Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-08-09
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
MONDAY MORNING., AUGUST -. 1883.


i Attorney General Cushing.
We have few words to say upon the unwaraniabIe com
mculs made in tho columns Of the New York Tribune o
the State Rights doctrines aud enlightened patriotism eV
ced by Mr.. Gushing his several speeches made along ~
Of the President during the late vs "i ''e ce MA
gstrae ui Tile country 10 the opening "l lhc '
for The industry Of all nations. We are ho' al u" suis
that tho Tribune the peculiar hrad DeV oi ''c "ooo
ists with all their infdci and aeslic moral p'ihc'eS "
anti-constitulOna hcrcsies, should indulge III coa'So
catiun and vulgar abuse Of Mr. Cushing tor ms many '
aud truthful constitutional views ana 'o"y Pa''''"
presented in his remarks al Trenton and other places '
do we wonder that Philadelphia Ledger WIN us 'N
lure of Daniel Webster Federalism and iLdlssnsca luc'
nblitinism should also find food iur ihod"mon
,.des If idle clamor against The high States Rights position
Of This distinguished citizen Their cherished objects car
only be carried into clcct by destroying tic CONSTITUTION
either entirely. or by changing The present received cosuc
lns al its provisions II tho wish OF the Tribune cona b'
had rea, charter Of Liberties would be amenc st
as Ia let in abullonism II ta, u The Ledger could hf
reached hen by construction, all power wun'd oe o"n
in the Central Government at Washington ana hhJorS
Of the rph, SORT almost al any time be had from The non
sliyehudnr States by simple resolution OF Congress, ap
poysd by the President Tor popularity sake, would acco
psh the same end Knowing as we do that these are me
wishes ami views of these Journals not surprised
ih,t ev shonl sueer at and denounce Mr. Gushing for his
rendering Of the Constitution, which denies 10 the General
Government any other powers than those given by the Con
slitutor AMI that INSTRUMENT historically az all ena
from the S,ae9 in their Sovereignty aad not from
the pcole direct OF all the States cobned acting as nu
u,cal unit This rendering OF Mr. Gushing conservcs 10
The States HE exclusive right OF regulating their domestic
affairs ViIuGt hp iEetlaccce OF The one with the other
or of the General Government with any, and therefore, for
ever renders The abolition o negro slavery
and impractcable unless 1t results entirely and exclusively
from State acon-each Stale sitting separate sovereign
capacity the question.
Mr. Cushn. in his remarks gives HE General Govern
cnt the duties and puwors assigned 20 though the Con-
s,iluon as thus orrcd While the sane time, lie gives
10 the separate States those rights ana privileges due TO
sovereignty and reserved by them in The Constitution as
exclusively vcsns themselves, and never 10 be nIetc-
ed with BY the General Government. Mr. Gushing presents
himself before The country as statesman oil large head anu
patriotic heart who would not sacrifice The interests o! my
one State the fanced or real weGs q aao,her anu VINO
would not lead h.ct any vicious scheme OF deinagogS
at the same that he stands high above scnseess anai
cism The "r5une and the Ledger the contrary stand
in The attitude by the Dcc Of the very objections ieJ urge
of braness fanatics, tsayc Ter.s io mere pcl and DIS
honest save perhaps for the reason and
il is well known in these days, that "mHch gam IS 20 o.
ptcred from the pockets of the 'a,.nY x atisr
should adopt the views nay almost The very language Of
the srrbune" and the Ledger" in this .elaua We arc
aware that The "whg" has been the advocate OF
"Satc Rights" save when years ago, (uness our
memory Is lreacheruus and do think IL s II "uut-
Eeroded iIerod and rabd in SuppoH OF SulL!FcA-
ToS RGHTsvL REaEDY. But that this paper, pro-
cssng be opposed indslty aud IN avor I" the bpic
opposed atheism aud in favor Of God aud hrs ana "P
posed TO aboionsm and in avor OF preserving the u'ss
tic Institutions OF the Sourrn Sales should ally ITSELF in
srn,imcnt IL for polca POLITICAL p%2oses "ay be-
| with the Tribune, whose every page IL hed win
TRADES against The Bible God aud Christ well
os the entire Constitution Of lie country, and with The
LEDGER" sly covert Ssul but less deadly than The
Tribune in lis Efforts at ubo,ionism does engen,er III our
minds ideas Of political ITO say nure enorny Tint we
never before conceived possible 10 hc realized What
,,tica puruse may the Wing snbserve BY this niahcei
1t may destroy the Constitution and wreck The southern
and with them the Northern States 0or the Northern are
n dependent upon The Southern, regards lsir commerce
and internal wealth, The da? Is apon The sum- ana WIN
the whole the Union and thus blot out Constitution ana
country realizing thereby the fullest and richest hope OF o
ahoi,iun associates Of lhe Trbyne and Ledger" But
what will il accomplish for Itself i-can II be 'ha 'he
"whip" because DIR Gushing was awhile since, member
of "thc Corporurs Guard" and suct in conjunction
with Henry A. WISE struck down The and influence
Minor Bul,s grave forcing hun 10 take the latter u"
seuJ of tho first part Of the oath made by him. in reference
Ia President Tyler when he declnnd To the "Nhig h'
usuid HEAD Captain Tyler or DIE" Can il be That HE
"Whg Of ls would now in revenge, or 10 obtain
satisfaction ally itself with instruments and as
sociaos who must succeed for The ewing" TO succeed and
who il they do succeed, through the assistance "t h'
"Wh2 would blow up the Constitution aud the Union ane
slavery and leave a wreck behind? Or, can il be ha
because the "Whg" is not in power and influence no"
either in virgnia elsewhere and without the chance
official favor from Washington for many long long years
come il ules itself with tho ifteiic Abolition 1riIun
and the feeru abolition Ledger BECAUSE child like and IL
ney spite il would do any Thing as 10 "6rtak MngsF
Whatever the "Whig wishes to accomplish and "ha'c"c
its motive OF present action. the Snnthern slarc-h"ldns
States will fail thai il now openly ana ooy Us
socates with Abo"nsls, nideis and Federasls OF th'
wo $, die adopts their views ni public pocy, lheIr inter
preations of the Constitution aud their luminosity o"ar'
Caleb Gushing because he dnres differ from thcl am
| stand by the South and lis rights
From this little cloud OF union between The Rclm"nt
| Whip und The New York Tribune, and the lhladcph'
Ledger we discover that the Wing abolition party 'ha
lately ran the General Scott for ths PTesdtncy
has not entirely dissolved but endeaVong TO MAINTAIN III
union for the purpose Of alyng with "Ternm qni
compound In the end with the hope thereby of reaching
whose BRAIN seems las old Hickory sad has been cn'
ously affected since the accident the Princeton IN o44
like Mr. Van Buren, his ustrous predecessor, and whose
successor he has always srveH TO be, intends to close MI
political career by asserting TO the alliance BE So Int
county aud the people where begin to see and 10 u
dcrstand The and when the time arrives wl moi la
TO conssn to IN infamous doom the mschievous trlnnV
rate OF Federalism Ab0iitionism and Ahesmi whlst I'M
man 'hey now abuse, and others who think aHd ac
with INN, IN behalf Of the Union and the Constitution
believing That The Union only be preserved b)
rendering equal and justice TO the States, ant
that both only be preserved by preserving the Con
sttution in TACT will live in the hearts of their cOunryme
and be hunoraby mentioned in future ages.
II THE CENSUS
We are statfei, will be the whnle country 10 earr
that the elaborate niscs OF the Census u 1880
in the hands OF the Public Printer and are being
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