Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-05-29

SATURDAY MORNING, rIAY go.
Democratic Correspondence.

! Democratic Correspondence.
The Enquirer, of yesterday, contains the cor
respondence between Mr. Robert G. Scott, of this
city, and thirteen of the gentlemen prominently
named in connection with the Democratic nomi-
nation for the Presidency, viz: Messrs. Rusk
Marcy, Dickinson, Buchanan, Dallas, King, Hous-
ton, Stockton, Douglas, Cass, Lane Boyd and
| Wool. No response has yet been received from
Gen. Butler, of Kentucky, or General Pierce of
New Hampshire, both of whom were also ad-
dressed by Mr.. Scott. We have not had time to
give this lengthy correspondence thorough peru
SAL but the Enquirer seems to think that all the
aspirants come fully up to the mark with the ex-
ception of Gen. Wool, "whose modesty has forced
him to cut himself off from all possibility of a no..
mination at Baltimore
| Not having space for all of these letters, we must
content ourselves with laying before the reader
those of Messrs. Glass; Buchanan, and Douglas,
the three leading competitors for the Democratic
nomination.
Not the least amusing humbug ofthe day, is this
catechsm of Mr.. Scott of thirteen several gem
tleme n, whom he has selected, as prominent can
dates for the Presidency, which, with their an
swers, It's hoped to palm upon the credulity of
the obedient rank and file, substitute for the
ignominious game of silence played by all the
Democratic State Conventions on the subjectofth
Fugitive Slave Law. The pious anxiety of Mr..
Elector Scott lest the .great and disturbing ques-
tom which has seriously and sadly agitated
the country ''unless now and forever setted,'
shall sat no distant day rend in twain the union
of our people and destroy existing Govern
ment," has prompted him, in some interval of
his "important and interesting professional en-
gagements,'' take measures for it's final settle
ment now and forever, to the satisfaction of the
whole country, through all time-and so we'll sat-
isfied is the Enquirer with the result of his pa
trotic labor, that it asks with an assured air of
triumph, ''are we not entirely justified then, in
introducing the interesting letters below, as the
true Democratic Platform ?! Now are we seri-
ously to understand that the country is now for
the first time favored with that Platform? Did
the late Convention of the Enquirel's party fail in
its efforts to make the desired revelation For if
we are not greatly deceived, that remarkable con-
clave too busy in publishing that fresh piece
of intelligence--the resolutions of '96-'99-to
allude to this matter of the Fugitive Slave Law
Did they fail in this, from inadven ence, OF want
of perception of the great truths of Democracy
ESQ., what pity Mr. Scott, who now comes the
Deus er maclaina-to solve all difficulties, chap
| pened to be absent at the time attending an i'm
portant and interesting professional engagement"
Again: was it ignorance, careessness, or mad
yertence which caused the omission of the
vital subject, in the proceedings of the sub
sequent Democratic organizations, which, follow
ing the lead of the Virginia vrtuosos in their taste
for the antique, gave such necessary and eloquent
pledges of faithfulness to the principles of the
happp the party whom fate has saved even by this
late enlightenment, from such culpable oblivion of
duty-and happy He, the chosen instrument of
Providence, in the working out of this national
benefaction. Our worthy neighbor of the E n
quirer, he bears ip mind at all things so slight
as the lucubraons of this journal, has not forgot
ten the repeated questions put to him, touching
this singular omission of the Virginia Democratic
| Convention. Will he vouchsafe now to enlighten
us! And another interrogatory we take leave
to put to both EIector and Editor, even at the
risk of being troublesome-is this .sTrue Plat
FORM in the responses of Mr.. SCOTS thirteen
nominees, to be substituted for all avowals on the
subject in question, in the Baltimore Convention
of the first of June ?-even though none of the
| thirteen, shall be its nominee! We confess to
much soicitude in both of these particulars-nay,
we stand, we wait for knowledge from the new
fountain of light:
-"What in me is dark
Ilumine what is low, raise and support"