The true Democrat., 1855-06-19
From the Richmond Enquirer, June lst Our Country and our Cause late Struggle and our Victory.

! We have retralned until to-day, n order that
 we might have reliable if not complete returns
 from every county in the State, from giving ut-
 terancc to the emotions of joy which have ami
 mated Us since the result of the vote of yes-
 terdav week became distinct enough not to be misunderstood. That vote, now that it is very nearly dehnitel Y ascertaned, was all that we could reasonably have expected, exceeding by far any ever boiled by the democracy within our limits It was such as to reflect the high est degree of credit upon the memories of the fathers and founders of our system of self government It was such as to subStantiate the wisdom of the measure creating universal suf- 1 frage. It was q demonstration that cannot fail to inspire increased confidence, that " first prn- ciples'' are as ardently cherished as they were at the time of their adoption. It was demon- stration that will testify to monarchsts, that in that land where the the fires of liberty were first lighted up, there has been no degeneration of patriotism.
 Virginia has given a new and most emphatic guarantee that as far as her influence can pre- vail, those inestimable blessings to humanity, the conscience, and the right of asylum, are and shall forever remain unrestricted. For those who knew her thoroughly to have supposed that she could otherwise decide, would have been to question her fidelity to the trusts reposed in her by the virtuous authors of the constitution Still the tide of an unprincipled ism, which had rolled successfully over other States, had as- sumcd a menacing attitude, and threatened from its ferocious aspect to inundate ifnot overwhelm her. To meet resist, and triumphantly turn 1t back, required an energy and resolution which none but dauntless hearts could victoriously em- ploy An unyieldmg, invincible democracy was indispensable for so grave an emergency. Such a democracy promptly manifested itself at the bidding of that emergency.
 ! The canvass which has just terminated, and it's achievements will be adverted to in after times as one of the most brilliant epochs in the Old Dorinion's history. There are those of her sons who delight in accounting her 'palmy days" but never was her spotless brow enclr- ! cled with more unfading laures than those so ! ioyously won on the 24th. Every genuine de- mocrat-frOm our standard bearer to the hum- blest yeoman--nobly performed his duty, h's whole duty. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR CAUSE IM- PERATIvELY REQUIRED THE STRUGGLE AND THE VICTORY! ! And DOW what do we behold? An enemy which, in its imagined might, contemplated the subversion of the most sacred of the principles under which we were born and reared up to manhood, disconfited and powerless-an enemy which can rise no more under its hated and hateful appellation Virgnan atmosphere is too pure for the successful exploitation of know nothingism, or any of its kindred demoralizing political aSmS. "Apostate Massachusetts" as has been seen, IS entirely congenial to the growth and prosperity of disorganiZing and demoraliz- ing new fangled doctrines There the "secrct order' has taken root and will grow and flour lsh until a more rank and noxious weed. if such an engenderment is possible, shall supplant it. The Hiss's and the Wilson's and the Summers [ and the Gardner's, whom she has nourisbed and warmed into sinful official being, furnish conclusive evidence of her prolific power for mischief.
 Far better had 1t been for those whgs, as far as their political fame is concerned, who were an honor and an ornament to their party, if they had indignantly declined to coalesce with that terrible outlaw, rowdy SAM" He was not fit associate for them. In searching for roses in his name, they have found nothing but thistles. Where they have gained Vespasian Ellis, they have lost Thomas s. Gholson. Where they have won a battle, they sustained defeat. It is not our business, however, to point out to them their mistakes. As whigs, we respect them as bold opponents devoted to infexible purposes. But manage as they may, whether they uQlC6 WlII I ldCCOU WHICH IS arTay6Q CUD-U- pie against the genius of our institutions, or re- ceive additional strength from occasional de- serting malcontents from our ranks, they never can succeed in obtaining the ascendency in Vir- ginia. As federalists, national republicans, whigs and know nothings, they have labored necessarily and resolutely for ffty-six years without achieving solitary victory! Nor is there anything in the vote of last week to afford them the slightest ray of future hope. The adage that "persevero'ace overcoaes euerytling but tue avoves," is not verified in their instance To that adage they might we'll add " and the
 Virginia democracy" The notion of resurrect- ing "Sam'' is an absurdity in which no rational
 thinker among his late followers can, for mo-
 ment, indulge From the first he was without
 vitality equality quite requisite for prolonged
 existence. He was a sort of embryo exper-
 ment to test the credulity of the marvellous; a
 Jack o-lantern attraction to beguile the thought
 less into sloughs and quick sands We have seen the last of him except his deformites-