Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-30


ccrscy, obeying the fate of all things, has pass
! away, and those dazzling Epkemerd, Tim
ives aud Wise, have gone along with it
Fourth of July orator once phrased tin
oreal corruscations, hither and yon, like worm
Anee fire. Ii is no less truth than poetry.
hat
All that's bright mast fade.
Tae brightest still the Aeotest
So the consolidated glory in question has quick
vanished, leaving our city in a sort of pdlpdbie
bsc,re: or to use the more dignided and histori-
al announcement Of the Enquirer, this ''gratify-
ng aud solemn , spectacle" has 'come to glo-
ious Termination" Each party, "Old Fogies"
hnd " Dung America" claims to have held its
bwn; neither party took the honors; no cdudine
forks; no passing under the yoke by either host;
Enough not few dc say the young ans "had it
feefte." For ourselves, not yet prepared
TO surrender she opinion which the Enquirer
chaacterizes as mistake that the organiza-
ton was ''teSt" between the respectable parties
Just mentioned, and that the success of the latter
was to say the least Of it. decided and certainly
quite unexpected.
This great event ushered in with prayers
for its prosperous issue, from our worthy neigh
bour whose earnestness would have become the
.'pious lEneas; and happily the Gods have prov
ed propitous to his Wishes There was .sreioic-
ing he says, "over noble work, consummated
with zeal. harmony, unanimity aud enthusiasm
which have never been exceeded by any Demo
crdtac Convention, eeeR IN Tie Old Dominion. -
Rarely has he heard "more splendid oratory y;
more powerful argument, mere thrilling appeals
IN tl1e If
terested lore ofcoaatry, and of principles regard
less of men and sections ~ Demosthenes, when
he .'fulmin'd over Greece" compared with these
Locofoeo orators was, in the Euquirer's opinion,
mere flash in the pan--and Henry, with his
.'tiive me Liberty or give me death,'' Seems very
''small potatoes indeed But how different the
scene to our outer Barbarian eyes! Never "in
the Old Dominion or any where else, according
to our poor Judgment, was there witnessed more
OF paltry vanity and silly egotsm-humid moth
lngness-biekering and squabble, for triiling dis
tinctions, heartburnings and personal rvalries
nndignifed and disorderly clamor, than might be
seen in what the Enquirer regards the great
".Sdnhedrim'' met in the 'Templc of Democra-
cy.'
But it was pleasing coincidence says the
Enquirer THAT Mr. Wheeler an exotic from
New Hampshire, ''tIansplanted to Norfolk ,coun-
ty, Virginia ito whose Democracy he has gal
iantly aided, by his eloquenee and zeal, in giving
a decided ascendancy have introduced
the resolutions, which ''present platform broad
enough to hold, not only the Democracy of Vir-
NINA, but of the whole Union.' And truly they
are, as Western man would say, 'as big as all
out of DOORS" For they not only reat1irm all the
juggling humbuggery of the Baltimore platforms
of 1874 and l64s, but these platforms are rear
ranged with patent self-adjustng springs, to suit
every body's conscience and convenience for the
5th of the series expressly reatfirms them 'sas
tar as applicable to the present condition of the
country" just as thief might pledge himself to
obey the ten commandments .as far as applicable
to 1.-THE present condition" in which circumstan-
ces might find him. And on the top of that, they
resolve to support the nominee who will command
the greatest strength and conform most nearly
to the Republican tenets.
But the second and third of these resolves be-
tray most clearly alike the hollowness of these
well mouthed professions, and the smothered en-
mites ofthe factions whose ends they are meant
to subserve. The second stigmatizes in good set
blood brought patrimony of all the people, (the
public lands, has been and is now squandere1 to
build up the free soil States-and that is a thrust
at Douglas; while the third denounces with the
usual ind gnant expletives specific duties and pro-
lection; and that is poke in the ribs at Buchan-
Both made toachstones of Democratic
men and measures;-but not a mothers son of
these patriotic hum5uggers, but is prepared to
f'go his death" for Douglas or Buchanan. just so
the party behest is proclaimed in favour of
either.
But there is one omission in these resolutions
which cannot escape the most superficial observer.
1t makes that sort Of in the series, that,
like the missing statues in the funeral Roman |
procession. marks the thing omitted with start
ling significance. Why is it, we ask-nay, we
demand in the name of the Virginia people to
know-why, in this proclamation of party faith by
a set of men who claim in the State almost a
prescriptive right 10 rule, there is not one line
word contained, regarding the tremendous
crisis from which the country has not yet wholly |
emerged. and whose throes and commissions have
shaken this Union to its centrel Why not
word Of the Compromise measures Fugitive |
slave aw-the vital interests and rights ofthe South
in connection with those measures-why no dis
cussion OF mems opinions on these momentous
issues why! Is the rightful demand of the
country TO be satisfied about the things that con-
Germ its peace, its integrity, its existence to be
met with the nonsense uttered here about the |
democratic usage not 70 express preferences
and a reaffrmation of bygone and unmeaning ge-
neralites, $50 far applicable to the present con-
dition Of The country?' A second time within
the last twelve months has this same pie-bald