United States had been already cpacc and
only waiting for be presented and put in
action For OF we place confidence in that
statement, though anonymous
For,unatey Tor tile Who'll. country, but especially for the
States Of the South the Nashville Convention proved TO be
absolute failure. Before tile time proposed for sending
Delegates it, the people OF the States OF Virginia and
North Carolina, who had been counted upon game al
ready baeged showed that they not only alive but
wide awake the enormy Of the scheme of disunon into
which they had like have been ntrapped and the State
of Louisiana well as the Western Southern States
would have nothing do with the plot So that oppor
tunity afforded for bringing forward this Constitution
the Unied States South, il such one had already been
prepared.
"The present canvass in the State OF Mississippi has ell
cited information that the existence in writing OF such pre-
pared instrument of Disunion false suggeson-no
ingenious fable designed deceive but actual fact suscep
tlble Of proof!
Fro the Natchez Courier we learn General Free
and Senator Foote addressed the people of Aaa
~, Mississippi the 25h umo, and that in the course
Of his remarks Senator Foote bore the following testimony
the views and wishes of Mr. Calhoun in relation 10 the
Southern Secession
"'EIe said that the dea of demanding amendments 10 the
Constitution. and in Of failing obtain then
ing to secession, first preached by Mr. Calhoun after
October Convention in lS49 that Mr. Calhoun told him
that he r c. had expectation Of obtaining these amend
bu, Mr. c. thought that if they should be refused
why then the South world unite in the formation Of a
Southern Confederacy and that Mr. Calhoun had prepared
Constitution for This ncu Republic which have been
formed of Of the fragments of present Union
We-knowing well the boundless schemyncss of the mans
mndhave always felt sure when il stood proven that Mr.
Calhoun had caused the Southern Convention 10 he gotten
up that he had gone much beyond that first step Of his
project and had prepared The uho plan Of Disnni0n and
new CpEtaeracy u ne United States S0utn mat SIN
gle omnous designation, and its coming into open
among the Calhoun in Washington at the time Of the
Nashville Convention, was TO u.s. who congratulated the
whole set ubundantly significant Of regularly dgesed and
written programme, in which the Calhoun confederacy g
ured under feow-name that which had, for the
purpose, come from MIR. CaIhoun-the Methodist Church
South" We knew from the form Of the name, its author
and its scope
At present. the only question will be, where is this Cal
houn Constitution There he leading men, diff
cult name, who have it, The public will expect them
to speak out. II will have 10 be disclosed.
The article, upon which the Wing makes the above COM
nenls, is evidently from the National Intcigencc though
credited. The peculiar subject discussed, have
nothing to do with heres seek simply make good
sertions the deunciatoas OF Nashville Convention
by the Editor of the Wing When the Editor in this
neclion, cried out "murer and treason" and endorsed
the National lnelgencers denuncation Of the enorlny
of the scheme Of disunon" he Nashville Convention)
eging, the time that he coprehcnded the whole
set OF its chief movers in Washington, right
in asserting thai in Will