Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-21
Hunkers and B1rnburners

The huuksrs aud barnburners of the N. York
legislature are wrangliug over President Pierce
Inaugural. Mr.. Taylor, bunker member, Of
tered series of resolutions few days since, ap-
proving the inaugural in general, and the COM
promise portion of it in particular. These re-
solutions were distasteful to the freesoil Demo-
racy, and accordingly, Mr.. Gale, one of the lead
ers of that faction, presented substitute endors-
ing the inaugural in general terms, but emitting
all mention of the compromise. The Albany
Argus, the organ of the hunkers, speaks in the
following style of the substitute:
''Mr. Gales substitute proposes to blink the
great questions OF the day, particularly dwell.
upon in the Inaugural. and particularly pointed
to in MIR. Tayor's resolutions, and to speak of
the inaugural in lump aud then only 10 connex-
ion with matters foreign to it altogether. and n
a manner calculated, and no doubt designed, to
convey the impression that the Democracy of this
State cansot endorse the Inaugural ia and by
itself, even in general terms, and would not do so
at all but for the cabinet selections by which it
was followed"
The saue paper proceeds to be;abor its ADOLF
ton allies after very savage fashion. We in
vito the attention of the reader TO what this de-.
mocratic journal says of the free soil democracy
of New York. Did not southern Wings say the
same thing 10 the late presidential Canvass and
did not southern democrats strenuously argue
that the Van Buren, Democracy had been cleansed
OF their abolition leprosy through the miraculous
virtues of the Baltimore platform! 1t was ndg-
nantly denied then that any portion of Gen
Pierce's supporters repudiated the slavery plank
l,fk t,otv,
est democratic authority that the Barnburners
have always been abolitionists, are abotionst
now and can never be any thing else.
'As dodge, the resolutions of Mr.. Gale are
precisely what might have been expected from
the FreesoiI quarter of the house. The parti
sans of that school are still where they have
been all through the slavery agitation Of the
| last few years-essentaIly abolition in their in
stincts and atnites, and hostile to any adjustment
of the slavery question any cessation of sec
tional agitation. They have never acquesced,
and never intended to acquiesce, in the settles
ment' by Congress, in the passage of the acts
known as the Compromise measures and
which President Pierce pledges himself in
his Inaugural to sustain and enforce, and
the necessity and strict constitutonality of
which he distinctly recognises. They are OPP
posed especially to the GROWING act of the
ries, known as the Fugitive act They question
its constitutionality. They wink at attempts to
defeat its execution, and palliate and excuse acts
of open resistance to the law and defiance of its
ministers. They are prepared and resolved to
agitate the question Gifts repeal or modification,
and, we predict will be found at the polls and
through their presses. at distant period, in
| open alliance with the abolition and the higher
law agitators and opponents of that great meas
ure of peace and Cancellation. They cannot with
any show of consistency, approve of the high
a nd right position which the president takes On
this great question. To do SO would be to give
the lie to their professions and acts during the last
few years, and to their avowals during the prey
alence oftbe Freesoil distemper in and prior to
le4S.''