Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-09-23

their recognized representatives and oorncnanccd the
organs Of the federal administration, African
slave trade sufficient excite apprehension aud alarm
in the mind Of every patriot aud friend Of humanity
aud that the wings OF New Yotk take this timely oppo
nifty to declare they will resst every hazard and the
last extremity every effort to drag down this free repub
lie by such step from the proud position which holds
among the civilized and Christian nations OF the EARTH
the first to prohibit that nhuman traffic, and brand as
piracy
Resolved That the executive department of the federal
government ought longer be vested in the hands oil
the men who would WELD its patronage aud its influence
Tor the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of slavery aud the extension Of its
political power and tho wings OF New York will labor
the utmost to effect the overthrow of the administration
which has proved reckless to duty and so regardless Of
the rights and interests Of the Uron, and to elect Pres
dent with whom fidelity to freedom shall not be per
pstual disqualification for the public service.
Yesterdays Enquirer is particularly savage
upon poor old General Csss. 1t formally cxcom.
municato, him from the great Democratic church. 1t
has no further use for misunderstanding the dis
tingushed "squatter sovereignty" veteran uttered
in his late speech no more Objectionable sentiments
than he had repeatedly avowed before he became the
Enquireris candidate rthe Presidency. Upon bend.
ed knees he had often, before that time, fervently
prayed for tho abolition Of slavery eoeryWhere"-
And yet this constituted then no bar to the Eaqu-
rer's support Of him for the highest position in the
land.
The Enquirer thus speaks of this gray-haired and
ilustrious Democratic statesman "lf his language
be correctly given in the report of his speech he has
severed the last cord which bound him to the Demo-
crazy Of the South. Hcnceforth he must rank with
Benton and Van Buren,; as ono who has nsuted our
feelings and betrayed our confidence. The weak at,
tempt to serve two masters, to reconcile devotion to
the constitution, with submission to Abolitionism-
an attempt to which he was persuaded by the sus-
gestions Of an undying ambton--has placed him
with those ilustrous apostles in the limbo of lost and
dIshonored politicians
Thus after another Of the big men OF the Demo.
cratic party arc smten with mighty weakness, fall
into the embraces Of the Abolitionists, "illus
trous aposates," aud when they to be available
for the Presidency then cast of in the "imbo Of
| lost and dishonored politicians" Many have gone
that way, and there many, doubt, still to fol-
low. The ranks of the faithful are thinning every
day by just such desertions-he CHEST and brightest
are they, too, who thus guominiously fall from
grace, and sorely aifiict the soul of neighbour
Van Buren,, Benton Casual gone What great
lights, we ask, are left to iumine the pathway
of the unterrifed? Not onc-Freesois.n claims
them all for her own, and she is right for they are
hers by nature and adoption. They were never anv
thing else except to a jaundiced partisan eye. No
longer useful to the party, they proclaimed here
tics, and burnt accordingly. Such, however, is
the way of the world in general, and Demo-
cracy in particular. We sympathize with our neigh
Dor, and wish him happy time in buryng his own
dead; for there will be very brisk business in his
line for some time to come. y good many Democratic
carcasses scattered about quite as rotten rs thai
of the once proud Michigander, AMI they, too must
needs be buried. Our neighbor will no doubt attend
to them, just soon as the troublesome Know
Nothings will let him.