Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-07-10
TIE IDIoCY OF PoLITICs.-The sefstyled

TIE IDIOCY OF POLITICS.-The self.styled
American party has, i'll its brief career left the path
over which it has passed, full of blunders and their
consequences, to viulcate its claims TO supreme fol-
y in most if not all that it has done. The Albany
Atlas, in referring to its performances says:-1is
true no meaning puzzles more than wit and these
gathered throngs seemed TO take pleasure in un.
lneaningness. BY din. of repetition they brought
toes puraded at Phadep phia-Sam's all rishL-Sam
is widc amakc-iSam, stand np-Sam is going 10
Stamd np-Sdm las st0Od up-were transpauted to
the Park in New York, with the inspiring addition
"Sau, is alice and kicking" The apotheoss of the
IDEAL Sam, seems to have sunk down to the level Of
The worship of Mumbo Jumbo, and to be like it, the
mumbled inspiration of extatic indiocy.'
DEMOCRAT ABROAD ON KNow-NoTHING-
ISM.
We find in Georgia paper the following extract of
u letter from "a distinguished Southern politician now
residing in Brussels" We have reason TO believe
the writer alluded to s the Hon. j. j. Sebels, Minis
ter of the United States to Brussels, Democrat of
fine abilities and Lieut. Colonel Of the Alabama bat
talon in the Mexican war
BRUSSELS Wednesday, May 2:I 1855.
MY DEAR SIR WHITTIER are you all drifting in
the United States Surely NOT into the haven, or
rather not upon the breakers of Know. NOthngisml
If thought so | would blush for our country, and
shudder for the consequences. or this midnight
clave, my dear sir, have more horror and loathng
than for any other party or sect that has sprung
up III the United States. First, because it is secret
political ORDER md secondly, because it is politically
and rcgiously proscrpve, for which there is no ex-
in our free country-every man being at full ber
ty to think, speak, and publish just what he pleases
! rs
letter of Constitution, which prescribe liberty of
religious belief and worship to all. feel it, and H.
bcra hearts Of Europe all feel il, as n step backward
III the Grand Republics" and its complete success in
the United States would cast more gloom tho nj
ready stricken hearts of republicans than any event
which has ever happened since the foundation of our
| Government.
The question is frequently pressiMsiy asked me:
Can it he possible that this lust great resting place
| for the opprcssed-this last hope and stay Of our
stricken hears-this lnnd to which we could ever
| turn our wearcd Footsteps when chased and hunted
from every other country because we loved freedom
is this, too to be shut against us! Can it be pos
sible that we have been chasing phdntoa; that IL
| berty is impossible, and that man is born to be a
slave!" My dear sir, if you could observe the sud
and haggard countenances Of many OF these noble
forms that have addressed me OH this ubiect-sec
| their eyes swimming in trars-sorrow and despair
| depicted upon every lineamcnt of their countensn-
COS, you would, like myself am sure curse, from the
nmost Of your SOUL this infamous, hideOus,
and damnabe Order, which is not only destined to
Disgrace country and justly, too, It il should Sue
ceeu, but which, by its constant success, is to sub
vert our institutions and dberties, and install the reign
OF prescription but little less Ut any) molstrous and
deesnble than that Of the Spanish InquisitOn, there
by attaching to Us, Us boosted republicans, IN ina-
my from which | should have little hope that we
could ever recover
With such loathing do behold this Know Nothing
party that should instantly lose personal respect
for the dearest friend have on earth, upon learning
that he had joined them. 1t isa party. the idea Of
which was conceived in the infamous lttleness OF q
soul incapable Of approaching n generous or mag
na;imous acti and, fear, alike incapable OF peror-
ming onc Against such party would war to the
death-war as | would against the savase-wur
without quarter and without pity for If they succeed
il is sheer to talk about the liberty nde-
pcndence of the United States; s sun will have Set,
and for myself would rather it should go down in
blood and in carnage than in the quiet and permanent
possession of such party. do not use strong Ian
guage because write privately. would that every
man, woman, and child that tukes the least interest
in any poor sentiments OF mine could know them for,
before my God, would sink instantly into retire
mcnt, without the possibility Of ever being heard OF
again, in preference to rising to the highest honors
of the Republic by the slightest word of approbnton
| or compromise with such odious concern. | re-
joce to see you battling against them fear some
of friends put it of too long. The very seeds Of
the hydra should have been crushed out in the begin
nng-they should not have been allowed TO hatch in
any decent community, particularly in the South. |
carly saw that unscrupuluus Whis leaders would
seize upon it to beat the Democracy. Our friends
should have been carly warned ofthe danger.
In Virginia are making the fight gallantly, and
| in the right spirit. II we succeed there all will be
well; but if we do not, and the glorious Old Domin-
ion-the land OF Washington and Jetferson-must so
under the cloud Of prescription we must hope that it
will be only temporarily; gird OH our arlnor, so to
battle in good earnest, and stick the closer 10 and
hug our coIors tho tighter rs they are the harder
pressed by the enemy. | never had moro hope or
confidence in tho Democracy thnn now. At the
North we have been beaten and crushed it is true,
rem puryed of traitors and towards, showed HI I'M
duunted front amid the general overthrow. Such
soldiers will live to fight another day-a regular army
of Democrats around which will eventually rally the
honest mon of the masses, though they may have
been once dcluded, aud will gain such battle rs De-
mocrucy alone knows how to win. Let the Domocra-
cy only stand firm and united, and nothing ID to be
feuret from Abultionists or know. Nothnys.