Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1854-03-03
From the Petersburg lntelligenccr,l
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We have for some time been under the impression that The
new phase which the slavery question mas assumed 10 Gon
lions based as those organizations were upon the fecoen
on in their respective platforms OF 1852 Of the Compromise
Of IssO We never for moment believed that the Free
Sni,,s who embraced the Democratic platform had par
ella of sincerity nher decaraoEs or that they would mo-
seize the first opportunity alter getting their share OF he
oo. of hruspg the cloren foot which they cunning
10 concealed under their garments at The time Neither have
We auy great confidence in the body Of the Northern wings
The Influence Of VIM H. Seward over them has been
too obvious escaped notice With few distinguish
ed exceptions Wings Of the savehodne States have
been found e,eady opposed the rights of the
their peculiar They almost una
nmousy resisted the Fugitive Slave BILL and have given
indication since Of The slightest change In he: position
We had hoped however Notwithstanding all Tho discourage
That the Whig party OF the North would under The
wise counees of such Everett, Choae and others
Of like stamp be brought consider The oles and hazids
of their anti Southern demonstrations and ~oui upon re-
Fiction retrace their steps and become united with The
Wings Of the South IN great nat0Gsi Pa & we
with confidence that EDWARD EVERETT would, OF al
men, have siguazed his devotion TO the conservative IN
of the country they embodied and guarded in
those great OF the thirty Crongress hnowl
coec lively the Compromlse-of which he has ulways
avowed himself the ardent friend II he had stood firmly
uu TO ihe crlss-f he had proven himself true tc
his post In the time Of trial-there would have
been chance of getting tho Wing party safely through me
Abolition breakers amidst which II was struggling bn
his influence has been exeod only TO precp,ae the dSas
ter which he could have averted Never did an eminent
man commit wreched blundcr-nover was statesman
40 at fault is DIR Everett In his course upon
consolidating his fameof bla.Dg brightest amongst the
shining phs of the land He has, with strange infatua
don abandoned the lofty position which he 80 long held
with honor 10 himself and benefit 10 his country and de-
scepded 10 unite himself with Sect whose DOCTRINES max
inns and PRACTICES but be the opposite OF his When
WE ace such man Surrender himself the Free Soers and
Aboonsts and take his place alongside Of Seward, and
Chase and Sumner have nothing TO do but to express
our the spectacle, and regret 80 amenaoe
an instance of instability in OF the most gifted inteecls
OF the age. ,,,,u;
The detection Of Mr. Everett and Of the National lnte
sencer has played havoc with the whg party useless
to dIspuse the tact that Aboonsm and free Soil have
with ihese nccessions efec,uaiy broken the tics which
bound together the Wigs of the Souh and OF the Morrill,
hs former canno, a,enzs with the latter aroycd as they
now are against ono another upon tho vital constitutional
nrincIoe which is embraced 10 the Nebraska question
There could be neither consistency propety or sincerity
In auy union between them after the proceedings OF Inc
Northern Wings upon this question For some days Iumora
have been rife Of meeting Of tho Southern Wings having
been secretly held Washington in which Messrs Foomos
Stephens and Others declared the party ds6nnded and
nounced the National Ipteigepcer for It's deseon oil ne
South We know no, whether these rumors be well ionnoea
not but this will say, that they shall be conhfmeu
we shall bs eraed at the sand taken by the meens ano
shall cheeruIy cast In lot with The South own
Southland abide the consequences Inclination no less
than duty inpels this determination.