Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-04-11
HK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
RICHMOND WING.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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Tho Ex-President visited vicksburg on the cath
o. March, aud WAS enthusiastically received by
OF all parties He was escorted to his lodgings
and welcomed to the city by tho Mayor. The
vicksburg Sentinel says che spoke Of this portion Of
the Mississippi valley being the centre of the Republic:
not indeed the Republic with its present limits for Cana
da, said he with glow Of feeling and kindlng of the
eye NC were glad to mark, sis knocking for adnttauce
aud Mexico would be glad to in and, without saying
whether It would DO right wrong we stand with open
arms 10 receive them the manifest destiny of this
government to embrace the whole North American
tinent."
Now what will Wing friends In Virginia say TO thiss
They have always Knocked the of the mani
fes destiny and yet Mr. Fillmore has been their idol
aud they have sworn by his lie has aud
gone over TO the enemy, will they still hug him their
hearsy Oi will they visit upon him the punishment
which they had SO lavishy bestowed upon others We
care not which they do, but anxious know what
they think OF this matter We they crafty
Reasonable acknowledgements.
For weeks past, we have been animated by n most
reasonable curiosity" to be informed by our Demo
cratic cotemporares at the South whether the Briga
pier actually considered the Nebraska Bill "a propo
sition iafaear Of freedom" We have begged to be
told whether he really believes, that ii this "bil
should pass, although might absorb the whole OF
Mexico not another Stare State you'd erer come into
tHs O"ioa" We have been exceedingly anxious to
know what they think of this matter" We have
been particularly DESTROYS that some Southern Demo
atc editor, who has often enjoyed the distinguished
privilege OF sitting in the august presence of the
Brigader, and who has heard hun discourse warmly
and eioquenty in favor of the passage of the bill
should inform US whether during any of these pre-
cous interviews he said any thing all about squaer
sovereignty-about the bill being "a proposition in
favor of freedom"
Yet, up to the present hour, Notwithstanding we
assured them of our agonizng SUSPENSE and ma lie
earnest and, we thought pathetic appeal to their
sympathies, not mLther's son OF them has come TO
our relief-not line, word syllable have they
yetutered upon the subject. Even the ENQUIRER who
has enjoyed the distinction of which we have spoken
and who has had the best possible opportunity there's
forc to know the real sentiments and position of the
President upon this question, has not dcigned to
crafty our reasonable curiosity" Its lips have
been sealed its ears have been stopped its eyes have
been most Significantly averted. 1t seems to have no
compassion for individual suerng-no regard for the
public's reasonable curiosity" Is it not too much
then for the Enquirer TO expect the Wing press to
satisfy its curiosity, when it sternly and cruelty
refuses to crafty theirs? Is it not an enormous de-
mand for the Enquirer to make upon their beralty
and neighbory courtesy! Isn't 'the first come the
first served" very good rule? And havnt we been
knocking at the door, of our neghbor for many long
weeks-praying TO have our reasonable curiosity
OF All uOuOt upon an IN
teresng public question? And hav we had to turn
a'--rpnint'd and Snr-nurc. ""d .i..Aoot
out hope9 Verify, we have-it Is a melancholy and
distressing fact. And now tie Enquirer, as il in
very inockery of our supplications and our grief
turns around and asks Of us identicay the
same favor which, for long n time, we
have been seriously eadangerng our lungs in
importuning it for? This is really too bad 1t
is enough to make us sluall right out and blubber
like child to see our neighbor poking fun at our
sufferings in this way-and that, too, in the face of
the whole public, which is always ready to turn its
mouth wrong side out, and litter and make merry over
another's woes
Seriously, however, whenever the Enquirer shall
be pleased to set at in reference to the Pres-
dents construction Of the Nebraska BILL it will
have no difficulty, so far we are concerned in as
certaining what Wings think of Mr. Finore's doc
trine of manifest destiny. So, lifts anxiety upon this
subject is at all painful immediate relief car be had
it is in its own hands, 1t has nothing TO do but TO
answer frankly the inerrogatories have been put.
ting to the Democratic press of the South for q month
past; and when it does, it will longer have any ecu
Iiosity, reasonable unreasonable in regard to the
point about which appears so eager to elicit nfor
nation Does the Enquirer then, really wish little
light as to what Wing notions are in respect to the
manifest destiny doctrines of Mr. Fillmore. No,s
SerroHs.