Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1853-10-22
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RICHMOND WING.
The EnanIrer-Ihe ChlNalrI.

- IL there was any one cause that operated more
powerfully than another to the defeat Of Gen. Scott
and t,c election Of Gen Pierce it the iuccsSant
-snd ruulti(orm cry Of the Democratic press that
S"SeUart" would have Influence and control over him
wclcc .cd-whilc Gen. Pierce was guaranteed TO bc
Ginon pure on the subject or Free Soil, and insured
not 10 touch Free Soilcr with pair Of tonsS. Ii
was in vain that the discrimination thousand
times repealed.
Among all the Democratic journals none moe
,abolious, none pcrnacouS in crying Seward
seward" at every turn, than the Richmond Enqu-
rrr rhc faithful were alarmed AMI cast their vo;
accordingly some Wings, or who hal been thought
such. were frightened from their propricty. The
name ct Seward was a wizard spell, that made the
Democracy turn up the whites Of their eyes. II
any Wing had then asserted that Gen Pierce, in les
than twelve month, would appoint Free Sellers 10
oii,c-uot one but scores-nay, that nc would COM
uand that they douI have otice--thc Enquirer
would mos, likely have denounced such an one no;
only As fool hut most likely applied some seycrcr
terms
1t one hal said that in twelve month General
Piercc's Secretary of the Treasury would >,,,c
fo Ins pronuncianunto in favor OF Free SocrS ecn,-
rally and Of the Van Buren, Free Sellers in particular
think you that such an one would have escaped
with a faint shadow Of reputation for veracty
If one could have been found bold enough to cast
the Euquircr's nativity and predicted that within
twelve month that paper would be found to Justify
the Secretary and claim that his acts the acts
OF IN, President, and climax of wonders > threaten
to open its long arms on its old '-ieni Dickinson
its carllatc and the candidate Of the Virginia De
rnocrocy Tor the Presidency, at least one Of it. anil
her fyorcS-for refusing as nc SAYS, Ito come down
and lie with the Free Sellers, we ask most SER
ou>ly and earnestly, would not the Democratic party
On masSc, have denounced such prophet, and would
no, the Enquirer, mctaphorically speaking, Lave
made the Strc too hot to have held the unlucky
wight who might have had the judgment to fOresce
and thc folly to predict such bouc verSement in the
political woodland vet if w, know any thing ofthe
Enqairer's past history and understand its present
position (and are not willing Intentionally 10 mis-
represent it, such predictions would have found lite
raj fuldimont-nay, arr literally fulfilled.
The Washington Sentinel condemns Guthric'S let
ter, and appauis Bronson's reply, and upholds Dick
inson. The Enquirer says Guthries letter is the act
of the President and promises to stand 10y him and
threatens Dickinson, Bronson K Co, with poi;icaI
martyrdom, and pledges the southern Democracy u
make war on one half the Northern Democracy. be.
cause they not only not Free Socrs but refuse
to 81" * together with them in Tia, same rucklc bed"
That which has heretofore been thor chief ornament
aud praise with the Enquirer is now become a sore,
demanding their political obstruction.
Oh consistency thou art jewel
la the meantime, where is that "chiyalry" which
has flied the worlds ear with its clanor, |, thi,
a specimen Of what they term chva'ry Gail they
this backing tLcir friends Are they willing to DO
what the lion hearted old Dickinson say, a.. "a, ma.