Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-10-01
RICHMOND ENQUIRER
MEDNEsDAY, sEpTEMEER 80. 1882.
MIR. BoTTs BLOWING HIMSELF UP.

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~ ,,.du rit, .re, The rrosy and good naiurto ma
ranrna az Gcn Mercer Mr. Botts was calIeo o': '' "'
m, hod taste and worse policy, 10 make spcce'' ' ~
~ 90 him mare under the influence OF passion ah" p"
E,.cI ,.,oe-doubtss owing 10 me gloomy Pospe''s "
S,,iu, in This and other quarters. we nave never u" "
~ :, kc n more absurd and ridiculous exhibition Of him
~, r. AZ once fired away into he 9Th resolution OF The
nnoc,a,ic Baltimore Platform, which reads az follows;
That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson In the
on Of Independence and sancuncd IN Tue CnhS
Iuon which make the land Of liberty and the asylum
of The oppressed of every nation have ever been cardinal
principles in the Democratic faith and every attempt 10
abridgc Tie privilege of becoming citizens and the olrnfF
soil among u.s. ought be resisted with The same Si
which swept Alien and Sedon laws from our s'a"'e
books.
Though no man OF any can place but one
ton upon the plain and simple language OF this resolution
Mr. Ro,s souph BY the most forced logic and absurd ea
so,ny !, ,or,ure into and wckedness on he
mar, r. tho National Democracy He boldly asserted that 1t
hnhed abolition sentiments and was designed 10 cac ao
ion votes Mr. Bolts argued that The words OF me Dec
Iaration of Independence, al men are Tree ana equal
opo,ed by the aboltonsts in support OF Their ansaVey
docrnes-aud be held up the meeting an abolition TIC
49,, pr y fras il rnished TO him by Plrson Foss, The
witness against Pierce endorsed by Southern "es3
which among other vile carlcatures, pofHalt vi
oron with the words "all men are free and equal Upon
s,rb wonderful grounds this MI Bolts proceehed 10 as
himself into fury, ana 10 uenouhce Tue Dc"'o1"''
inn mn forth full. boo1ed abolition resolution
BEFORE exposing Mr. Bots utter Misrepresentation OF me
resolution are we not right procIamng lnat he has made
omenabe 10 public Indignation, by thus endorsing
,h 90, s,rnc,jon of the abolionss Does he not virtual
L. admit that the abotionss right in constituting these
,rordo of The Declaration and does he not denouncc as
,rorc abolitionists The milnns North and SOUTH who,
on the recurrence every Fourth of July proclaim ana re-
echo thc liberal principles embodied by Jefferson IN e O
cara,ion of independence" But above an aces nc no.
thereby proclaim himself TO be an hbotionisi MI hos
s member OF the late State Reform Convention OF Viz.
oni, and he voted for the Bill of Rights which commences
Tins. u men are by equally free and independent
In what does this language differ from The words OF inc
quoted by him with so much scofn against e
d,,oc,cv few nights since7 The two phrases amount
TO exactly the thng-and il Mr. Bolts was Eight the
other night in his denuncation of the democracy he has
proclaimed himself the record to be the reriest abolition
jst in the country But, upon this upon many Other
subccts he has committed unpadonablc hlnnder he
b, u,,rv misconstrucd the Declaration Of Independence
which was intended to apply nhae men alone-and he
has fallen into the trap by Foss and the abo'onlsis
10 catch such 'green uns' Mr. Botts. He has virtually
proclaimed they right and the ost oil The people
wrong in constituting The Declaration Il" lndepcndrncc-nnd
no can never recover from tho slough in which they have
involved him.
But III Bo,ts by suppessng the material part oil The s'h
resolution prrvets lis meaning totally III does MOI refer
to the wGs a men born fee and equal in the Deca-
raou but 10 just complaints in that instrument against
George the 3d. for preventing emigration TO this county,
Indeed The resolution speaks out i's own meaning when il
denounccs 'cvery attempt abdgc the privilege of bccom
ing citizens and the of soil among u.s. The resou-
ton was intended apply such wings and advocates OF
Nutre Amcrcanisn Mr. Bolts great idol and cunditate,
Gen. Scott who 'red with indignation, put forth mon.
strous opinion favor of total exclusion of foreigners
from The great right Of citizenship Have we not blown up
this bold hubug and placed Mr. Bots the great leader OF
Virginia Scott Whiggcy in the nncnslabIe position oil ad"p
ting the construction OF the abOonsts, in The idle hope al
makinp parv CAPITAL against his political opponents Who
will however be surprised at anything Mr. Bolts may d"
or saw when they ecoec his natca prayer on Saturday
nigh, that should Virginia vote for Pierce, the abolition
isis would here to take away all the negroes lhs
il the language Of the Wing Elector OF the State al large
will the Wing party of The State endorse or repuda'c and
its author