Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-10-26

! "''le "'o ,nr.hrnsyr TACTICS and 1uicEer,d zeal
M 1874 u also wei kn0%n That ynn were again can
dle lr nomination, before Tue " has t @ % Yn
y Nh assembled in Baltimore in June OF n"t year. 'u
ts hnwrver a: the threshold OF The cunVast INIT II
mrh be- neetuI cover wider space anu '"" up 49,.
on r, rhments and redpuhts, and !ey were Il. o''e
- ,pIh o,,Iv unoli,nre and surprising activity
In Wur published letter 10 COMMITTEE oe"I an,Inr
cious DIE Of October 25 Al, ont YOU cane WE se in
',J in (nIl blast a. radical Wig aad OF course ~
f.y,r Of Tho leading Wig measures {" tie tA se
Cong rcssof that year-iha is TO say me L'p ~,
Bill the Bankrupt Bill, and the National n1,A u'
Inns pubIrly repudiatcd 'at Tell s"oop az M -
Ic whchyou had protested in with The ifoeaes
UrmocracyIust len years before. I'm ,,,;dar --nnd
In the letter. you spread your ne' ,aht T., lure
In vinu an ey, 10 uour farorite North, you sonen
rccruiIs tEerao from the vicious and fhnac hoi. t
Northern AIT. 1flsonism for you say "ass m' ro- =
member Of aMasonic Lodge jor nirly oau s r.s.u
r;sitor of any lodge ercept once; noH more tad" '
years ago" I'm r. or,;6r,,ca. and you
NOD noire for Inttinu i, forth The world is curious '"
,r whn, was nat motive If you did not thereby III
tend 10 let the Anf Nasons understand una. lou "n m
rased 10 lIaso and have 10 then 'nel t !din
undated Free. Masonry and because rom
p ne , beneyo,i and most charitable Institution
49,, deemed Il most hurifHl and perniclons 10
wha, did you ntend7 II you had oer ana s roach Of
,r such statement, Hey are entirely oeyohu 'lo
To-, ,f mine Indeed tle fair inference rom y"u iii
seems 10 be that you arcopposed TO al secres sos n
he solitary exception OF those formed oy sluuehs u
.nrs in Academies and Colleges which you very popo
are for 'purey literary purposes mat lhe,tncn
,nnnces your decided disn,prorai Oh al oHls' SCI "
Lt,oah n
pnr il seems General you had also an eye ABOUT lhe
same time to another faction which had oech hcaVed nv
if rom The boings and efiercscnce OF ne Poe
dron-and was spreading with amazing CROWN anu 'ni'
,, noltca importance and especially al YOUR rAVoRiTE
NuRTH This NATIVE AsERIcASisM. 30 on NE nc io'
of November 54l you ndedYour famous ielier 10 usoIse
washington Reed and Others NaTIvsTs OF Phadepha) In
which iner informing them thai your NATIVE sentiments
had originated back 1885 y"n declare Il Sw HES
EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF RESIDENCE BEFORE
NATuRALzATIos AND TOTAL RsfEAL OF THE ACTS OF 10Y
upoS THE SUBJECT INcLSEs THE LAT
TER Your letter Of course took Al once win inc Natives
and nominated WIN cntAu5iisl, aa INC NAIVE
candidate for the Presidency.
But you thought you might need sill another spoke IN
yonr Wheel for tho Wing Nomination, and doubtless you
seized upon it with Tie more ayidy as !. was aho'nyr
luscious catch the sympathes and support OF your
FAynRlTE NORTH This was ANTI sLAvERYsai ABOUT .'c
time The ASTsLAvERY party Of the North, and West had
shown al many of State Elections vast Increase ara
most formidable electoral power Hence forth your
memorable letter of February 49, TO l. r. Atkinson Esq
OF Virginia, upon The slavery question. say no more VI
this astounding paper for the present. Deserving It's dssec
for epste) further than to remark mat me
ees ABoLlToSlsT Of them ALL could scarcely have expected
from you with all your Northern procviucs sentiments
ngena with his own and IN which all MS DOCTRINES VI
dire nd drsolating fina;icsm took root and rise
Al last the WING Convention met, and THIS TIME OLD
Harry WEST, proved himself stronger man al 'he
"IsMs YOU could into your service 80 down you
again and up Old Harry came once more 'nu mus
resulted your THIRD striving for the Presidency:
But what Of ,lat2 undismayed by any disaster when
ever bee you you again rallied, hourshed your "hF-up
and took the field Tor the next canvass
In lS43 il is well known that you were again netnfe
The Wing National Convention which assembled 81 fhia,
dtiphia in unc year. for nomination. Scarcely mao
MIR pok's election been asceained and PROMULGATED DC.
fore you fc in the National lhtelgenceI Of Deccn
Der r. "a with your celebrated letter oi Amer'cIs carry
np ont in fu your views uf the Naturalization Laws, re.
rrred TO in your letter Reed and erncnS Ynn seao
fast adherence Nureism So far as related 10 Stgfaes
that letter called for fatal repeal Of The Naturalization
Js except as 10 those out o HILLtoSS VINO MIGHT
he received and years in The Army or Nav? Vi 1
United States Bu, more OF this in my next epis!le
Your letter Ia Reed, promptly repudlatrd; so was
your letter 10 Asinson and progressed the canvass 'f
some time when lo II came 20 pass. that in the interim
Naris rapidly falling into popular d!sr'puc ana AZ 'e
same me what called the "foretgn VOTE hau a'a"
inpy augmen,ed and had become vast balancing element
of electoral poScr-Prcsto the word and you net 'r
crisis unwincngy; and without scrnple or pound OF CON
science and you sent Red Americas, and The Natives,
pel-me and hetcrs the realms %: Old Nick 81 our
came yuur letter to VIM E. Robinson Of New YORK, dated
Nav 80 '4S utterly repudlang Nnvesm, ana casting II
down us viii. and loaIhs0mc into common sewer no"
timely the date Eth The Convention was 10 meet June I,
4sand here came your letter Of May 29h just nine days
before. rni r.,
But timely as il seemcd-aas, Generai-io the Nhg Con-
venlion did go and they adjuoged II Us aVng
come loo and too recently after you had been eac;ns
III. popular with your dogmis o NatlVsi ana gums
the stomach Of their sense ms, win your uIsasn"ua
1nrcy Correspondencc (of which will saw more hereafter
rendered you wholly unavailable to the "h@ parry 10 ''
judgment of the Wing Convention and now you came 20 oe
srn more available before the WING Convention OF %
nor, ut III. zen Of uous audlcity in your party
have had cIrnneTy 70 assert and M man OF 'a"esS
andu belonging to II VIII las Gay a'o"c" '' anu "
test upon his honest belief.
Be This as may Convention decided against yn ana
eavc the Nominations and with it, The victory 10 CID urnera
Zachary Taylor And thus resulted your ioui' h'''-
for the Presidency. -
agree that it could be otherwise than Calling to your
feelings be put aside by your mat honpls neh
be heaped on one herocay brave Indeed aud sRn on Tue
field yet, s,il Junior in Service your Jhnor IN
wears ard than your equal in brilliant and glorious
military services rendered your country
But however CALLING il might have been you had quite
too much tact General suffer your indignant Tesenmehs
to spill your chances the nomination. and pronpt
~ mus,eng all your forces you inspired them wth resh
zeal and an ndumtabc energy resolving 10 wiring triumph
from fate ITSELF HINGE. u, :,
In 1882 you again candidate before the wing VA
,iona Convention which assembled IN bahithofo IN June
Of this year.
Repubishng ali yorr proofs OF your avorng inc ascen
denotes of ali the isms whc you had declared your pre-
ferences for preceding canvass you resolved 10
your claims upon the hnsarery VOTE by pnr
fresh fuel upon re you had already hndd and whch
even then casting its urd light far aud wide over the
free States Accordingly. out cnme what has been called
your "Canada letter. u June % lS49-whch made known
to cyn,ing aboi,ionism your fell purpose 10 Ercst "
the South all Ter chances oil territorial accession S.o"
CUBAN OR MExcAS cessons) -nnd then thoroughly OVER
wHELM AND SPOIL OF THE INSTITUTIONS she ALREADY
HAS by the influx Of the mighty masses oil English FREE
ELS and ABnLIroSlsTs through the crushing ana blas
,g nrorcs. NJ Cas.p1AS ASSExATrnS However, need
,ar no OF this will form Orahch o! iu
lure cpislle. :, 49,.
An the appliances skully worked Up by your Abolition
friends Seward Greeley Johnston and others IN the late
Wing Convention entirely overthrow and routed Inc wings
Of the South assembled thher and you became me Con
vention's Nominee. -
Besides all these appliances expect to denonsrn'e in
nv next episc that you corey couTed the Ndtres as
we'll MS having publicly courtrd The dntAdtres How do
pc, al this From your letter of acceptance Of ne nona
ton which show, carried you back, not "nr to
The most odous Of doctrines Of The letter Of imericus
but MISC doctrines far obcctiunabe though yonT real
meaning has been dextcrousy disguised BY language sus
,eptbe Of duplex constructions TO suose!ve your interests
through the present canvass.
Did time admit should forth reflections here
Tor popular consideration; cun do now than 10
a public The almost miraculous bourersemeH
which have ha ppened in thirteen years o; tho lle :"
man who had declared the world that his 'princplcs
1ere conrconsm To-day Democrat, io-mornwa lthig-
10 day Satire Aati-Nnitre-and the next day
ltipe ngan, though protesting Anti Nattresm all the
imr BIZ, must do you the justice 10 say mat In one OF
your principles have been steadts 10 the last and thai
,ne it, you undying hostility TO The slavery institution OF
your NItire South!
General did you hear the opening sentence OF the
celebrated but eccentric Lorenzo Don in his anous sermon
,qnnst predestfnatio North Carolina and involving all
he intricate metaphysics OF free nil and ne
esSity? Here his words after taking his text:
"You shall and you shGnt,
You ,rW and you lronk,
You'll be ID if You do,
And you'll be d-dl you don'tr
grt General al! things must have end md az must this
,o,ivc .ui.tle of RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE.