Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-08-10

We'll Whist do you think of these sentiments Arc you
satisfied with e proofl Lei not conclusive But open
VII. n,w-caper you will the Buffalo platform He'
"nred and The Democracy vi the North charged Us Tree
,iI.s I'D this doubt in newspaper which wants "
suppt, Webster to' TIE PfesdencG as tue 10 ,s M
~. Nor,hgrn Democracy threw Van Bucn o'efbohc, Dc
] ne cherished the soil ncresy, ana was as unsomnn
- Webster On the subject OF slavery wh!c 'hY s'l 'e re-
-, f.rnr,rnt had no powr: interfere WIN any whe'
onr.n press am! an infatuated parry here are ionh'
=, stnrnT; ". bstc 5rcIusc ne Is tesS Tree s'e @
Barren or tic Democracy. Wei, Webster e'Ss, i,rn
~ Sjirrs SAYS I'll am the genuine oFi@ln"' t,ee
Van Eursn the Spurious rreiender. ana me ~,
rr,ss,s the In.nChing enemies ct tree SOIL anu d.
friends Of slavery" Bat what Of that ms nhnah m an
o, ~ Whiuurry-as much uu OF place IN me 'G' 40
a,I,,r-wjih the niOdrsy asc,ihe 10 them D? i'tsf W.
an friends as we seer, will swear by ihn oeata ~ Wv
panet Webster don, know what Nhegery Is Neh per
be- don,t Tntn | viii cell all The Massachusetts
WIZ ~ the stand TO testify. In the address OF ie o'ac
! Convention Sept Is, lSiS, they say ;,
I'm, vino il IN. candidate By when those who profess -
hs the exclusive friends Of free SOIL propose 10
III. or,, Of sleycry2 1t is who has been known
throughout the land Northern man win oouteth ,
.cIs; man who when Vice President oil Inc Uhi'ea
] hi. casing vote for one Of the most odous slavery
nrasures which ever dlsgraccd the Halls OF Con.1essa
bill for llng the mail, ana preventing any Pd'p, -
n,per or letter touching the SUBJECT VI slavery i"
,,snnrt.d therein; man who when candidate pr tc re
sioncv said i 90 INFO the Presidential Iha 'e ~.
hryibI and uncompromising opponent oil any attempt !"
s'.h s,,yerv in The District Of Columbia, against The
wishes Of the savrholding States, AID who p.eo2ea hn
self 10 veto any bill SEEKING that oaJec--a man o, "'e'
/ ite United States, '"''@'SS
AN demonstrations power in booming lie Tree ncatoes o
the Amsad perpetual slavery THIS Is TIE ahti-S'atr',
free sor candidate, who is presented to The irecheh H
s.chuscls for their suflfngcs by men 100 VINO p'oe w
make the subject of territory paramount to every
| Other" 49,, ,r r-.o
sulism lhcy say in closing this PARALLEL ~hc gives e
such triumphant pe-eurnence owe: an DUR" ,;
"A labored attempt has been and Is sliIl maze 10 c"S
The frceInen nj massachusetts That e'th ~ "r - a"o
10 hr 50 devoted slavery and the slave power mat ne
whole South without distinction Of party, VIII give nun
their support No representation can be more Hn'ounuen.
.1'ha friends oil Gen. Taylor have relied upon
.s,n,h a roua and Texas aud Missouri and those South
crn States which thoroughly Democratic They have
ned General Taylors persona! popularity lsh
secure him some Southern States which were Dem
crat!c BY small maoriry beyond Ibis they never an any
hopes Southern support They have seen ron me ~
The Southern Democratic press win me mon al ~,
.Wilmo provis@ and the late speech Of Mr.. Calhoun At
shows coucIusivey lhal the leading s!
the Souh has far more confidence IN ten LASS hah IL
General Taylor, 50 far az sllverY l. concerned.
, Of Cass they say:
rv will BIZ extended New Aeyc" and California anc IL
nil probability shall during his administration, nave t
Republic The Rio Grande or Of the Sierra Madr or t'
Island OF Cuba, added 10 TIE Union Win snch aln'lon
ui Southern and slavchudng territory the ehns TT i"t
+ soil would found in hopeless minority al least IN o
branch OF the Legislature and the glorious cause D 'e''
thrown back perhaps twenty years.
+ And as 10 General Cass, Mr Webster says:
"And row venture 10 say, gentlemen, t"o iAings' 'h
first well known 10 YOU that Gen Cass Is IN aS' ~ WI"
ia allied the COMPROMISE line; and that he Nniht rrO"S3
or the Ordinance 1877, which excludes slavery from t'
territories ought BIZ applied 10 territories lying Sont
m So degrees 81 minutes. He announced this 5e1f" he va
Nominated and he had not announced II, ne would nave
been thry-sx degrees thirty minutes further oil from be
Ing nominated. In the mex place he VIII DO all ne can !"
establish compromises linz; and lastly, which s n'a.
m nuinon in my CONSCIENTIOUS belief hr will establish IT,
Finally they resolve, among other things
Ion THIS question: voice of Massachusetts has beer
un uniform and never has that voice spokcr
h higher eIUqufncc and power, than when our n!s'n
ushcd Congress- speaking for hmscl' ana io
me whole people OF the Commonwealth SAID consent Il
no farther extension of slavery in the L. State.
and further increase OF slave III me on7'
. Uf Representatives
Blu, il may be SAID hy our Wing friends you have fur
nished negative proof OF opposition o the Northern ne
mocracy In Tree soil and abnion-2erhaps they deny III
Impeachment OF the Wings, in charging them win h'elS
10 their constitutional obligations and 10 US
Well lei us STE Shall lake my evidence from Tie SAME
place, and about The same period
On the S0th Sept S4S, and address was puolshea D! '
State Genital Committee Of Massachusetts, 10 the Denocra
cy Of that Sutc. :,
OF slavery The States they say-aer pointing ou N.
certainty OF sectional strife and dissolution II slavery
made as the Wings attempt 10 make H. secona! lne6
{ tion. 49, , 6.,,,;.
mn mower whatever 20 Congress tine subject bu
reserved The States il did all the relations ui proper
ny all the freedom oi the press, ana al mae'S u
D in religion. i, ,.,L. -
After pointing out that the nnion n The Northern an'
Southern Democracy, turned aside the first shock OF Poi
: cal aboitionism aimed At the States they gay:
.Rut now comes another phase u the slave agitation
Discaiming ms 10 the States it ascns upon The territories
II that we OF the Norm are wiser 20 '',f u"
tic institutions for territories thousands OF inlles on a '
people under their political Organization VIII be Il
make local AVS tor themselves
he Democrats of the North say that this IL anii.rrpuo
e and 10 frame government, within their dulles 10 III
Cniun, az they may please
G After quoting Cass views contained IN his Nicholson
letter as their own they show that the free soil movement
insulting US well as unconstitutional ana that whe'
the territories States into the Caon they estab
sh or abolish slavery in their sovereign pleasure Just
| Massachusetts can do.
They tel! US that the Wings assaultng he for thci
! fidelity to us:
IL was th Democratic power combined with The North
en Democrats that had elected ali the Presidents but
since Jefferson and By giving il bad name. and cryn!
nld.tns slave power tlcy ancied they could scare IN
Northern Democrats into breaking the old alliance OF Nort'
and Souh, handed down TO- Us as the palladium OF th
/ Union by our Republican fathers"
They tell US too, what their Democracy Is:
"Wheu Northern Democrats tak OF State Rights and hc
compromises of the Constitution, they this doctrine
o non-ntererencc maintained by Samuel Adams, rhoml
Jefferson and the Republican fathers II follows that II The
States can frame local institutions they may
'tab abolish slavery they ic1se II Congress Is
bound protect their form G government IL is bound Ia
pp,cC il every form OF Violence and is not
breach of faith for Congress- by trl@lfioa Ia encourage
and inci,e the very domestic violence it bound sup
press 7"
After showing that the anisavory element OF the North
has welded by the Wings crush the Democratic
power but Intellectually, they say:
"Aboitionisn first denounced and despscd WHOM weak,
haG been nurscd petttd and vctmcnly courcd BY the
WING pnry of the North. when began 10 draw from
Their ranks while The Wigs Of III" Sanih have NJ least
assurance of their Northern friends thai the only way
for the Nnigs IN get into power.
"Suullrrn Wings. in their FOR political power
abroad, and their mpatnca OF long minority n home
hare permitted this process TO go on nnrehnSct, and
are thus effective allies Oi sohern hbnun-m
''A this moment they Strengthening The hands which
hoy pretend believe wnr! light The torch Of the nc"n
ay and sharpen the knife Z" the assassin They do this
.by permitting the Northern Wings in nrdar 10 retain The
Free Soil Wni.s affirm, uncuntradic,cd by themselves
their candidate that General Taylor il in fave nt the
W.mo Provsp. ana would I'll his Influence P.ys
deaf put down the slave pD"cr
What rehukc DOES this gallant Dom)c:ace-thc D"Gnc
rae, Of Virginia they call rh"mclvrsttoT r:ry a Mas
earLuses and Virginia placed themselves under J
and .dams nr head Of The two columns VI FeCrn aad
Democratic SIaes)-c"nrry 10 The Wings nt the South
THIS stood The parties al tie Nnrh;-Grn. Taylor pledged
not The Wilmot T!o"-o; CGss Ia vet" u.
>unr camGr has been crcausc General Caas and
Gc;cra Pierce and Norlcfn men "encr"g, regard slavery
IA m evil in abstract Ho" they GOT ihe!i Je.s, let
the Rcmnnd Wing speak In vindl"hting FImor" IN IS
il Siy- speaking al his letter To Gov Gatle:
")nrs any "rgin.ln desire palmer language, or nn:cr
':iev- 1t is The very doctrine II virginia for min 'cnt!s
'of lie people OF This Stale :clad slavery an evil though
necessary one and which il Is Impossible II -e' ria
of.
OF hose who rcnresenied Gen. rav!o: ''quicscon