Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-06-22

of you have said during the past year In State CONVEX
tions and congressional vocs you have given US "pa
FORM with the Issues left out If you are In earnest in th
your creed you have given all ground far opn
ions co. oppose the Democratic party and have dene
capituatod to the dominant spir, of the country. If
are not in earnest then your hoe platform "a choat
gull-trap" your leading organs have aread
announced the compromise portions Of II to be- In eithc
whichever horn OF the dilemma may stake your
selves upon-you have shown yourselves as party ulter
unworthy of the public confidence.
The adoption The suggestion o, adoption, OF This
platform by the Wing Convention shows that the whg
y political organization looking principles
sures has noting in the government of this
try What relation Is there between this platform and th
sectional policy of President 1aylorbewern this platform
and the whig practices of Galphinsm, Gardncrsm-be
tween this platform and Ii. whg policy OF eSpendng som
sixty millions Of doaIG year in time of profound peace
which has be eked out by enormous deficiency bill
rendered necessary by h fact that whg financial lax
ity could compute beforehand in its annual estimates
the various ngenutes of pecuation and extravaganza
which would depredate upon the public money in whig
handsf This platform is nothing but cloak for wkg prac
tices AS such, il is confession that whg practices can
not bear the daygh and yet the cloak all too short
Who s silly enough dream that the coven foot of Seward
ism be kept of view by compromise resolution 2
Who if the wings only keep the executive power of the
country will fail TO see "Galphin lurking under The resolu
ton for "economy?'
Put forward any marked whig man upon this platform
and the contrast between the candidate and the creed he
sumes to stand will be both ludicrous and scandaous
Is Scott the canddate2 How will his four letters brisng
all with all the condemned issues of whiggery aAd
number of his strange crotchets besides read by the
side of this patform7 Is Webster the candida,e2 How
will this platform compare with his long congressional and
administrative recordold federalism included Is Fillmore
the canddate7 How will this platform tally with his Fri.
letter, his votes in Congress, and the recommendations
his messages and of the reports made under his direction
When these things be discussed before the
try the Wing Convention will find that its attempt
the whig party from odum and condemnation by un,rhg
ging it, requires something than the equvocations
and antiquities of plagiazed plaorm-stoen from other
organizations, and muated and ds6gured in the stealing
Such thing Of shreds and patches will no! furnish old
hig leaders either mask against detection passport
to public confidence.
But concedng that the language of the above Whg
compromise resolution up tho mark, should
any importance be attached its adoption the voice OF
the Wing party2 Some time SINCE the NJ Y Tribune the
mouth piece of secuted the idea that any value
should be attached the adoption of any compromise reso
luton by the Whg Conven,onthat it would not be worth
the paper which wren" that it would be no.
therefor be resoier less in the Northern Wing ranks
but the party there would continue indulge the same
hatred for the fugitive slave law and would continue ag
tate. Even as late Thursday last this influential
Whg organ the Tribune under the apprehension that
promise resolutions might be forced through INDUCED the
following strong language:
But ,5e trust that 1o not. Whatever resolutions may
be forced through by majority that includes the Delegates
from States which cannot gi0ea single poe to Whg eandi
date well assured that they will be carried with
any such omnous 'laniny prevailed in the Contention
Of the other party In that body slavery supreme and
absolute and one was found even call The Yeas and
Nays and to roice Of dissent record against its die
tales No such submission rN be made By The Free Wigs
at saimore They will at east asse! !hsir iGepspf7
"A STANDING on NONE OTHER than the noble and solid Old
Wing ground, AND NOT ASY PLATFORM RAISED uPoS
sSIoeERs" FASTENED WITH FETTERs AND WHIP THONGS
If Southern gentlemen fit 10 crowd their own local dl
cues into THEIR body Of Wing doctrine, very we'll II is
their affair and will be novelty for ihem But when
Northern Delegates called upon TO submit 10 inc SAME iA
POSITION trust for their sake and me sake OF 'e cou
rv-nay we know,-that they will RESIST THE DEMAND
PUT THEMSELVES FULLY oS THE hrcoKn As
REJECTING THE oDIUus ISTERPoLAToN into their Poc'
creed Thus THEY WILL THE PARTICULAR RssoLu.
roS or ayso UrIoSs WE ALL VALIDITY As THE
EXPRESSION OF THE WHIG FhRTr, AND REDUCE
TREM TO THEIR VALUE AS THE EXPRESSION OF fEh
sos.1 OPINIONS HELD BY NUMBER OF THE DELE
o.rrs ~ THE CosvEsTIoS And those Southern men who
sncerey desire forfy and extend Inc Antl-oaVey
agitation MUST HOPE just SUCH RESULT As THIS.
Have no, some OF the predictions Of the Tribune been al
ready reaIized2 Were srty-sir votes put oody ano
fu,y on the record as rejecting the odous ntepoation7
Arc not the resolutions deprived Of a validity as the <.
nr.on Of the voice Of the Whg party and does not the
Tribune hold out strongly the contingency OF continued
an.savery asi,a,ion7 How different the adoption and the
popular reception OF the Democratic Compromise rcsolu-
tons! On the frs, point, shall lei the National Era
Aboon) give it's testimony which is fully borne out by
all we and heard:
The resolutions. were deemed of vital importance by the
Convention IL with difficulty that they were Kept back
until after nomination Of the presidential candidate
the baotnp was going on they referred to- and he
PuRpoRT TRirMPHAHTLy PROCLAIMED a'i clocR oat
u1day afternoon the Convention assenbed to complete n
nominations. All then in attendance. ic resolutions
were submitted Just before the balotng Tor wee Pres
Dental candidate commenced, laid upon th table, anc
ordered 10 be printed On the last ballot ~ ,oses %eI' err
delegates were present Immediately the resolutions we're
taken up read twice and the portions TO sLA'EHi
MOST cLAMoRoUsLY Then followed me previous
oue,on with refusal to consider the resolutions separate
y the New York delegates trained ever since te ACT
reunion let the Hunkcs always define the PLATFORM Dit
NOT EVEN CALL by States AND The WHOLE Sc
| REs RESOLUTIONS wEhE PASSED BY sToRa OF AFFlR
NATIVE VOTES. The .oATEs WE'RE ALL PRESENT; or u
any opposed the resolutions had lett they were tase
themselves and their constituents Generally, thcy unac'
stood clearly what they and what they were desenee
accomplish; If were ignorant It was their own iaut
aud the fact would imply gross indifference on lhe part
MURDER WILL OUT.
On our return the city on Saturday evening at quar-
Ter before ocock found the following letter. which
will speak for ITSELF Judge John Robertsons character
snown throughout the broad limits of this Commonweat
as tina. of fair honest and honorable man. l"hen 1uoee
R. resigned the Judgeshp in this city, we our YER
high admiration OF him. We have TO confess however, ina
that admiration was somewhat modified when We saw 1t an
nounced in the Whg as If BY the authority Of Judge K
that he was candidate for the Court of Appeals in oppo
stion TO one of the purest and abest Judges 10 IN
Sta,s Io justification Of ousof will state that the Sc
nor editor informed OF Judge RS application al aoou
TWO and half o'clock Friday that we had intended
going TO our Bachelors Retreat in the country to call at nj
house and inform him of the time and the place in which
could find the evidence in the case Of commuation by hi
BROTHER Lieut. Gov Wyndham Robertson; but business KEEP
US in town until after dark and we thought that Ut was
good thing that would keep we nave also been pseSehe
eo on,ype with our promise Saturday by the atten
ton b;ch /, due from one old college mate and friend
ano,h.- Jndoe Robertson eau appreciate our position