Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1853-07-19


- We fear our Southern Democratic cotempo-
rarcs have but little real ground for congratulatng
themselves upon the passage Of the Old bunker rcso
buttons by the New York Legislature. II is truly a
hard case IL they are deprived of the little morse OF
comfort they derived from them for such as il was,
it could not have come at a more acceptable time
That was apparent from the avidity with which
they grasped it and held it up to the party in the
South AZ the good effects of the policy Of the Admin
istraton in appointing Free Sellers to oicethat it
was cheaper to feed them than to fight them" That
view of the subject may do for the Southern market
but the true state of facts among the New York De-
mocracy discloses different tale. The New York
Express refers to the circumstance of a Rich
mond Cva) Democratic paper (the Enquirer, we sup
pose) fecitating the Southern Democracy upon the
general concurrence Of both branches Of the Demo
cracy in New York in endorsing the Baltimore plat
form, &C. &c, and takes the wind out of our neigh
boris sails completely. The following is an extract
from the article Of the Express
"we let snalyse disseot all these doings for theo
ries cost nothing and words cheaper than dirt
bunker and Barnburner in New York outdoing each
other just now in protested to the Federal
Government the object being to get from il much
possible before all the spoils" divided. Hence the
OF the Taylor and Champn (Compromise) Resolu
tons in Albany, which nothing, and less than
nothing; though the part ofTayor there sincerity
a. from the he has taken this
these THEORIES however would fain seem content
portion Of the Southern Democracy, with utter neglect
abandonment Of prdcti0es Taylor has another set OF
Resolutions before the Assembly which always kch
he brings them in, and that is to repeal
law sometimes attributed to Ex-Governor Stewards infu
ences statute of State seizes and confscates
Virginia ehatiel called "a save, by stress OF weather.
necessity design he is here in trdnsitH from
slave another New York is of the "Union"
for negro slaves We "srke their chains off, and re-
deem them ''by the genius Of universal emancipation"
and except according to the strict contract Of the
Fugitive Slave Law provision of the Constitution. Mr.
Taylor (Huuker) has been trying for year more to
make the Democratic BarnburnerJ repeal the old aeged)
Seward law and he cannot even get 4 hearing.
snow wish much Joy to the Virginia Democracy for
the prizes they get in the Taylor and Champin John Van
Buren, resolutions said while get the Lennon ne
groes the slaves IN trans &c. &c. We hope they will
dearly enjoy the precious boon they have got for w be
long while before Taylors slave ,ransi Resolutions
pass Barnburner Legislature. Taylor, Monday made
another effort, and got 25 whole votes see."
And So after all this expenditure of patriotism on
paper, by the New York Democrats, so soothing to
the troubled spirits of Southern Democratic
friends, it is plumber they after at last, and the
Barnburners and Hunkers are running opposition in
protesting their subservency the Federal Govern
ment to who get the most. 1t is cheap way
of bidding for the spols The Express puts clinch
er upon the prot ssiOns of the New York Democratic
Legislature when it adduces their refusal to enact
provision for SOntherncrs holding their slaves an
trGRsitu. We had hoped there was some sympathy on
the part of portion of the Northern Democracy for
the unfortunate dilemma the Union Democrats of the
South find themselves in since the 4th of March, but
it seems that all the noise the Conservative Demo,ra
cy of the North have been making is for the sake If
themselves only. They but little about the Pc
sidents appointment of Free Sellers if it were not
that it keeps them out. There is where the shoe
pnches