The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-21
Mr.. Boris. The Philadelphia Bailetin

rnb,ishes long letter from Hon. John Minor
Bolts in reply to an invitation to grand
celebration and supper at Newark, M j., on
Thursday evening, in honor of the recent
defeat of the Nebraska Democracy in New
Jersey. Mr.. Bolts expresses his earnest and
cordial joy in the success Of the VICTORIOUS
party. He regards the Nebraska bill as more
seriously disturbing the tranquility and har-
fnony of the American people than any ana
all other questions combined since the forma-
ton Of the government. Mr.. Bolts says -
" But. gentlemen, it is due to candor that /
should say, there is one thing in which do
not sympathize with you, and that is, in what
.oms seem to suppose the North has lost by
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
Upon this point my sympathies are entirely
with the South, for they have lost all and you
have gained all; they have surrendered
practical good for an abstract declaration
of right which it is impossible TO exc
cute. For the mere declaration of right
(which is not secured by law to carry slave
nv into territory North of Sc, 80, they have
invited you, with your large surplus resident
population, together with an Influx of half a
million annually from foreign shores, to settle
all the territory secured to them South of
that line-for we in the South have no popu-
lstion to spare for any such purpose. We
want some 1000, 900 men in Virginia to settle
our own unoccupied territory, and we can
send none away without depopulating our
own State, depreciating the value OF our own
property and diminishing our weight and
influence in the general government. And
If this is true as to Virginia, it is equally so
in regard to all the other Southern States
And why is it impracticable and impossible
to carry slavery into Kansas! Because, as
every body knows, slavery is local lnstitu-
ton, recurring local laws for its protection;
and if Southern man carries his slave into
the territory. and requires his services, or
claims the right to punish him for disobedi-
ence, he must do it under the authority of
law. Now there can be but two sources
from which such authority can emanate.-
One is the General Government and the
other is the Territorial Government. The
South itself has declared that the General
Government can pass no such law, because
that would be Intervention with the rights of
the people OF the Territory; and in the same
breath they have said the Territory can legis-
late upon no such subject, because that would
be 'squatter sovereignty There are some
few, know, who rely upon the Constitution
for its protection, (which was one of Cal
houn's fallacies) but think when they look
for it in the Constitution, they will hardly
find it, and if they do they will find that the
same clause in the Constitution which pro-
tects that species of property in the Terrific
ries will also protect it in the States, as am
not aware that the Constitution has a less
binding force in the States than in the Terri
tories"
Mr.. Bolts considers it a great piece of folly
that the South, with six millions of popula-
ton, having no legislative power in the gov
ernment, have said to thirteen millions, hav-
ing the whole power in their hands, that
they will not compromise this question, and
have forced upon the thirteen millions afore-
said the necessity of controlling it them
selves or Of surrendering the power to the
minority in Congress. He AYERS that 1.-the
Democracy of the Senate aided by few
inconsiderate and misguided Wings. have
done more in the last six months to promote
lie cause of Free Soilism than all the Free
Sellers combined could have done in the
next twenty years. Where, them he asks,
sis the ground for sympathizing with the
North 1t is in the violation of a solemn
compact, entered into and maintained by our
forefathers for thirty years it is in the for
fixture of pledges giren and ertOrted between
members of the two parties, and of the two
sections of the country in 49, it is in the
claim, and the attempt to do what they stood
pledged not to claim and not to do. In all
this, my reason, my judgment, my sense of
right, are all with you; but when come TO
look to the loss and GAIN my sympathies are
with the losers, and they are not of you, nor
nth you. BIT the question Is, what will re-
store the harmony and confidence of the two
sections of the country? That, indeed is a
great question, to which every good man and
patriot should turn his attention. 1t is one
not to be lightly thought of nor hastily
adopted"
Mr.. Bolts proceeds to the following remarks
about the "Know Nothings" and the Good
for Nothings"
think il quite manifest that there Is about to be
A total revolution in the political affairs of this
country; aud tor my own part, am satisfied that
no change is likely to be fnr the worse. And If the
ORGANIZATION of the Wing party is TO be broken up
n leaves no alternative for but to choose between
the other two parties: the "KaoU Nothings" on the
one hand and the Good for Nothings" on the
other: and having fought the GOOD for Nothinss"
for twenty odd years, (eyer since the Wing and
Democratic parties were formed am strongly in
eliued now 10 fight on the side OF the "KnOW Moth
;nxs"--a name, by the way, that think they are
no more entitled to than the party now in power
are to the name of Democracy, for so far from
their knowing nothing. | think they know great
deal more than any other party In the country
They know h0r to do what they undertake to do |
and generally do it up pretty broen They don't |
stop, like that fellow Macbeth, to sollloquize and
:. If II we're DONE when It's done, then twere well
It were done quickly
but thev 70 TO work pel.mell and do 1t In the ,ms
be wss talking about II; and that il the way have
alwaysliked to zoe good ih!ngs done
Now. In the language OF the day, 81 don't know
nothing # all about them, but this do know that
n INV house IN Infested with rats MICE cock roseh